Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet
| Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet | |
|---|---|
| Spouse(s) |
Frances Lytton Anne Paston |
|
Issue | |
| Father | Edward Cope |
| Mother | Elizabeth Mohun |
| Born | c.1548 |
| Died | 6 July1614 (aged 65–66) |
| Buried | Hanwell, Oxfordshire |
Sir Anthony Cope (1548?–1614) was an English Puritan Member of Parliament.
Family
Anthony Cope was a grandson of the author Anthony Cope (d.1551).[1] He was the second son of Edward Cope (d.1557) and Elizabeth Mohun (d.1587), daughter and heir of Walter Mohun of Wollaston, Northamptonshire. After his father's death, Anthony, his three brothers and three sisters were under the guardianship of his mother and her father, Walter Mohun. He had a younger brother, Sir Walter Cope.
In 1561 his mother became the second wife of George Carleton,[2] esquire, of Walton-on-Thames, second son of John Carleton, esquire, of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire,[3][4] by Joyce Welbeck, daughter of John Welbeck of Oxon Hoath, Kent,[5] by whom she had a son, Castle Carleton, and a daughter, Elizabeth Carleton.[6] After Elizabeth Mohun's death, George Carleton married, in 1589, Elizabeth Hussey, widow of Anthony Crane (d.1583), and daughter of Sir Robert Hussey of Linwood, Lincolnshire. The first of the Marprelate tracts, Martin's Epistle, was printed in October 1588 at her house at East Molesey, Surrey.[5][7]
Career
He was member of Parliament for Banbury in seven parliaments (1571–83 and 1586–1604), and then represented Oxfordshire from 1606 until 1614. He served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1581, 1590, and 1603.
Cope was imprisoned in the Tower of London from 27 February until 23 March 1587 for presenting the Speaker of the House of Commons with a Puritan revision of the Book of Common Prayer and a bill abrogating existing ecclesiastical law. Elizabeth I knighted Cope in 1590 and James I made him a baronet on 29 June 1611. Cope entertained James I at Hanwell, Oxfordshire in 1606 and 1612.
Cope died 6 July 1614, and was buried at Hanwell.[3]
Marriages and issue
He married firstly Frances Lytton (d.1600), the daughter of Sir Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, and his second wife, Anne Carleton, daughter of George Carleton of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, by whom he had seven sons (four of whom lived to adulthood) and three daughters:[8]
- Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet, MP for Banbury, who married Elizabeth Chaworth (see below).[3][8]
- Anthony Cope, who settled in Ireland.[8] A later line of Cope baronets of Bramshill, Hampshire, descended from Anthony Cope.
- Richard Cope, who settled in Ireland.[8]
- John Cope.[8]
- Anne Cope, who married to Sir John Leigh.[8]
- Elizabeth Cope, who married Sir Richard Cecil, second son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.[3][8]
- Mary Cope, who married Henry Champernown, esquire, of Dartington, Devon.[8]
He married secondly, on 7 April 1600, Anne Paston (1553–1637), daughter of Sir William Paston, and widow successively of Sir George Chaworth and Sir Nicholas Le Strange.[9][3] There were no children of the marriage. By her first husband, Anne had a daughter, Elizabeth Chaworth, who later married Sir Anthony Cope's son and heir, Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet (see above).[3]
Notes
- ↑ Allen I 2004.
- ↑ His maternal grandmother, Margaret Culpepper, was the aunt of Queen Katherine Howard; Collinson 2004.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Allen II 2004.
- ↑ Kimber 1771, p. 51.
- 1 2 Collinson 2004.
- ↑ Metcalfe 1887, p. 9.
- ↑ McCorkle 1933, pp. 276–81.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kimber 1771, p. 52.
- ↑ Kimber 1771, p. 53.
References
- Allen, Elizabeth (2004). "Cope, Sir Anthony (1486/7–1551)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6250. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) The first edition of this text is available as an article on Wikisource:
"Cope, Anthony". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. - Allen, Elizabeth (2004). "Cope, Sir Anthony, first baronet (1548x50–1614)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6251. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Collinson, Patrick (2004). "Carleton, George (1529–1590)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37261. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Kimber, Edward; Richard Johnson, eds. (1771). The English Baronetage I. London: G. Woodfall et al. pp. 50–5. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- McCorkle, Julia Norton (1931). "A Note concerning 'Mistress Crane' and the Martin Marprelate Controversy". The Library. 4th XII (3): 276–83. doi:10.1093/library/s4-XII.3.276. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- Metcalfe, Walter C. (1887). The Visitations of Northamptonshire. London: Harleian Society. Retrieved 9 December 2013.