Mr.Buckler of Essex herein brake his faith in forsaking the matter, etc., and no more was done." After setting down, continues Sir Simon D'Ewes, the said business of Mr.Wentworth in the original journal book, there follows only this short conclusion of the day itself, viz.: "This day, Mr.Speaker being sent for to the queen's majesty, the house departed." On Thursday, the 2d of March, Mr.Cope, Mr.Lewkenor, Mr.Hurleston, and Mr.Bainbrigg were sent for to my lord chancellor and by divers of the privy council, and from thence were sent to the Tower.

On Saturday the 4th day of March, Sir John Higham made a motion to this house, for that divers good and necessary members thereof were taken from them, that it would please them to be humble petitioners to her majesty for the restitution of them again to this house.

To which speeches Mr.Vice-chamberlain answered, that if the gentlemen were committed for matter within the compass of the privilege of the house, then there might be a petition; but if not, then we should give occasion to her majesty's further displeasure; and therefore advised to stay until they heard more, which could not be long.

And further, he said, touching the book and the petition, her majesty had, for divers good causes best known to herself, thought fit to suppress the same, without any further examination thereof; and yet thought it very unfit for her majesty to give any account of her doings.
But whatsoever Mr.Vice-chamberlain pretended, it is most probable these members were committed for intermeddling with matters touching the church, which her majesty had often inhibited, and which had caused so much disputation and so many meetings between the two houses the last parliament.
This is all we find of the matter in Sir Simon D'Ewes and Townshend; and it appears that those members who had been committed, were detained in custody till the queen thought proper to release them.

These questions of Mr.Wentworth are curious; because they contain some faint dawn of the present English constitution, though suddenly eclipsed by the arbitrary government of Elizabeth.