David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The poor, being still discontented with the French which were left in the city, took occasion to assemble at the execution of a malefactor; and coming in a large body into the market-place, they declared that the French came to underwork them, and that they would quit the city of them. ”

“ Elisha Philippo, soap-boiler, a Frenchman, was chosen High Sheriff of Norfolk, and carried out his office with much reputation.” An English county gentleman is chosen by the crown to fill the office of High Sheriff and serves for one year only. Part of the existing property of the French Church of Norwich is “An Annuity of £5 under the Will of Elisha Phillippo”; his Will was dated 25th August, and proved 6th December 1678 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
↑ The English surname Philpot was probably originally Philipot, and of old French or Norman origin. ”

“ The tendency in pronouncing the surname was to drop the first vowel and to emphasise the second, so that a usual form of the name was “Phlipot.” “Flipote” was a feminine baptismal name coined in honour of the family (see 25th November 1604) . On 7th September 1595 we find “Ernou Fphlipot” registered as a sponsor at a separate baptism. As “Ernou Philipo” he appears as a father on 8th October 1609. ”