Thomas D'Oylie

Cope's impressive tomb, with its memorials to himself, his wife Martha Quarles and their children can still be seen in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Hambleden.

He received his medical degree from the University of Basel in 1581 or 1582,[1] served as an army doctor at Antwerp, and was present at the Siege of Oudenarde in 1582.

[1] He received a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1592, and served as Censor of the College of Physicians three times (his office had nothing to do with censorship: he had the task of upholding academic standards, in particular by means of a notoriously gruelling oral examination).

[1] He was a fine linguist, who was especially fluent in Spanish, and played a large part in the composition of "Bibliotheca Hispanica",[1] a Spanish-English-Latin dictionary and grammar.

It was first published in 1591 under the sole name of his co-author and fellow Spanish scholar Sir Richard Percivale (also spelt Perceval or Percyvall) and reprinted with additional material in 1599.

[3] Elizabeth was a close relative by marriage of the prominent public servant Sir Thomas Pope, whose sister Alice was her stepmother.

They had three sons, Norris, Michael and Francis (a late child, born in 1597, when his parents had been married almost 30 years),[1] and three daughters, Frances, Katherine and Margery.