tredenham

Updated: May 26, 2025

One of the criminals, Tredenham, escaped with impunity. For the dominion of his family over the borough of St. Mawes was absolute even to a proverb. The other two had the fate which they deserved. Davenant ceased to sit for Bedwin.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5

To this house the messenger went; and there he found Poussin at table with three of the most virulent Tory members of the House of Commons, Tredenham, who returned himself for Saint Mawes; Hammond, who had been sent to Parliament by the high churchmen of the University of Cambridge; and Davenant, who had recently, at Poussin's suggestion, been rewarded by Lewis for some savage invectives against the Whigs with a diamond ring worth three thousand pistoles.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5

Seymour, Finch, and Tredenham, all stanch Tories, were vehement against the bill; and even Sir John Lowther on this point dissented from his friend and patron Caermarthen. Several Tory orators appealed to a feeling which was strong in the House, and which had, since the Revolution, prevented many laws from passing.

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