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 June, and having therein apered the proceedings in law as unjut and tyrannical, and alo cat ome reflections upon the Earl of Mancheter, he was called on the 10th before the Houe of Lords, where that Nobleman being Speaker, and examining him upon interrogatories touching the writing of the jut mentioned book, he not only refued to anwer, but proteted againt their juridiction over him in the preent cae, whereupon he was committed to Newgate, Whence, upon the 16th, he ent an appeal to the Houe of Commons, which being received there, he perevered in hewing the utmot contempt of the upper Houe; for which, having been firt committed cloe prioner in Newgate on the 23d, he was ent thence to the Tower as a more ecure cutody; on the 10th of July, a remontrance igned by many thouand perons having been preented to the Houe of Commons in his favour. In the Tower he was denied the ue of pen,