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Thus far the Torys triumph'd, the Whigs not strong enough to carry things by numbers, were not idle with in finding matters to expose their adversarys; of this nature was the Abjuration Bill brought in by them which they however could not get the length of a Commitment, being beat upon that question 192. against 163. the next measure of that party, was a Bill they brought in for the better securing the Peace against Papists and other disaffected persons, this came to a Committee, but then dropp'd.

Many more things occur'd during the rest of the Session sufficient to demonstrate the violence & height of party; but they are foreign to our purpose; upon the 19th. the Bill for settling the Regency upon the Queen, a Bill to invalidate the Claim of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports; another for confirming to the Hudsons Bay Company their