They were for the most part strongly attached to the Church established by law.

Even in applying that extraordinary remedy to which an extraordinary emergency compelled them to have recourse, they deviated as little as possible from the ordinary methods prescribed by the law.

The Convention which met at Westminster, though summoned by irregular writs, was constituted on the exact model of a regular Parliament.

No man was invited to the Upper House whose right to sit there was not clear.

The knights and burgesses were chosen by those electors who would have been entitled to choose the members of a House of Commons called under the great seal.