Anthony Cope (author)

Sir Anthony Cope (c.1486 – 5 January 1551) of Hanwell, near Banbury, was an English knight, author, principal chamberlain to Queen Catherine Parr, and sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

He was a younger son of William Cope (c.1440–1513), Esquire, Cofferer of the Household to King Henry VII,[2] by his second wife Jane (or Joan) Spencer.

[17] Wood states that his writing were the subject of an epigram by Johannes Baptista Mantuanus, seen at the one time by John Bale, but now lost.

Cope's duties for Catherine Parr included paying her goldsmiths, embroiderers, mercers, and her silkwoman Mistress Shakerley.

[citation needed] Cope was the author of: Among manuscripts at Bramshill were two ascribed to Cope—an abbreviated chronology and a commentary on the first two gospels dedicated to Edward VI.