Among them were Orford and Wharton.
It is to be lamented that Burnet, and the excellent Hough, who was now Bishop of Oxford, should have been impelled by party spirit to record their dissent from a decision which all sensible and candid men will now pronounce to have been just and salutary.

Somers was present; but his name is not attached to the protest which was subscribed by his brethren of the junto.

We may therefore not unreasonably infer that, on this as on many other occasions, that wise and virtuous statesman disapproved of the violence of his friends.
In rejecting the bill, the Lords had only exercised their indisputable right.

But they immediately proceeded to take a step of which the legality was not equally clear.

Rochester moved that Duncombe should be set at liberty.