 He made default, was sent for 'as a delinquent,' and on 22 February was produced at the bar in a poor state.He made formal submission on 6 March, and was released on bail.At the same time he was harassed by proceedings in the House of Lords by the widow of one of the churchwardens of Colchester, whom he had excommunicated in 1635 for refusing to rail in the altar, and by a certain Walter Walker, whom he had unlawfully deprived of the office of commissary of Leicester.