Washington, disappointed that the loan office proposal had passed, and certain that it would be approved by the Council, left on Sunday, May 26, after attending services at Bruton Parish Church with Lieutenant-Governor Fauquier. Other burgesses left that same day, confident that a loan office and financial rescue were in their future. On Monday, the 27th, the loan office committee conferred with the Council. On Tuesday, the House resumed its business, and the Council returned to it several bills that it had passed and received the Governor’s signature, and one that had not—the loan office proposal, which was unanimously rejected. During that day’s afternoon recess, in the arcade that connected the House and Council chambers, an inconsolable Edmund Pendleton met with some of the “old guard” of the House and announced his own imminent departure. “This very evening,” he said. “My work is finished here, and was fruitless. The Council, acting on bad and perhaps slanderous advice, has seen fit to ignore our pleas and scuttle the only accomplishment this session could have boasted.”
