But a member who should be chosen after the first of February 1693 was not to be permitted to accept any place whatever.
[375] In the House of Commons the bill passed through all its stages rapidly and without a single division.

But in the Lords the contest was sharp and obstinate.

Several amendments were proposed in committee; but all were rejected.

The motion that the bill should pass was supported by Mulgrave in a lively and poignant speech, which has been preserved, and which proves that his reputation for eloquence was not unmerited.

The Lords who took the other side did not, it should seem, venture to deny that there was an evil which required a remedy; but they maintained that the proposed remedy would only aggravate the evil.