Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Anthony Cope
1550 - 1614 (~ 66 years)-
Name Anthony Cope Birth Between 1548 and 1550 [1] Gender Male Death 6 Jul 1614 [1, 2, 3] Person ID I20834 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 7 Sep 2020
Father Edward Cope d. 1557 Mother Elizabeth Mohun d. 1587 Family ID F13032 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Frances Lytton d. Between 1599 and 1600 Family ID F12875 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Dec 2017
Family 2 Anne Paston, b. Bef 16 Jul 1553 d. 1637 (Age > 83 years) Marriage 7 Apr 1600 [1] Family ID F13038 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Dec 2017
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Notes - From Wikipedia:
He was a 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 1592-3 and James I made him a baronet on 29 June 1611. Cope entertained James I at Hanwell, Oxfordshire in 1606 and 1612.
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Sources - [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.
- [S1328] Memorials of the Danvers Family of Dauntsey and Culworth by F. N. Macnamara. London: Hardy & Page, 1895.
- [S1517] The History of Banbury, Including Copious Historical and Antiquarian Notices of the Neighborhood by Alfred Beesley. London: Nicholas and Son, 1841., year only.
- [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.