The magistrates of Leyden were induced by a bribe to deliver him up.

He was hurried on board of an English ship, carried to London, and brought before the King's Bench.

Sawyer moved the Court to award execution on the outlawry.

Armstrong represented that a year had not yet elapsed since he had been outlawed, and that, by an Act passed in the reign of Edward the Sixth, an outlaw who yielded himself within the year was entitled to plead Not Guilty, and to put himself on his country.

To this it was answered that Armstrong had not yielded himself, that he had been dragged to the bar a prisoner, and that he had no right to claim a privilege which was evidently meant to be given only to persons who voluntarily rendered themselves up to public justice.
Jeffreys and the other judges unanimously overruled Armstrong's objection, and granted the award of execution.