But, it was said, the Commons, by sending a penal bill against him to the Lords, did, by necessary implication, send him also to the Lords.

For it was plainly impossible for the Lords to pass the bill without hearing what he had to say against it.

The Commons had felt this, and had not complained when he had, without their consent, been brought from his place of confinement, and set at the bar of the Peers.

From that moment he was the prisoner of the Peers.

He had been taken back from the bar to the Tower, not by virtue of the Speaker's warrant, of which the force was spent, but by virtue of their order which had remanded him.