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| | John COPE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | At a very remote period the Cope family held "considerable estates"a in Northamptonshire, but their early history is unwritten or lost. |
 | | John Cope, esquire, a gentleman of much wealth and influence, represented Northamptonshire in the last Parliament of the unhappy Richard; and in the year 1398 we find him purchasing, for 100 markse, the manorial estate of Deanshanger. |
 | | The manor of Deanshanger, passing through four descents of his male issue, John, Stephen, John, and Edward, fell at length, in 1512, into the possession of Anne, a child of twelve years, sole heiress of the ligne ainee. |
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