[200] _Parl. Hist._ 907; Commons' Journals, Sept. 1, 1641. It was carried at the time on a division by 55 to 37, that the committee "should propound an addition to this order for preventing all contempt and abuse of the book of Common Prayer, and all tumultuous disorders that might arise in the church thereupon." This is a proof that the church party were sometimes victorious in the house. But they did not long retain this casual advantage. For, the Lords having sent down a copy of their order of 16th January above mentioned, requesting the Commons' concurrence, they resolved (Sept. 9) "that the house do not consent to this order; it being thought unreasonable at this time to urge the severe execution of the said laws." They contented themselves with "expecting that the Commons of this realm do, in the meantime, quietly attend the reformation intended, without any tumultuous disturbance of the worship of God and peace of the realm." _See_ Nalson, ii. 484. [201] May, p. 75. See this passage, which is very judicious. The disunion, however, had in some measure began not long after the meeting of parliament; the court wanted, in December 1640, to have given the treasurer's staff to Hertford, whose brother was created a peer by the title of Lord Seymour. Bedford was the favourite with the Commons for the same office, and would doubtless have been a fitter man at the time, notwithstanding the other's eminent virtues. _Sidney Letters_, ii. 665, 666. See also what Baillie says of the introduction of seven lords, "all commonwealth's men," into the council, though, as generally happens, he is soon discontented with some of them. P. 246, 247. There was even some jealousy of Say, as favouring Strafford.