reformer-squires

Updated: June 21, 2025

"Say, reformer-squires," answered Eleanor; "for it was they who did the thing; only it was found convenient, at the Restoration, to lay on the people of the seventeenth century the iniquities which the country-gentlemen committed in the sixteenth."

Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography