Crossword-Solution: ISLEY 5 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Little Isley Mason, or, as he was called, “His Father's Mate,” had always been a favourite with the diggers and fossickers from the days when he used to slip out first thing in the morning and take a run across the frosty flat in his shirt.

Long Bob Sawkins would often tell how Isley came home one morning from his run in the long, wet grass as naked as he was born, with the information that he had lost his shirt.

Later on, when most of the diggers had gone, and Isley's mother was dead, he was to be seen about the place with bare, sunbrowned arms and legs, a pick and shovel, and a gold dish about two-thirds of his height in diameter, with which he used to go “a-speckin'” and “fossickin'” amongst the old mullock heaps.

Bob offered to help him wind up, but Isley, proud of showing his strength to his friend, insisted on winding by himself.

Ursula's father, Henry Isley, belonged to a family of landed gentry which had been seated since the reign of Edward II in the parish of Sundridge, Kent.