One made an offensive allusion, another felt annoyed. “Expressions were used,” it is said, “which might have laid the foundation of a misunderstanding or something worse,” but for subsequent explanations. On the 28th, Atterbury--the spirit of the storm--rejoiced in his native element, as he proposed, and at last carried the point, that the Prolocutor should have inserted in the minutes a phrase which assumed the right of independent assembling. “This new and improper entry,” in Kennet’s judgment, “so thrust upon the minutes, was the great cause of widening the divisions in the Lower House.”[355] [Sidenote: CONVOCATION.] Another source of discord was found in the quarrel between Burnet and Woodward the Prolocutor. Some members complained of a breach of privilege, and an indignity to Convocation offered to the Prolocutor by Burnet, his Diocesan, who was said to have required him to attend a visitation, while he was occupied with Convocational duties, and to have issued a process against him for non-compliance. Burnet was also charged by Woodward himself, with declaring that Convocation had no privileges which it could plead.[356] On the 9th of February, Beveridge “made a long and pathetic speech upon the dispute at present depending between the two Houses.” “He earnestly exhorted both sides to union, and to think of such methods of healing the breach as might secure the Lower House’s liberty, and yet not entrench on the Archbishop’s authority.” He so influenced his brethren, that a committee was appointed to consider an expedient for composing the differences relative to prorogations.[357] But to this note of peace there speedily succeeded another outburst of war. [Sidenote: 1702.] [Sidenote: CONVOCATION.]