[571] Foley was placed in the chair of the committee.

Within a week he reported that the Speaker, Sir John Trevor, had in the preceding session received from the City a thousand guineas for expediting a local bill.
This discovery gave great satisfaction to the Whigs, who had always hated Trevor, and was not unpleasing to many of the Tories.

During six busy sessions his sordid rapacity had made him an object of general aversion.

The legitimate emoluments of his post amounted to about four thousand a year; but it was believed that he had made at least ten thousand a year.

[572] His profligacy and insolence united had been too much even for the angelic temper of Tillotson.