A committee of managers was appointed to draw up the articles and to prepare the evidence.

[583] The articles were speedily drawn; but to the chain of evidence one link appeared to be wanting.

That link Robart, if he had been severely examined and confronted with other witnesses, would in all probability have been forced to supply.

He was summoned to the bar of the Commons.
A messenger went with the summons to the house of the Duke of Leeds, and was there informed that the Swiss was not within, that he had been three days absent, and that where he was the porter could not tell.

The Lords immediately presented an address to the King, requesting him to give orders that the ports might be stopped and the fugitive arrested.