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Alexander Popham, the Glossary

Alexander Popham (1605 – 1669) of Littlecote, Wiltshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1669.^[1]

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Members of Cromwell's Other House
Popham family
Somerset Militia officers

Alexander Popham (died 1705)

Alexander Popham (c. 1670 – 16 June 1705), of Littlecote House, Littlecote, Wiltshire, and St. James's Square, London, was an English politician. Alexander Popham and Alexander Popham (died 1705) are politicians from Wiltshire.

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Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset

General Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (11 November 16847 February 1750) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1722 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Percy and took his seat in the House of Lords.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Bath (UK Parliament constituency)

Bath is a constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom represented by Wera Hobhouse of the Liberal Democrats.

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Battle of Roundway Down

The Battle of Roundway Down was fought on 13 July 1643 at Roundway Down near Devizes, in Wiltshire during the First English Civil War.

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Berry Pomeroy

Berry Pomeroy is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, east of the town of Totnes.

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Cavalier Parliament

The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.

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Convention Parliament (1660)

The Convention Parliament of England (25 April 1660 – 29 December 1660) followed the Long Parliament that had finally voted for its own dissolution on 16 March that year.

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Cromwell's Other House

The Other House (also referred to as the Upper House, House of Peers and House of Lords), established by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Humble Petition and Advice, was one of the two chambers of the parliaments that legislated for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, in 1658 and 1659, the final years of the Protectorate.

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Devizes

Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

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Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke

Edward Richard Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (7 July 1692 – 3 October 1722) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1722.

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Edward Popham

Edward Popham (1610–1651) was a general at sea during the English Civil War. Alexander Popham and Edward Popham are English MPs 1640–1648, Popham family and Roundheads.

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Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset

Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset (December 1694 or early 1695 – December 1757) was an English peer and landowner.

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English Council of State

The English Council of State, later also known as the Protector's Privy Council, was first appointed by the Rump Parliament on 14 February 1649 after the execution of King Charles I. Charles's execution on 30 January was delayed for several hours so that the House of Commons could pass an emergency bill to declare the representatives of the people, the House of Commons, as the source of all just power and to make it an offence to proclaim a new King.

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Execution of Charles I

Charles I, the king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London.

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Ferniehirst Castle

Ferniehirst Castle (sometimes spelled Ferniehurst) is an L-shaped construction on the east bank of the Jed Water, about a mile and a half south of Jedburgh, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and in the former county of Roxburghshire.

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First Protectorate Parliament

The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government.

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Francis Popham (1573–1644)

Sir Francis Popham (1573–1644) of Wellington, Somerset, was an English soldier and landowner who was elected a Member of Parliament nine times, namely for Somerset (1597), Wiltshire (1604), Marlborough (1614), Great Bedwin (1621), Chippenham 1624, 1625, 1626, 1628–29), and for Minehead (1640–1644). Alexander Popham and Francis Popham (1573–1644) are English MPs 1640–1648 and Popham family.

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Francis Popham (1646–1674)

Sir Francis Popham KB (1646–1674), of Littlecote House, Wiltshire and Houndstreet, Somerset, was an English politician. Alexander Popham and Francis Popham (1646–1674) are English MPs 1661–1679 and politicians from Wiltshire.

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Francis Seymour, of Sherborne, Dorset

Francis Seymour (1697 – 23 December 1761), of Sherborne House, Dorset, was a British landowner and Tory politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1732 to 1741.

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House of Commons of England

The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England (which incorporated Wales) from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain after the 1707 Act of Union was passed in both the English and Scottish parliaments at the time.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".

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John Popham (died 1638)

John Popham (born 1603, died c. 1638) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. Alexander Popham and John Popham (died 1638) are Popham family.

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John Popham (judge)

Sir John Popham (1531 – 10 June 1607) of Wellington, Somerset, was Speaker of the House of Commons (1580 to 1583), Attorney General (1581 to 1592) and Lord Chief Justice of England (1592 to 1607). Alexander Popham and John Popham (judge) are Popham family.

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John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett

John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett (c. 1641 – June 1679), was an English peer. Alexander Popham and John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett are English MPs 1661–1679.

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John Wallis

John Wallis (Wallisius) was an English clergyman and mathematician, who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Littlecote House

Littlecote House is a large Elizabethan country house and estate in the civil parishes of Ramsbury and Chilton Foliat, in the English county of Wiltshire, about northeast of the Berkshire town of Hungerford.

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Long Parliament

The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660.

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Middle Temple

The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple (with which it shares Temple Church), Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.

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Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)

Minehead was a parliamentary borough in Somerset, forming part of the town of Minehead, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.

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Pride's Purge

Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England.

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Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu

Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (24 December 1638 – 9 March 1709) was an English courtier, diplomat, politician and peer. Alexander Popham and Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu are English MPs 1661–1679.

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Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset

Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset (c. 158717 July 1645), was a politician, and favourite of King James VI and I.

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Roundhead

Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Alexander Popham and Roundhead are Roundheads.

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Second English Civil War

The Second English Civil War took place between February and August 1648 in England and Wales.

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Second Protectorate Parliament

The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons.

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Short Parliament

The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on 20 February 1640 and sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640.

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Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet

Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet MP (1632/1633 – 17 February 1708) was a British nobleman, and a Royalist and Tory politician. Alexander Popham and Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet are English MPs 1661–1679.

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Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet

Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, 5th Baronet (1660 or 1663 – 29 December 1740) of Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire was an English landowner and Tory politician.

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Somerset Trained Bands

The Somerset Trained Bands were a part-time military force in the county of Somerset in South West England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Somerset Militia in 1662.

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Stuart Restoration

The Stuart Restoration was the re-instatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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The Protectorate

The Protectorate, officially the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was the English form of government lasting from 16 December 1653 to 25 May 1659, under which the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with their associated territories were joined together in the Commonwealth of England, governed by a Lord Protector.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Popham

Also known as Alexander Popham (1605-1669), Popham, Alexander.

Alexander Popham, the Glossary

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See also

Members of Cromwell's Other House

Popham family

Somerset Militia officers

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