 Complete the following phrase:  the Committee. Later in the month Mackworth went to London, where he was due to make depositions against Laud before a House of Lords committee in January 1644. These particularly related to Lauds interference with the towns charter, in a dispute between the town and William Beale, Master of St. Johns College, Cambridge, and in the appointment of the head of Shrewsbury School. Meanwhile, the situation in Shropshire became desperate as numerous experienced royalist soldiers, redeployed during a lull in the 