It appeared that these poor hardworking men had been cruelly wronged by the board under the authority of which an Act of the preceding session had placed them.
They had been pillaged and insulted, not only by the commissioners, but by one commissioner's lacquey and by another commissioner's harlot.

The Commons addressed the King; and the King turned the delinquents out of their places.

[569] But by this time delinquents far higher in power and rank were beginning to be uneasy.

At every new detection, the excitement, both within and without the walls of Parliament, became more intense.

The frightful prevalence of bribery, corruption and extortion was every where the subject of conversation.