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some others of the Lords who seemed surprised at 

 this concession. And the Queen having that 

 night sent a page of the back stairs late to him 

 to order him to attend her at Kensington the 

 next morning, *' he perceived her business was to 

 persuade him to vote for the bill that my Lord of 

 Canterbury had brought in, which within two days 

 was to be read a second time. I told her (says he) 

 that I had seen the bill, and that some of the Lords 

 made a wonder that the test act was not mentioned in 

 that bill to be continued as well as the act of uni- 

 formity, and that I believed several of the Lords 

 would insist upon it that it should be, and that I was 

 of the same mind. I told her (upon occasion of her 

 saying that she knew some Lords, viz. Lords Notting- 

 ham, Rochester, 8§c. who would take any occasion of 

 apposing that bill because they were against the union, 

 I say I told her) that it was a Whig lord that first 

 made that objection to me. She asked me ivho it was. 

 I stuck a little, but she solemnly promised me she 

 would not discover it to any body ; upon that I told 

 her it was my Lord Scarborough, who, L assured 

 her, was, at the first time the union was treated of, 

 the most zealous man for it of any of the Lords^ 

 But, however, when this came to be debated, 

 February 3rd, though the point was insisted on that 

 the test act should be particularly eocpressed in the 

 bill, yet it was carried in the negative by a great 

 majority. He spoke in this debate, and the next day 



