The life of Sir Thomas Pope: founder of Trinity College Oxford. Chiefly compiled from original evidences. With an appendix of papers, never before printed. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. By Thomas Warton, ...

SECT. VI.

I Now proceed to throw some collateral light on sir Thomas Pope's history, by giving a detached and distinct account of his brothers, sisters, wives, and friends: most of which have already been occasionally men|tioned in the course of this narrative.

His brother John Pope, who was one of his heirs, and to whom he granted large es|tates, appears to have been settled at Wroxton in Oxfordshire, in the reign of Edward the sixthz 1.1. I find John purchasing of Henry the eighth, in the year 1544, estates belonging to the dissolved canons of Kenilworth in Warwicshire, for 1501l. 13s. 8da 1.2. In the same year he recieved a grant of the site of the house of Franciscan friers at Lincolnb 1.3: as also, jointly with others, the site of the black friars at Beverly in Yorkshirec 1.4. In

1545, he received some lands belonging to the priory of Bileigh in Essexd 1.5. I could give many more instances from the patents, and privy seals. I find him often entertained at Trinity college, Oxford: and once with his second wife Elizabeth Brockette 1.6. He was three times married. But as a further ac|count of him, his marriages, issue, and their descendants, would take up too much of our time here, and on other accounts requires a

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more minute and separate consideration, these particulars shall form an article for the Appendixf 1.7.

Sir Thomas Pope's sisters were Alice, Eli|zabeth, and Julian, as I before observed. Alice was married to Edward Love, gentle|man, of Aynhoc, in Northamptonshire; g 1.8 whose name often occurs in the affairs of Trinity college aforesaid about the time of its foundation, and who appears to have act|ed as the founder's receiver in Oxfordshire and other countiesh 1.9. She died 1534, and they are both buried in the church of Stoke-Lyne near Bicester in Oxfordshire, with an inscription on a brass-platei 1.10. Elizabeth his

second sister was married to Richard Hutch|ins, of Chipping-Norton in the same county, and afterwards to John Orpewood of the same placek 1.11. The third sister Julian was, as I conjecture, a nun at Godstowe; and upon the dissolution of that convent, received a grant of an annual pension of vjl. xiijs. ivdl 1.12.

which she continued to possess, 1553. This is a larger pension than was usual: which probably she got by the interest of her brother sir Thomas Pope. And this is more probable, as among other notices, it appears from an in|dorsement on a fragment of a rental of that nunnery in the hand-writing of sir Thomas Pope, that on their dispersion, he gave a gratuitous donation of forty marcs to twelve of its nuns, who were friendless and born in Oxfordshirem 1.13. She, if the same, was however married, before the year 1556, to Henry Bryan of Cogges in Oxfordshiren 1.14, who seems to have been but in moderate circumstanceso 1.15.

As to the wives of sir Thomas Pope, he was three times married. His first wife was Elisabeth Gunston, from whom he was di|vorced by Richard Gwent, doctor of decrees, archdeacon of London, and principal official in the court of Canterbury, July the eleventh 1536, by the authority of the king and par|liamentp 1.16.

His second wife was Margaret Dodmer, widow, to whom he was married at London, July the seventeenth, 1536q 1.17, by licence from archbishop Cranmer, authorised by parliament for this purposer 1.19. Margaret Dodmer's maiden name was Townsend, and she was a native of Stamford in Lincoln|shires 1.20. She was the relict of Ralph Dod|mer,

mercer and sheriff of London, 1524; afterwards knightedt 1.21, and mayor of London, 1529u 1.22. She was married to the said Ralph, by licence from cardinal Wolsey, dated November the twentieth, 1527w 1.23. By this sir Ralph Dodmer, she had two sons Ralph and John, both living 1554x 1.24, and two daugh|ters, Ann and Maryy 1.25. By sir Thomas Pope, her second husband, she had only one

daughter Alice, born April the sixteenth, 1537z 1.26, who died very young. Lee, in a book of arms, chiefly of Oxfordshire, drawn by himself in 1574, gives us the arms of Dodmer impaling Pope, from an escocheon of painted glass in a window at Trinity col|lege, since destroyed with many others: viz. Four lozenges meeting in point, gules, be|tween four roses of the same: Upon a chief, gules, a wheat sheaf between two annulets, Ora 1.27. But these arms do not agree with an engraving of the arms of sir Ralph Dodmer given by Stoweb 1.28, With this lady Margaret, sir Thomas Pope seems to have lived in the greatest harmony and happiness; for in his Will he mentions with much affection,

"her womanlie behaviour, trewth, and honestie, used towards me,"

and makes this the sole cause of his kind remembrances and gifts to her son; beseeching his executors, and ho|norable friends, to treat all her children as his own. She died the sixteenth day of January, 1538c 1.29.

His third wife, who deserves more parti|cular notice, was Elizabeth the daughter of Walter Blount, esquire, of Blount's Hall in Staffordshire, and Mary his wife, descended from the illustrious family of Dudley Sutton, of which were the famous, John Dudley duke of Northumberland, and Robert earl of Leicester. The said Elizabeth when mar|ried to sir Thomas Pope, was relict of Anthony Basford, or Beresford, esquire, of Bentley in Derbyshire, by whom she had an only son Johnd 1.30. It is said by one who

knew her welle 1.31, that sir Thomas Pope was induced to marry this lady principally on account of her charitable disposition, and and other excellent qualifications; and that she heartily concurred with her husband's pious intention of founding a college. They were married by licence from archbishop Cranmer, the first of January, 1540f 1.32. They had no issue. After the death of sir Thomas Pope in January 1559, she was married, for the third time, before or in December fol|lowingg 1.33, to sir Hugh Powlett of Hinton saint George in Somersetshire: concerning whose life and character, it may not perhaps be thought too great a digression to mention some few particulars.

Sir Hugh Powlett was the son of sir Amias Powlett knight, of whom it is remembered, that having incurred the displeasure of car|dinal Wolsey, to produce a reconciliation, he

re-edified the gate of the middle temple, where he was treasurer, in a most superb manner, introducing among other decora|tions, the cardinal's arms, cognisance, and badgesh 1.34. Sir Hugh, during the reign of Henry the Eighth, was much in favor with that king. He was invited, in 1537, with the principal nobility, to attend the magni|ficent baptism of prince Edwardi 1.35. He was knighted for his gallant services against the French in the wars of that reign: particu|larly for his behaviour at taking the Brey, at the siege of Boloigne, in the presence of the kingk 1.36 He was treasurer of the king's army at the siege of Boloignel 1.37. In consideration of these merits, he was rewarded by Henry the eighth with several grants of manors and landsm 1.38. By that king he was likewise ap|pointed surveyor of the rents of the dissolved

monastery of Glastonburyn 1.39. In the third year of Edward the sixth, he was knight|marshal of the army commanded by lord Russel lord privy seal, and sent against the rebels of Cornwall and Devonshire, whom he totally defeatedo 1.40. For these services he was, the year following, appointed, for life, governor of the isle of Jersey and Mount-Orgueil-castlep 1.41. In 1551, the fifth year of the lastmentioned king, he was installed knight of the garter, at a chapter held in the royal palace of Greenwichq 1.42. In 1559, the the first year of queen Elizabeth, the privy council constituted him vice-president of the marches of Wales, in the absence of lord Williams, presidentr 1.43. In 1563, he was made governor of Havre de Gracet 1.44, then in the hands of the English. The next year, he was one of the principal commanders who so bravely defended Newhaven against the French. On this occasion, when Montmo|rency, constable of France, sent a trumpet

to the earl of Warwick summoning him to surrender, sir Hugh Powlett was deputed by the earl to assure the Constable, that the English were prepared and resolved to suffer the last extremity before they would yield the town, without the queen's express orders. And when the English army was at length so miserably reduced by a pestilence, that her majesty in compassion to those gallant sol|diers who still survived, gave directions to lord Warwick to deliver up the place; sir Hugh Powlett was the chief of the commis|sioners who conducted the conferences with the constable of France for the capitulationt 1.45. He was in a word, beside the character of singular prudence and integrity, one of the most intrepid and experienced officers of his timeu 1.46. He was father, by a former wife, of sir Amias Powlettw 1.47, a privy counsellor and an eminent statesman, in the reign of queen Elizabethx 1.48. Sir Hugh died in 1571, being

then representative in parliament for the county of Somersety 1.49, and without issue by this lady.

This Lady, whom we must now call Dame Elizabeth Powlett, did not, however, from her new connection discontinue that previous and natural attachment, which, in the cha|racter of foundress, she bore to the founda|tion of her former husband sir Thomas Pope. She possessed indeed no small jurisdiction over the transactions of the society: for the foun|der had delegated to her the authority of nominating it's scholars, and presenting to it's advowsons, during lifez 1.50. And this power,

yet with some interruptionsa 1.51, she continued to exercise till her deathb 1.52. Nor was she wanting in proper marks of affection to a place, to which she was by the strongest ties so nearly related. She engaged her husband, sir Hugh Powlett, to join with her in protecting the interests of the college. She added, in part, to the founder's endow|ment, after his death, the rectory of Ridge in Hertfordshire, and the advowson to the vicaragec 1.53. She freely fulfilled the founder's unlimited charge, in which she was bound to finish the house at Garsington abovemen|tioned; the cost of it having exceeded the five hundred marcs which he specified by will for that purpose: and accordingly we find her, from time to time, advancing with|out reserve, the necessary supplies of timber and moneyd 1.54. She appears often to have in|terested

herself in the affairs of the society, and to have lent her assistance and advice on many occasions: for which she frequently re|ceived their testimonies of respect and re|gardc 1.55 Once I find her present at the college

in 1565, viz.

"Sol. pro Refectione data Fun|datrici, liijs. iiijdf 1.56."

Sir Edward Hoby, an eminent statesman and scholar, in the reigns of queen Elizabeth and James the first, styles her in a latin epistleg 1.57,

"praeno|bilis heroina;"

and adds the great obliga|tion she had conferred upon him in admitting into the college, Bernard Adamsh 1.58, afterwards

bishop of Limerick. Sir Hugh Powlett assis|ted the college with his patronage, in a trou|blesome and expensive law-suit against lord Rich, and enabled them to overthrow their

powerful antagonisti 1.59. He generously gave them a present of twenty pounds in silver, in 1566, for finishing the stone wall round their Grovek 1.60. I find him entertained with them on Trinity Sunday the preceding yearl 1.61. I find him also visiting them 1567, viz.

"Allocat. Jun. xxviii. pro dapibus domini Paulett visentis collegium, vjs. viijd. Item pro cerasis et vino eodem tempore, ijs. ivd. [ixs.]m 1.62.

But I proceed to some other particulars concerning Dame Elizabeth Powlett. In the year 1560, she placed in rich painted glass in a window of the choir, or chancell, of the church of Broadwell in Oxsordshire, an image of the Holy Trinity, with the figures

of herself and Sir Thomas Popen 1.63, both kneel|ing in their heraldic surcoats of arms. But this window was removed or destroyed the following year by own her command, being censured as superstitiouso 1.64. In the following year, she gave a great clock to the late conven|tual church of Clerkenwell in Londonp 1.65. This was a considerable benefaction, and not unworthy to be mentioned here; as clocks, if of any size, were at that time uncommon and very expensive. In 1564, she placed a new pair of organs, with a picture of the Passion of Saint Sebastian, in the chapel of Tytten-hanger-houseq 1.66. In the year 1592, being desi|rous of perpetuating her affection to her native town of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, by the memorial of some public benefaction, she gave an annuity of

fifteen pounds issuing from her estate in Clerkenwell, and all her lands and possessions at Bentley in Derbyshire, for improving the salaries of the first and second masters of the free-school, and also for the perpetual main|tenance of five poor women, aged and un|married, in that townq 1.67. At length this pi|ous and respectable lady having lived to a very great age, died the following year 1593, on the twenty-seventh day of October, at Tyttenhanger in Hertfordshirer 1.68. When her body was carried from thence, to be buried at Oxford, five pounds in money, and large provisions of meat and drink were distributed

to the Poor, at the gate of Tyttenhanger-houses 1.69. On the first of November following, the corpse arrived at Oxford, where, not so much on account of her rank, as in regard to that public relation which her former husband sir Thomas Pope bore to the university, it was laid in state, in saint Mary's churcht 1.70. The next day it was conveyed with proper solemnity to Trinity college, attended by the president, fellows, and scholars of the same, all cloathed in mourning at her own chargeu 1.71; where with great pomp she was interred in the chapel, with sir Thomas Pope and his former wife Margaret. Three pennons, con|taing impalements of all her three hus|bands, Beresford, POPE, and Powlett, were hung up over the tombw 1.72. Twenty-five of the poorest women which could be found in Oxford, were ordered to be present at the in|terment, habited in black gowns of frieze. On this occasion, a sumptuous dinner was provided in the hall of the college, for the whole society, and attendants of the funeral. The remains of the entertainment were dis|tributed to the poor at the college-gate, and

five pounds in money. At the same time, a legacy of ten shillings was delivered to each of the scholars. All this was by her own di|rectionsx 1.73. She bequeathed xjl. vs. to seve|ral prisons: and to every single prisoner at Oxford one stone of beef. To the poorest and most diseased patients in the hospital of saint Bartholomewy 1.74 in West-Smithfield, xls. to be delivered to each of them respectively, within one week after her decease. Among other bequests to her honorable friends and relations, she leaves, to lord keeper Pucker|inge a standing cup with a cover, of silver gilt. To lord treasurer Burleigh a ring of gold garnished with a diamond, pointed up|wards and downwards, which was sometime the ring of lord keeper sir Nicholas Bacon, and by him sold to sir Arthur Darcy, who sold the same to sir Thomas Pope for one hundred pounds. To the earl of Ormond her black ambling horse.z 1.75 To the countess of Warwick, aunt of sir Philip Sydney, two long cushions of red cloth of gold, for the furniture of a bow window; and an ewer

of silver, suitable to the bason which she gave her at the last

"New yeres tide,"

for a new year's gifta 1.76. To lady Stafford, lady of the queen's privy chamber, a candlestick of silver, weighing twenty two ounces, suitable to two others before givenb 1.77. To lady Scudamore, a very fair casting bottle of silver gilt, weighing fifteen ouncesc 1.78. To her sister lady Sydenham,

a nest of silver bowls, two trencher Salts of silver, and her bed, with all its rich furni|ture, of cloth ofd 1.79 stamel coloure 1.80. These par|ticulars acquaint us with her connections, and shew the manners of the times.

She had two brothers; William Blountf 1.81 an executor, with Nicholas Bacon, of sir Tho|mas Pope's will: and Walter Blount, nomi|nated a scholar of Trinty college, Oxford, by the founder, and admitted January the ninth, 1557g 1.82. Her sisters were Mary,

Anne and Ellenh 1.83 William Blount's heir Thomasi 1.84, who was settled at Tyttenhanger in Hertfordshire about 1593, prefixed Pope to the name of Blount, in remembrance of

sir Thomas Pope; as many of his lineal de|scendants have done.

Of this family of Blount there were after|wards three eminent writers: sir Henry Blount knight, sir Thomas Pope-Blount knight, and baronet, and Charles Blount, esquire. Concerning whom a few words may not be perhaps impertinent or unaccepta|ble. Sir Henry Blount was admitted a gentle|man-commoner of Trinity college Oxford, in 1615l 1.85, under the tuition of the learned Robert Skynner one of the fellows, after|wards successively bishop of Bristol, Oxford, and Worcester, in the fourteenth year of his age: where, at that early period of life, he attracted the peculiar attention and esteem of the society, more from his own personal and intrinsic accomplishments, his amiable dispo|sition, lively conversation, engaging address, genius, and taste for polite literature, than from his family connections, and his near re|lation to the founderm 1.86. In 1636, He pub|lished his VOYAGE INTO THE LEVANT, which became exceedingly popular, and was

frequently reprinted. But to say the truth, this little work is the voyage of a sceptic: it has more of the philosopher than the tra|veller, and would probably never have been written, but for the purpose of insinuating his religious sentiments. Yet his reflections are so striking and original, and so artfully inter|woven with the thread of his adventures, that they enliven, instead of embarrassing, the nar|rative. He has the plausible art of colouring his paradoxes with the resemblance of truth. So little penetration had the orthodox court of Charles the first, that merely on the merit of this book, he was appointed one of the band of Pensionersm 1.87. Sir Thomas Pope-Blount his eldest son was born in 1649, and was educated under his father's inspection. His CENSURA CELEBRIORUM AUTHORUM, which is a compilation of great erudition and labour, is well known to the critic and the li|terary historian. Niceron unfortunately com|pares the CENSURA with Baillet's JUGE|MENT DES SAVANSn 1.88. But Baillet has the vanity and injustice to report the opinions of other writers in his own words: our author has the modesty and fidelity to transcribe and

to cite his authorities. His ESSAYS on vari|ous subjects are learned and judicious, and they have the ease and freedom, without the singularity, of Montaigne. Another of his works, which has been superseded by those who have used its materials, is REMARKS ON POETRY. Of this piece it will be sufficient to say, that it was honoured with the appro|bation of lord Mulgrave, the most elegant critic of the author's age. Charles Blount, or Pope-Blount, esquire, second son of sir Henry abovementioned, inherited his father's philosophy. From an abhorence of super|stition, he appears to have adopted the most distant extremes of the theistic system. His ANI|MA MUNDI, ORACLES OF REASON, LIFE OF APPOLLONIUS TYANAEUS, and DIA|NA OF THE EPHESIANS, written with great learning, sagacity, wit, and force of reason|ing, are the consolation of infidels, and are melancholy monuments of admirable abilities abused in the defence of a futile but danger|ous causeo 1.89. In conformity to these princi|ples, he died by his own hand in 1693. Bayle has inaccurately represented the affecting story of his deathp 1.90.

I close my account of Dame Elizabeth Powlett, and her nearer relations, with a few words concerning the antiquity and dignity of her family. Its ancestor was Le Blound lord of Guisnes in Normany, whose sons Robert and William le Blound, both entered Eng|land with William the conqueror. William was one of the captains in that expedition, and quartered, with other Norman knights, on the monks of Ely. Robert was created by the conqueror, baron of Ixworth in Suffolk; in which county he received a grant of thir|teen lordships. Gilbert, his son, founded an Augustine priory at Ixworth, in the reign of William Rufus, which he endowed with fourteen knights fees. One of Gilbert's de|scendants was killed at the battle of Lewes,

in the reign of Henry the third, where he was standard-bearer to Mountford earl of Leicester. In the progress of it's descent, this family numbers many persons of singular eminence and high stationq 1.91; and is, besides, nobly connected by marriages. On the sides of the tomb in Trinity college chapel above|mentioned, are two coats: Pope impaling Quarterings of Blount, viz. Barry, Nebule of six, Or, and sable; And of Roger de Sutton, ancestor of Elizabeth's mother, viz. A lyon rampant. This is one coat. The other con|sists of quarterings of Blount, Of the said Ro|ger de Sutton; and, Of Nicholas de Wichard lord of the manor of Osberston aforesaid in the reign of Henry the third, marrying into the said Roger, viz. Azure, a cheveron Ar|gent, between three martletsr 1.92 Or. These arms are an additional and evident proof, that Dame Elizabeth Powlett erected this monument; in decorating which, she was so studious to introduce the ensigns and ho|nors of her own familys 1.93.

Notes

• z 1.1

  Ex Indentur. dat. Aug. 1. 5 Edw. vi. Wroxton was a priory of Augustine Canons. See Append. Numb. XVII.
• a 1.2

  Dugd. Warw. p. 474.
• b 1.3

  Tanner's Not. Mon. fol. p. 281.
• c 1.4

  Ibid. p. 689.
• d 1.5

  Newc, Rep. ii. 610.
• e 1.6

  Comp. Burss. 1561.—2.

  "Sol. pro vino, pyris, aliisque bellariis, insumptis in Magistrum Pope visitantem colle|gium. ijs. vjd.

  Comp. 1562.—3.

  "Sol. ex cerasis, fragis, vino, potu, et sac|caro, datis Magistro Pope et uxori ejus visentibus colle|gium. iijs. xd.

  Comp. 1562.—3.

  "Sol. 7 Mart. pro vino, pomis, etc. datis Magistro Pope visenti collegium. xviijd.

  Comp. 1563.—4.

  "Sol. 23 Feb. ex bel••ariis insumptis in Magistrum Pope visentem collegium. xviijd.
  —"Sol. Magistro Pope invisenti collegium. xixd.

  Comp. 1564.—5.

  "Sol. in bellariis Magistro Pope, et quibus|dam advenis, visentibus collegium. xxijd.

  Comp. 1568.—9.

  "Allocat. in epulis Magistri Pope et Ma|gistri Billinge in temp. fessionum. iijs. viijd.

  Comp. 1572.—3.

  "Allocat. pro epulis pro Magistro Johanne Pope fratre fundatoris quum hic nos inviseret. vjs. vij d. ob.

  Comp. 1573.—4.

  "Allocat. in epulis pro Magistro Pope fra|tre fundatoris invisente collegium. vjs. viijd.

  Comp. 1581.—2.

  "Allocat. in epulis pro Magistro Pope. xs. vjd."
• f 1.7

  Numb. XXVI.
• g 1.8

  Ex Evident. in Coll. antedict.
• h 1.9

  Registr. prim. dicti Coll. fol. 7. b. Et alibi. See Ap|pend. Numb. XXI. in the Notes. Among Rawlinson's antient original charts, there is an indenture, by which John, Prior of Nottley Abbey in Bucks, and his convent, lease their appropriate parsonage of Stokelyne to this Edward Love, for sixty one years. Dat. in Dom. Capitul. Mar. 6. A.D. 1524. MSS. Rawlins. Bibl. Bod. 1322. CH. ult. in pergamen. The lessee is herein discharged from an annual pension, which the convent paid from the said church to saint Frideswyd's priory at Oxford.
• i 1.10

  Over this inscription are the images of a man in armour, and of a woman, both kneeling before desks: behind him five boys, and behind her three girls. Over their heads, Delicta ju|ventutis nostrae et ignorantias ne memineris domine. Arms, viz.

  Quart.

  A lyon ramp. with a cross patee on his shoulder. LOVE.

  Parti p. fess indent. in chief 3 martlets.. LOVE. ut supra.

  Impal.

  Erm. a fess chequee, a crescent for a difference. ARDEN.

  One of their daughters, Elizabeth, was married to Simon Parrot, or Perrot, fellow of Magd. coll. Oxon. Who are both buried, with an inscription on a brass-plate, in saint Peter's. Oxon. For this Simon Parrot, see Wood, Hist. et Antiq. ii. 59. and ib. 421. And Smith's Annals Univ. coll. p. 247. See also Append. Numb. XXI. The name of one Parrot, undoubt|edly this Simon Parrot, often occurs in papers and accounts re|lating to the affairs of Trinity college, at its foundation, viz. Append. Numb. XVII.

  "Three antiphoners of parchmente bought by Mr. Parrot for the queere."

  And Comp. Burss. 1556.—7.

  "Sol. pro Campanae secundò reportatione a Ma|gistro Parrot."

  That a person, at least of this name, was one of the founder's agents in this business, with Edward Love, I find in other articles: and from the following passage of one of the founder's letters to the president, 27 Nov. 1550.

  "In your next letters send me a bill declaring, particularly, such bokes, and other thinges, as ye have receyved ether from me or els of Mr. Perrot."

  See supr. p. 117.
• k 1.11

  By the first she had one son Edward, or Edmund: and four daughters, Anne, Bridget, Jane, and Mary. By the second, two daughters, Frances and Winifred. Ex testam. T. P. And Lee's MSS. Visit. Oxf. f. 32.
• l 1.12

  Willis, Mitr. Abb. ii. 179. And Append. ibid. 23.
• m 1.13

  I know not exactly whether it is of Godstowe or Bicester Priory, both in Oxfordshire. Of the latter, in the Bursary of Trinity college, are two beautiful Audit rolls on vellom, one of the year 1393, the other of 1443.
• n 1.14

  Testam. Dom. T. Pope.
• o 1.15

  Comp. Burss. 1562.—3.

  "Sol. in vino insumpt. in Magistrum Breanum de Cogges. 24 Jun. xiijd.

  Comp. 1569.—70.

  "Sol. pro prandio Magistri Bryan fratris domini fundatoris. xijd.
• p 1.16

  Collectan. MSS. F. Wise.
• q 1.17

  From sir T. Pope's BREVIARY, written and illuminated, given by John Aubrey the Antiquarian to the Ashmolean Mu|seum. No. 55. In it, among others, are the following entries.

  "Memorand. quod Margaretta uxor Thomae Pope equitis obiit die Lunae viz. xvi^o. die Januarii, A. Dni M.D. xxxviii. circa horam decimam ejusdem diei postmeridianam, et sepulta erat die dominical. sequent. in ecclia Sti Stephani in Walbroke.

  "Alicia filia Thomae Pope nata erat die dominicae, viz. xvi. die Aprilis, A^o. xxviii^o. dom. H. viii. circa horam no|nam ejusdem die post meridiem, A^o. Dom. M.D. xxxvii.

  "Matrimonium inter Thomam Pope primarium Thesaurari|um augment. Revent. coronae Dom. R. et Dnam Margaretam Dodmer, Viduam, solemnizatum erat in London. xvii. die Julii A^o. xxviii. Dom. Hen. viii. Anno Dni. M.D. xxxvi. t^o.—Quod tacitum velis nemini dixeris.—THOMAS POPE, Miles.
• § 1.18

  This Breviary Aubrey had intended to place in its proper repository, Trinity college Library; but having conceived some prejudice against Dr. Bathurst the pre|sident, he changed his design and gave it to the Ashmolean. From his LETTER to A. Wood, dat. 1674. Cod. BAIL. Bibl. Bodl. vol. xiv.
• r 1.19

  "Authoritate Parliamenti ad infra scripta fulcitus."

  Col|lectan. MSS. F. Wise. Ex Licent.
• s 1.20

  So indorsed on the said licence.
• t 1.21

  At Yorke-place, 21 Hen. viii. MSS. Bibl. Cott. Claud. c. 3. fol. iii. The same sir Ralph Dodmer was also major of the staple at Westminster, 23. Feb. 23 Hen. viii. Madox, Formul. Angl. pag. 20.
• u 1.22

  Stowe's Survey of London. Edit. fol. 1633. p. 580, 579. He was also sheriff of London 1529. See edit. 1599. 4to. p. 444, 445. Ralph's father was Henry, of Pickering-Leigh, Yorkshire. Stowe, ibid.
• w 1.23

  Collectan. MSS. F. Wise.
• x 1.24

  Ex indentura quadripartit. praedict.—John is mentioned in Testam. T. P. 1556.
• y 1.25

  These two daughters, with the two sons aforesaid, are all mentioned in a grant of lands to sir T. Pope, pat. 28. Hen. viii Test. Mar. i. par. 5.—

  "Prolibus Rad. Dodmer militis, civis London."

  Sir T. Pope, in his will, requests his exe|cutors, &c.

  "to help to sett forward"

  the children of his late wife Marg. Dodmer,

  "which be fryndless."

  —Stowe in|forms us that,

  "near Thames streete is Grantham lane, so call|ed of John Grantham sometime mayor and owner thereof, whose house was very large and strong, builded of stone, as appeareth by gates arched yet remaining. Ralph Dodmer first a brewer, than a mercer, mayor 1529, dwelled ther, and kept his mayoralty in that house, &c."

  SURVEY, ut supr, edit. 1599. p. 183.
• z 1.26

  From sir T. Pope's BREVIARY, ut supr.
• a 1.27

  Mus. Ashmol. Oxon. MSS. Codd. A. Wood. D. 14. pag. 74. His arms are not tricked (as those of other knights are) in the manuscript cited above, viz. Claud. c. 3. fol. 111. bibl. Cotton.
• b 1.28

  Ubi supr.
• c 1.29

  From sir T. Pope's BREVIARY, supr. And her Tomb.
• d 1.30

  The true name is Beresford, as appears from a pedigree of the family in MSS. Visitation of Derbyshire, taken by Flower and Glover, 1562, fol. 25. b. Mus. Ashmol. Codd. Ashmol. 728. As also from a deed recited above, where John Beresford, probably her son, mentioned in the text, is a sub|scribing witness. I likewise find one Beresford, perhaps the same, buried as it seems in the college, 1567. Comp. Burss. ut supr. An. 1566.—7.

  "Alloc. in prancium famulis dominae fundatricis cum per|solverentur justa Magistro Beresford, xs.

  This respectable family came originally from Staffordshire, where is a village so called: and flourishes still in Derbyshire. See Visitation of Staffordshire, in 1963, and 1664. By Dugdale Norr. Herald. MSS. Coll. Armor. C. 36. fol. 114. And Lodge, Peer. Ireland, ii. 210. ed. 1754. As to her son John, the founder sent him to Trinity college, Oxford, to be edu|cated under Arthur Yeldard one of the fellows: with a letter printed in Append. Numb. XXV. In another letter, to the pre|sident, the founder desires the lecturers,

  "to tech him and to rede him Erasmus pistells and Tully's pistells, which he shall lerne to translate well."

  He is a witness to the codicil of sir T. Pope's will.
• e 1.31

  Dr. Ralph Kettell, president of the college. See Append. Numb. XXX.
• f 1.32

  MSS. Collectan. F. Wise.
• g 1.33

  As appears from Comp. Burss. coll. Trin. 1560.—1. viz.

  "Sol. Decemb. i. pro pari Chirothecarum dat. dom. Powlett et dominae fundatrici. xvjs.

  This present, I presume, was a compliment on their marriage.
• h 1.34

  Dugd. Orig. Jurid. p. 188. In the British museum, there is a translation of a French romance into English, entitled L' Histoire de la Duckesse de Savoye, by sir Hugh Powlett. Par Hagues le fils des Mons. Aime Powlett, &c. MSS. Harl. 1215. 4to. It is probably one of his juvenile exercises in the French language.
• i 1.35

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. ii. 5.
• k 1.36

  Collins, Peer. iii. 223. ed. 2. He was knighted Octob. 18. 1536. MSS. Cotton. Claud. iii. c. fol. 127. b.
• l 1.37

  Falle's Jersey, edit. 1694. p. 91.
• m 1.38

  Collins, ut supr.
• n 1.39

  May ii. Priv. Sig. Ann. 37. Hen. viii.
• o 1.40

  Hollingshed, Chron. iii. 1026.
• p 1.41

  Pat. 4. Edw. vi. Test. Mar. xx•• par. 9. In Q. Mary's coun|cil-book, MSS. Harl. ut supr. are many letters to him from the privy-council, relating to this office.
• q 1.42

  Anstis, Order of the Garter, vol. ii. 446.
• r 1.43

  trype's Ref. i. 23.
• t 1.44

  Falle, ibid.
• t 1.45

  Stowe, per Howes, 665. Camden. Eliz.
• u 1.46

  See Burghley's State-papers, by Haynes, p. 407. Stowe ut supr. 653.
• w 1.47

  Falle, ibid.
• x 1.48

  In the year 1586, Mary queen of Scots was committed to his custody. This trust he so honourably discharged, that when secretary Walsingham persuaded him to suffer one of his ser|vants to be bribed by the agents of the queen of Scots, for the sake of better intelligence, he rejected the proposal with indig|nation. Camd. ELIZ. ed. Hearne, ii. 533. 488. Fuller's WOR|THIES. Somersetshire. I find him, before he was knighted, visit|ing the fellows and scholars of Trinity college, Oxford, at Garsington, in time of the plague. Comp. Burss. 1571.—2.

  "Alloc. pro epulis quo tempore Magistre Amisius Powlett veniebat ad collegium Garsingtoniae. ivs. iv d. q."

  Lord Bacon, when very young, attended him on an embassy into France, Dugd. Bar. ii. 438. See Strype's Ann. Ref. iii. 360. Where is a letter written to him by the queen, with her own hand, superscribed, to my faithfull Amyas, and in which she calls him, my Amyas. Compare Hearne, ROB. GLOUC. p. 673. seq. And MSS. Harl. 6994. 29. 30. And Ballard's LEARNED LADIES. In ADD. and CORR.
• y 1.49

  Willis, Notit. Parl. p. 94.
• z 1.50

  Once, by the same authority, she nominated a president. See Append. Numb. XXV. It appears, however, that the col|lege once rejected her nomination to a scholarship, and chose another candidate. Upon this she appealed to Cooper bishop of Winchester, the visitor, who superseded the person elected by the college, and decreed that her nomination should take place. Aug. ii. 1592. Registr. prim. dict coll. fol. 48. b.
• a 1.51

  Particularly, from 1563 to 1578 inclusive, it does not ap|pear by the register, that she used her privilege of nominating to the scholarships. But she afterwards resumed it. She some|times nominated the fellows.
• b 1.52

  Registr. prim. coll. antedict. passim.
• c 1.53

  Ex indentur. dat. April. 1. 22 Eliz. apud coll. praedict. See Append. Numb. XXX. And registr. prim. fol. 46.
• d 1.54

  Viz. the sum of 28l. 9s. 3d. in 1566. Ex Registr. in 4to. ut supr. And Comp. 1566.—6. Beside timber in 1561.—2. and 1564. Ex Comp. et Registr. praedict. She also glased the house. Comp. 1570.—1.

  "Sol. pro expens. Magistri Praesidis et magistri Chambrelen proficisc. Londinum ad dom. funda|tricem and parandum vitrum pro domo apud Garsington. xxxs. vd."

  Glass, at this time, was neither a cheap nor a common commodity. The glasing of a large building was a considerable work.
• c 1.55

  From the following articles, among many others.

  Comp. Burss. 1560.—1.

  "Sol. pro expens. Magistri Praesidis equitantis ad dom. fundatricem de visitatione futura. xxxixs. vjd."

  Comp. 1563.—4.

  "Sol. Maii 24. pro expens. Magistri praesi|dis et duorum famulorum dominae fundatricis venien|tium Londino, circa necessaria collegii negotia, et Ma|gistri Praesidis illuc eadem de causa profecti. xxs. xd.
  —"Sol. eod. die pro expens. eorundem [famulorum] dum Oxoniae manerent. xs vijd."

  Comp. 1563.—4.

  "Sol. Jan. 27. ex pari chirothecarum dat. doni. fundatrici. ivs. ivd.

  Comp. 1566.—7.

  "Alloc. in prandium famulis dom. funda|tricis. xs.

  Comp. 1568.—9.

  "Sol. pro duobus paribus chirothecarum missis ad domini Powlett et fundatricem. xs.
  —"Sol. pro epulis famuli fundatricis. ijs. ob. q.

  Comp. 1569.—70.

  "Sol. pro chircthecis missis ad dom. fun|datricem. vjs.

  Comp. 1570.—1.

  "Sol. pro epulis famuli fundatricis. iijs. ixd.

  Comp. 1574.—5.

  "Dat. famulo fundatricis adferenti feri|nam. ijs.

  Comp. 1579.—80.

  "Sol. pro chirothecis dom. episcopi Wyn|ton, et dominae fundatricis. xviijs. vjd.

  Comp. 1589.—90.

  "Sol. Magistro praesidi proficiscenti ad dom. fundatricem. iijl. xvs. vd.

  Comp. 1590.—1.

  "Sol. pro chirothecis dom. fundatricis. vjs.
  —"Sol portanti strenam [a new year's gift] ad dom. fun|datricem. vjs.

  In a letter written to her by the society, dated June xvii. 1573. they tell her,

  "Wysshyng you hartily that it wold pleasse your ladiship to visytt your college, and us your daily orators, now in your journey downe into Summersett|snyre, which thynge would be a greate comsorte to us all."

  In Thesauriar. praedict. I have seen a sermon, preached at St. Paul's, dedicated to this Lady, by Bartholomew Chamberleyn, an eminent preacher, and fellow of the college. Lond. 8vo. 1589. [One Mr. Chamberlayne of Oxford occurs among many eminent divines who preached in the Churcst of Stevington, [f. Berks,] from A.D. 1573, to 1578. MSS. Harl. 2396. 123. f. 157.]
• f 1.56

  Comp. Burss. 1565.
• g 1.57

  MS. To Dr. Ralph Kettell, abovementioned. Dat. 1613. In Bibliothec. Coll. antedict.
• h 1.58

  Schol. Maii 30. 1583. Soc. Jun. 3. 1588. E Registr. prim.—Consecrat. Episc. Limericens. 1604. Wood, Ath. Oxon. i. 730. Hoby's words are,

  "Arctiori etiam vinculo constrinxit praenohilis heroina Fundatrix vestra, quo tempore Bernardum Adamum, nunc Limbricensem Episcopum, pro amore in me suo, in Albo vestro conscripsit, sustentavit, aluit."

  I find this notice occurring, concerning bishop Adams, in Comp. Burss. coll. Trin. 1619.—20.

  "Exp. quar do collegium recepit rev. in Christo patr. Episcop. Limbricens. iijl. is. vijd."

  Ware says, that Adams adorned his cathedral with a new organ, and other costly furniture. PRAESUL. HIBERN. p. 189. His pic|ture, a good old portrait on board, is at Trinity college.

  When queen Elisabeth visited Oxford, 1566, a book was pre|sented to her majesty, by Nele, the Hebrew Professor, entitled Collegiorum Scholarumque Publicarum Acad. Oxon. Topographica Delineatio. With verses under each. Under TRINITY COLLEGE are the following lines, some of which particularly respect this lady, as a patroness of her husband's foundation.

  Urbis at egresso jam maenia, proxima sedes Occurrit, THOMAE sumptibus aucta POPI: Quam sacro-sanctae Triados cognomen habere Jussit inauratus Miles, Equestre Decus. Hujus adhuc teneros Foetus pia mater adauget Conjux, tam digno Conjuge digna suo.

  Vid: H. Dodwelli Parm. equestr. by Hearne, pag. 142. And J. Bereblock's Relation of the queen's visit to Oxford, apud Hist. Ricard. ii. per Hearne, p. 283. See also Miles Wind|fore's EUROPAEI ORBIS ACADEMIAE, Lond. 1590. A copy of these pictures and verses is in the archives of the Bodleyan Li|brary, probably the same which was presented to the queen. The verses were written by Nele; and the buildings delineat|ed by John Bereblock abovementioned, a fellow of Exeter college.
• i 1.59

  About 1561. From a latin epistle of the college to him, dat. Jun. xiv. 1566. ut infr.
• k 1.60

  For these things they tell him,

  "Maximum quod a nobis dari potuit munus, Dominationi tuae detulimus: ut primas tu quidem post FUNDATOREM nostrum, cujus laudes nulla obli|vionis aerugine exedi, nullis unquam sordibus obsolescere po|terunt, inter omnes qui de nobis benemetendo nominis im|mortalitatem consequuntur, tuo jure teneres."

  From the same latin epistle. It is addressed

  "Ornatissimo viro et patrono nos|tro dignissimo D. HUGONI PAULETT."

  In Thesaur. ut supr. In the law-suit, they acknowledge themselves assisted,

  "tuo consilio et industria."
• l 1.61

  From a foul copy of the said latin epistle.
• m 1.62

  Comp. Burss. 1566.—7.
• n 1.63

  Probably the reason why she did not place here the figure of her present husband Sir Hugh Powlett, rather than that of Sir Thomas Pope, was because this picture was intended as a memorial of the college to which the church belonged. In the large old mansion house at Filkins, a hamlet of Broadwell, pulled down about fifty years ago, there were on the spouts the initials E. P. for Elisabeth Powlett, and the date 1592.
• o 1.64

  MSS. F. Wife.
• p 1.65

  MSS. F. Wife.
• q 1.66

  MSS. F. Wife. This article, and the two foregoing, I believe, were communicated to Mr. Wife by the late sir Harry Pope-Blount, who seems to have had them from some family papers or memoirs.
• q 1.67

  Ex indentura, dat. 1 Feb. 35 Eliz. apud Burton praedict. By this benefaction, the schoolmaster is to receive yearly, iijl. And the usher vjl. The poor women are provided with a lodg|ing each: fewel, with other necessaries; one frieze gown, one apron, one smock, and xxvjs. viijd. in money, yearly. She refers to these charities in her will.
• r 1.68

  From Wood's original English of History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, MSS. Autograph. olim in Archivis Univ. Oxon. Nunc Bibl. Bodl.—She chiefly lived at Tyt|tenhanger and Clerkenwell. There are three of her letters to Trinity college; the first of which is dated Tyttenhanger, Sept. 23. 1559. Registr. prim. fol. 24. b. The second, Tytten|hanger, Sept. 5. 1570. Ibid. fol. 23. The third, Clerken|well, Jun. 12. 1590. fol. 46. Ibid. In the year 1578, she was visited at Tyttenhanger by queen Elizabeth, in a royal pro|gress. Blomefield's NORFOLK. iii. 481. See also Strype. ANN. REP. ii. p. 542. ed. 2. And W. Lilly's LIFE, p. 11. edit. 1774.
• s 1.69

  Ex testam.
• t 1.70

  Wood, MSS. ut supr.
• u 1.71

  Ex testam.
• w 1.72

  From MSS. Harl. Brit. Mus. Num. 1724.
• x 1.73

  Ex testam.
• y 1.74

  "Amongest the poorest, most sicklye and diseased people within that house."
• z 1.75

  Thomas earl of Ormond lord high treasurer of Ireland, and the queen's General in the Irish rebellion. See Carte's OR|MOND, vol. i. INTRODUCT. p. liii. edit. fol. 1736.
• a 1.76

  She was Anne, daughter of Francis earl of Bedford, third wife of Ambrose Dudley earl of Warwick, high in favor with queen Elisabeth, and who died in 1595. Dugdal. WARW. p. 339. See the large inscription on this earl's tomb in the Virgin Mary's chapel at Warwick. To his countess, the same that is mentioned in the text, sir Philip Sydney bequeathed one of his best jewels, in 1589. See MEM. prefixed to Collins's SYDNEY-PAPERS, p. 111. And ibid. p. 42. She is often mentioned in the SYDNEY-PAPERS, and on important occasions. She died in 1603. Collins's MEM. ut supr. p. 42. See Norden's HARTFORDSHIRE, p. 20. Strype, REF. iii. 598. Ames, HIST. PRINT. p. 425.
• b 1.77

  Mary daughter of Edward earl of Darby, wife of Edward, Baron lord Stafford. See Dugdal. BARON. i. 171.
• c 1.78

  This lady occurs more than once in the SYDNEY-PAPERS.—Rowland Whyte to Sir Robert Sydney, 1597.

  "Upon sun|day in the afternoone, my Lady Skudamore gott the QUEENE to reade your letter, who asked of her how yt came to her handes. She answered, that my lady Sidney desired her to delyver yt to her majestie from her husbande. Do you know the contents of it, sayd the queene? No, madam, sayd she. When her majestie sayd, here is much ado about the CINQUE PORTS. I demanded of my lady Skudamore, what she ob|served in her majestie while she was a reading of it: who fayd, she read yt all over with two or three pughs."

  vol. ii. p. 97. Again, Whyte to sir Robert Sydney, 1599.

  "Yester|day the countess of Leicester sent to the queene a curious fyne gowne, which was presented by Lady Skudamore, &c."

  ibid. p. 174. Some of the court history of this family is pro|bably couched under the adventures of SYR SCUDAMORE in Spenser's FAERIE QUEENE.
• d 1.79

  A light red. See Steevens's SHAKESPEARE, vol. i. p. 62, 63. edit. 1779. Dr. Borde, in his DIETARIE OF HELTHE, written in 1541, says, under the chapter of APPAREL,

  "in ••omer use to weare a skarlet petycote of stamel or linsie wolsie."

  ch. viii.
• e 1.80

  Ex testam. dat. April. xvi. 1593. Probat. Feb. viii. 1594. In Registro Dixey, 83. 15. Cur. Praerog. Cant. The execu|tors are, William Weston, Pope Blount, Edward Blount, and Edward Blount.
• f 1.81

  He married Frances, one of the three daughters of Ed|ward Love, and Alice his wife, sister of sir Tho. Pope above|mentioned. He was settled at Osberston, co. Leicester, and dying 1592. Nov. xxvi. was buried in the church of Ridge, the parish church of Tyttenhanger, co. Hertford. See Burton's. Leicestershire. p. 210. 211.
• g 1.82

  Registr. prim. fol. 4. See Append Numb. XXV. He left the college soon afterwards, as appears from the following extract of one of the founder's letters.

  "I am content to dis|pens with my wiffs brother for his scholers rome, which I do the rather, for that I believe he ment to lese his rome [place] by his absens. I wold he shold be broken of some part of his witt; assuringe you from henceforth I will for no mans pleassure living breke my statutes, neither in that, nor in eny other poynt. For when I shall goo about to breke my estatutes in my owne life, howe maye I hope to have theym kept after I am gone?"

  To the President, without Date. But my chief reason for citing this passage, is to shew his im|partiality and disinterestedness, and at the same time his resolu|tion and prudence, in keeping up the statutes of his college which he had once given, even against the benefit and conveni|ence of his own relations, and in a case where he might have acted just as he pleased.
• h 1.83

  Ex Test. T. P. — Mary was married to — Siden|ham knight, perhaps sir George, of Combe Sydenham, co. Som. as appears by Anne Blount's epitaph in the church of Clerkenwell. Stowe's SURVEY, edit. 1618. p. 819. Also from lady Powlett's Will; and these notices in Comp. Burss. coll. Trin.

  Comp. 1574.—5.

  "Sol. pro duobus paribus chirothecarum pro domina fundatrice et domino Sydenham. xjs.

  Comp. 1573.—4.

  "Alloc. pro cena Magistri Sydenham, fratris fundatricis, nos invisentis. vs.

  Ellen, as I guess, was married to — Goodwyn. Anne, buri|ad as above, died unmarried.
• i 1.84

  He was knighted by James I. at Theobalds, 1603. And offered by him the dignity of a baronet. Collins's Bar. iv. 667.—He occurs matriculated of Trin. coll. Oxon. by the name of Thomas Pope-Blount, Aet. 18. Nov. xi. 1574. Wood MSS. Mus. Ashm. E. 5.
• l 1.85

  Ex Registro in 4to. apud Coll. Trin. supr. citat. I find his elder brother Thomas, admitted with him a CONVICTOR of the superior rank. ibid. Thomas quitted the college in 1615. Henry in 1619. ibid.
• m 1.86

  Wood, ATH. OXON. ii. 712.
• m 1.87

  For some of his other pieces, see Wood's ATH. OXON. ii. 712. And Langbaine's DRAM. POETS, p. 327.
• n 1.88

  MEMOIRES pour servir, &c. tom. xxiii. p. 399.
• o 1.89

  See the MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of Charles Blount, pub|lished by Charles Gildon in 1693. And Wood, ubi supr.
• p 1.90

  Artic. APOLLONIUS TYANAEUS. The true story is this. Mr. Blount, on the death of his wife, fell in love with her sister, a lady of great beauty and accomplishments: she was not insensi|ble to his attachment, but was scrupulous about the legality of marrying her sister's late husband. On his application to the most learned civilians, and the archbishop of Canterbury, he was informed, that such a match could not take place. On this, the lady positively refused her consent, and Mr. Blount in a fit of despair shot himself through the head. The wound not im|mediately proving mortal, he lived five days: during which time, he received no fustenance or medicines but from the hands of the lady, who attended him with the most sympathetic ten|derness till his last moments. This account I received from the late sir Harry Pope-Blount, baronet, the last of the family, and a diligent and faithful antiquary.
• q 1.91

  See Peacham's COMPLEAT GENTLEMAN, edit. 1661. pag. 230. And Eng. Baronet. iv. 665. 675. 576. And ii. 367.
• r 1.92

  See Burton's Leicestershire, p. 211.
• s 1.93

  There is an old portrait of lady Powlett, in the Bursary at Trinity college, painted, as I judge from the drapery and the age of the countenance, about the middle of Q. Elisabeth's reign; by which she appears to have been handsome. This picture was in the college at least before 1613. It is mentioned in Comp. Burss. coll. 1612.—13. I have been told that this picture was painted by sir Antonio More, portrait and history painter to Philip and Mary. Several of his pictures were in the collection of king Charles the first, and at sir Philip Syden|ham's at Brympton in Somersetshire, a family (as we have seen) nearly related to Lady Powlett. More had one hundred ducats for his common portraits. He died in 1575. I rather think this picture is a copy of an original by More.