retaliated by ordering the imprisonment of the company chairman. In 1670, Charles II requested both houses to abandon the case. When they refused, he ordered that all references to the case be expunged from the journals of both houses and that neither body continue with the dispute. The House of Lords then ceased to hear petitions in the first instance, considering them only after the lower courts had failed to remedy them.

Even afterwards the houses clashed over jurisdiction in 1675. The Commons felt that the upper house had breached