# Lewis Pope

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**Lewis Pope** (died 1623) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_England) from 1621 to 1622.[1]

Pope was a merchant of [Taunton](/source/Taunton) in 1605 when named on a charter of the [Spanish Company](/source/Spanish_Company).[2] In 1620, he was elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Taunton](/source/Taunton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)).[3]

Pope died between June and December 1623.[4]

Pope married firstly Eleanor Saunders daughter of Christopher Saunders of Taunton, but she died in 1595 and was buried in the church of St Mary Magdalene.[5] His second wife had a son called Thomas Moore.[3]

## References

1. Cobbett, William (ed.) (1806). [*The Parliamentary History of England, from the earliest period to the year 1803*](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxj2gh&seq=645). Vol. 1. London: Longman, Hurst. p. 1173.

1. Pauline Croft (ed.) (1973). ["Charter of 1605"](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol9/pp95-113). *The Spanish Company*. London. pp. 95–113. line 650. – via British History Online.

1. Ferris, John P. (2010). ["POPE, Lewis (–d.1623), of Taunton, Som."](https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/pope-lewis-1623). *The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629*. Andrew Thrush & John P. Ferris (eds.). Cambridge University Press.

1. Brown, Frederick (1888). [*Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills*](https://archive.org/stream/abstractssomers00browgoog#page/n36/mode/2up). Crisp, Frederick Arthur (ed.). London: F.A. Crisp. p. 22.

1. Cottle, James (ed.) (1845). [*Some Accounts of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton*](https://archive.org/details/someaccountofchu05cottuoft/page/46/mode/2up) (epitaph). London: Vizetelly brothers. p. 47.

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