 On 5 March, with John Selden and William Coryton, he was under examination at the Privy Council, and was committed to the Tower of London.On 17 March he was examined before a committee of the Council, when he refused to answer any questions respecting acts done in Parliament.On 6 May he, with Selden, Holles, William Strode, Miles Hobart, and Walter Long, considering themselves legally entitled to bail, applied to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus.