Privilege of Parliament
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The doctrine of parliamentary privilege, protecting members of the House of Lords from arrest or restraint during a sitting Parliament except by the House's own order or for treason, felony, or refusal of surety of the peace.
and considering withal how far it may trench into the right of every member of this House, whether sitting by ancient right of inheritance or by patent, to have their writs detained;
The Earl of Arundel being committed by the King to the Tower, sitting the Parliament, the House was moved, to take the same into their consideration, and so to proceed therein, as they might give no just offence to His Majesty, and yet preserve the privilege of Parliament.
and after diligent search both of all stories, statutes and records that might inform us in this case, we find it to be an undoubted right and constant privilege of Parliament, that no Lord of Parliament, the Parliament sitting, or within the usual times of privilege of Parliament, is to be imprisoned or restrained without sentence or order of the House, unless it be for treason or felony, or for …