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Quotation dates: 1552-1578, 1638-1674
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Pope, n. Also: pop. [e.m.E. and ME: cf. Pape n.] The, or a, Pope. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4261.
The potent Pope of Rome c1552 Ib. 4567.
The Popis floke c1552 Ib. 4504; etc. a1578 Pitsc. II 141/15.
The popis bowis 1638 Nat. Covenant in Facs. Nat. MSS. III xcvii.
All baptisme conforme to the popes kirk a1651 Calderwood II 187.
The Pop's bulls
b. Popes knight, a Roman Catholic priest: cf. Pape n. b (3). 1558-66 Foxe in Knox I 552; also a1639 Spotsw. Hist. (1655) 95.]
[Where you call me Sir Walter, they call me Walter … I haue bene ouer long one of the Pope's knightes 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 186.
The Popes knights served in Inverness … But about the year 1578 [etc.]
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