[177] The sudden dissolution of this parliament cost him the hearts of those who had made him king. Besides several temporary writings, especially the "Impartial Inquiry" of the Earl of Warrington, an honest and intrepid whig (Ralph, ii. 188), we have a letter from Mr. Wharton (afterwards Marquis of Wharton) to the king, in Dalrymple, Appendix, p. 80, on the change in his councils at this time, written in a strain of bold and bitter expostulation, especially on the score of his employing those who had been the servants of the late family, alluding probably to Godolphin, who was indeed open to much exception. "I wish," says Lord Shrewsbury in the same year, "you could have established your party upon the moderate and honest-principled men of both factions; but, as there be a necessity of declaring, I shall make no difficulty to own my sense that your majesty and the government are much more safe depending upon the whigs, whose designs, if any against, are improbable, and remoter, than with the tories, who many of them, questionless, would bring in King James; and the very best of them, I doubt, have a regency still in their heads; for, though I agree them to be the properest instruments to carry the prerogative high, yet I fear they have so unreasonable a veneration for monarchy, as not altogether to approve the foundation yours is built upon." Shrewsbury _Correspond._ 15. [178] _Parl. Hist_. 575; Ralph, 194; Burnet, 41. Two remarkable protests were entered on the journals of the Lords on occasion of this bill; one by the whigs, who were outnumbered on a particular division, and another by the tories on the passing of the bill. They are both vehemently expressed, and are among the not very numerous instances wherein the original whig and tory principles have been opposed to each other. The tory protest was expunged by order of the house. It is signed by eleven peers and six bishops, among whom were Stillingfleet and Lloyd. The whig protest has but ten signatures. The convention had already passed an act for preventing doubts concerning their own authority (1 W. & M. stat. 1, c. 1), which could of course have no more validity than they were able to give it. This bill had been much opposed by the tories. _Parl. Hist._ v. 122.