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Excerpt from The Bishop of Salisbury's Proper Defence: From a Speech Cry'd About the Streets in His Name and Said to Have Been Spoken by Him in the House of Lords, Upon the Bill Against Occasional Conformity
Was then the Rejefiing a Bill which had been Carry'd on, with lo much Zeal in the Houfe of Commons, and Voted there in two Sefions succef~ lively, by a great Majority, more than had ufual ly been feen in Other Cafes; And on which they laid lo Great a Strefs, no leis than the Prefervati on of borh C laurel) and State, at this time; Was the Rejeoiing inch a Bi as this, on which the Com mons Set their Hearts, more Likely to Create TL nion or Dioifion betwixt the two Houfes? And if a Diuzfion< as the Event has fhew'd) is that the molt Probable way to Leffen or Enflame the two Con tending Parties through the Kingdom.
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