216 PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF TRURO. 



is conjectured that this was copied from Browne WilHs. Another 

 list, however, has been found more recently among the Duke of 

 Manchester's papers, at Kimbolton, and this is now generally 

 regarded as being more correct. Here the burgesses for Truro are 

 said to have been Thomas Eussell and Thomas Burgess, junior, 

 merchant. Burgess again sat for Truro in 1623-4. 



James called a third parliament in 1620, for which Truro 

 elected Barnabas Grooch, LL.D., and John Trefusis, of Trefusis. 

 Apparently, the corporation had some difficulty in the election of 

 a colleague for Grooch, for while the date of the latter' s return was 

 1 8th December, 1 620, that of Trefusis was three days later. Grooch 

 was also returned by the University of Cambridge, and preferred 

 to serve for it ; Truro had consequently to elect another member, 

 and chose Sir John Catcher, knt., who is described in the official 

 returns as "of Binkfield, county Berks." If this description is 

 correct, he must have wandered far afield from his native place 

 to find a new home, and it does not appear that after renewing 

 his connection with Truro, he again broke it. He was, probably, 

 the second of the three sons of William Catcher, of Condurra, 

 St. Clement, a merchant, an alderman of the borough, and 

 brother-in-law of Thomas Burgess, senior. John was an ardent 

 Royalist, and raised a foot company at his own expense for 

 Charles I. During the Commonwealth he suffered sequestration 

 and imprisonment, and being released at the Restoration, he 

 presented a petition to the King (14th July, 1660) praying that he 

 might be appointed to the offices of stamper and receiver of 

 excise on tin, and of supervisor of tin-blowing in Cornwall and 

 Devon. The treasury commissioners, in their report, dated 7th 

 August, granted the request for the present, and promised to 

 recommend him to the future farmers of tin, to whom the appoint- 

 ment belonged. Three years later the G(-overnment issued a 

 warrant to pay him a salary of £80 per annum with arrears. 



"Instead of the fathers shall be the children." To the last 

 parliament of James I., 1623-4, Truro sent Eichard DanieU and 

 Thomas Burgess, sons of previous representatives of the town. 

 Reference has already been made to Burgess. DanieU was the 

 elder son of William Daniel! . For many years he traded with 

 the Low Countries, and resided at Middleburg ; so successful was 

 he in his business, and in his attention to municipal affairs, that 



