The number of clergymen thus favoured was not to exceed twelve.

The allowance was not to exceed one third of the income forfeited.

Some zealous Whigs were unwilling to grant even this indulgence: but the Commons were content with the victory which they had won, and justly thought that it would be ungracious to refuse so slight a concession.

[99] These debates were interrupted, during a short time, by the festivities and solemnities of the Coronation.

When the day fixed for that great ceremony drew near, the House of Commons resolved itself into a committee for the purpose of settling the form of words in which our Sovereigns were thenceforward to enter into covenant with the nation.
All parties were agreed as to the propriety of requiring the King to swear that, in temporal matters, he would govern according to law, and would execute justice in mercy.