[597] But, when three weeks had passed away, many members became mutinous and suspicious.

On the fourteenth of June it was moved that the Commissioners should be ordered to report.

The motion was not carried; but it was renewed day after day.

In three successive sittings Tweedale was able to restrain the eagerness of the assembly.

But, when he at length announced that the report had been completed; and added that it would not be laid before the Estates till it had been submitted to the King, there was a violent outcry.