barnardistone

Updated: April 30, 2025

Papillon, Barnardistone, and their adherents, sold their stock; their places in the committee were supplied by persons devoted to Child; and he was thenceforth the autocrat of the Company. The treasures of the Company were absolutely at his disposal. The most important papers of the Company were kept, not in the muniment room of the office in Leadenhall Street, but in his desk at Wanstead.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

Indeed two of them, Sir Samuel Barnardistone and Thomas Papillon, drew on themselves a severe persecution by their zeal against Popery and arbitrary power. Child had been originally brought into the direction by these men; he had long acted in concert with them; and he was supposed to hold their political opinions.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4