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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
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He was educated at Banbury school and See also: Eton College, and entered the See also: court of See also: chancery
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He there found a friend and See also: patron in the See also: lord-chancellor See also: Thomas Audley
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As clerk of briefs in the
See also: star chamber, See also: warden of the 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 influence
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In this last office he was superseded in 1541, but from 1547 to 1553 he was again employed as See also: fourth officer
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He himself won by See also: grant or
See also: purchase a considerable share in the spoils, for nearly See also: thirty manors, which came sooner or later into his 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
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The religious changes made by See also: Edward VI. were repugnant to him, but at the beginning of Mary's reign he became a member of the privy council
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In 1556 he was sent to reside as See also: guardian in See also: Elizabeth's
See also: house
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As 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 Durham College, the Oxford house of the abbey of Durham, from Dr See also: George See also: Owen and See also: William Martyn
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He received a royal charter for the establishment and endowment of a college of the "
See also: Holy and Undivided Trinity " on the 8th of See also: March 1556
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The foundation provided for a president, twelve
See also: fellows and eight scholars, with a schoolhouse at Hooknorton
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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 alabaster monument to his memory
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He was three times married, but See also: left no See also: children
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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 Dillon and the earls of Guilford and barons
See also: North
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The See also: life, by H
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Blakiston, in the See also: Diet
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Nat
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Biog., corrects many errors in Thomas Warton's We of See also: Sir Thomas Pope (1772)
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Further notices by the same authority are in his Trinity College (1898), in the " College Histories " Series, and in the See also: English See also: Historical Review (See also: April, 1896)
.
POPE- See also: JOAN, a round See also: game of See also: cards, named after a legendary See also: female Pope of the 9th century
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An 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, Matrimony, Intrigue, Ace, See also: King,
See also: Queen, Knave and Game (King, Queen and Knave are sometimes omitted)
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Each player—any number can 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 rest into Pope-Joan
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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
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The last card is turned up for trumps
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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
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If an honour or " Pope " (nine of diamonds) is turned up, the dealer takes the counters in the compartment so marked
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Sometimes the turning-up of Pope settles the hand, the dealer taking the whole See also: pool
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The Ace is the lowest card, the King the highest
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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
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After a stop the played cards are turned over, and the player of the stop (the card last played) leads again
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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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