The Lords adhered to their original resolution.

Conference after conference was held.
Compromise after compromise was suggested.

From the imperfect reports which have come down to us it appears that every argument in favour of lenity was forcibly urged by Burnet.

But the Commons were firm: time pressed: the unsettled state of the law caused inconvenience in every department of the public service; and the peers very reluctantly gave way.

They at the same time added a clause empowering the King to bestow pecuniary allowances out of the forfeited benefices on a few nonjuring clergymen.