A history of the Dorchester Pope family, 1634-1888 : with sketches of other Popes in England and America, and notes upon several intermarrying families . merby, Esquire. His father was born in 1643, anddied in 1717, being thus contemporaneous with the firstgeneration of our family born in this country. The poet lived and died at Twickenham, London, on theMiddlesex bank of the Thames; there the grotto he constructedremains, and an obelisk he erected to the memory of hismother. She was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Turner, a ministerof the Established Church, whose sons were martyrs to theRoyalist ca
A history of the Dorchester Pope family, 1634-1888 : with sketches of other Popes in England and America, and notes upon several intermarrying families . merby, Esquire. His father was born in 1643, anddied in 1717, being thus contemporaneous with the firstgeneration of our family born in this country. The poet lived and died at Twickenham, London, on theMiddlesex bank of the Thames; there the grotto he constructedremains, and an obelisk he erected to the memory of hismother. She was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Turner, a ministerof the Established Church, whose sons were martyrs to theRoyalist cause. Of his services to Literature, to Ethics inhis poems, nothing need be said here, further than to call 28 CONCERNING ENGLISH POPES. attention to the fact that we may cherish the hope that he wasa scion of the very stock from which we have sprung ; and wemay feel a family interest in his life and works. He died May 30, 1774. KENT POPES. Hasted, in his History of Kent, says that there was a familyof Popes at High Halden, a younger branch of the same atHockeridge, in the parish of Havvkhurst, and at Maidstone,in Kent. Their arms are described as,. The Arms of the Popes of Kent. Or, two cheverons gu., a canton of the last charged with amullet ar. Crest, an heraldic tiger, statant, ppr., ducally gorgedand chain refiexed over the back, or. THE POPES OF SUSSEX. At Rye, one of the Cinque Ports, Thomas Pope was abailiff in the 10th year of Henry II, [1422,] as we find by hissignature to a document, June 10th of that year ; the samename occurs in 1431 and 1435 in Rye documents, and as buyerof Thomas Dobylls property there in 1455. CONCERNING ENGLISH POPES. 29 Thomas Pope of Little Horsted, said by Berry to have beena member of the Privy Council of Henry VI., married JaneWeston, a descendant of Ralph of Wistoneston, Wiston, orWeston, who received a grant of that manor from William deBraose, in the 20th year of William the Conqueror. Shebrought him Hendal in Buxtead. The Weston arms ar
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