The John Bargrave Collection
Walter Cope (c.1553 - 30 Jul 1614)
English government official and collector. John Stowe refers to him as his "worshipful friend" in his A Survey of London (1596, p. 306).Hakluyt visited Cope's cabinet of curiosities in the 1580s (Mancall, 156). In his preface to the reader of his Principal Navigations (1589), Hakluyt describes his experience of viewing Cope's cabinet:
And whereas in the course of this history often mention is made of the many beastes, birds, fishes, serpents, plants, fruits, hearbes, rootes, apparell, armour, boates, and such other rare and strange curiosities, which wise men take great pleasure to reade of, but much more contentment to see: herein I my selfe to my singuler delight haue bene as it were rauished in beholding all the premisses gathered together with no small cost, and preserued with no litle diligence, in the excellent Cabinets of my very worthshipfull and learned friends M. Richard Garthe, one of the Clerkes of the pettie Bags, and M. William Cope Gentleman Vssier [Usher] to the right Honourable and most prudent Counseller (the Seneca of our common wealth,) the Lord Burleigh, high Treasourer of England.Ironically, Hakluyt misidentifies Walter Cope as "William." Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com.cyber.usask.ca/view/article/6257?docPos=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cope Roles: Collector (minor)
Relevant locations: Housed collection or remnant at Cope Castle
Residence at Cope Castle
Residence at Snecgas
People linked to person: Walter Cope was a friend of John Stowe (1524/25 -5 Apr 1605)
Sir John Cope (-d. 11 June 1721) was a descendant of Walter Cope
Margaret Gryffith (c. 1528-fl. 1588) was a source of object(s) for Walter Cope
Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552 or 1553-23 Nov 1616) was a visitor to the collection of Walter Cope
Philipp Julius (27 Dec 1584-6 Feb 1625) was a visitor to the collection of Walter Cope
Thomas Platter (24 Jul 1574-1628) was a visitor to the collection of Walter Cope
John Pory (bap. 1572-1633) was a employed by Walter Cope