The Commons, as soon as the Committee had reported, sent some members to the house which he had indicated.

That house and all the neighbouring houses were searched.

Delaval and Hayes were not to be found, nor had any body in the vicinity ever seen such men or heard of them.

The House, therefore, on the last day of the session, just before Black Rod knocked at the door, unanimously resolved that William Fuller was a cheat and a false accuser; that he had insulted the Government and the Parliament; that he had calumniated honourable men, and that an address should be carried up to the throne, requesting that he might be prosecuted for his villany.

[199] He was consequently tried, convicted, and sentenced to fine, imprisonment and the pillory.