Report on the Manuscripts
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Excerpt from Report on the Manuscripts: Of F. W. Leyborne-Popham, Esq. Littlecote, Co; Wilts Presented to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty The Littlecote collection includes two quite distinct series of papers, although it has been thought more convenient and also more interesting to arrange them together chronologically. The value of the collection, setting aside certain documents, which will be spoken of later, is mostly departmental, the one series being chiefly concerned with the army matters, and the other with naval affairs. To take the latter first, the Popham papers, properly so called, consist, with a few exceptions, of the correspondence of Colonel Edward Popham, one of the three "Generals at Sea" for the Commonwealth. He was the fifth and youngest son of Sir Francis Popham of Littlecote, and grandson of Sir John, the Lord Chief Justice of the end of Elizabeth´s reign. There are two letters addressed to Sir John Popham in the collection, the first being on the working of the new poor laws, which, from certain expression in it, would seem to relate to the Act of 1597 rather than to the more noted one of the 1601. The other letter is from Balliol College, Oxford, concerning the benefactions to the College of Peter Blundell, the founder of Tiverton grammar school (pp. 1, 3). A later letter, relating to Bundell´s foundations at Cambridge (p. 80), alludes to the fact that Sir John was one of his trustees. Edward Popham himself was born about 1610, was the captain of the ill-fated 5th Whelp, cast away in 1637, received his commission as colonel of a regiment of foot (with which he was to march into the West to Sir Thomas Fairfax) in May, 1645 (p. 5), and on February 27, 1648-9, was appointed by the Council of State one of the three "Commissioners for ordering and commanding the fleet during the coming year," the other two being Colonels Robert Blake and Richard Deane (p. 9). His elder brother, Colonel Alexander, was an active Parliament man, and a member of the Council of State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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