Walter Cope

He became a Gentleman Usher to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and in 1574 was appointed as feodary for Oxfordshire for the Court of Wards and Liveries.

On 2 September 1603 Cope organised a demonstration of a canoe paddled on the Thames near Cecil House by three Virginian Indians from Tsenacommacah.

[5] In January 1605, he planned a revival of William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost by Cuthbert Burbage's theatre company at Cecil House to entertain James' consort, Anne of Denmark.

His assistance was begged for by Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester who had been incorrectly suspected of involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.

Chamberlain later speculated that Cope's heart had been broken by the loss of his brother and by his heavy debts, supposedly over £26,000,[9][10] and by the prospect of losing the Mastership of the Wards.

Arms of Cope of Hanwell: Argent, on a chevron azure between 3 roses gules slipped proper 3 fleurs-de-lys or [ 1 ]
Arms of Grenville of Buckinghamshire: Vert, on a cross argent five torteaux