A man in a revolution resolving to do nothing which is not strictly according to established form resembles a man who has lost himself in the wilderness, and who stands crying 'Where is the king's highway?
I will walk nowhere but on the king's highway.' In a wilderness a man should take the track which will carry him home.

In a revolution we must have recourse to the highest law, the safety of the state." Another veteran Roundhead, Colonel Birch, took the same side, and argued with great force and keenness from the precedent of 1660.

Seymour and his supporters were beaten in the Committee, and did not venture to divide the House on the Report.

The Bill passed rapidly, and received the royal assent on the tenth day after the accession of William and Mary.

[33] The law which turned the Convention into a Parliament contained a clause providing that no person should, after the first of March, sit or vote in either House without taking the oaths to the new King and Queen.