Chapter 46, Footnote #25
The Commons opposes the union
The Commons were even so averse to the union that they had complained in the former session to the Lords of the Bishop of Bristol for writing a book in favor of it, and the prelate was obliged to make submissions for this offence. The crime imputed to him seems to have consisted in his treating of a subject which lay before the Parliament. So little notion had they as yet of general liberty! See Parliamentary History, vol. v. p. 108, 109, 110.