How that part of the address which related to the Master of Stair should be framed was a question about which there was much debate.

Several of his letters were called for and read; and several amendments were put to the vote.

It should seem that the Jacobites and the extreme Presbyterians were, with but too good cause, on the side of severity.

The majority, under the skilful management of the Lord High Commissioner, acquiesced in words which made it impossible for the guilty minister to retain his office, but which did not impute to him such criminality as would have affected his life or his estate.

They censured him, but censured him in terms far too soft.