They still insisted On the impeachment of Danby.

The peers, in compliance with them, departed from their former scruples, and ordered Danby to be taken into custody.
Danby absconded.

The commons passed a bill, appointing him to surrender himself before a certain day, or, in default of it, attainting him.

A bill had passed the upper house, mitigating the penalty to banishment; but after some conferences, the peers thought proper to yield to the violence of the commons, and the bill of attainder was carried.

Rather than undergo such severe penalties, Danby appeared, and was immediately committed to the Tower.
While a Protestant nobleman met with such violent prosecution, it was not likely that the Catholics would be overlooked by the zealous commons.