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spoke likewise for it), and the Bishop of Bath 

 and Wells, who went out." 



However, the motion had this effect, that it 

 produced a bill soon after, for the security 

 of the succession, by appointing lords justices of 

 England, impowered in the name of the succes- 

 sor to act as if the successor was present. This 

 Bill of Regency, notwithstanding it was moved 

 by the Lord Wharton, universally espoused by 

 the Whigs, and opposed by the leading Tories in 

 the House of Peers, he thoroughly approved of, 

 though in one clause of it he differed from the 

 ministry. *' I was one of those (says he,) that 

 voted against my Lord Mayor's being one of 

 the justices ; in which vote I went with the 

 Court. But I was one of those who voted for 

 their being restrained from altering the Test 

 Acts, in which vote I was against the Court.'' 



But however, her Majesty still suspected the 

 same motion would be made again the next 

 Parliament, as appears by the following memo- 

 randum. 



1706. Monday, March 25. " At five o'clock 

 I went to Kensington to council. After the 

 council was over, the Queen took me aside, and 

 told me, as my Lord Treasurer had done before, 

 that she had apprehensions of the motion's being 

 renewed the next Parliament, of inviting over 

 the Princess Sophia into England. And there- 



