Anthony Cope was a grandson of the author Anthony Cope (d.1551).
In 1561 his mother became the second wife of George Carleton,[REF] esquire, of Walton-on-Thames, second son of John Carleton, esquire, of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, by Joyce Welbeck, daughter of John Welbeck of Oxon Hoath, Kent, by whom she had a son, Castle Carleton, and a daughter, Elizabeth Carleton.