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.[324] He made his will at Greenland House, 24 June 1633;[325] appoints his son-in-law John Arnold, and Robert Sheepwash, of Hambleden, Gent., his executors, (to whom he had previously made over, by a certain conveyance, the manor of Wilsworthy, co. Cornwall, which he had purchased of D'Oyly of Ogbeare in that county,) and charges Wilsworthy with 1000l. legacy to his daughter Joane; leaving her also another legacy of 500l., and an annuity of 50l, per annum: she seems to have been his favourite child, in fact. He mentions to have already given his son Robert 1000l. and leaves him but little more; 800l., however, to his son Francis; and mourning to all his children; legacies to his beloved mother, and his sisters, Palmes, Quarles, Hawtaine, and Goddard: charitable bequests to the poor of Hambleden, Stadham (or Stadhampton), and Chislehampton, and to certain needy persons mentioned by name, as also to his cousin Katharine Barnes (wife of William Barnes of 'Henley-on-Thames), and to Elizabeth Barnes. He requests that his funeral be conducted with as little pomp as possible, but that a monument be erected in Hambleden church, recording himself, his wife, and their ten children. He did not survive his will many weeks; but died 4 Aug. 1633, upwards of 60, and was interred in the chapel of his family in Hambleden church. A handsome monument of marble and alabaster, adorned with arms and effigies, was erected in Hambleden church, and its quaint epitaph is ascribed to the pen of his brother-in-law, Quarles the poet.[326] On the monument are the effigies of a man and woman kneeling before a desk; behind them five sons and five daughters, also kneeling. Arms, Quarterly, D'Oyly and Moore; both single, and impaling Quarles. The inscription runs thus:[327]
"To the memory of that noble Knight, Sir Cope D'Oyly, late Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Oxford, and Justice of Oyer and Terminer, Heyer of the ancient family of the Doylies in Oxfordshire, founders of Oseney and Missenden[328] Abbies and the Castle of Oxford: who put on immortality the 4th day of August 1633."
"To the memory of that rare example of undisdayned virtue, Martha, the wife of Sir Cope D'Oyly (eldest daughter of James Quarles of Rumford in Essex, Esq.), who received the Crown of Glory in the year of Grace 1618.
"Who lived together in inviolated bonds of holy wedlock 22 years, and multiplied themselves into five sons and five daughters: John, James, Robert, Charles, Francis; Martha, Mary, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Joanna.
"Ask not of me 'Who's buried here?'
Goe ask the commons, ask the shiere,
Goe ask the Church; they'll tell you who,
As well as blubber'd eyes can doe;
Goe ask the heraulds, ask the poor,
Thine ears shall hear enough to ask no more.
Then if thine eyes bedew this sacred urn
Each drop a pearl will turn,
T' adorn his tomb; or, if thou can'st not vent,
Thou bring'st more marble to this monument.
Wouldst thou, reader, draw to life
The perfect copy of a wife?—
Read on, and then redeem from shame
That lost but honourable name;
This dust was once in spirit a Jael,
Rebeccah in grace, in heart an Abigail,
In works a Dorcas, to the Church a Hannah,
And to her spouse Susannah,
Prudently simple, providently wary,
To the world a Martha, and to heaven a Mary."
Sir Cope D'Oyly's will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 6 Nov. 1633; his inquis. post mort. made 10 Car. I.;[329] and his son and heir John had livery of his lands 11 May, 11 Car. I. 1635.[330] By Martha his wife Sir Cope had 10 children, four sons and two daughters; of whom six were alive at his death,
