royaulme."--Renard to the Emperor: _Granvelle
Papers_, p. 348.]

[Footnote 435: Ibid.]

But the peers, whom the Commons had refused to consult on the new form
of the measure, would not part so easily with their own opinions; they
adopted the phraseology of the Lower House, but this particular and
precious feature in it they pared away. The bill, as it eventually
passed, declared Philip regent till his child should be of age, and so
long as he continued in the realm; but, at the same time, fatally for
the objects at which he was aiming, it bound him again to observe all
the articles of the marriage treaty, "which, during the time that he
should hold the government, should remain and continue in as full
force and strength, as if they were newly inserted and rehearsed in
the present act."[436]

[Footnote 436: 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, cap. 10.]

The disposition of the House of Lords was the more dangerous, because
the bishops, of course, voted with the government, and the strength of
the opposition, therefore, implied something like unanimity in the lay
peers. The persecuting act had been carried with difficulty, and in
the reconciliation with Rome the legate had been studiously mortified.
On the succession and the coronation the court had been wholly
baffled; and in the Regency Bill they had obtained but half of what
they had desired. At the least Mary had hoped to secure for the king
the free disposal of the army and the finances, and she had not been
able so much as to ask for it. Compelled to rest contented with such
advantages as had been secured, the court would not risk the results
of further controversy by prolonging the session; and on the 16th of
January, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the {p.187} king and
queen came to the House of Lords almost unattended, and with an
evident expression of dissatisfaction dissolved the parliament.[437]

[Footnote 437: "Ilz sont pour cejourdhuy bien
esloignez de ce qu'ilz pensoient faire il y a six
sepmaines en ce parlement, ou ilz faisoient compte
que ne pouvant couronner ce roy ou luy faire
succeder ce royaulme, a tout le moings de luy en
faire tumber l'administration, avecques tel pouvoir
sur les forces et finances qu'il en eust pen
disposer a sa volunte. Tou