parliamentman

Updated: June 9, 2025

And when Sir John "the little baronet," as he was called, a Parliamentman, and the one whom Walpole never could bribe married pretty Mistress Catherine, the heiress of Sherrington across Tamar, his lady's dowry was hauled down through the Duchy to Nansclowan in waggons a wonder to behold and stacked in Nansclowan cellars: ten thousand pounds, and every doit of it in half-crowns.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales