At length he determined to go down himself to the House of Peers, not in his robes and crown, but in the garb in which he had been used to attend debates at Westminster, and personally to solicit the Lords to put some check on the violence of the Commons.
But just as he was getting into his coach for this purpose he was stopped by Avaux.

Avaux was as zealous as any Irishman for the bills which the Commons were urging forward.

It was enough for him that those bills seemed likely to make the enmity between England and Ireland irreconcileable.

His remonstrances induced James to abstain from openly opposing the repeal of the Act of Settlement.

Still the unfortunate prince continued to cherish some faint hope that the law for which the Commons were so zealous would be rejected, or at least modified, by the Peers.