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Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe

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132: 19: 194: 106:. He took the oath and covenant before 24 October 1645, but had difficulty in raising money for his fine, and in 1648 his other debts amounted to £11,000. The sequestration was finally discharged on 18 April 1651, after he had sold, under powers obtained by a private act in 1650, all his lands, except the manors of Cogges and 122:
Downe left England, and travelled in France and Italy. He died at the royalist coffeehouse of Arthur Tilliard in Oxford, 28 December 1660. His body was buried among his ancestors at Wroxton 11 January 1661, with an inscribed floor-slab in the chancel.
76:, was created Earl of Downe in the kingdom of Ireland, and died on 2 July 1631. Thomas, his grandson succeeded to his title, and to the large estates in north-west Oxfordshire which had been settled on the family in 1555 by 131: 204: 139:
Lucy, Countess of Downe died 6 April 1656, and was buried at Cubberley. Just before Downe's death his only child, Elizabeth (born at Cogges 15 April 1645), married
103: 246: 52:, 16 December 1622, the eldest of the three sons of Sir William Pope, Knt. (1596–1624), by Elizabeth, sole heiress of Sir Thomas Watson, knt., of 144: 98:
broke out, Downe raised a troop of horse, and was in Oxford with the king in 1643. Charles I slept at his wife's house at Cubberley,
213: 57: 18: 65: 102:, on 6 September 1643 and 12 July 1644. In 1645, his estate being valued at £2,202 per annum, he was fined £5,000 by the 140: 148: 87:. On 26 November 1638 he married his guardian's daughter Lucy, and on 21 June 1639 matriculated as a nobleman at 23: 147:; and the Enstone property descended through her to the Viscounts Dillon. The peerage passed to Pope's uncle, 95: 88: 61: 236: 231: 241: 91:; but he offended against academic discipline, and before 13 March 1641 he left the university. 99: 77: 53: 225: 198: 69: 208: 135:
Lady Elizabeth Pope (1660–1719), Lady Lee, later Countess of Lindsey, as Diana
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The young Earl was brought up at the house of his guardian, John Dutton of
33: 111: 107: 73: 49: 45: 197: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the 130: 17: 217:. Vol. 46. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 138. 172: 170: 168: 166: 164: 110:, Cubberley, which he held in right of his wife, and 56:. His mother married, after his father's death, 8: 203:Blakiston, Herbert Edward Douglas (1896). " 176: 32:(1622–1660) was an English nobleman and 160: 7: 145:Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey 14: 214:Dictionary of National Biography 192: 58:Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet 247:Earls in the Peerage of Ireland 114:, with the adjacent townships. 149:Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe 30:Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe 1: 141:Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet 263: 143:. Her second husband was 104:committee for compounding 205:Pope, Thomas (1622-1660) 96:First English Civil War 136: 26: 134: 89:Christ Church, Oxford 62:Cornwall, Oxfordshire 21: 137: 64:. His grandfather 27: 254: 218: 196: 195: 180: 174: 66:Sir William Pope 262: 261: 257: 256: 255: 253: 252: 251: 222: 221: 202: 193: 184: 183: 175: 162: 157: 129: 120: 100:Gloucestershire 78:Sir Thomas Pope 42: 12: 11: 5: 260: 258: 250: 249: 244: 239: 234: 224: 223: 220: 219: 189: 188: 182: 181: 179:, p. 138. 177:Blakiston 1896 159: 158: 156: 153: 128: 125: 119: 116: 54:Halstead, Kent 41: 38: 24:William Larkin 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 259: 248: 245: 243: 240: 238: 235: 233: 230: 229: 227: 216: 215: 210: 206: 200: 199:public domain 191: 190: 186: 185: 178: 173: 171: 169: 167: 165: 161: 154: 152: 150: 146: 142: 133: 126: 124: 117: 115: 113: 109: 105: 101: 97: 92: 90: 86: 81: 79: 75: 71: 70:Wroxton Abbey 67: 63: 59: 55: 51: 47: 39: 37: 35: 31: 25: 20: 16: 212: 138: 121: 93: 82: 44:Baptised at 43: 29: 28: 15: 237:1660 deaths 232:1622 births 209:Lee, Sidney 187:Attribution 226:Categories 242:Cavaliers 94:When the 85:Sherborne 22:Downe by 34:Royalist 211:(ed.). 201::  112:Enstone 108:Wilcote 74:Banbury 72:, near 48:, near 207:". In 127:Family 50:Witney 46:Cogges 155:Notes 118:Death 60:, of 40:Life 68:of 228:: 163:^ 151:. 80:. 36:.

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William Larkin
Royalist
Cogges
Witney
Halstead, Kent
Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet
Cornwall, Oxfordshire
Sir William Pope
Wroxton Abbey
Banbury
Sir Thomas Pope
Sherborne
Christ Church, Oxford
First English Civil War
Gloucestershire
committee for compounding
Wilcote
Enstone

Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet
Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey
Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe





Blakiston 1896
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