The Primate indeed and several of his suffragans stood obstinately aloof: but three Bishops and seventy-three temporal peers took the oaths.

At the next meeting of the Upper House several more prelates came in.

Within a week about a hundred Lords had qualified themselves to sit.

Others, who were prevented by illness from appearing, sent excuses and professions of attachment to their Majesties.

Grafton refuted all the stories which had been circulated about him by coming to be sworn on the first day.