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 "They pay you money to keep away," says Pliny.

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Line 40 Vulgarized:
"You are a remittance man," says Pitt.

Subtext:
I'm not sure if the term "remittance man" existed before the Victorian era but it doesn't matter because Pitt or Pliny didn't use the term. But he used the definition and it wouldn't surprise me if paying a relation a sum of money to remain abroad was as old as the first British colony. Maybe as old as the second colony since the first colony was probably a bunch of volunteer trouble makers who had nothing going on for them in the Motherland. But then the second colony, the black sheep of families probably realized how lucrative they could make getting out of their family's hair and began using it as a scam. The practice probably became quite common so that families quickly suggested it to family members embarrassing the family reputation.
    Here, Pitt and Pliny suggest that Cherrycoke was such a failure and embarrassment to the family in Great Britain that he was paid to go abroad. In other words, did Cherrycoke have a natural inclination for exploration and travel or did he just have a natural inclination towards crime and easy money?
    I now suspect that Cherrycoke's confession to being a Reverend in name and actor's tricks only was truthful all the way back to his youth. He was probably nearly hanged due to his impersonation of a churchman. His revelation upon revival was that he needed to impersonate a reverend in less passionately religious company. And his family, shamed by his fraud being caught out, began paying him to remain abroad.
    When he first met Mason and Dixon, did he intend to simply scam them and live off their fame and grants? But then he generally grew to love them, and consider them his friends? I'd probably know the answer to these questions if I could remember much of this book which I read over twenty years ago! Hopefully I'll pay more attention this time.