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 On the 20th of that month he was fetched again before the Committee, when Serjeant Maynard being in the chair, he had a fair and full hearing upon that point ; but the Committee declining to hear him upon ome other things relating to the Houe of Commons, he ent a paper upon thoe matters incloed in a letter to Mr Maynard on the 28th , wherein he promied, for the atisfaction of his enemies, to leave the kingdom if he had his demands paid by an order of the Houe, threatening otherwie to raie his friends among the people in his defence. On the 9th of November an order paed the Houe that he hould have liberty every day to go without his keeper to attend the Committee appointed about his buines, and to return every night to the Tower. And he enjoyed the benefit of it ome time, but an information of editious practices being made againt him in January to the Houe of Lords, he was taken into cutody again, and brought before the Houe of Commons on the 19th of that month. When in his defence, he delivered a charge of high-treaon againt Cromwell and Ireton; upon which he was remitted to the Tower, and ordered to be tried by the law of the land, for editious and candalous practices againt the tate. Conceiving himelf to be epecially in-