Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cope, Michael
COPE, MICHAEL (fl. 1557), protestant author, fled from England to escape persecution in the reign of Mary, and took refuge in Geneva, where he preached much in French. He was the author of ‘A faithful and familiar Exposition of Ecclesiastes,’ written in French, Geneva, 1557, 4to, with corrections, 1563; and ‘An Exposition upon fyrste chap. of ye prouerbis of Salomon by Mygchell Coope,’ which Luke Harrison received license to print in 1564.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), i. 192; Tanner's Bibl. Brit. 199; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert), 929.]