Excerpt from Petticoat Government, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Neither were the daughters of the house very numerous, and of these the majority had died single, which may be accounted for by the fact that every successive David J enkyns, Esquire, banker of Westhampton, had been uniformly of opinion that they owed it to themselves, their name, and their bank, not to diminish their credit, or the solid funds which supported it, by bestowing any very tempting amount of fortune on the daughters of their race; and the consequence of this was that, though their family connexions had not greatly increased, the family property had never been lessened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.