Esqr, and bring them beefore the Lords and Commons in Parlyant, to answer such things as are objected against them, etc;
   36. I have made the more particular mention of these two warrants, beecause they were the Basis or ground of all our sufferings, and to shew the House of Peers and Commons can order men to bee committed, wthout specifying the cause, wdl is what I am suer I have heard enough condemned in others. See Cooke's Instit. 2, p. 52, § 4 the Cause.
   37. The sayd 30th of March, Sr Edward Dering came unto me early in ye morning, wth whom I went the same day to London, leaving my deere wife great wth child in ye Country. The 31, beeing thursday, I yielded myselfe prisoner to ye Sergeant. The 1 April!, I, with the rest (onely Sr Edward Dering, who then absented hymself, though after hee appeered, was examined, and again went away), was called in to the howse of Commons, examyned on some few questions, and all of us committed to ye Sergeant of ye Mase attending them, who sent us prisoners to an howse in Covent Garden, tyll wee could bee farther questioned by a Committee of Lords and Commons, appoynted for that service, who soone after did it, examyning us upon about 30 Interrogatories, upon wch nothing appeering against us, and our answers agreeing, so far as their could not, nor did ought appeere against us, but an intent onely of petitioning, and ye too upon the Countrie's desires, the
Howse of Commons, not satisfyed, would have us answer
to some 9 Interrogatories upon Oath.
   38. But how to doe this for men that had not cast of all shew of legall proceedings was not so easy; for themselves had declared against all oaths ex officio, and every man's mouth was full of ye Maxime, "No man
was obliged to accuse himselfe;" how could wee, then, bee brought by oath to accuse each other, beeing alike