US. X.JULY 25, 1914.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
RECTORS OF UPHAM (Durley separated}.
Date of
Collation. Rector.
Patron.
How
Vacated.
Remarks.
1855. Jan. 22
Charles Simon Faithfull Fanshawe, Bishop of
Death.
M.A., Oxon.
Winchester
1873. July 18 Richard Shard
Gubbins, M.A.,
Bishop of
Resignations D - *** e ?" buried at
Cantab.
Lichfield
Upham.
1884. Nov. 18
William Wyke
Bayliss, M.A.,
,
Death.
Formerly V. of 8ton
Staffs, buried at Upham'
Date of
Cantab.
Institution.
1890. April 19
Henry Poole
Marriott, B.A., i Lord Chan-
Resignation. 1 V. of Blackwell, Derbys^
Cantab.
cellor
IWXh-UU.
1897. Feb. 6
Edmund Lawrence Hemsted Tew,
M.A., Oxon.
,,
V. of Hornsea and R. of Long Riston, Yorks, 1W3- 97. Domes! ii: Chaplain to
the Marquis of Ailesbury.
1911.
N.B. Cardinal Beaufort's Registers for the early part of the fourteenth century and those of Bishop
Andrewes for the first part of the seventeenth are missing, which accounts for gaps in the list at those
periods.
Upham. E. L. H. TEW.
ALEXANDER POPE THE ELDER AND THE HOUSE AT BINFIELD.
THK interesting information as to the family
of Alexander Pope published by MR. F. J.
POPE in ' N. & Q.,' US. vii. 281, has only
recently been seen by me ; but, as the exact
date of the acquisition of the house at
Binfield by the poet's father seems unknown
to him, he may be glad to learn it through
your columns. The history of this house
was traced by me in an article which appeared
in The Home Counties Magazine in January,
1900. The dates are taken from the pur-
chase deeds.
Alexander Pope the elder purchased Whitehill House, with two closes of arable or pasture land containing fourteen acres, in the parish of Binfield in the county of Berks, on 29 July, 1698. The vendor was Charles Rackett, late of Hammersmith in the parish of Fulham in the county of Middlesex, now of Binfield in the county of Berks, gent. In addition to the fourteen acres already mentioned, there were three a^res in the common field of Binfield, and a close, known as Little Comer, of about two acres : al- together about nineteen acres.
Pope is described as of Hammersmith aforesaid, merchant, and the price was 445?., being the sum Rackett had paid for the property three years earlier, when he had bought it of Gabriel Yonge, gentleman, of Warfield, Berks (4 Feb., 1695). A Pope was one of the witnesses to this deed, and Rackett was no doubt his son-in-law the husband of his daughter, Magdalen Pope. At this date the house and ground were in the occupation of one Thomas Holmes as tenant by a lease for three years, dated
13 Sept., 1694. Neither Rackett nor Pope
could have come to Binfield before the last-
mentioned lease had expired in the autumn
of 1697. But on 9 April, 1700, Alexander
Pope the elder, of Binfield in the county of
Berks, merchant, conveyed to Samuel Maw-
hood, citizen and fishmonger of London, and
Charles Mawhpod of London, gentleman,.
" all that brick messuage or tenement
wherein he, the said Alexander Pope the
elder, now dwelleth," in trust for his only
son, Alexander Pope the younger. The
latter was now 12 years of age, the age at
which he afterwards said he went with hi*
father into the forest, and at which he pro-
fessed to have composed the ' Ode to Soli-
tude,' in praise of a rural and secluded Hie,
Fifteen years later, however, when the pro-
ceeds of the ' Iliad ' and other works had
rendered him independent, the poet desired 1
to move nearer London, and his father and"
the two Mawhoods, " at the request and 1
desire " of Alexander Pope the younger, sold
Whitehill House to James Tanner of the
parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, London,
gentleman, for the sum of 5501. paid to
Alexander Pope the younger. The price had
advanced a hundred pounds. The signa-
tures of father and son appear on this deed* r
the elder, still described as merchant, signing
"Alex r Pope"; the younger, "Alexand,
Pope."
On 23 Oct., 1717, the old merchant died at Mawson's Buildings, Chiswick, aged, accord- ing to his monument, 74. He would, there-
- Dated 1 March, 1715, or 1716 historically.
