The country would have been governed by Peers; and the chief business of the Commons would have been to wrangle about bills for the inclosing of moors and the lighting of towns.
These considerations were altogether overlooked in 1692.

Nobody thought of drawing a line between the few functionaries who ought to be allowed to sit in the House of Commons and the crowd of functionaries who ought to be shut out.

The only line which the legislators of that day took pains to draw was between themselves and their successors.

Their own interest they guarded with a care of which it seems strange that they should not have been ashamed.

Every one of them was allowed to keep the places which he had got, and to get as many more places as he could before the next dissolution of Parliament, an event which might not happen for many years.