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1688 (Mon 21 May) AP born at 6.45 p.m. in the Pope family house at the bottom of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London. In his copy of Virgil AP later recorded ‘Natus Maji 21, 1688, Hora Post Merid. 6 3/4.’ His father, Alexander, is a merchant; Edith, AP’s mother, is his second wife, his first wife having died in 1679. Almost immediately AP is nursed by Mary Beach, who remains with the family until her death in 1725.
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© 1988 Reginald John Berry
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Berry, R. (1988). A Pope Chronology. In: A Pope Chronology. Macmillan Author Chronologies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08277-3_1
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