When at length the procession had made its way through the crowd into the presence of the judges, the Attorney General exhibited the information which he had been commanded to prepare, and moved that the defendants might be ordered to plead.

The counsel on the other side objected that the Bishops had been unlawfully committed, and were therefore not regularly before the Court.

The question whether a peer could be required to enter into recognisances on a charge of libel was argued at great length, and decided by a majority of judges in favour of the crown.

The prisoners then pleaded Not Guilty.

That day fortnight, the twenty-ninth of June, was fixed for their trial.