His history, up to a certain point, greatly resembles that of Harley: but he appears to have been superior to Harley both in parts and in elevation of character.

He was the son of Thomas Foley, a new man, but a.

man of great merit, who, having begun life with nothing, had created a noble estate by ironworks, and who was renowned for his spotless integrity and his munificent charity.

The Foleys were, like their neighbours the Harleys, Whigs and Puritans.

Thomas Foley lived on terms of close intimacy with Baxter, in whose writings he is mentioned with warm eulogy.