Father Edward Cope Mother Elizabeth Mohun | Buried Hanwell, Oxfordshire Name Sir Cope, | |
Spouse(s) Frances Lytton
Anne Paston Died 6 July1614 (aged 65–66) | ||
Sir Anthony Cope (1548?–1614) was an English Puritan Member of Parliament.
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Family
Anthony Cope was a grandson of the author Anthony Cope (d.1551). 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, esquire, of Walton-on-Thames, second son of John Carleton, esquire, of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, by Joyce Welbeck, daughter of John Welbeck of Oxon Hoath, Kent, by whom she had a son, Castle Carleton, and a daughter, Elizabeth Carleton. 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.
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.
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:
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. 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).