Family of Dalmahoy of Dalmahoy, Ratho, County of Edinburgh

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are further commanded to read to you a Roll of Parliament in the
first year of the reign of Henry 4th, whereof we have brought the
original with us."
After this report of what had passed, the House of Commons
appointed a Committee to draw up reasons to be offered at a future Con-
ference.
On the 4th of June the Speaker, who appears to have entered in the
spirit of the dispute with some zeal, was thanked by the House for
causing Mr Serjeant Pemberton to be seized and taken into custody in
Westminster Hall. As the Speaker was commended for not allowing
delay while the reply to the House of Lords was in the course of
preparation, the House itself was stimulated to imitate the Speaker,
and it was ordered that the Serjeant-at-Arms should go with the mace
into Westminster Hall and seize Mr Serjeant Peck, Sir John
Churchill, and Mr Porter. This movement was immediately made,
and the Serjeant-at-Arms returned and announced to the House his
success, by informing it that he had the counsel in custody in the
Speaker's chamber. It was then determined, on a division of 152 to
147, that the persons named should be committed to the Tower and
kept in safe custody for their offence.
On the 4th, Sir Thomas Lee reported from the Committee the
reasons to be offered at a Conference, and they were adopted. The
report concluded in these words : " The Commissioners cannot find by
Magna Charta or by any other law, or ancient custom of Parliament,
that your lordships have any jurisdiction in Cases of Appeal from
Courts of Equity. We are further commanded to acquaint you that
the enlargement of the said persons imprisoned by the order of the
House of Commons, by the Geutleman Usher, the Black Rod, and the
prohibition, with threats, to all persons whatsoever not to receive or
detain them, is an apparent breach of the rights and privileges of the
House of Commons ; and they have, therefore, caused them to be
retaken into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, and committed
them to the Tower."
On Saturday, June 5, the King commanded the attendance of both
Houses at the Banqueting House at Whitehall, when he remonstrated
at the course of proceedings pursued. " I must let you know," he
said, " that whilst you are in debate about your privileges I will not
suffer my own to be invaded." On the return of the House of Commons