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SIR THOMAS POPE (c. 1507-1559)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 88 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:POPE (c. 1507-1559)  , founder of Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, was See also:born at Deddington, near See also:Banbury, See also:Oxfordshire, probably in 1507, for he was about sixteen years old when his See also:father, a See also:yeoman See also:farmer, died in 1523 . He was educated at Banbury school and See also:Eton College, and entered the See also:court of See also:chancery . He there found a friend and See also:patron in the See also:lord-See also:chancellor See also:Thomas See also:Audley . As clerk of briefs in the See also:star chamber, See also:warden of the See also:mint (1534-1536), clerk of the See also:Crown in chancery (1537), and second officer and treasurer of the court for the See also:settlement of the confiscated See also:property of the smaller religious See also:foundations, he obtained See also:wealth and See also:influence . In this last See also:office he was superseded in 1541, but from 1547 to 1553 he was again employed as See also:fourth officer . He himself won by See also:grant or See also:purchase a considerable See also:share in the spoils, for nearly See also:thirty manors, which came sooner or later into his See also:possession, were originally See also:church property . " He could have rode," said See also:Aubrey, " in his owne lands from Cogges (by See also:Witney) to Banbury, about 1S See also:miles." In 1J37 he was knighted . The religious changes made by See also:Edward VI. were repugnant to him, but at the beginning of See also:Mary's reign he became a member of the privy See also:council . In 1556 he was sent to reside as See also:guardian in See also:Elizabeth's See also:house . As See also:early as 1555 he had begun to arrange for the endowment of a college at Oxford, for which he bought the site and buildings of See also:Durham College, the Oxford house of the See also:abbey of Durham, from Dr See also:George See also:Owen and See also:William See also:Martyn . He received a royal See also:charter for the See also:establishment and endowment of a college of the " See also:Holy and Undivided Trinity " on the 8th of See also:March 1556 . The See also:foundation provided for a See also:president, twelve See also:fellows and eight scholars, with a schoolhouse at Hooknorton .

The number of scholars was subsequently increased to twelve, the schoolhouse being given up . On the 28th of March the members of the college were put in possession of the site, and they were formally admitted on the 29th of May 1556 . See also:

Pope died at See also:Clerkenwell on the 2gth of See also:January 1559, and was buried at St See also:Stephen's, Walbrook; but his remains were subsequently removed to Trinity College, where his widow erected a semi-See also:Gothic See also:alabaster See also:monument to his memory . He was three times married, but See also:left no See also:children . Much of his property was left to charitable and religious foundations, and the bulk of his Oxfordshire estates passed to the See also:family of his See also:brother, See also:John Pope of Wroxton, and his descendants, the viscounts See also:Dillon and the earls of See also:Guilford and barons See also:North . The See also:life, by H . E . D . Blakiston, in the See also:Diet . Nat . Biog., corrects many errors in Thomas See also:Warton's We of See also:Sir Thomas Pope (1772) . Further notices by the same authority are in his Trinity College (1898), in the " College Histories " See also:Series, and in the See also:English See also:Historical See also:Review (See also:April, 1896) .

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JOAN, a See also:round See also:game of See also:cards, named after a legendary See also:female Pope of the 9th See also:century . An See also:ordinary See also:pack is used, from which the eight of diamonds has been removed, and a See also:special round See also:board in the See also:form of eight compartments, named respectively Pope-Joan, See also:Matrimony, Intrigue, See also:Ace, See also:King, See also:Queen, See also:Knave and Game (King, Queen and Knave are sometimes omitted) . Each player—any number can See also:play—contributes a stake, of which one See also:counter is put into the divisions Ace, King, Queen, Knave and Game, two into Matrimony and Intrigue, and the See also:rest into Pope-Joan . This is called " dressing the board." The cards are dealt round, with an extra See also:hand for " stops," i.e. cards which stop, by their See also:absence, the completion of a suit; thus the absence of the nine of spades stops the playing of the ten . The last card is turned up for trumps . Cards in excess may be dealt to " stops," or an agreed number may be left for the purpose, so that all players may have an equal number of cards . If an See also:honour or " Pope " (nine of diamonds) is turned up, the dealer takes the counters in the compartment so marked . Sometimes the turning-up of Pope settles the hand, the dealer taking the whole See also:pool . The Ace is the lowest card, the King the highest . The player on the dealer's left plays a card and names it; the player who has the next highest then plays it, till a stop is played, i.e. a card of which no one holds the next highest . All See also:Kings are of course stops, also the seven of diamonds; also the cards next below the dealt stops, and the cards next below the played cards . After a stop the played cards are turned over, and the player of the stop (the card last played) leads again .

The player who gets rid of all his cards first takes the counters in " Game," and receives a counter from each player for every card left in his hand, except from the player who may hold Pope but has not played it . The player of Ace, King, Queen or Knave of trumps takes the counters from that compartment . If King and Queen of trumps are in one hand, the holder takes the counters in " Matrimony "; if a Queen and Knave, those in " Intrigue "; if all three, those in the two compartments; if they are in different hands these counters are sometimes divided . Unclaimed stakes are left for the next pool .

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