The  committee  think  proper  to  inform  your  Lordships  that,  pursuant
to  your  order,  all  the  Judges  in  town  attended  them,  and  were  asked
several  questions  as  to  commitments  by  the  inferior  courts  for  contempt,
and  touching  the  power  exercised  by  one  court  in  bailing  persons  com-
mitted by  another.     And  the  case  of  certain  persons  committed  hy  the
House  of  Commons  being  mentioned,  who  sued  out  writs  of  habeas  corpus^
returnable  to  the  Court  of  King's  Bench,  in  order  to  be  bailed ;  the  com-
mittee caused  the  record  of  that  proceeding  to  be  brought,  and  the  same
being  pemsed,  it  appeared  that  several  writs  of  habeas  corpus  were  brought
in  Hilary  term,  3  Annas,  by  John  Patty  and  four  other  persons,  committed
to  Newgate,  by  warrant  of  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  for  a
contempt  of  the  jurisdiction  of  that  House,  and  a  breach  of  their  known
privileges,   &c.     That  the  prisoners  being  brought  up,  and   a  return
^nsidered  by  the  said  court,  judgment  was  entered,  That,  because  the
cognisance  of  that  cause  did  not  belong  to  that  court,  they  should   be
severally  remanded.     That,  upon  hearing  the  judges  and  the  clerks  ^vho
produced  the  said  record,  the  committee  has  not  been  informed  there  was
any  precedent  of  the  like  nature ;  but  that  the  judges  present  did  agree
that  such  a  judgment  ought  at  any  time  to  be  entered  at  length  if
requested  by  the  parties.
Which  Report  being  read  by  the  clerk,  was  ordered  to  be  taken  into
consideration  to-morrow  morning,  and  the  Lords  to  be  summoned.
Ordered,  that  the  petition  of  the  Lady  Wenman,  which  was  ordered  to  lie  on
the  table  till  after  the  receiving  the  said  Report,  do  lie  on  the  table  tiU  the
said  Report  is  considered.
