270 Mr. N E A L 's IF Vol. of the but told the Nettles he mull take forre Time to confider of the others; which diffufed the Commons fo much, that they return'd to their Houle, and immediately ad- journ'd. The King gives his Reafon for fo doing: * ' My Lords and Gentlemen, I come to do the Office, which I forbore to do on Saturday fart, to give ' Determination to there two Bills : But before I da ' it, I muff tell you, that I cannot but be very fen- ' table of thofe Reports of Difcontent, that I hear fome have taken, for not giving my Confent on Saturday. Methinks it feems Itrange, that any ' one Ihould think I could pals two Bills of that Importance, that there were, without taking fome fit Time to confider of them ; for it is no lets than to alter ma great meafurethofe Fundamental Laws Ecclefaftical and Civil, which many of my Pre- deceffors have eftablifh'd, &c.' He concludes, ' For my part I íhall omit nothing, that may give you juft Contentment, and study nothing more than your Happinefs ; and therefore I hope you {hall fee a very good Teftimony of it, by palling there two Bills.' Mr. Neal, in fpeaking of the A& for abolifhing the High-Commiffion Court, makes the following Obfervation : P. 474. It was very extraordinary, that the Bi- fhops, who were then in the Houle of Lords, Jhould fo fil finely fuffer themfelves to be fitrprizedout of their Power. 'Tis the hardFate of the poor Bifhops of thole Times, fcarce in one tingle Inftance to have given Satisfae}ion to our Hiftorian. In another place he obf rves, (p. 451.) That the Lofs of the Bill [for ex- tirpating Bifhops, Deans and Chapters,] was owing to the refolute Behaviour of the Bifhops, who were de- * Nal/on, Vol. II. p. 327. Kennet, p. 109. King Charles's Wo; ks, p. 173. termined
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