Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 345
Title	Letter from B[rilliana] P[opham], to Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Brampton Bryan Castle, Herefordshire; 8 Jan 1680/1
Date	8 January 1681
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Refers to the speech by Lord Shaftesbury which was burned by the hangman at the Cornhill Exchange; has heard that 3000 men in Northumberland 'are in arms; states that they wear blue ribbons in their hats with the inscription 'no Duke of York no Poperie no Bishop'. Old Style dating on letter.
Term	civil disorder, Northumberland 1681
Term	religious affairs, anti-Catholicism

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA28844	Cooper; Anthony A. (1621-1683); 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; M.P.; creat. 1672; also 1st Baron Ashley; supporter of Monmouth	1621-1683
NA28798	Popham; Brilliana (fl 1681-1682); Mrs; née Harley d of Sir Edward Harley 1625-1700	fl 1681-1682
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724