Alan Cope

to whom the City of London gave his first breath, was made perpetual Fellow of Magd. Coll. in 1549, and Master of Arts in 52, being that year Senior of the Act celebrated 18. July. In 1558 he was unanimously chosen Senior Proctor of the University, and in less than two years after, when he saw that the R. Cath. Religion would be silenced in England, he obtained leave to absent himself for a time from the said College. Whereupon waiting for a prosperous gale, ship’d himself beyond the Seas, and at length went to Rome; where, tho he before, had for the space of 5 years, studied the Civil Law in this University, he was actually created, (as ’tis said) Doctor or Bach. of Div. and became one of the Canons of St. Peters Church there. Vir fuit eximii ingenii, (as one (g)(g) Anon. MS. quandam in manibus Gul. Crowe. Ludimagistri Cro [•••] saith) qui post magnos in Ecclesiâ dei per side Catholicâ tuendâ susceptos labores, scripsit opus quoddam insigne intitulat.

Historiae Evangelicae veritas. Seu singularia vitae Domini Jesu Christi, eo ordine quo gesta fuerunt recensita, & ipsis quatuor Evangelistarum verbis contexta, &c. Lov. 1572, and at Doway 1603. qu. He also published under his name,

Sex Dialogi, &c. Antw. 1566. But those Dialogues were written by Nich. Harpesfeild, as I shall tell you in my discourse of him. As for A. Cope he surrendred up his last breath at Rome about Fifteen hundred and eighty, 1580 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the English Hospital or Coll. there, leaving behind him, a most admirable exemplar of vertue, which many did endeavor to follow, but could not accomplish their desires.