On the 8th of August, just after Lambert had marched against Booth, there had been a call of the House with the result that Mr.Peter Brooke and Mr, Edmund Dunch, two members who had never attended and about whom there were evil reports, were fined L100 each; and on the 13th of September, while Dunch's fine was remitted on explanations given, Brooke, who had actually been in arms with Booth, was brought to the bar of the House in custody, disabled from sitting in Parliament, and sent to the Tower on a charge of high treason.

Again, on the 30th of September, there was a call of the House, when fines of L100 were inflicted on Henry Arthington (_Rec., O^2_), John Carew (*_Rec., B_), Thomas Mackworth (_Rec., O^1, O^2, R_), Alexander Popham (_O^1, O^2, R_), Richard Norton (_Rec., B, O^1, O^2, R_), and John Stephens (_Rec., R_).

These six, I imagine, were so punished as having never attended the House, and as notoriously contumacious or disaffected.
But the House took the opportunity of punishing with smaller fines, ranging from L5 to L40, twenty-five members who had been attending of late too negligently; among whom were Lord Chief Justice St.John, Viscount Lisle, Lord Commissioner Lisle, Colonel Hutchinson, and Colonel Philip Jones.

At the same time they made an example of Major-General Harrison (*_Rec., O^1, R_).

He, of course, had never attended in the Restored Rump, for the very good reason that he had been Cromwell's chief aider and abettor in the dissolution of the Rump in April 1653.