On the day on which the bill was committed the contest lasted without intermission from nine in the morning till six in the evening.

Godolphin was in the chair.
Nottingham and Rochester proposed to strike out all the clauses which related to the Bank.

Something was said about the danger of setting up a gigantic corporation which might soon give law to the King and the three Estates of the Realm.

But the Peers seemed to be most moved by the appeal which was made to them as landlords.

The whole scheme, it was asserted, was intended to enrich usurers at the expense of the nobility and gentry.