It was a more interesting circumstance to Pope that Mr.Lister Blount, the then representative of the family, had two fair daughters, Teresa and Martha, of about the poet's age.

Another of Pope's Catholic acquaintances was John Caryll, of West Grinstead in Sussex, nephew of a Caryll who had been the representative of James II.

at the Court of Rome, and who, following his master into exile, received the honours of a titular peerage and held office in the melancholy court of the Pretender.

In such circles Pope might have been expected to imbibe a Jacobite and Catholic horror of Whigs and freethinkers.

In fact, however, he belonged from his youth to the followers of Gallio, and seems to have paid to religious duties just as much attention as would satisfy his parents.