 Its key demands mirrored those made by the Confederacy in 1642.The Parliament opened by acclaiming James as the rightful king and condemnation of his "treasonous subjects" who had ousted him.There was some division between the majority in parliament, who voted for a complete restoration of lands held by Catholics prior to the Cromwellian Conquest and Tyrconnell and some of the House of Lords, who proposed that they would receive back only half of their old estates.