including Cope (to whom he had offered one of the Stockbridge seats), had been refused; Cope's election was subsequently annulled.

Marriage and children

Cope married Dorothy Grenville, a daughter of Richard Grenville (1527-1604) of Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire but left no sons, only a daughter and sole heiress:
*Isabel Cope, who married Sir Henry Rich, 1st Baron Kensington, 1st Earl of Holland