Charles and Gregory fared no better.

Never mind, Wycherly, you behaved like a father to us all." "I don't mind signing cheques, in the least; but wills have an irreligious appearance, in my eyes.

There are a good many Wychecombes, in England; I wonder some of them are not of our family! They tell me a hundredth cousin is just as good an heir, as a first-born son." "Failing nearer of kin.

But we have no hundredth cousins of the _whole blood_." "There are the Wychecombes of Surrey, brother Thomas-- ?" "Descended from a bastard of the second baronet, and out of the line of descent, altogether." "But the Wychecombes of Hertfordshire, I have always heard were of our family, and legitimate." "True, as regards matrimony--rather too much of it, by the way.

They branched off in 1487, long before the creation, and have nothing to do with the entail; the first of their line coming from old Sir Michael Wychecombe, Kt.