The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . d that these poor hardworking men had been cruelly wronged bythe board under the authority of which an Act of the preceding sessionhad placed them. They had been pillaged and insulted, not only bythe commissioners, but by one commissioners lacquey and by another 1 Commons Journals, Jan. 12., Feb. 26., Mar. 6.; A Collection of the Debates and Proceed-ings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695 upon the Inquiry into the late Briberies and CorruptPractices, 1695 ; LHermitage to the States General, March ^. ; Van Citters, Mar. i-|. ;LHermita
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . d that these poor hardworking men had been cruelly wronged bythe board under the authority of which an Act of the preceding sessionhad placed them. They had been pillaged and insulted, not only bythe commissioners, but by one commissioners lacquey and by another 1 Commons Journals, Jan. 12., Feb. 26., Mar. 6.; A Collection of the Debates and Proceed-ings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695 upon the Inquiry into the late Briberies and CorruptPractices, 1695 ; LHermitage to the States General, March ^. ; Van Citters, Mar. i-|. ;LHermitage says : Si par cette recherche la chambre pouvoit remedier au desordre qui regne,elle rendroit un service tres utile et tres agreable au Roy. ^Commons Journals, Feb. 16. 1695; Collection of the Debate) and Proceedings in Parlia-ment in 1694 and 1695 Life of Wharton ; Burnet, ii. 144. ^Speaker Onslows note on Burnet, ii. 583. ; Commons Journals, Mar. 6, 7. 1695. Thehistory of the terrible end of this man will be found in the pamphlets of the South Sea year. I. ^%^J^ JAMES CRAGGSFrom an engraving by G. Vertue, after a painting by Sir C. Kneller 2488 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chai. xxi commissioners harlot. The Commons addressed the Kinc^ ; and theKing turned the delinquents out of their places.^ But by this time delinquents far higher in [)o\ver and rank werebeginning to be uneasy. At every new detection, the excitement, bothAvithin and without the walls of Parliament, became more intense. Thefrightful prevalence of bribery, corruption, and extortion was every wherethe subject of conversation. A contemporary pamphleteer comparesthe state of the political world at this conjuncture to the state of a cityin which the plague has just been discovered, and in which the terriblewords, Lord have mercy on us, are already seen on some ^Whispers, which at another time would have speedily died away and beenforgotten, now swelled, first into murmurs, and then into clamours. Arumour rose and
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