Hugh Cholmondeley, Earl of Cholmondeley, strong in points of law, was asked from the bishops' benches by Nathaniel Crew, who was doubly a peer, being a temporal peer, as Baron Crew, and a spiritual peer, as Bishop of Durham.
"Is it possible?" said Crew.
"Is it regular?" said Cholmondeley.
"The investiture of this peer was made outside the House," replied the bishop; "but it is stated that there are precedents for it."
"Yes. Lord Beauchamp, under Richard II.; Lord Chenay, under Elizabeth: and Lord Broghill, under Cromwell."
"Cromwell goes for nothing."
"What do you think of it all?"
"Many different things."
"My Lord Cholmondeley, what will be the rank of this young Lord Clancharlie in the House?"
"My Lord Bishop, the interruption of the Republic having displaced ancient rights of precedence, Clancharlie now ranks in the peerage between Barnard and Somers, so that should each be called upon to speak in turn, Lord Clancharlie would be the eighth in rotation."