Excerpt from A Collection of the Parliamentary Debates in England, Vol. 10: From the Year M, DC, LXVIII to the Present Time

The principal arguments made use of by the temporal Lords againft the bill were, -that in cafe fuch a bill fhould be paffed into a law, it would not thereafter be in the power of the crown to reward thofe who had done fignal fervices to the publick, without at the fame time difabling them to ferve their country any longer as members of the houfeof Commons, vhich they faid was moft unreasonable: for a man who had before ferved the public fo well, as to deferve not only the thanks of the people, but a reward from the crown, was in their opinion the mod proper pcrfon to be intruded by the people as their reprcfentative in Parliament: That a great many of thofe pods and places that are for life, required fo clofe an attendance, that the perfons who enjoyed them could not flay for any time at London or attend the bufmefs of Parliamc-nt, and that there were many other places, the poffelTors of which were, by the laws then in being, difabled from being members of- the houfe of Commons: That the multiplicity ajid variety of the public bufmefs made it neccffliry to employ fo many gentlemen of good character and, education, that it was not in the power of the crown to provide fufncient rewards for all thofe who had ferved the public faitiifully in their refpedive Rations, without giving penfions to fome, till an opportunity fhould offer for providing better for them, and it would be hard to exclude any man from Vol. X.

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