Although this was to be his last experience of Parliament, he did not lose all connexion with it: in 1557 he and Richard Calmady stood surety for John Evelegh, when Evelegh was fined for quitting the Parliament of November 1554 prematurely without leave. Sainthill did not reappear there until the spring of 1554, when he was returned for another Cornish constituency, his fellow being Humphrey Cavell, a member of the 1st Earl of Bedford’s circle. By the time of the next Parliament, in March 1553, both Seymour and his elder brother, the Duke of Somerset, had disappeared and it was not the moment for a former client of their family to be helped to obtain a seat in the Commons. he wrote to the admiral from Hamworthy, Dorset, about a vessel driven ashore on the Isle of Wight, he professed himself ‘your friend assured’. He had no personal link with Grampound and he probably owed his return there to Admiral Seymour: on the previous 11 May he had visited Seymour House on admiralty business and when on 17 Sept. In 1547 Sainthill entered the Commons for a recently enfranchised borough. Such virtue had not been its own reward, for in the previous year he had bought former monastic land to the tune of £600 and he would go on to make regular, if smaller, purchases and to rebuild his house at Bradninch. In 1546 he supported a successful claim to a coat of arms with the declaration that he had ‘long continued in virtue and in all his acts and other his demeaning hath discreetly and worshipfully guided and governed himself’. He was probably a Middle Templar, for his first wife was the daughter of one of that inn’s luminaries, his friends and colleagues seem to have been largely drawn from its members, and his son was to be admitted there. He inherited a small estate in Moreton but evidently preferred to make his home at Bradninch.
Peter Sainthill came of a gentle family which had been settled in the neighbourhood of Moreton Hampstead since the 14th century. relief, Devon 1550, sewers, London 1554 dep. of Stephen Wilford and Alexander Writhington, 2s. of William Shine of Bradley, Berks., wid. Gale, later ink inscriptions to front endpapers, prices and names in contemporary ink manuscript throughout, some scattered foxing, contemporary half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, 1844 and others, Numismatics (c.B. Christie & Mason, 2 parts in 1 vol., bookplate of David W. Henderson and his ink ownership inscription to head of titles, dated 1889, some light foxing or browning to plates, contemporary half morocco, rubbed at extremities, for private distribution, 1844-53 § An Essay on Medals, lacking final corrections leaf, occasional early ink underlining and marginalia, some light foxing or browning, modern calf, gilt, with red morocco label to spine, 1784 § Catalogue of the First Portion of the Very Important Collections of Coins and Medals.which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Numismatics.- Sainthill (Richard), An Olla Podrida Or, Scraps, Numismatic, Antiquarian, and Literary, 2 vol., plates and illustrations, bookplate of J. Gale, later ink inscriptions to front endpapers, prices and names in contemporary ink manuscript throughout, some scattered foxing, contemporary half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, 1844 and others, Numismatics (c.90) ⁂ The last mentioned being the Sale Catalogue for the Duke of Devonshire's Collection in March 1844. Numismatics.- Sainthill (Richard) An Olla Podrida Or, Scraps, Numismatic, Antiquarian, and Literary, 2 vol., plates and illustrations, bookplate of J.
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