• General Notes

  d. 1613?
  
  "that noble and renowned knight, Sipe Cope D'Oyly, a gentleman, that was in his time, the ornament of this ancient and honourable house."
  
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  Sir Cope D'Oyly, Knt. of Chislehampton, co. Oxon. and Greenland House, co. Bucks, eldest son and heir, was born about 1571, and in his father's lifetime (about 1596) married Martha Quarles, sister of Sir Robert Quarles of Rumford, co. Essex, Knt. and of Francis Quarles the poet, as also of Priscilla the Lady of Sir John Dryden, Bart.; and eldest dau. of James Quarles, Esq. of Rumford in Essex, Clerk of the Green Cloth temp. Elizabeth (half-uncle of Francis Quarles, who married Dorcas D'Oyly, sister of Sir Cope, and 5th son of Francis Quarles, Esq. of Ufford, co. Northampton), by his wife Joane Dalton, heiress of the Daltons of More Place, near Hadham, in Hertfordshire. It has already been stated that the Quarles family bore, ''Or, a fesse dancettée ermine, between three pewits vert."[320] In the 3d James I. (1605) the D'Oylys made a settlement upon the said Martha; and thence during the lifetime of her father-in-law, John D'Oyly, Esq., her husband had Chislehampton for his residence; and there they lived till her death in Sept. 1618, which occurred in giving birth to her youngest daughter, when she was interred at Stadhampton; though her monumental inscription was placed at Hambleden, co. Bucks. About 1623 Cope D'Oyly succeeded his father in the family estates (that gentleman's inquis. post mort. being made 21 Jac. I.) and sued out his livery 23 June, 21 Jac. 1.[321] Not long after he removed his residence to Greenland House, co. Bucks, which old Lady Periam had left in excellent repair, and there long resided in bountiful style, yet managing his estates with every regard to prudence and economy; and so entirely did he conduct himself in accordance with his exalted station, that the old pedigrees justly designate him "that noble and renowned knight, in his time the honour of this ancient family. "He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire, and Justice of Oyer and Terminer;[322] he also served the office of High Sheriff for Oxfordshire during the latter part of 2 Car. I. 1627;[323] and on the 22d Aug. the same year was knighted by Charles I. at Windsor.[
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Details of Cope's family with Martha Quarles