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Tiffany & Co themselves to the disabilities created by it rather than obstruct what was deemed so necessanr to the com rbon welfare. Alderman Love, a member of the House of Commons, and a known dissenter, publicly desired, that nothing with relation to them might intervene to stop the security which the nation and protestant religion might derive from .the test act, and declared that in this he was seconded by the greater part of the nonconformists. This conduct was so acceptable to parliament, that, in the very session in which the test aot passed, and while that act was depending, a bill was brought into the House of Commons, entitled, ' A bill for the ease of protestant dissenters.' This bill, having passed through the different stagesof that House, was Tiffany Co carried up to the House of Lords, where likewise it passed, with some amendments. These amendments having given occasion to a conference between the two Houses, King Charles II., from an apprehension that the Tiffany and Co measure would prove injurious to the ] pish interest, on the 29th of March, 1673, adjourned the parliament to the aoth of October following. In the next session, an attempt was made, in the House of Commons, to Tiffany & Co discriminate the dissenters from the papists, with regard to their qualifications for public offices, by bringing in a bill for a Tiffany Jewelry general test, to distinguish protestante from papists; which bill, having been read a second time, and referred to a committee, was laid aside without being reported.The late reverend and learned Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, in a speech in the House of Lords, in the year 1703, took particular notice of the conduct of the dissenters, with regard to the testact; and justly concluded, that, as the act was obtained in some measure by their concurrence, it would be hard, to turn it against them.