For your reading pleasure and any corrections on the profiles or placement.
“Why is the [impeachment] provision restrained to treason and bribery?” Receiving no satisfactory answer, Mason answered his own question by moving to “extend the power of impeachments…to add maladministration.”
Coincidentally, George's grand uncle, Sir William Thompson Esquire (1676-1739), twice took impeachment actions as MP, Ipswich.
These details among others can be reviewed (and updated, where lacking) on ancestors who may be yours, or in this case, cousins of mine on WikiTree (though our common ancestor, Thomas Mason (abt. 1602 - 1655), needs some work and probably others in the line, too.