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Dear Stephen,
All I know for certain about the history of the Pope Arms of Cornwall is that they have been in use in my family for many many years. I descend from William Pope (b.1559 at St. Kew) and his first wife Katherine Nicholl (marr. Nov.25, 1584). I believe William was the son of Hugh Pope and Elizabeth Hesays. If correct then I suggest Hugh (or son William) simply cribbed the arms from his second cousin Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity College Oxford. My gg-grandfather William Henry Pope (1825-1879, Father of Confederation, Canada) referenced his grandfather's (Thomas Pope 1751-1809) use of the arms when commissioning his arms (bookplate?) in London in the 1860's. In the early 1930's, during the course of a tour of duty at the War Office, my grandfather came across a book entitled "County Families" and noticed some names in black print and others in italics which meant that the arms borne by these families were held in good or bad odour, respectively, by the College of Heralds. A subsequent visit to the College by my father in the 1970's confirmed that the arms of the Popes of Cornwall had been in use without a proper grant for centuries. Am just now finding a note here that "the arms popularly known as those of the Popes of Cornwall were in fact those the right to bear which was granted in the fifteenth century" (perhaps to Henry Pope, ggg-grandfather of William b.1559). I hope all this is of some help. MP
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