The true Causes of the Commitment of Mr. Clement Walker to the Tower.  
IT is spread up and down in the City, as many other lies are very industriously (for there is no trade so quick at this time) that Master Clement Walker is committed for writing a Book against colonel Fines, a lie as loud as any in that Book, though there will appear to be as many there, as there are leaves and many more. The truth is this, he was never questioned for any thing concerning colonel Fines, that being by Order of the House of Commons, and direction of my Lord general thereupon, referred to a council of war: But in his Book he had laid an aspersion upon a peer for carrying in and out things secretly into the island of Lundy, the mysteries whereof must not be discovered; for colonel Nathaniel Fines he did never once send to that island all the while he was governor of Bristol: The Lords upon this; to vindicate the honour of that Lord (whose the island was) did order the Gentleman Usher to bring Walker before them, to declare what the mysteries were that he spoke of, and what he knew to be carried in and out of that island: he attending one day, and there being not time to hear him for other business, the next day he rode out of the town; Whereupon the Gentleman Usher receiving a check from the Lords, he sent the Messenger Master Baker after him, who overtook him and brought him back again: This put the angry Gentleman into such a fury (who they say once stabbed his Wife as she sat at Table with him) that he called that Lord (by whose means he thought it was done) base beggarly Lord, and this was deposed by Baker who brought him up: Yet there being but one witness of this, and he denying it, the Lords proceeded not upon it; but demanded of him what were the words he spoke: who answered, that he said, that Lord did prosecute him maliciously. This he charged the Lord with sitting in the House, and upon this he was censured, that Lord having withdrawn himself. The Lords, before they went to give their censure, calling for the Records, and perusing them to see what had been formerly done in the like cases. Mr. Walker being afterward called into the House (a day or two intervening that he had sufficient time to advise of it) and the judgement read unto him, when he was asked, whether he would submit to the Justice of the House; he answered, Noah, for that it was against the liberty of the Subject, because there was no original Writ or Record before them; and because he was a Commoner of England, and a Committee in the County; and therefore ought not to be judged by the Lords, unless he was first heard in the House of Commons. This when it was in the case of one of their Members, and that sitting in their House, openly at their bar, was such a derogation to the privilege of Parliament, and subversion of the power of Judicature in the highest Court of the kingdom, that the Lords commanded the Clerk presently to set down the words, and committed this Gentleman to the Tower, ordering that they would proceed further upon this, as that which struck at the root of the power and privilege of the Lord's House. That this is the truth, and not those lies which are spread abroad, will appear in the journal Book to any that shall examine it.