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HISTORY

IE FAMILY OF SCROPE.

F the literature of this country be compared with that of France of Italy, it will be found extremely defective in Memoirs of eminent families; and a foreigner might be induced to suppose, either that no materials could be discovered for works of that nature, or that the deeds of the ancient Nobility of the British Empire were unworthy of com- memoration. Such an inference would, ■ •\ve\eT, \k erroneous. The national annals abound in notices r the prowess and talents of the ancestors of the greater part of :lie Peers and Gentry of the kingdom, and the public muniments, ;is well as, in some cases, the archives of individuals, afford highly valuable Historical and Biographical information.

Whatever tends to produce noble actions ; whatever creates a love of country, of fame, of honour, and of public or private virtue, is preeminently deserving of attention ; and if it be con- ceded that a knowledge of the services which our forefathers have rendered to the world stimulates their descendants to imitate thcni, or if their errors or vices serve as beacons, the value of family history must be admitted. In many instances, too, Bio- VOL. II. B

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THE

CONTROVERSY

BETWEEN

SIR RICHARD SCROPE

AND

SIR ROBERT GROSVENOR

Sfn tj^e iltoun of <2(j^ibalrs,

A.D. MCCCLXXXV— MCCCXC. VOL. 11.

CONTAINING

A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF SCROPE,

AND

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE DEPONENTS.

BY

SIR N. HARRIS NICOLAS, K.H.

MDCCC XXXII.

/

JV^'?

LON DON :

PRINTED IIT SAMVBl BENTLET,

Donct Street, Fleet Straet

ADVERTISEMENT.

Upon delivering the first and second volumes of the Scrope AND Grosvenor Roll, some remarks are necessary in relation to their contents ; and in explanation, as well of the delay in the appearance of the work, as of the Editor'^s intentions respecting the remainder. It was originally expected that the Roll and Illustrations would be comprised in two volumes; but in conse- quence of the extent of the Biographical Notices of the Depo- nents, a third volume has been found necessary ; and as some further time is required for its completion, it is thought advisa- ble to put the Subscribers in possession of so much of the work as is ready.

The First Volume contains a literal copy of the Roll, together with documents illustrative of the suit, and Notes explanatory of the chasms which occur in parts of the original record ; whence it appears that the Depositions of nearly sixty persons in favour of Sir Robert Grosvenor, the Exceptions tendered by each party, and the Judgment of the Court, are lost. The purport of its Sentence, and the final decision of the King, may, however, be learnt from the short abstract of the proceedings, which is printed from a manuscript in the Harleian Collection. It is intended to prefix to the first volume a History of the Controversy, with abstracts of the pleadings; and also notices of several similar trials. This, as well as Title-pages and the Preface, will be deli- vered with the third volume.

iv ADVERTISEMENT.

The Second Volume is complete, with the exception of the Title-page. It contains a History of the House of Scrope down to the reign of Henry the Fourth, including Memoirs of every Member of it who was mentioned by the Deponents in 1386 ; and is accompanied by Pedigrees of the two great branches of Bolton and Masham. The History of the Scrope Family is followed by Biographical Notices of upwards of two hundred of the Deponents in favour of Sir Richard Scrope, with translations of the material parts of their depositions.

The Third Volume will contain Biographical Notices of the remainder of the Deponents on behalf of Sir Richard Scrope, commencing with Sir Henry Percy, the renowned " Hotspur ;*" which will be succeeded by a History of the House of Grosvenor, and Notices of all the Witnesses who gave their testimony in favour of Sir Robert Grosvenor, on a similar plan to that of the second volume. To this will be added. Notes illustrative of the Historical events, and of the various other circumstances men- tioned by the Deponents ; and a General Index.

In explanation of the delay which has attended the publica- tion of the Work, it must be observed that considerable time was, in the first place, consumed in obtaining the office copy of the Roll from the Tower, and in passing it through the Press, in consequence of the careful manner in which the proofs were obliged to be collated with the original, which in some parts is much defaced ; and from the imperfect state of the latter part of the record,^ the utmost attention was necessary to determine in what order the membranes followed each other. It is, however, on the contents of the Second Volume that the Editor mainly relies for his excuse in not having before placed any part of the work in the hands of the Subscribers. The extreme labour of

' See vol. i. page 359.

ADVERTISEMENT. V

collecting materials for the lives, and even of identifying persons who lived in the fourteenth century, is well known to all who are acquainted with Biographical and Antiquarian literature. Of the far greater part of the Deponents no attempt had been before made to give even the slightest account; hence every thing respecting them has been gleaned from numerous sources, consisting principally of Chronicles, Records, and Manuscripts; and when it is remembered that most of the Chronicles are un- indexed, and that the information to be derived from records and manuscripts is scattered over various repositories, an idea may be formed of the difficulty of collecting facts for the me- moirs of nearly four hundred persons who lived at the period in question. Laborious, however, as the task has proved, it has been lightened by the cordial and zealous co-operation of two or three members of the Committee, and other friends, whom the Editor will hereafter have occasion more particularly to mention. He cannot, however, here omit to acknowledge the extraordinary zeal and attention of Mr. Samuel Bentley, firom whom he has derived most valuable assistance, and from whose press the work has emanated. The Editor was farther cheered by the gratifying reflection that these volumes will rescue many of the heroes from oblivion whose prowess at Cressy, Poictiers, Najara, and various other celebrated battles, renders the history of the reign of Edward the Third the brightest page in the annals of British chivalry, and laid the foundation of the military renown of this country. To the fate of such men as these few can be indifierent, nor can any trouble be deemed too great to perpetuate their fame ; and as the inquiries which have been now made respecting them tend at the same time to throw a strong light on the general his- tory of the age in which they flourished, it is confidently hoped that the Subscribers will not regret the delay, and that they will be satisfied that the Editor's most zealous exertions, consistently

VI ADVERTISEMENT.

with his professional duties, have been used to fulfil his engage- ment. He flatters himself, too, that the perusal of these volumes may induce them to extend their indulgence to him in the pro- duction of the third and concluding one, which he trusts will be completed early in the ensuing year.

N. HARRIS NICOLAS.

March lOth, 183S.

THE IMPRESSION IS LIMITED, AND NO COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED

FOR SALE.

HISTORY

OF

THE FAMILY OF SCROPE.

HISTORY

THE FAMILY OF SCROPE.

however, be

F the literature of this country be compared with that of France or Italy, it will be found extremely defective in Memoirs of eminent families; and a foreigner might be induced to suppose, either that no materials could be discovered for works of that nature, or that the deeds of the ancient Nobility of the British Empire were unworthy of com- memoration. Such an inference would, The national annals abound in notices of the prowess and talents of the ancestors of the greater part of the Peers and Gentry of the kingdom, and the public muniments, as well as, in some cases, the archives of individuals, alFord highly valuable Historical and Biographical information.

M'hatever tends to produce noble actions ; whatever creates a love of country, of fame, of honour, and of public or private virtue, is preeminently deserving of attention ; and if it be con- ceded that a knowledge of the services which our forefathers have rendered to the world stimulates their descendants to imitate them, or if their errors or vices serve as beacons, the value of family history must be admitted. In many instances, too, Bio- VOL. II. B

2 HISTORY OF THE

graphy not only illustrates General History, but throws a pleasing light upon the most interesting events.

Among the numerous Baronial families which formerly possessed great influence in England, that of LE SCROPE, or SCROPE, stands conspicuous. Though some of their titles are now dormant, and others extinct, few persons were more distinguished in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, and Shakespeare has given immortality to no less than three individuals of the name.* The House of Scrope was ennobled in two branches, Scrope op Bolton, and Scrope op Masham and Upsal, and its members shared the glory of all the great victories of the middle ages. An unbroken male descent from the Conquest, if not from the time of Edward the Confessor, and the emphatic declaration of the Earl of Arundel, which was corroborated by the statements of the Abbot of Coverham, Sir Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp, and many others in 1386, that the representative of the family was descended from noble and generous blood of gentry and ancient ancestry, who had always preserved their name and " estate in dignity and honour," * as well as their alliances and property, sufficiently attest their antiquity and importance ; whilst the mere enumeration of the dignities which they attained be- tween the reigns of Edward the Second and Charles the First, proves the high rank they enjoyed. In the period of three hun- dred years, during more than a century of which the Barony of one branch was in abeyance, the House of Scrope produced two Earls and twenty Barons,^ one Chancellor, four Treasurers, and two Chief Justices of England; one Archbishop and two Bishops; five Knights of the Garter, and numerous Bannerets, the highest military Order in the days of Chivalry.

' See the plays of " Richard the Second," " Henry the Fourth," and " Henry the Fifth."

* Depositions, page 164. See also particularly pages 97, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 121, 132, 138, 142, 182.

' Sir William Dugdale has included the Scropes among the Barons by Tenure, from the circumstance of their having held Knights' fees in the time of Henry the Second ; but it is almost certain that they did not enjoy the rank of Peers before the reign of EdVard the Third.

FAMILY OF SCROPE. 3

In common with that of many of the most illustrious families in this country, the early history of the House of Scrope is very ob- scure. Doubts have been entertained whether it was of Norman or Saxon origin; but the little evidence which is extant on the subject justifies the opinion, that the first person who is recorded to have borne the name of Scrupe or Scrope, was a native of Normandy.

A RICHARD SCRUPE was an extensive landed proprietor in Richard

' Scrupe

the reign of Edward the Confessor : he is stated in Doomsday Book to have held various manors in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire, and is supposed to have built Richard^s Castle near Ludlow, which became his principal residence.^ His property was inherited by his son, Osborne Frrz Richard, and, together with other lands, was in his possession at the time of the General Sur- vey.* He was the ancestor of the family of Say of Richard's Castle, which became extinct in the male line in the early part of the thirteenth century.'

Strong as the presumption is, that an individual who held lands in England under the Confessor must have been a Saxon, it is by no means proof of the fact. The influx of Normans at Ed- ward^s court, and the partiality which he manifested for them, are well known ; and the historians of the period expressly assert that Richard Scrupe was one of the King^s foreign favourites. In the year 1052, Edward concluded a peace with his turbulent

* Nash's History of Worcestershire, i. 239, 240.

* " Terra Osbemi filii Ricardi.

" Osbemus fili* Ricardi Scnipe ten. de Rege Bertvne. Ricard* paf ei* tenuit. Ibi ii hide geld'. In d'nio sunt ii car. & viii vilKi. iiii Bord. & fab. & molinari* cu' ix car. & una car. plus posset ibi e'e. Ibi iiii servi & iiii ancille & molin. redd, xxii 8um*as annone & x ac' p'ti. Silva i lew. I'g. & dimid. & lat. I leuva. Valuit & val. xx solid.

" Isd' Osb'n» ten. Tameocberie. pat, ei» tenuit, Ibi in hide geld. In d'nio e* i car. & xiiii int* vill'. & bord. cu' xii car. & adhuc ii car. plus ibi possent e'e. Ibi ii servi.*'

Then follow the names of twelve other Manors, which were held by the said Osbem Fitz Richard. Of these manors, Cuer and Carleton had belonged to his father. Hane — Sapie, — are stated thus: — Idem Osb'n. ten. Hane. Ipse tenuit. Viz.— The same Osbem holds Hane : — the same held it.

' Dugdale's Baronage, i. 453.

b2

4 HISTORY OF THE

subject, Earl Godwin; immediately after which, the Normans, who were accused of having ^^ instituted bad laws, and judged unrighteous judgments,^ ^ were banished the realm. Most of them, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Lon- don and Lincoln, quitted the kingdom; but a few especial fa- vourites of the King, whose conduct had not given oflTence, were permitted to remain, and among these was Richard Fitz Scroby.^ In 1067, whilst William the Conqueror and the greater part of his nobles were in Normandy, Fitz Scrob assisted the Castellan of Hereford in subduing Edric, sumamed Silvaticus, who had re- belled against the King.' It is extremely probable that this Richard Fitz Scrob was a son of the Richard Scrupe mentioned in Doomsday Book ; but the connection between him and the next individual, who is known to have borne the name of Scrope, cannot be traced. The Prior of Bardney, however, as well as another monk of that Abbey, stated in 1386 that Richard Fitz Scrob was the reputed ancestor of Sir Richard Scrope ; and the proximity of Gloucestershire, in which Robert le Scrope possessed three knights^ fees in the reign of Henry the Second, to the counties of Worcester, Salop, and Hereford, in which Richard Scrupe held property under the Confessor, as well as the iden- tity of name, afford support to that opinion. It was objected, by Sir Robert Grosvenor, that this statement was contradicted by most of the other Deponents, who asserted that Sir Richard Scrope'^s ancestor accompanied the Conqueror into England;* but probably all which was meant was, that the Scropes were of Norman extraction, and came to this country about the time of the Conquest.

* Saxou ChroDicle, by Ingram, p. 239.

* " Except so many as they concluded it was agreeable to the King to have with him, who were true to him and his people." Saxon Chronicle, p. 239 ; an ancient Chronicle in Bardney Priory in 1386; Depositions, p. 229, 230; and Stowe's Annals, p. 96, on the authority of Marianus Scotus, who was probably the writer referred to by the Prior of Bardney. * Ibid.

* Deposition, p. 323. See also p. 103, where a chronicle contemporary with the Conquest is said to have existed at Watton, in which a Le Scrope was mentioned as having come to England with William the Conqueror.

FAraLY OF SCROPE. 5

According to the testimony of Sir Gerard de Grymeston, a Simon de

ScROPE

SIMON DE SCROPE witnessed a grant of land from Gilbert de Gant, who accompanied the Conqueror, to William Fitz Roger, the ancestor of the said Sir Gerard de Grymeston.^

In the time of Henry the First, WALTER LE SCROPE Walter le

•^ ^ SCROPB.

was one of the witnesses to a charter, by which Walter de Gant gave lands to the Priory of Bridlington in Yorkshire;^ and in 15 Steph. 1149-50, the services in certain fees and tenements which

HUGH LE SCROPE owed to Gilbert de Gant Earl of Lin- Hugh lb

ScROPB.

coin, and to Alice his daughter and heiress, the wife of Simon Earl of Lincoln, were given by the said Earl and Countess to that Priory.^ Contemporary with him, and possibly his brother, was Richard le Scrope, who with Hugh witnessed a charter.* Hugh le Scrope left a son,

ROBERT LE SCROPE, who likewise granted lands to the Robert le

Scrope.

Priory of Bridlington.* He was a witness to a deed, without date, of Robert son of Walter de Gant and brother of Gilbert Earl of • Lincoln, by which he confirmed certain grants to Bridlington Priory.^ In the 6th Ric. I. 1198, he owed cs. for one knight's fee in Boitrop and Millington in Yorkshire ;7 and he is considered® to have been the Robert le Scrope who in the 12th Hen. II. 1165-6,

* Deposition, p. 106.

' Chartulary of that Priory. See Deposition, p. 101. It was probably this Walter le Scrope who gave a toft of land to the Abbey of Thornton. — Burton's Monasticon Eboracense, p. 227.

* Monast. Angl. 1st ed. vol. ii. p. 162. « Harleian MS. 2101, fo. 241.

* Chartulary of that Priory.— Deposition, p. 102. He is stated in Burton's Monasticon Eboracense, p. 227, to have given two oxgangs of land, with a toft in Flotmanby, to the Prioi^ of Bridlington. * Mon. Angl. vi. Part i. p. 288.

' " Robertus de Estcrop debet c*. pro breve de recto feodi .j. militis in Boitorp & Millington vers' VVillelmum de Boitorp." Rot. Pip. 6 Ric. I. et 10 Ric. I.

■ It has been conjectured, and with some probability, that the Scropes of York- shire were a distinct branch from those who held knights* fees in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.

6 HlKTOgfiT Uf TBX

OD lerjri&g aa tad far masrjjsn^ like KJngh iMo^xser» «erti&ed ^ist he held throe LirightfT iot» in Gkiucesterdnrsb.^ fif* 1*^ ifisue two sons, Phju^ and Siscni u: Scsi«P£j^

Pemr ix PHILIP LE SCROPE '^TM erne of lilt zieiwnf^ ^*t. lendered

SCBOFE. ^

an account to tiie Kiag cf li^ rev=aDiAef> for am- tod- of liie An^ bishop of York in tlie Gth Bki. L 11S&* and ^at a panr if» a £ne levied bj his brother SiiDan and hii^ negD^iev Henrr le Senile, in the reign at John.^ Bt ABce hi§ wiSt^ who wTtt^ Irring in IdOSu he left issue t vo daaghterf^ : Hath, who mxnied TBcnuAi^ «an d Adelaed de WiiiJLU>£BT«'^ and Auc£. who in liie 6di Jaftm ^irK> the widov of Ivo son at Waixix i« Staxtox.* In -^ucL vemr tiier granted to Simon Scrape and dke beii^ cf his bodr, aD tiie lands in Flotmanbv, in the oountr of York, which had hdcsigiEd to Finlip their father, and which appear to hare descended to him boat his- ancestors ; for which the said Sanon paid them twcBtr martLfs he-

I Liber Niger de ScMcaho, p. 16^ * DeposaDco^ p. 3 0£.

' There wu also about this period a Rosr jlt Scitori of Banim in LmDCth»- shire, who was sUin ai the siese of Acre in IISKV. [BmmjvtonV Qiramck!:. a* 1 1 $n.) and a RoBcar Scropc of Samoo, €so. \osk^ w^q» smu Jovx Sciton^ c*ve lands in SantoD to the Phonr of Wanm. — McoastiooB E^KCvniK, p. 41S. Rioieut ScKOP£ of Banoo super Unmber, held ooe kixu^'s iee of SisKm Eari cf ?&aniH amfklOQ, in 12 Hen. II. which was giren to hna hr Alioe the wiiE* of ihaa Eaii. His descendant, Joccrs ix Scmort, died setsed of it in the Z3rA Edw. L kcmi^ JoA« wUe of \Valtc:k de Oscoixbt, his suaer and hev. then thuir vbsb cf aeeL (Rot. Grig. 33 Edw. Land Each. eod. an. No. 47. Is the saaaeimr, Waker de Oagoieby and Joan his wile prexsMed a petixioo to PaiiiasieDi, «obi]^ thai the Countess .Mice de Gam, dantchter of Gilbet de GaBCi, had puAed to Bofaen Le- icrop, ancestor of the md Joan, whose heir she was, nebt of puasre in a place called Littlemanh, in the town of Banoo saper Humber, whidi had been inhemcd bjr aO the heirs of the said Robert nnti! the time of Jooens deoeiMd, btoiher of the waid Joan, wIk>, betn^ within a^ was in wardriup of Gilbert de Gaot bieij de- oeiMd, who dispossessed lujm. BoL PaxL L 169.

* Rot. Pip. 8 Ric. I. » DepOBtion, p. I02.

* TVonasiooofAdelarddeWiUardcftMr.and Hand daaghlCT of Phil tp Europe, his wife, ^re nine acres of bnd,liLC in WiUaidebj, which riae confirmed dming her widowhood ; and Iro son of Waher de Stwion, and Alice his wife, another daugh- ter of Philip Eicrope, coofinned the cane^ — ^Hooasticoo Fliorjrente, pu 243, from dbe Bepstitr of Bndltogtoo, f. as.

^ Jfauftioon Eboracfnse, pu 227.

FAMILY OF SCROPE. 7

sides giving five marks to Alice their mother.^ They died without issue,^ and their uncle,

SIMON LE SCROPE of Flotmanby, became their heir. In Simon le

ScROPE.

the 6th John, 1205, he paid half a mark for licence of agreement with the daughters of Philip le Scrope ;' and by a charter, without date, but which appears to have been made in 9 Hen. III. 1225, he and Ingoliana his wife, granted to Henry le Scrope, their son and heir, all their lands in Wenslay in the county of York.* Simon le Scrope was buried in the church of Wenslay, and was succeeded by his son,*

HENRY LE SCROPE, who was a party to the fine levied by Henry le his father, and about the 6th John 1205,^ he paid sixty marks for his relief.^ By the description of ** Henry son of Simon Scrope,'' he gave to the Priory of Bridlington all his lands in Flotmanby lying between Waldike and the marsh of the said town, together with the homage and service of Walter Schankes and his heirs, for two oxgangs of land which Alice Le Scroop, relict of Ivo son of Walter de Staxton, quit-claimed,® and bestowed on that Priory the two oxgangs of land which his father granted to Alice and Maud his

* As this charter, which is preserved among the muuiments at Bolton Hall, throws some light on the early state of the Scrope family, a copy will be inserted among the Proofs of the Pedigree. It was sealed by Simon Scrope, and the grantees ; but the seal of the former only remains, and presents a winged griffin passant, inscribed Sigill' Si'onis Scrop.

* Rot. Pip. 7 John, Ebor. Leland*s Itin. viii. f. 54.

» Rot. Pip. 7 John. Ebor. Deposition, p. 102. Contemporary with Simon le Scrope was Aceline de Scrope of Flotmanby, who left a daughter called Agnes; (Mon. Ebor. p. 227.) A Richard de Scrupes gave fifty marks and a palfrey for the wardship of Osbert le Strange. — Rot. Pip. 2 John, Worcestershire. It was probably this Richard de Scrupes to whom the following record refers : " Glouc' Vicecomes de Berkesir' debet respondere de scutagio Ricardi de Scrupes duarum marcarum de feodo duorum militum." Memorand. Scacc. a^ 1 Joh. rot 8. in dors.

* Scrope evidences in Bolton liall. To this charter, which will be found among the Proofs and Illustrations of the Pedigree, Eustace de Ludham, " tunc Vicecomes Ebor* " was one of the witnesses, who filled that situation in the 9th and 10th Hen. III. 1225, 1226. * Deposition, p. 129. « Ibid. p. 102.

7 Rot. Fin. 6 John, m. 8. ' Monasticon Eboracense, p. 227.

8 HISTORY OF THE

nieces.^ He confirmed a grant* made by his father of lands in Flotmanby to the Abbot and Monks of St. Mary of Rivaulx, in Yorkshire, for the health of his own and his parents^ souls, by a charter, in which he styled himself " Henry son of Simon Scrope of Flotmanby.*" ^ It seems to have been this Henry le Scrope who in the 2nd Hen. III. 1217-8, when the first scutage of that reign was collected, paid six marks for three knights^ fees, which had belonged to " Robert le Scrope, his grandfather.*"* These fees consisted of Wichinton in Gloucestershire, and lands in Berkshire and Oxfordshire.* Hbnry le Henry le Scrope married Julian daughter of Roger Brune of

Thornton ; and by their charter without date they gave two ox- gangs of land in the town of Northfiling to the church of St. Peter and St. Hilda, and to the abbot and monks of the same ; which grant Roger Brune of Thornton, with the consent of Isabella his wife, and of their heir, confirmed ; and in this deed the said Julian is called the daughter of Roger Brune.^ The time of his death is unknown, but he was buried at Wenslay,^ and left a son,^

* Monasticon Eboracense, p. 228.

* A Walter Scrop was a witness to this confirmation, which Walter was pro» bably the person who by the description of ** Walter Scrop son of Gilbert Scrop/' also confirmed a grant from Simon Scrope of Flotmanby by a deed wit- nessed by Hubert Prior of Bridlington, and Ada Prioress of Malton. — Deposition, p. 94. A Walter Scrope was slain at the siege of Acre in 1190, Brompton's Chro- nicle. It was probably this Gilbert de Scrope who owed thirty marks ''pro debitu

■

Judeorum'^ in 12 John, and might have been a brother of the Simon le Scrope men- tioned in the text. — Oblata de Lincoln. Rot. Pip. 12 John. — Contemporary with Henry le Scrope was Joceline le Scrope, who is stated to have been seneschal or steward to Henry le Scrope in 8 Hen. III. 1224. Mem. Scacc. Hill. 8 Hen. III. r. 6.

* Deposition, p. 93. * Rot. Pip. 2 Hen. IH. Glouc.

* Testa de Nevill, p. 77. The following notices of Henry le Scrope are among the records of the Exchequer: " Cirencestr*. De Henrico de Scrupes xl*. de scutagio.'' Mem. Scac. Pasch.lOJoh. rot. 5. in dors. " Gloucestrescir*. Henricus Descrupes affidavit (facere pacem) de iii marcis de secuudo scutagio Regis Johan." Ibid. rot. 11. in dors. " Honor Gloucestr*. De Henrico de Scrupes xl*. de scutagio.^' Ibid. rot. 14.

« Mon. Ebor. p. 72, from the Register of Whitby. "^ Deposition, p. 129.

* Ibid. — It is most likely that this Henry le Scrope was also father of the Tho- mas LE ScROPE who was Abbot of Gervaux about the year 1266* — Deposition,

FAMILY OF SCROPE. 9

WILLIAM LE SCROPE, who is supposed to have been the Wilmam lr

ScRore.

William le Scrope that held six hides of land by equal portions, in Baldinton in Oxfordshire, of Adam Despencer, by the service of one knight and suit at the hundred court, in the 39th Hen. III. 1254-5.^ The period of his decease has not been ascertained, but he was buried with his ancestors at Wenslay.^ According to Dug- dale and other authorities,' he was living in the 24th Edw. I., and was the father of Sir Henry le Scrope, one of the King''s Justices in the early part of the reign of Edward the Second, but a comparison of dates renders it almost certain that one generation is omitted by those writers; and the Deponents in 1386, who recite the pedigree of Sir Richard Scrope, state that the said Sir Henry was the descen- dant of this William le Scrope. He was probably the father of

RICHARD LE SCROPE, who held the knight's fee in Chebry Richard ul and Ordeiston, in Berkshire, " de Baronia de Scrupes,'*' and in Bal- dinton, in Oxfordshire, which was possessed by Robert de Scrope in the early part, and by William le Scrope in the 39th year, of the reign of Henry the Third, and which was inherited by William le Scrope in the 7th Edw. I.* On the 26th May, 47 Hen. III. 1263, Richard le Scrope was summoned to serve with horse and arms against the Welsh .^ Nothing farther is known of him,^ but he

p. 95. No abbot of the name of Thomas occurs in the list of the abbots of Ger- vaux in Dugdale*s Monasticon between 1193 and 1425; but that list is very imperfect, for Eustace is said to have been abbot in 1225, and the next name is that of Ralph in 1289, between which period Thomas Scrope possessed the dignity. It is probable that Henry le Scrope had also a daughter, the Margaret le Scrope who married Sir Robert Chauncy, Baron of Skirbenbeck, whose arms, with those of her husband, were stated by their descendant. Sir William Chauncy, in 1386, to have been engraved on their tomb. — Deposition, p. 113.

* In the early part of the reign of Henry the Third, this fee was held of Thupstan Despencer by Robert de Scrope, who might have been an elder brother of this William, and to whom perhaps he became heir. — Testa de Nevill, p. 105.

* Deposition, p. 129. ' Baronage, i. 654. Blore's History of Rutland, p. 5. « Testa de Nevill, pp. 105. 110. 117. 123. 133. Rot. Hundred, ii. p. 724.

* Rot. Claus. 48 Hen. III. m. 7. d.

* It is probable that the Isabella le Scrope who held lands in Wenslay in dower in 1303 was the widow either of this Richard le Scrope, or of his presumed

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may be presumed to have died before the 7th Edw. I. 1279, and to have been the elder brother of

Sir William SIR WILLIAM LE SCROPE, who is supposed to have

lrScbopb.

been the person that in the 7th Edw. I. was seised of Baldinton St. Laurence in Oxfordshire.^ In the 15th Edw. I. 1286, he held four bovates of land in Y afford, near Danby Wiske, in Yorkshire,* and possessed lands in West Bolton and Bolton Parva in that county.' According to tradition, he was a good esquire, and highly distinguished for his conduct in the field as well as in jousts and tournaments, being, it is said, ^'en son temps le pluis fort torneour de tout notre paiis;**^ and, before he was knighted, was ^^ un dez pluis noblez bohordurez q home troverait en un paiis, et noble servant et esquier pour lez armez en torne- mentz."* In the 24jth Edw. I. 1296, he obtained a grant of free warren in all his demesne lands of East Bolton, Little Bolton, Fencotes, and Yarnewick, in the county of York ;* and it appears that he soon afterwards conveyed the greater part of his property to his eldest son, for by a deed dated at Fletham on Tuesday after the feast of the Holy Trinity, 4th June 1303, Sir Henry Scrope settled the manors of East and Little Bolton on his father for life.** It has not been ascertained when Sir William Scrope died : by Constance his wife^ he left issue,

father William le Scrope. Those lands were held of Peter son of John de Wens- lay, and had been in the hands of Geo£Brey Lutterell by reason of the minority of John son of the said Peter. — Scrope Evidences in Bolton Hall.

* Rot. Hundred, ii. 724. In the 7th Edw. I. it was found that " Fratr' Ro- BERTUS ScROP, Prcccptor de Couele," had appropriated to himself the liberty of the Hundred of Bolenden in Oxfordshire; that where he had been accustomed to do suit, he did so no longer ; and that where he had usually paid 7s* yearly for hidage, and 2«. for view of frank pledge, he then paid nothing. Ibid. ii. p. 722.

« Whitaker's Richmondshire, i. 254. * Ibid. p. 370, 390.

* Depositions, pp. 132, 3. 142. * Rot. Cart. 24 Edw. I. n. 13.

* Original Deeds, among the Scrope evidences in Bolton Hall.

7 Vide page 13 postea. From the circumstance of her son Sir Henry Scrope having inherited lands in Newsom-upon-Tyne, and from Thomas, son of Gillo de Newsom, having left property at that place to his daughter and heiress Constance, tlie identity between these women may be presumed.

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. H

1. HENRY LE SCROPE.

2. Geoffrey lb Scrope of Masham, who will be noticed in a

subsequent page.

3. Stephen le Scrope, Clerk, who witnessed a charter of his

brother Henry'*s about the year 1300,^ and was Rector of Marske, in Yorkshire, in 1310.^ By a deed without date, he conveyed his manor of West Bolton to his brother Sir Henry le Scrope.'

4. A daughter, who married William de Cleseby, of Marske,

by whom she had a son, Harsculphus de Cleseby. His uncle. Sir Henry le Scrope, confirmed the grant of a place called " the Hermitage^ to him, by a charter without date,' but which seems to have been granted about the year 1300.

SIR HENRY LE SCROPE, eldest son of Sir William le Sir Henrv Scrope, is first mentioned in the 27th Edw. I. 1299, when he obtained the King'^s licence for a market and fair in his manor of Croft in Yorkshire.* This eminent person applied himself with, it is said, the approbation of his family,^ to the study of the law, and on the 27th November, 2 Edw. II. 1308, was made a Judge of the Court of King's Bench.^ In the 4th Edw. II. he was a Justice of Assize in the northern counties,^ and served in the ex- pedition into Scotland.® As one of the executors of the Will of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, he was requested by the King, in February 1311, to lend him four thousand marks of the EarPs money to prosecute the war in Scotland.^ Having in the 5th Edw.II. quitted Parliament without leave, a Writ was addressed to him on the 12th September 1311, peremptorily commanding him to return.^^ In March following, being then a Knight, he was empow-

• Original Deeds, now in the possession of John Hutton, of Marske, co. York, Esq. « Ibid.

' Archives in Bolton Hall. * Rot. Cart. 27 Edw. I. n. 28.

^ Deposition, p. 142.

• Rot. Patent. 2 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 17. Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p' i. 40. ^ Rot. Claus. 4 Edw. II. in dors. m. 19. ■ Rot. Scot. 4 Edw. II. m. 7.

• Foedera, N. E. i. 128. Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p* ii. 34. *• Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p' i. 56.

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Sir Henry ered to treat with several peers who were about to assemble in

London, concerning the revision of certain ordinances.^ He was in Wales in the 7th Edw. 11. in the King^s service,* and about that time obtained a grant of a yearly rent of 47«. 9d, in Medburn, in Leicestershire, with the advowson of that church.* In the 8th Edw. II. he was nominated a collector of the twentieth and fifteenth In the city and suburbs of London,* and was ordered to give credence to two persons who were sent to explain to him the King's wishes relative to the defence of the Scotch Marches in March 1316.* Sir Henry Scrope was a trier of petitions in the parliament which met at Lincoln in the 9th Edw. 11.;^ and on the 15th of June, 10 Edw. II., 1317, he was promoted to the situation of Chief Justice of the King^s Bench,^ which he enjoyed about seven years, but in the 16th Edw. II. he was superseded by Harvey de Staun- ton.^ This measure does not appear to have arisen from the King'*s disapprobation of his conduct, for in the same year all the hereditaments which Andrew de Harcla, Earl of Carlisle, possessed in Caldwell and Uckerby in Richmondshire, were granted to him in fee;9 and in the 17th Edw. II. he was constituted Keeper of the Eing^s forests beyond the Trent. ^® It would seem, however, that he was still considered a Justice, for he was summoned to Par- liament with the rest of those personages in the 17th and 19th Edw. II. 1323—1325 ;" and on the 12th March 1326, he was one of the Judges appointed to try some offenders who had be- sieged the castle of Tickhill.*« In the 18th Edw. II., Sir Henry was joined with his brother, Sir Geoffrey Scrope, in a commission to treat for peace with Scotland ;^^ and on the 10th September, 20 Edw. II. 1326, was nominated a Conservator of the Peace, with special powers, in the county of York.^*

liot. Pari. i. 447 b. Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p' i. 77. ii. 48. Ilot. Claiii. 7 Edw. II. in. 13. • Rot. Grig. i. 205. * Ibid. i. 211.

Rot. Scot. 8 Edw. II. m. 5. • Rot. Pari. i. 350. b.

Rot Claus. 10 Edw. II. m. 28. Parliamentary Writs, vol ii. pMi. 413. Rot. Liberat. 17 Edw. II. m. 2.

Rot Patent. 16 Edw. II. p. l.m. 2. *® Rot Grig. 17 Edw. II. r. 5.

' Parliamentary Wriu, vol. ii. p' i. 287. 335. " Ibid. ii. 284.

* Foedera, N. E. vol. ii. p* ii. p. 118. Patent 18 Edw. II. p. 1. m. 11.

* Parliamentary Writs, vol. ii. p* ii. 291. 394.

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 13

Immediately after the accession of Edward the Third, namely, s on the 15th February 1327, Sir Henry Sorope's appointment as a puisne Justice of the King's Bench was renewed,' and he con- tinued in that office until the 28th October 1329, when he was restored to his former situation of Chief Justice of the King'id Bench;'' but on the 19lh of December, 4 Edw. III. 1330, he was succeeded by his brother, Sir Geoffrey Scrope,' and on the same day was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer,* when the King granted hiui, as a reward for " his good services," some tenements in Bayford in Hertfordshire.'' It is remarkable, that on the 18th November, 7 Edw. III. 1333, he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas," but on the next day the patent was cancelled ; and he was again appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer,' a proceeding which may perhaps be explained by supposing that he had been removed from the Exchequer without his consent, and that he was replaced at his own solicitation. Sir Henry Scrope obtained various charters of free warren and markets in Bolton and his other manors in Yorkshire, between the 5th and 16th Edw. 11.;^ and having purchased all the property of Thomas de Richmond in Yorkshire, he was styled Founder of the Abbey of St. Agatha,^ to which that family had been great benefactors. By a chirograph between Sir Henry Scrope and John de Perce- brigg Abbot of St. Agatha, dated there on Saturday 1st January 7th Edw. III. 1333-4, it was agreed that all the tenements which the abbey held of Sir Henry by various services, should in future be held of him and his heirs by the service of finding a priest to celebrate divine service in the church of the Holy Trinity of Wens- lay, for the souls of William le Scrope and Constance his wife, father and mother of the said Sir Henry, and of his ancestors; for the souls of the heirs of the said Sir Henry and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their bodies ; for the souls of Sir Geof-

' Pal. 1 Edw, III. p. i. m. 36.

' Rot Claiu. 3 Edw. III. m. 7. ' Ibid. 4 Edw. IH. m. 1 3.

* Pal. 4 Edw. 111. p. a. m. 20.

* Rot. Orig. ii. 43. " Patent. 7 Edw. III. p. 11. in. 15. ' Ibid, i ■ Rot. Carl, ' Deposition, \>. 130.

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HISTORY OF THE

Sir Henry le scrope.

frey le Scrope and Ivetta his wife, and the heirs of their bodies ; for the soul of Sir Henry Lacy formerly Earl of Lincoln ; and for the souls of all the faithful deceased.^

Sir Henry Scrope was a Knight Banneret, and his Arms are de- scribed among those of the Bannerets of England in a Roll of Arms

compiled between the 2nd and 7th Edw. II., being, Azure, a bend Or, charged in the upper part of the bend with a lion passant Purpure;^ which agrees with the bearings on a seal at- tached to a deed granted by him, dated 5th April, 14 Edw. II., 1321.' It is stated by the Abbot of Coverham, that the Lion was intro- duced into the bend in consequence of a grant to one of the Scropes for the term of his life by the Earl of Lincoln.^ The blazon of the banner of this Sir Henry Scrop, added to the fact that he was the executor of Henry de Lacy, last Earl of Lincoln, who died in 131 S, whose arms were Or, a lion rampant Purpure, prove that he was the person alluded to ; and it may perhaps be inferred that it was a mark of friendship in the four- teenth century for one person to allow another to bear part of his arms with his own.^

Sir Henry Scrope died on the 7th September, 10 Edw. III. 1336,^ being then Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and was buried in the Abbey of St. Agatha near Richmond, where a tomb was erected to his memory, which one of the Deponents particularly described."^ He was possessed of considerable property in Middle- sex, Leicestershire, Hertfordshire, Rutlandshire, and Bedfordshire, but chiefly in the county of York,® a small part only of which ap- pears to have descended to him from his ancestors. His wife was

> Scrope Evidences in Bolton Hall. ' 8vo. 1828. p. 94.

' Deposition, p. 132. These arms were placed in the church of St. Mary sur Rychill, York. < Deposition, p. 98.

^ Some remarks on the introduction of a Lion in their arms, by the Scropes, will be found in the Notes.

• Esch. 10 Edw. 111. No. 47. and Deposition, p. 222.

^ Depositions, p. 95. 130. 222. • Esch. 10 Edw. III. No. 47.

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 16

Margaret, who, accordinir to many pedigrees, was a daughter of Sir Henry

° . . *** ScROPE.

Lord Roos ;^ but from the effigies of the Scrope family in Wenslay Church, it would seem that she was a daughter of Lord Fitz Wal- ter.^ Lady Scrope married secondly Sir Hugh Mortimer of Chel- marsh in Shropshire and Luton in the county of Bedford, and died 17th October 1357 ; when her son. Sir Richard Scrope, was found to be her heir, and thirty years of age and upwards.^ Sir Henry Scrope left issue three sons,

1. WILLIAM LE SCROPE.

2. Stephen le Scrope, who was next in the entail of his father''s

lands in Leicestershire and Hertfordshire.* He died without issue male, and probably unmarried, before the 19th Edw. III. as in that year his younger brother suc- ceeded to those lands. 8. RICHARD LE SCROPE, who became heir to his brother William.

SIR WILLIAM LE SCROPE, the eldest son of Sir Henry Sir Whuam

•^ LB Scrope.

Scrope the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, was born in 1320, as he was found to be sixteen years of age at his father^s death in 1336,* soon after which he did homage for his property in Lei- cestershire.^ About July 1338, being then nearly eighteen, he accompanied the King into Flanders,^ and was with the army at Vironfoss or Burenfoss in Picardy, in October 1339» when the English and French armies were drawn up in expectation of a

* Pedigrees of Scrope in Vincent's MS. marked " Picture of our Lady," in the College of Arms, and by Glover, Somerset Herald, in the Lansdowne MS. 205, as well as several other authorities.

* Sketches of these effigies occur in Sir William Dugdale's MS. in the College of Arms, entitled " Yorkshire Arms," where it is said that this Henry was called in an inscription on or near the said effigy, " Henry the First, the first Lord of Bolton ;" and his arms are impaled with those of Fiti Walter. It is to be observed, that those effigies were not erected earlier than the middle of the reign of Henry the Sixth. See the " Proofs and Illustrations" postea.

' £sch. 32 Edw. III. No. 22. She held a tenement in Heyndon in Middlesex, called Hodeford, in dower after the death of Sir Henry Scrope her first husband.

* Esch. 10 Edw. III. No. 47. » Ibid. « Rot Orig. ii. 106. ^ Rot. Alem. 12 Edw. III. m. 7. Foedera, vol. ii. p* iii. p. 28.

16 HISTORY OF THE

Sir Wit.mam Conflict.^ He was again in Flanders in 1340, and was at tbe

siege of Tournay, in Julj and September in that year;^ and, early in 1342, was with the expedition into Scotland in the retinue of Ralph Lord Neville.' Edward the Third having in> vaded Brittany with a formidable force in October 13^,^ Sir William Scrope served, under the banner of the Elarl of North- ampton,^ at the siege of Vannes in December following.^ His military career was not destined to be of long continuance, for the town of Morlaix being soon afterwards invested. Sir William was so severely wounded with an arrow in an assault, or battle, during the siege, that he languished for nearly two years,^ and died on the ITth November, 18 Edw. 111.1344,^ aged about twenty- four. He married Cecily, who according to some pedigrees was a daughter of Lord Fitz Walter,^ but the impalement of his arms on his effigy in Wenslay Church tends to prove that her name

* Deposition, p. 213; Froissart, par Buchon, tome i. p. 251 — ^263; and Robert of Avesbury, p. 46. et seq.

* Deposition, p. 105, 243 ; Froissart, i. 349. et seq.; and Avesbuiy, p. 59.

* Rot. Scot. 15 Edw. III. m. 4; Fcedera, iii. p' iii. p. 115; Froissart, i. p. 45. et seq. * Fcedera, iii.p' iii. p. 35. 137. * Deposition, p. 198.

* Ibid. p. 116, 127, 145, 151 ; Froissart, i. 147. etseq. ; Aresbuiy, p. 100.

7 Ibid. p. 51, 127, 145, 198, 212. Some of tbe Deponents have confounded this Sir William Scrope with Sir William, brother of Heniy Lord Scrope of Ma- sham. For example, Sir Thomas Roos of Kendall says he was at the battle of Berwick iu 1356, (Deposition, p. 133.) whilst William Hesilrigg, Esq. describes him to have been wounded at Morlaix, to have fought at Cressy in 1346, to have died at the siege of Calais in 1 346-7 of the wound he received at Morlaix, and adds, that his body was brought to England. Sir William Scrope his cousin was undoubtedly at Cressy and the siege of Calais, (Deposition, p. 127) ; but no Sir William is known to have died either in 1346 or 1347, so that in this part of his statement Hesilrigg must have been mistaken. A similar error, excepting with respect to his death at Calais, was committed by Nicholas Sabraham, Esq. (De- position, p. 125), who makes the Sir William Scrope mentioned in the text to have served in Gascony and Spain, in 1 367.

* Inq. post mortem, 19 Edw. Ill.n. 61. — '* Juratores dicunt quod Willielmus filius Henrici Lescrop* Chivaler obiit decimo septimo die Novembris, anno regni Edward i tercii decimo octavo, &c.'' " Dicunt etiam quod Ricardos le Scrope firater predicti Willielmi est propinquior heres ipsius Willielmi et «talis sep- temdecim annorum."

^ Lansdowne MS. 205. MS. in Coll. Arm. marked *' Picture of our Lady.'*

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

17

wasRoos: he had no issue, and his widow married, within two ^tm Wili years after his decease, John de Clopton, when the niBDors of East and West Bolton with several others were assigned to her in dower. ^ Sir William Scrope was buried in the Abbey of St. Agatha, and a tomb was placed over his remains.-

The Deponents state that he bore the Arms of Scrope entire,' which is corroborated by his seal attached to a grant of certain lands in Wenslay, dated on Sunday after the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, 16 Edw. III. IS September 1342.* A Roll of Arms» which was compiled between 1337 and 1350, attributes to him. Azure a bend Or, in the point of the bend a lion rampant Purpure. As his .. father bore his Arms in that I manner, the statement ' probably correct, and the 1 discrepancy may be recon- ciled by supposing that he abandoned the Lion on the bend after the Roll of Arms alluded to was written. The seal alluded to proves that the Crest of the family was a Crab issuing from a ducal coronet, which was afterwards borne by the Scropes of Masham only. Sir William Scrope's heir was his brother.

SIR RICHARD SCROPE, Fmsx Baron Scrope op Bolton, E.cu«p, ««.t who must have been bom about 1328, as he was seventeen years or Boltoh. old at the time of his brother's decease. This individual was the appellant against Sir Robert Grosvenor, and the earliest notice of him after his brother's death, is in 1346, when he served in the army with which Edward the Third invaded France. It does not

■ Claus. 20 Edw. ni. p. 1 dotis Cecelie quce fuit uxor Clopton' duxit in uxorem," Ju

> Depositions, p. 95. 130.

* Original deed amoi^ the lo which b inserted in the text.

VOL. II.

in doTSO tn. 1. and Rot.Orig. II. 196. "Assigoatio WiUielmi Leacrop' defuncli quam Johannes de

' Ibid. p. 127, 130, 143. at Bolton Hall, an engraving of the Seal

18 HISTORY OF THE

RicHAiitf, FIRST appear that he was at the naval victory near La Hogue in July in

Lord Scropb i i i /. ^

OF Bolton. that year, but he was m the celebrated battle of Cressy on the

20th of August ;^ and received the honour of knighthood ^ at the battle of Durham,^ on the 17th of October following, where the Scotch were signally defeated, when he served in the retinue of Lord Percy.*

The King commenced the siege of Calais in September 1346, which continued until August in the ensuing year: during the greater part of the time Sir Richard Scrope was present,^ and on that occasion his right to his Crest, a Crab issuing from a ducal coronet,^ was challenged. At this circumstance Robert de UfFord Earl of Suffolk expressed great astonishment, because Scrope was, he said, descended from an ancient family entitled to armsJ

Nothing is known of him for the next four years, but on the 29th of August 1350 he was in the memorable sea-fight near Rye and Winchilsea,® when Edward the Third in person, with the Black Prince, defeated a fleet of forty-four ships under Don Carlos de la Cerda, and captured upwards of twenty vessels. In this engagement, which is generally called by the Deponents the battle of " Espagnols sur Mere,'' Sir Richard served in the retinue of the Earl of Warwick.^

War being declared with France, Edward the Third again invaded that kingdom, in November 1355,^^ and Sir Richard Scrope accompanied the expedition, being then in the retinue of William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton. Though Froissart states that the King was before Blangis, '^ a fine castle and fortress in the Comte of Artois," the only military exploit on the

* Deposition, p. 161.

2 Deposition of Lord Neville, p. 204. Sir Richard Sutton however says, p. 202, that Scrope was knighted at the battle of Berwick in January 1 356, which is very improbable, as he must then have been in arms at least ten years.

^ Depositions, p. 103, 105, 116. 215. * Ibid. p. 134. * Ibid. p. 63, 167.

* See his Seal in a subsequent page. ^ Deposition, p. 63.

* Ibid. p. 104, 107, 121, 242. Froissart par Buchon, iii. p. 7 et seq. and Robert of Avesbury, p. 184.

^ Depositions, p. 104, 121. One Deponent says, however, that Scrope was then in the retinue of the Earl of Northampton, p. 237. 10 Avesbury, p. 204, 205 ; Froissart, iii. p. 68 et seq.

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FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 19

occasion, of which he takes notice, is, that the English ravas^ed the Richard, first

' ' ^ . ^ Lord Scrope

country nearly as far as the Comte of St. Pol ;* and it must be to of Bolton. this circumstance that the Deponents alluded, when they spoke of the " chivauchee*" or " viage^^ of Blangis, at which Scrope was present.^ Information having reached the King, towards the end of November, that the Scots had surprised and taken Berwick, he made peace with the French monarch, and immediately returned to England with his forces. In December, Edward proceeded against the Scots, encamped before Berwick on the 14th of January 1356, and regained possession of that town.^ Having garrisoned it, he proceeded into Scotland with the greater part of his army, and obliged Edward Balliol to surrender his kingdom, by charter, dated at Rokesburgh, on the 20th January following.* Sir Richard Scrope is expressly said to have been at the rescue of Berwick^ in the company of Sir Gerard de Wytherington and Sir Edward de Letham ;^ and Sir Adam de Everingham asserts that he saw Scrope in the presence of the King at St. John's Town, alias Perth, when Balliol surrendered his right to the throne of Scotland;"^ but all other authorities assert that this took place at Rokesburgh, at which town the charter of resignation was dated.^ Edward marched through Berwickshire into Lothian, laying waste the country as he proceeded ; and, among other devastations, burnt the town and beautiful Abbey Church of Haddington. Sir Richard Scrope was present during this in- cursion ;9 biit he soon afterwards returned, with the rest of the troops, to England.

France was invaded, by an immense army under the King in person, in October 1359; and in April following the English approached close to Paris. Sir Richard Scrope served in that ex- pedition in the retinue of John of Gant,*® and, according to one

* Par Buchon, iii. p. 79. » Depositions, pages 108. 216. 219. ^ Avesbuiy, p. 210. 228 ; Froissart, iii. p. 87. * Fcedera, iii. p* i. p. 115.

* Depositions, pages 110. 128. 156. 161. 202. 242. * Ibid. p. 216. ' Ibid. p. 241. * Fcedera, iii. pt i. p. 115. • Deposition, p. 242.

'° Depositions, pages 106. 108, 109, 110. 126. 134, 135. 137. 146. 151. 153. 163 to 168. 170. 174. 176. 188. 190. 193. 202. 204. 210. 213. 215. 218. 241, 242,243.

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20 HISTORY OF THE

HirMAnD^rmtT of the Deponent»,* no les« than fire others of the Scrope familT, or Bolton. namely, Sir Henry, Sir William, and Sir Geoffrey Scrope, Kmgfats.

and Stephen and Henry Scrope, Esquires^ were then in the fiekL On that occasion. Sir Richard Scrope was challenged by an Enquire of Cornwall, named Carminow, as to his right to bear the arms, Azure, a Bend Or,* and the dispute was decided by the Duke of Lancaster, the Elarl of Northampton, the Constable, and the Elarl of Warwick, the Marshal of the army, who adjudged that they might both bear the said arms entire, on the ground that Carminow was of Cornwall, which was a large country, and was formerly a kingdom, and that the Scropes had borne them since the Conquest.' Peace was signed at Bretigny in May 1360,^ and the army returned to England.

In the 38th Edw. III. 1364, Sir Richard Scrope was elected a Knight of the Shire for the County of York,^ which is the only notice of him that has been discovered in the five years that succeeded the peace with France. When the Duke of Lancaster proceeded with an army to Bordeaux in 1366, with the intention of aiding the Black Prince in his efforts to restore Don Pedro to the Spanish throne, Sir Richard Scrope again served in the Duke^s retinue,^ and tiaving accompanied him into Spain, partook of the honours of the decisive victory of Najarre, on the 3rd of April 1367,^ together with his two cousins, Sir William and Sir Stephen Scrope.®

The war with France was renewed in 1369, and the Duke of Lancaster was sent into that kingdom with a powerful army, being retained to serve the King for half a year, with a retinue of 300 men-at-arms, 500 archers, 216 esquires, 80 knights, and 3 bannerets. Sir Richard appears to have been one of the knights of the Duke^s retinue, and to have landed with him at Calais in August in that year.^ It is said by a great many of the Depo-

» Sir John Richford's Deposition, p. 242. ' Depos. pages 125. 146. 214.

' Ibid. p. 214. See the Notes at the end of this volume.

* Foedera, iii. p* i. p. 202. * Prynne's Brev. IVUament.

* Rot. V^asc. 40 Edw. III. m. 3. and Depositions, pages 128. 131.

' Depositions, pages 101. 107. 112. 135. 140. 163. 172. 192. 204. 210. 215.

* Ibid. p. 242. ' Ibid. p. 209.

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21

nents, that Sir Richard Scrope was armed in the presence of the J Duke of Lancaster at Balinghaui Hill, in Picardy, or, as it is " called by some of them, at the "Mont de Balyngham;"' and though the date of the circumstance olludi^d to is not mentioned, it is nearly certain that it happened during this expedition. Neither Froissart nor the other chroniclers speak of any memo- rable affair at Balinghani until the French captured that Castle in 1378;- and it is therefore presumed that the event in question was the juxta-posilion of the French and English army, the former under the Duke of Burgundy, and the latter under the Duke of Lancaster at Tourneheni, which is close to Balingham, or, as it is now called in the maps, Mont Bayenghen, in July and August 1369, of which a particular account is given by Froissart.' After the two armies had rennained for some time in this position, without any thing material taking place, the French broke up their camp, and the English retired to Calais. Having refreshed his troops at that place, Lancaster commenced his march into the Pais de Caux. The success which attended this incursion, or to use the language of the time, " chivauchee,'' is fully detailed by a contemporary historian,* and the Duke having returned to Calais, embarked for England on the 18th of Novem- ber following. Sir Richard Scrope and his eldest son served in the Duke's retinue during the whole of this expedition;' but for nearly two years afterwards the public records afford no information respecting him ; and the nest notice of him is that on the 8th January 44 Edw. III. 1371, he was summoned to Parliament as a Baron of the Realm.^ On the 27th March in the same year, he was appointed Treasurer of the King's Exchequer,' and held that office until September 1375 ;" and he soon afterwards obtained a grant of the wardship and marriage of the three daughters and coheirs of Robert Lord Tiptoft.^'

' Depositions, pages 109, 119. 131.133.146.153. 154. 167. 175, 193, 209.236. ' Fniissarl, par Buchon, lome vi. 328.

' Ibid. Chuptera Dcii. ucviii. ncix. dcx. dcxi. See Ute Noles at the end of Ihis volume. * Froissan, par Buclioo, cliap.ocxi:.

• Deposilion», pages 109. 117. 121. 146. 154. Ifi7. 172. 174. 175. 176. 193. 209.220.342, 243. • Hoi: Claus. eod. ann. ' Pal. 45 Edw. 111. p. 1. m.as.

* Urigiiies Juridiciales. ■ lloi. Orig. II. 325.

22 HISTORY OF THE

I

RicHiiiD.FiBST Tj^^ Duke of Lancaster landed at Calais with a creat force in

Lord Scrope *^

OF Bolton. July 1373, and after various skirmishes marched through France

to Bordeaux. Lord Scrope, with his men-at-arms and archers, formed part of his retinue on that occasion,* and from his not being summoned to Parliament between the 46th and 48th Edw. III. it may be inferred that he was abroad in those years ; but he seems to have been in England in December 1375, when a writ of summons was again issued to him.^ In July 50th Edw. III. 1376, he was constituted a Commissioner for the preservation of the truce with Scotland, and for protecting the Marches;^ and in the next year he was appointed a Commissioner for the punishment of those who might break the truce with that country.*

On the accession of Richard the Second, Lord Scrope was appointed Steward of the King's Household. By the title of " Ricardus le Scrop Senescallus Hospicii Regis'' he was one of X}^e Commissioners on the 1st January 1 Ric. II. 1378, to reform what had been done by the borderers contrary to the truce which then existed between England and Scotland;^ and on the 20th of that month he, with others, was commanded to super- intend the repairs of the Castles of Berwick, Carlisle, Roxburgh, and Bamburgh.^ In the parliament which met at Westminster about Michaelmas in that year, Scrope is recorded to have been present;^ and a striking proof occurred soon afterwards of the high opinion which was entertained of his talents and integrity, by his being constituted Chancellor of England on the 29th October 2 Ric. II. 1378,® which office he held above a year, and surrender- ed the Great Seal on the 29th January 3 Ric. II. 1380.9 About this time, he obtained the King's licence to castellate his manor house of Bolton,*^ and began to rebuild it in so magnificent a style

» Depositions, pages 111. 131. 146. 209. ' Rot. Claas. eod. ann.

• Rot. Scot. 50 Edw. III. m. 2. * Rot. Scot.

• Rot. Scot. 1 Ric. II. m. 5. « Ibid. ' Rot. Pari. iii. 5 a. " Rot. Claus. 2 Ric. II. in. 25 d. FcEdera, iii. p» iii. p. 81.

• Rot. Claus. 3 Ric. II. m. 22 d. Foedera, iii. p* iii. p. 91.

*^ Pat. 3 Ric. II. p. 1, m.43. Rex omnibus ad quos refert salutem. Sciatis quod de gratia nostra speciali concessimus & licenciam dedimus pro nobis & heredibus nostris dilecto & iideli nostro Ricardo le Scrop cancellario nostro quod ipse mane-

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that the labour of eiffhteen years and 18,000 marks were spent on Richard, first

° -^ ' ^ Lord Scrope

the edifice.^ The original agreement with the mason employed of Bolton. still exists,^ and the ruins of the Castle prove that the design was

rium suum de Bolton in Wencelawedale feu unam placeam infra idem manerium muro de petra & calce firmare et kernellare & manerium illud seu placeam illam sic firmatum et kemellatum vel firmatam et kemellatam tenere possit sibi et here- dibus suis imperpetuum sine occasione vel impedimento nostri vel heredum nos- trorum Justic. Escaetor. &c. Westm. quarto die Julii. [1379.]

' Leland's Itinerary, vol. viii. p. 66.

* " Cest endenture fait parentre mons»" Richard Lescrop Chivaler et Johau Lewyn mason dautrepart tesmoyne qe le dit Johan ferra les overaynes a Bolton en Wense- lawedale en manere qensuit : primerement une Tour pur une cusyne qi serra voute & bataille & serra de hautesse de l pees desouth lembatailleraent & serra de longure de X alnes & de leoure viii alnes & les mures dehors du dit Tour serront dcspessure de II alnes. . Item serra fait parentre le dit tour pur le cusyne & la port une meson voute & bataille & amont le vout serront in chambres chescune sur autre & ches- cune chambre de longure de xii alnes & de leoure v alnes &c di. & serra le dit meson de hautesse de xl pees desouth lembataillement & lespessure des mureS dehors de II alnes & dedeins de iiii pees. Item serra une tour bataille qi serra de hautesse de L pees desouth lembataillement, en quele tour serra une port voute & amont le port serront iii chambres chescune sur autre & serront en longure de x alnes & di. & de leoure de v alnes & di. Et en mesme le tour al partie del port devers la South serra une chambre voute & sur icelle chambre serront in chambres chescune sur autre qi serront en longure de xiii alnes & en leoure de vii alnes & les mures dehors des dits chambres serront despessure de vi pees & dedeins de iiii pees. Item serra une chambre enjoy nant al dit tour al partie devers la West qi serra voute & bataille & de hautesse de xl pees desouth lembataillement & amont le dite chambre voute une autre meson voute & damont cella une chambre qi serront en longure de x alnes oveske leutre & v alnes & di. en leure & les mures dehors des ditz chambres serront despessure de ii alnes & les mures dedeins de iiii pees. Item tous les mesons & chambres avantditz averont entrees [passages] chymynes huyses [doors] fenestres & privees & autres necessaires qembosoynont a lavantdit •

overeyne. Item serront in vices [staircases] un dedeins la cusyne & n pur le tour del port. Item tous les mures dedeins les chambres avantditz qi serront parclos serront despessure de in pees ou iiii pees issint come ils embosoynont. Etle dit Johan ferra a ses custages toutes maneres de overeynes qa masonrie appent en service pur ecelles & ferra gayner toutes maneres des peres & trovera calice a ses custages en touz poyntz pur le dit overayne forspris qe le dit mons' Richard luy trovera meresme [timber] pur le baudret [framing for raising corbels] pur les torailles qant ils serront ardz mais le dit mons' Richard trovera cariage pur touz les peres sabulon & calice a ses custages. Et le dit mons'^ Richard trovera meresme pur syntres [centering] & scaffald mais le dit Johan les ferra a ses custages. Pur la quele overayne le dit mons' Richard paiera le dit Johan pur

24 HISTORY OF THE

Richard, FIRST closelv followed in the execution. The building consisted of four

Lord Scrope

OF Bolton. large square towers at its angles, which were connected by inter- mediate ranges of apartments one story in height lower than the towers ; the whole enclosing a spacious court. A small tower rose in the centre of the north and south sides, which were about one hundred and eighty-five feet in length. The fafades to the east and west were about one hundred and twenty-eight feet in extent. There were three entrances ; but the chief gate was on the east side. The architecture does not exhibit any peculiarity to distin- guish it from other edifices of the period ; and Leland thus described it in the reign of Henry the Eighth : — " The castell standethe on a " roke syde, and all the substaunce of the lodgynges in it be in- " cludyd in iiij principall toures. It was finichid or Kynge Richard the II dyed. One thinge I much notyd in the hauUe of Bolton, how chimeneys were conveyed by tunnells made on the syds of " the walls bytwixt the lights in the hawll, and by this means, and ** by no covers is the smoke of the harthe in the hawle wonder " strangly convayed. Moste parte of the tymber that was occu- " pied in buyldynge of this castell was fett out of the forest of ** Engleby in Cumberland, and Richard Lord Scrope for convey- aunce of it had layde by the way dyvers drawghts of oxen to carry it from place to place, till it cam to Bolton. There is a " very fayre cloke at Bolton, cum motu solis et lunae, and other conclusyons."" ^

a it

u

chescun perche mesure par xx pees par lalne sibien pur voltes come pur mures c. s. & outre en tout l marcs. £t prendera le dit Johan en partie du paiement la somme qest ore despendu par laccompt entre luy et S"" William Wynterton forspris XLi qi serra rebatu de la dite somme. £t serra la dite oyerayne mesure solon^ la hautesse de la base de la port. £n tesmoynance de quele chose a les parties de ceste endenture les parties avantditz entrechangeablement ont mys lour seals. Don a Bolton le quatorzisme jour de Septembre Ian du regne nostre Seignour le Roi Richard second puys le Conquest second.^' The seal attached bears the impress of the Virgin and Child, and a suppliant kneeling before her. From the Archives of Bolton Hall.

Bolton Castle is remarkable from having been the place in which Mary Queeu of Scots — a name which imparts a romantic interest to every thing connected with it — ^was confined, before her removal to Tutbury. The Castle was ably defended by Colonel Scrope, against the Parliamentary forces, in the reign of Charles the First. There is a view of it in Whitaker's History of Richmondshire. * Itin. viii. 66.

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In a commission tlated 28 May 1380, directing him to receive Rici 12,000 marks from the Scots at Berwick, part of the ransom of ar i David Bruce, he is styled a "Banneret;"' and it may be pre- sumed that this rank was conferred upon him by Richard the Second, because none of the Deponents who apeak of his being present in the battles of the reign of Edward the Third, mention his having ever borne a banner, but only as having been " armed" in his arms on those occasions. The Duke of Lancaster marched against Scotland in 1380, and was accompanied by Lord Scrope;'-' but historians state, that a negociation having immediately com- menced, peace was re-established, and the Duke disbanded his forces. It seems, however, that before hostilities ceased, an engage- ment took place at Dumfries, when that town was set on fire, for the burning of Dumfries is an event particularly referred to by several of the Deponents, who assert that Lord Scrope was one of the commanders present.' Lord Dacre says he received the honour of Knighthood whilst serving under Scrope'a banner on that occasion,* and Sir Randolf Pigot states that he was then in his retinue.* He was shortly afterwards appointed an ambassador to treat for a league with the Duke of Brittany ;^ and numerous writs' were issued to him in the 4th Ric. II. connected with the defence of the Western Marches towards Scotland, of which he was appointed Warden on the 12th of February 1381,* as well as for the punishment of infractors of the truce which then subsisted with that country.

On tile 4th of December 1381, Lord Scrope was re-appointed Chancellor,? and held that important situation until the 7th of July 1382."' \\'alsingham stales that he was distinguished for hi»

■ RoLScot. 3 Rlcll. m.t. He was again pose in September following, Ibid. 4 Ric. II. m. 9. ' DepositioDS, p. 119. 186. 192. 199. 205. ' Ibid. p. 116. 119. 179. 186. 237. 233. 239. ' Ibid. p. 119. ' Hot. ScoL 4 Ric. II. '

•Hoi. Claus.5 Ric. II. m. 27 d. Ftrdera, iii. p'iii. " Rol. Claus. 6 Ric. II. p. 1. m. 24. Fcedera, iii. p" VOL. II. £

' Rot. Franc. 3 Ric. 11. m. 14.

RolScoi. 4 Ric. II. [

26 HISTORY OF THE

Richard, FIRST extraordinary wisdom and integrity; and gives the following

Lord Scropb

OF Bolton. explanation of the cause of the Great Seal being taken from him.

After the death of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, and of some other tenants in capite, numerous applications were made to the King for their lands, which fell to the Grown in consequence of the minority of their heirs. His Majesty, regardless of his own pecuniary necessities, having commanded the Ghancellor to comply with those requests, Scrope ventured to remonstrate, and urged the propriety of keeping the lands in the King^s own hands for the supply of his exigencies. Incensed at this behaviour, Richard sent ^^ messenger after messenger to Scrope, desiring him forthwith

to return the Great Seal, but he refused to deliver it to any other

person than to the King himself.^' ^ During the year 1382, Lord Sqrope was repeatedly present in Parliament, and performed various parliamentary duties, being appointed to confer with the Commons,^ a Trier of Petitions,' and a Commissioner to inquire into the state of the King^s household.^ He likewise continued in the office of Warden of the Marches,^ and in November 1382, and May 1383, was one of the persons selected to negociate a truce with Scotland.^ An expedition against that country being resolved upon towards the close of 1383, a large army, under the command of the Duke of Lan- caster, was levied ; and on the 15th of January 1384, Scrope was ordered to review part of it, and to report the efficiency and num- ber of the troops to the King.^ According to several of the Deponents, he again served under Lancaster,^ and was with him at the capture of Edinburgh about March following; but the inclemency of the weather having forced the English to retire, it was not until the following year, when Richard took the field in person, that they succeeded in devastating that kingdom. In this expedition, Scrope challenged the right of Sir Robert Gros-

* Walsingbaro, p. 290. * Rot. Pari. iii. 110 a. ' Ibid. p. 99 a. 141 a.

* Ibid. p. 101 a. * Rot. Scot. 6 Ric. II. « Rot. Scot 6 Ric. II. m. 6. & m. 2. ^ Rot. Scot 7 Ric II. m. 6. " Depositions, pages 179. 186. 192. 205. 237,238, 239.

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venor' to bear the arms " Azure, a bend Or;" and in August {^"^' 1385, a general proclamation was made throughout the host in of i Scotland, that all who were interested in the dispute should appear at Newcastle on Tjne, on the 20th of that month. Lord Scrope attended accordingly ; but the further consideration of the subject was adjourned,- and the suit continued for upwards of four years. The particulars of that memorable trial having been already de- tailed, it is unnecessary to advert further to the circumstance, than to observe, that Scrope established his pretensions, and ob- tained a complete triumph over his opponent.

The few facts, which are recorded of Lord Scrope for some years after his return from Scotland, will be briefly stated, for they are neither interesting nor important. He was a Trier of Petitions in Parliament in the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Ric. IL 1385—1388;^ and in October 1386, was appointed one of the King's permanent council.* In the next year he was a Commissioner to prosecute an appeal of high treason against Alexander Neville, Archbishop of York, and others;» and on the 14th February 1389, John Lord Cobham, and Lord Scrope, were ordered to sell the lands and effects of various persons who had been attainted in the preceding Parliament.^

It is rather remarkable, that Scrope was appointed a com- missioner on the 24th January, 18 Ric. II. 1395, to decide a claim of a similar nature to that on which he had been himself engaged a few years before. A dispute having arisen between Thomas Baude and Nicholas de Singleton, as to their right to the arms "Gules, three chevronels Or," several peers and others, of whom Scrope was one, were commanded by the King to settle the affair.^ The career of this eminent personage after that period was not marked by any event of consequence until the deposition of Richard the Second. He was a Trier of Petitions in Parlia-

' Deposilion, p. 184.

' Ibid. p. 35. and the evidence of the Earl of Oxford among the Additional DocumenU. ' Rot Pari. iii. 204 a. 215. 228 b. ' Ibid, page 221 a.

» Ibid. p. 2293. « Rot. Claus. 12 Ric, II. m. 19 d.

' Pat. 18 Ric. II. p. a. m. 40.

E 2

28 HISTORY OF THE

Richard, FIRST ment in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th Ric. II.

Lord Scrope • i . i i

OF Bolton. 1389 to 1397.^ In the 14th Ric. II. he was appointed, with other

persons, to treat with commissioners from France and Scotland concerning a truce which had been made with those countries :^ in July 1391 he was a conservator of the truce which had been agreed upon at Lenlyngham, between England, France, and Scotland;' and in August 1393, and again in 1394, he was employed in preserving the amicable relations with the latter kingdom.*

In the 21st Ric. II. the proceedings of the Parliament of the 10th year of that monarches reign were reversed, and the Duke of Gloucester and the Earls of Warwick and Arundel, who were instrumental in producing certain acts in that assembly, were de- clared traitors. Among the proceedings so annulled, was the com- mission to inquire into the state of the royal household, and as Lord Scrope was one of the peers appointed for that purpose, he was considered to be so much implicated in the conduct of the Duke of Gloucester and the two Earls, as to require to be purged by the King's pardon for the part he took in the transaction. Letters patent to that effect accordingly passed the Great Seal on the 29th of November 1397 ;* and at the petition of the Commons, who urged " the innocence and loyalty of certain honourable persons named in the commission,^ among whom was the Duke of York, the Bishop of Winchester, and " Mons' Richard le Scrop Chivaler,'' it was enacted, that they should be held and reputed innocent, and that their fame and loyalty should be considered unimpeached.^ The singular favours which the eldest son of Lord Scrope received from Richard the Second, as well as the confidence with which he himself had always been treated by the King, render it a subject of regret, that his name should be found among the Peers who assented to the imprisonment and deposition of their unfortunate sovereign,^ and

» Rot. Pari. iii. 257 b. 277 b. 284 b. 300 b. 309 b. 329 b. 337 b.

« Rot. Scot 14 Ric. II. m. 2. > Ibid. 15 Ric. II. m. 6.

♦ Ibid. 17 Ric. II. m. 7, and 18 Ric. II. m. 6. * Fcedera, iii. pt iv. p. 139.

« Rot. Pari. iii. 349—353. ^ Rot. Pari. 1 Hen. IV. vol. iii. p. 427.

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39

the urgent plea of " state necessity" scarcely shields his memory from the reproach of ingratitude. His heir apparent, the Earl i of Wilts, however, sacrificed his life in the service of his royal benefactor; and his younger son Sir Stephen Scrope adhered to the dethroned monarch with admirable fidelity. When the judg- ment which had been pronounced against the Earl of Wilts was proposed to be confirmed by Parliament on the 19th of November 1 Hen. IV, 1399, " Richard Lord Scrope rose, and with great " humility, and weeping bitterly, prayed the King that nothing " which might be done in that Parliament might produce ihe " disinheritance of himself or of his children. He was then asked " ' if the arrest and judgment were good or not ?' to which he re- " plied, 'that he could neither see nor say any thing against the " said proceedings, but admitted that they were proper, and for the " advantage of the King and the realm, and that his son was one *' of the offenders, which he deeply lamented.' The King then ob- " served, ' that at the time when he claimed the kingdom and crown " of England, as heir of blood by right line of King Henry, and " by the right which God had sent him, with the assistance of his " relations and friends, to recover the kingdom, which was on the " point of destruction from the want of government, and by neglect " of the laws and customs of the realm, he desired that no person " should imagine, that on the pretence of conquest, he wished to *' disinherit any one of his inheritance, franchise, or other rights, " nor to dispossess any person of what he enjoyed by the good laws " and customs of the realm, excepting those who had opposed his " laudable intentions, and the common welfare of the kingdom. " Such persons the King considered Sir William Scrope, Sir " Henry Grcne, and Sir John Bussy, who were blameable for all " the evils which had befallen the realm, and for this reason, he " would seize and keep all the lands and tenements which belonged " to them.' The advice of the Lords Temporal was then asked " with respect to the proceedings against the said offenders, who " unanimously agreed that they were proper, and confirmed them. " The King then declared ' that it was not his intention to take any " of the lands of which Scrope, Bussy, or Grene were enfeoffed for

30 HISTORY OF THE

Richard, FIRST « the use of Other persoDs, whose rights should be saved therein.'

Lord Scrope

or Bolton. " Moreover the Eling told Sir Richard Scrope, that * he did not

wish to have any of the lands which belonged to him or to his

children then living, but that he then considered him, and had

always deemed him a loyal knight.** The King also declared,

*^ that the Statute which had been made ^ that none should forfeit

^^ after his death &c.'* should remain in force, and that the ordi-

^^ nance made in the present Parliament should not be prejudicial

to that statute, because they were judged and convicted in their

lifetime ^ upon which the said Commons thanked the King for

his just judgment, and God for having given them such a Eling

" and Governor.*^ ^

Lord Scrope does not appear to have interfered in public affairs after the death of his eldest son ; and only one notice has been found of him subsequent to that event, which is, that he was present in Parliament in January 1401, when the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon, Salisbury, and others, were attainted of high trea- son.* He had then attained his seventy-third year; and being at his Manor of Pissho, in Hertfordshire, made his Will on the 2nd of August 1400. As that document throws light upon his affairs and character, and is intrinsically curious, a copy of it is subjoined:

« TESTAMENTUM D'NI RICARDI LESCROP MILITIS

ET D*NI DE BOLTON.»

In Dei nomine Amen Ego Ricus Lescrop Diis de Bolton bone memorie die Lune secundo die Augusti anno dni mitto ccccj"° [cccc"***] apud Pyshoo condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis do & lego aiam meam deo & ^te Marie sancte Marie

> Rot Pari. iii. 453. « Rot Pari. iii. 459.

» Ex Registro Anindell in Bibl. Lambeth asservato, f. 201, a. The copy of this Will in the Lambeth Register has been collated with the copy in the Register at York, and the principal variations in the latter are placed within brackets.

* As the second of August fell on a Monday in the year 1400, the date in the copy in the Register at York appears to be correct.

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31

Anne [tie Marie sancte Anne] is omnib5 Sanctis 8c corpus meum ^'" Deo placente ad sepeliend in Men Abbie sancte Agathe jux" of I RichemoDtt. Item volo qd omnia debita mea vcraciP obata sen pbanda primo &, p'nci" psolvantur [solvant'j & qd 6ib3 Ei singulis qualescumq, futinl qui vel que possunt veraci? probare q3 quicq'm ab eis p extorcionem seu aliquo alio mode incongruo fieo vel habui de bonis meis satisfiat plenarie & indilate. Item lego predicte Abbie meli^ vestimentum meum cum omnib3 apparatib^ cum alba almeta & stola broudata & cum meliori turribulo meo cum meliori calice meo' & duob3 candelab's meliorib3 deauratis cum duob; cruettis deauratis. una [cii] pva campana deaurata Gi hoc |) principal! meo. ac eliam eidem Abbie xl. ti. [quadra^ giata libras.j Item lego Jolianni Abbi ejusdem Abbie [Abbathie ^ce] unu ciphum cum coopculo quem quondam tui ex dono diii Principis.- Ita qd post mortem ipius Johannis remaneat cujtt AbBi predicte Abbie imppetuum. item lego cuitt monacho [canoico] ejusdem AbBie xiij. s. iiij.d. Jofie de Homyngtoii excepto cui lego centum solid ad libros emendos. Item lego Abbie de Egleston XX marc. Item Abbie de Marryng* xx marc. Item ad emenda- tionem capelle de Ellertoii sup Swale xx marc nisi p me dum vixlo fulit emendata. Item Prioratui de Bradley xx marc & ves- timentum meum integrum do camaca^ [cu candica] viridi. Item Abbie de Jervaux centum s. Item Abbie de CoPham c. s. Item cuitt eccie pochiali ubi pochianus sum infra Richeraound shire XX. a. ad aliquod ornamentum emend ad op^ eccie predicte p dispoem parochianoif. Item ad emendationem pontis de Wjnse- lawe xl.ti. Item frib3 minoribj de Riehemound x.ti. Item Hospital! sancti Nicholai jux' Ricfe xx.s. Item cuitt Anachorite apud Hic6 Brempstoun [Brenyston*] Kirkeby Wysk & Wath xiij. s. iiij.d. Item cuitt ordini fratrum de Novo Castro xx.s. Item ffib^ de Hertilpole xx.s. Item ffibj de Yai^ xx.s. Item cuitt domui fratrum de Karliolo Penreth & Appelby xx.s. Item frib^ Minorib5 de Eboij xl.a. Item cuitt domui alioij trium ordinum [de] Eboij xx.a. Item cuitt ordini frm de Doncastr &

I " Meo" ia omitted in ihe York Register.

' Apparently Edward the Black Prince.

' The words " de camaca'' are omitted to the York Register.

* i. r. Brotnpton upon Swale.

32 HISTORY OF THE

W sl-ionr TykiU XX. s. It' cuilt domui fratrum de Scarburgh Be^ley & OK Bolton. KyDgeston sug Hutt XX. 8. Item domui de Chartehows [Carte- house] apud Kyngestoun sup Hult x marc. Item fratrib3 de Northallerton xx. s. Item cuitt prisonario in gaot Castroif Eboif Nov! Castri Dunolm Karlioli Richemoundie & Appelbeye ad obitum meum existencium ij.s. Item cuitt tenenti meo infra Richemoundshire ad obitum meum existenti claudo ceco vel impoteilti in cubiculo jacenti xiij.s. iiij.d. Item cuitt ceco infra Richemoundshire in quibuscumq^ villis iijs. iiij.d. qui mendicus vel paup fu?it. Item viginti ti ad distribuend in? paupes [paupculos] tenentes meos infra Richemoundshire ad obitum meum existentes p dispoem & discrecoem executorum meoif. Item cuitt capellano pochiali seu anni^sario vel Canta^ rie in ecciis pochialib3 infra Richemoundshire ad obitum meum cantantib3 [canentib;] & comorantib3 ij.s. Item Prioratui Sancti Martini xiij.s. iiij.d. Item cuitt monacho Abbie de Jervaux. cuitt monacho [canoico] Ab^ie de Gotham & Abbie de Egles- ton. iij.s. iiij.d. Item matrici eccie mee [cathedrali] sci Petri Eboif ad novum opus xl.ti. Item [lego] Rogero^ filio meo ^arissimo & heredi unum par de PaSnost^'s de Corall [cu mo- nilo] monili^ aureo que quondam fu^unt dni pris mei cum una cruce de auro qua usus fui & portavi cum bndiccione omnipotentis Dei gloriosissime virginis Marie %te Anne oim sanctoif & mea. Item pdco Rogero p capella de Boltoun in Castro secundum vestimentum meum integrum cum scdo calice & turribulo scdo cum duob3 scdis cruettis campana & paxbredde. Item eidem p principali caifia lectum meum de velvet broudat' cum quatupr costers [costis] de ope de arras [arrays] & quatuor tapitz [tapet] ejusdem colons lecti predicti cum linthraminib3 viz. unum p de Reyns cum ma?as [matresse] blankitz [blankectz] & canvas p una vice pdco lecto ptinent\ Item pelvem meam rotundam scdm cum aquareo de argento p ^icta camera. Item p aula ittm aulam meam viridem cum griffons textam cum manutelt armoif meoif [mantellis armaif meaif] xij discos. & xij salsaria argenti. unum salarium deauratum cooptum . unum p pelv de argento coopt' cum

' " Rogero" omitted in the York Register. ' Omitted in the York Register.

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arm meis & dni de Nevytt in fundo.^ Item duas ollas argenteas ^ Richard, first butKa melior^. Item unu ciphum de argento cooptum vocatum of Bolton. le Constable coppe. Item unum masere vocaf Spang. Item unam coupam ^cum uno aquario deaurato & enamellat^ quam coupam^ cum aquario pdco fiui ex dono domini Comitis Arundellie ^ duos discos p elemosina de argento cum armis meis & armis Comitis SufiT quos Kui ex legatione ^dicti Comitis^ sub tali conditione qd sep remaneant rectis heredib3 meis in memoriale ^dcoif Comitum. Item p garderoba meliorem gladium meum cum omnib; arma. tuns meis artelliuriis & tentys [artiris et tentes] tam p corpore meo q^m p munitione castri. Item in omnib^ domib3 offic castri pdci omnia vasa enea ferrea plumbea lignea & alia utensilia & omnia legata sibi ^dicta lego sub tali conditione qd nulla princi- palia petat & ali? non salva bndicdone Dei & mea. Item lego pdco Rogero duo carcatoria argentea & nappariam de ope p principali tabula in aula de Bolton ad semel coopiend cum sur- nappes & toaitt [towale] de ^dco ope & p sex tabulis in aula ^dca nappariam lineam oompetentem ad semel coopiend. Item lego Stephano Lescrop filio meo scdm gladium meum^ cum bndiccione mea & ult^ ea que sibi^ [sup] prius dedi xij discos argenteos xij salsaria duo carcatoria [carattoria] duas pelves cum aquariis argenteis p aula duas ollas argenteas p but¥ia unu sallarium cooptum. aulam meam cum poplers textam & lectum meum in- tegrum cum cos?s de rubeo cum poplers & armis meis broudat' & iiij tapetz de rubeo text^ cum armis meis. Item eidem Stephano

» John Lord Neville of Raby, by bis Will dated 31st August 1386, bequeathed '' Domino Ricardo Lescrop ij pelves cum ij lavatoriis argenteis, et j magnum calicem cum patera/' — Hutchinson's Northumberland, vol. iii. p. 265. /

' The words '' cum uno aquario deaurato et enamellat' quam coupam'' are omitted in the York Register.

^ He was executor of the Will of Richard Earl of Arundel in 1392, who bequeathed him this cup in the following words — ** Je donne et devise a Mons' Richard le Scrop un coupe ove un ewer." — Nichols's Royal Wills, p. 142.

* Lord Scrope was also one of the executors of William de Ufford Earl of Suffolk, in 1381.

* It appears from the Will of Sir Stephen Scrope, the legatee, that this sword had belonged to King Edward the Third.

« Omitted in the York Register.

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RicHARD,FiR8T nappaiiain novam de ope cum manuPgiis longis ad semel coopiend OF Bolton/* p*ncipalem tabulam & nappariam novam lineam competentem ad

coopiend semel iiij®'" alias tabulas aule pdicte cum surnapp & toailt p principal! tabula p^dca. Item Isabelle carissime filie mee' unum psalHum. Item Margarete filie mee uxori Rogeri Lescrop filii mei unil ciphum deauratu cooptum duas pelves argenteas cum aquariis unum p de paSnos^s de auro cum monili aureo. It' Milicente carissime filie mee ^ unum ciphum cooptum deauratum & unum p de pa^nosSs cum monili aureo. It' domino Stephano Lescrop consanguineo meo^ unum ciphum deauratum cooptum. Item domino Archiepo Eboif carissio filio [kmo patri et filio]* meo meliorem ciphum meum de murreo scitt maser. Item do- mino [Jotii] Lescrop ^ consanguineo meo unum ciphum deauratum cooptum. Item domino Henrico Lescrop consanguineo meo^ [unam] zonam argenteam deauratam. Item domino Henr Fitz Hugh'' consanguineo meo secundum melius meum Spiceplate argent! cum duab3 pelvib5 [pelvis] & duob5 aquariis argenteis cum armis meis in fundo. Item lego domino JoK! Tybbey® vj discos argenteos & sex salaria argentea unum ciphu de argento cooptum [cii armis meis et armis dn! Brian! de Stapilton sup manutentii cooptorij, j salarm de argento cooptu] & xxiiij. coclearea argentea. Item lego eidem domino Johanni lectum meum inte- grum de rubeo cum buttirflies broudaf cum armis meis cum testuf costeres & curtynes eidem lecto ptinent\ Item lego Johanni

* Apparently Isabel, the widow of his eldest son, William Earl of Wiltshire.

' Probably his daughter-in-law Milicent, the wife of his son Sir Stephen le Scrope. ' Stephen second Lord Scrope of Masham.

* See the Memoir of the Archbishop of York in a subsequent page.

* Sir John Scrope, younger son of Henry first I^rd Scrope of Masham.

^ Henry eldest son of Stephen second Lord Scrope of Masham, afterwards third Lord Scrope of Masham.

' Henry Lord Fitz Hugh, whose mother was Joan daughter of Henry first Lord Scrope of Masham.

* Apparently the John de Tybbey, Clerk, who was one of the Procurators and Attomies for Lord Scrope in his trial with Sir Robert Grosvenor. — Depositions, pages 31. 90. 344. He was a legatee in the Will of Sir Stephen Scrope, and one of his executors ; and one of the executors of Roger second Lord Scrope of Bolton. Tybbey lost his life in consequence of a quarrel with the second husband of Roger Lord Scrope's widow, arising from his zeal for the interest of the Scrope family. — See a subsequent page.

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de Gunwardby' & Wittmo Mounceux utriq^ eoit decern marcas. Ricii*iid.i Item lego Johanni Hamod xl. s. Item lego Thome de Ellerbek ;^°bo*„" UDum argenteum ciphum cum cooptorio. Item lego Johanni Grenelane sx marcas & unum ciphum dt argento cooplum cum certa sup'scriptione sup cooptorium. Item lego dno Wittmo Megre x marcas. Item lego dno Johanni Mayn dno Johanni [de] Chestouut & domino Rico de HundyngdoFi ca[>ellani9 cuitt eoi( quinq, marcas. Item lego Wiltmo del Boterie & Stephano Malyn utriq, eoi} decem marcas. Item lego Thome Cook & Thome del Kychyn utriq^ eoi^ centum s. Item lego Henrico de Bellerby Allexo Ferour utriq, [eoi{] quinq,marc. Item lego Thome Pollard & Johanni de Benyngton utrit^ eoij xl s. Item lego Johanni del Chambr xl.s. Item lego Thome de Keldholm Thome Forster de Wynsley & Johanni Maisl'pcario de Pyshoo cuitt eo:( xx 5. Item lego Wittmo Pountfreit decem marcas. Item lego Stephano de Burgoyne c s. Item lego [Henf] del Kychyn Jotii del Kychyn Johanni Payn Johanni del Bachous & Wittmo del Chambr cuitt eoi} xl.s. Item lego Thome de Langeley & Witto Gushauke utri(j,eoi( xx.s. Item lego cuitt pagetto in coquina mea ad obitum I existenti xiijs. iiijd. Volo tamen & principalis lego qd si contingat aliquem vel aliquam cui supius aliqua legavi ante obi- tum meum obire legatione mea scam ecciiam quomodott tangente plenarie excepta & debilibj paupib3 qd suma sive poriio sic legala ad residuum bonoi{ meoi( totalit ref tat'. Item volo & p'nci*" lego qd sidebita mea veroci? probata vel male aliqua quesita ^)ut ad pHnci- pium istius [ipsius] testamenti dictu est dc bonis meis ultra legata mea ;^ominata plene psolvi non possunt qd de jJdictis legatis ^portion aliV ret'het' & ea principalis psolvantur. Item volo Si lego qd residuum omniu bono;} meoti distribuanl' k disponant' in edificationem & plenariam repacionem donius mee p paupib3 meis apud Wensley edificand & deo danle repand & pficienil si p me- ipm dum vixto non fu'fit plenarie edifiiata 8; repata & hoc scdm ordinationem meam inde faciend post cujus quidem domus edi- ficationem S; plenariam [plenarie] repationem scdm ordinationem meam sup'dictam do & lego residuum omniii bonoi^ meo^ magro Si sociis suis Collegii see Trinitatis de Wjnslawe in relevationem

' John de Gunwardbj was aiiollierof Lord Scrope's Attornies and Procuratora IS tailed in tlie proceedings, John de Gunwardeby "donii- cdlum." — Depositiuiii, ^. 31.

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r & ad opus Collegii [sup'] predicti. Et ad omnia ista complenda & fidelit fficieiida ordino & constituo execulores meos p magna gratitudinis aft'ectione Rogeruni Lescrop filium meum & here- dem & Stephanum Lescrop filium meum fratrem ejusdem Bogeri Bub bndictione mea dnm Johannem [de] Tybbey cticuni Johem de Gunwardby & Johannem Grenelane. In cujus rei testimoniu huic ^tj testamento meo sigillum meu apposui. Dat' die locu Si anno 3ni sup'dict. Item lego Rogero filio meo predco melius meum Spiceplate & scdra missale meum cum porthors [porteus] meo quo usus fui ad dicend matutinas meas & vesgas BiC.

Tenore presencium nos Thomas pmissione divina &c. notum facimua uni^sis qd ultimo die mensis Maii anno dni mitl:mo cccc'"" iij" in man'?io iiro de Mortlake 'probatum fuit coram nobis testa- tnentum dni Ricardi Lescrop domini de Boltoun defuncti presen- tibj annexuni idemq, testamentum pro eo & ex eo qd dictus deft* nonnulla bona mobilia & immobilia in diesis dioc nre Cantuarieii provincie dum vixit optinuit cujus ptextu ipius testamenti appro- batio Ge insinuatio ac bonoi[ administrationis comissio compoti calculi sive ratiocinii administrationis hujusmoi auditio & finalis liberatio ab eadem ad nos solum k insolidum & non ad alium nobis inferiorem judicem de prerogativa eccie nre Cantuarien ac con- siietudine laudabili lie psc'pt' Se optenta necnon a tempore 6c p tempus cuj^ contr'ii memoria hominu non existit pa'^' & inconcusse observata dinoscuntur notorie ptincre g nos virtute prerogative predicte ap^batum fuit & insinuatum ac legitime pronunciatum 4> eodem. administracioq, oiiiiu bono;; dictum testamentum con- cernenciu ubicuniq, infra nfam provinciam Cantuarien existentium dilectis in Xpo filjis Domino Rogero Lescrop filio & lieredi dicti defuncti domino Johanni Tybbey Ctico 8c Johanni Grenelade executoribj in dicto testaniento nominatis de fideli inventario omniii bonoij hujusmoi conficiendo k ea bene k fidelit jux' ipius defuncti ultimam voluntalem adminisfndo nobisq, de St sup ad- ministratione sua hujusmoi fidelem compotum cum sup hoc con- grue fu?int requisiti reddendo ad sancta dei ev'ngelia jurat' com- missa exlitit in debita forma juris Reser\ata nobis potestate L'ommittendi administ'tionem hujusmoi alijs executoribj in eodem testamento etiam nominatis cum earn veiUint legitime admissuf. in cujus rei testimonium &c. Dat' die loco mense & anno dni s'. Et nre translationis anno septimo."

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FAMILY OF SCROPF. OF DOLTON.

Lord Scrope terminated his long and distinguished career on RicHtu the 30th May, 4 Hen. IV. 1403,' aged about seventy-five. Pedi- of &ii.«Ik!" grees differ as to the names of his wives and children, for, accord- ing to some authorities, he was twice married ; first to Blanch, daughter of Sir William de la Pole; and secondly, after the 2nd Ric. II., to Margaret the daughter of Sir John Montfort,' whilst other genealogies assert that his second wife was a daughter

of Spenser.' That he married a daugh ter of Sir William de

la Pole appears from the Deposition of Amand de Monceaux, Esq. who gives the following curious account of his matrimonial afiairs. At an early perioii of his life, he made proposals for thtt daughter of Sir Robert Hilton, but the terms not being accepted, he married a daughter of Sir William de la Pole; at which Hilton was so enraged, that he said, — " I am glad he did not " marry my daughter, for I have heard that he is not a ' grand " gentilhomme.' " To which Sir John Hasethorp, who was then more than a hundred years old, replied : " Sir, say not so, for I " assure you, on ray soul, he is descended from ' grauntz gentils " hommes" from the time of the Conquest." * That Lord Scrope married a daughter of Sir William de la Pole is provetl by other evidence. In the Parliament of the 10th Ric. II. 1st October 1386, Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk, then ChanceUor, ap- pointed " Mons' Richard le Scrop, son frere en loi," to reply for him to certain charges which were brought against him.* Whether he had a second wife is extremely doubtful ; but sup- posing this were the case, his sons must have been the issue of his first marriage,^ because Blanch de la Pole did not die until after 1378, before which year tbey were certainly bom. Lord

' Inq. p. tnorl. 4 Hen. IV. No. 3. — " Jutatorea dicunt quod Ricardus le Scrope th'r obiit 30° die Mail ultimo prelcrito. [The Inquisition was lakea on the Wed- nesday before Michaelmas day.] " El quod Rogerus le Scrop' ch'r est filius et hares ejusdem Ricardi propinquior et tctatis .xxn. annoruro & amplius."

' Blore's Rutland. ' MS. in the College of Anns, marked "Picture of our Lady." ' Deposition, p. 134. ' Rol. Pari. iii. aiC b.

• Blore, in the " History of Rutland," p. 5. makea Roger to have been the son of Blanch de la Pole, and William Earl of Wiltshire, Richard Ari:hbishcp of Canterbury, and Sir Stephen Scrope to have been ihe sana of Margarel Montfort,

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"" Scrape was buried in the Abbey of St. Agatha, near Richmond in Yorkshire, where a tomb was erected to his memory.'

His character can only be judged of from the offices he filled; for very little indeed is known of those {>ersonftl traits which form the most satisfactory materials for biography. As a soldier, his merits are evinced by his long and arduous services. With the exception of Poictiers, there is scarcely a campaign or a battle of any consequence, between 1346 and 1385, a period of nearly forty years, at which he was not present, acquiring, to use the words of a contemporary, "graund honor" on every occasion. His talents and sagacity as a statesman were as remarkable as his valour. He was repeatedly selected for diplomatic missions ; and in the reign of Richard the Second was continually chosen to perform par- liamentary duties, either as a. trier of petitions, or as a commis- sioner for the execution of some delicate and important object. But the strongest proof of his abilities and integrity is, his having been once Treasurer, and twice Chancellor of England ; and the independent manner in which he is stateil to have conducted him- self in that elevated station proves thai he possessed great firmness of mind. But the general opinion which was entertained of his worth is shewn by other circumstances. No less than four peers, the Earl of Arundel, the Earl of March, the Earl of Suffolk, and Ralph Lord Bassett of Drayton, appointed him the executor, or the supervisor of their Wills ; and two of them bequeathed him a silver cup in testimony of their esteem.- All the evidence which is extant respecting Lord Scrope tends therefore to justify the impression, that he was one of the most distinguished persons of his times ; brave, sagacious, prudent, and highly esteemed by his contemporaries. His life seems, for many years, to have been little chequered by vicissitudes of fortune, and full of honours himself, he saw one of his sons attain the highest dignities ; nor was it until the death of his eldest son that any serious misfor- tune befell his house. Few incidents can be imagined of a more affecting description than the scene in Parliament when the at- tainder of the Earl of Wiltshire was confirmed. Rising from his seat, with his eyes streaming with tears, the venerable peer ' Will of hisson Sir Stephen Scrope. ' Test. Vet i. IIJ, 113. 115.126.133.

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implored that the proceedings might not affect the inheritance of J*"^' himself or his other children ; and after admitting the justice of the «' B sentence, and deploring the conduct of his son, the unhappy father was consoled by his sovereign, who deigned to assure him tliat nei- ther his interests nor those of his children then living should suffer from it, for that he had always considered, and still deemed him a " loyal knight."' It has been shewn that Lord Scrope did not survive this event more than three years, and his decease may probably have been hastened by a circumstance so well calculated to embitter his latter days. With the feelings of the age, he was a considerable benefactor to the church, and among other donations was the gift in the 16th Ric. II. of an annual rent of 100/, for the maintenance of ten additional Canons Regular and two Canons Secu- lar in the Abbey of St. Agatha.- He founded a chantry in his castle of Bolton in the same year, of six priests, one of whom was to be Warden, and endowed it with an annual income of 43/. Gs. (W. ; ' lie obtained a licence to make the parish church of Wenslay collegiate ; and supported a priest in the chapel of St, Anne, and another in the chapel of St. Oswald at Bolton,* facts which, together with the many charitable bequests in his Will, shew that his religious feelings were fervent and sincere.

11 " I Richard Lord Scrope bore

the Arms of Scrope entire; and as appears, from his seal attached to a deed dated 22nd May 22 Edw. III. 1348,' his Crest was a crab issuing out of a coronet.

Lord Scrope had four s 3. Stepbsk. 4. Richard.

s,« 1. WILLIAM. 2. ROGER.

I Rot. Pari. iii. 353. See page 29. ' Pal. 16 Ric. II. p. 3. m. 11.

' Pat. 16 Hie. II. p. 2. m. 4. ' Pat. 1 Hen. IV. p. 6. m. 2.

'' Presened among the muiiicneuls at Bolton Ha!!-

" Lotd Scrope also mentions in his Will hia daughlers Isabel and Wilicent. The peraons alluded lo were probably his daughters-in-law, Isabel the widow of ilie Earl of WilM, and Milicent ilic wife of his third son Sir Stephen Scrope.

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WiLLUH SIR WILLIAM SCROPE, K. G. Earl op Wiltshire, is

Earl ofWilts.

usually but erroneously called the second son of Richard Lord Scrope.^ The precise time of his birth has not been discovered, and the earliest notice of him is about the year 1362, when he accompanied a body of the Teutonic knights of Prussia, to fight against the infidels in Lithuania, and thence to Venice, near which city he served in the retinue of the Duke de Duras.^ In 1369 he was with the army under the Duke of Lancaster which ravaged the Pais de Caux in Normandy,^ and was again with that chieftain when he marched from Calais to Bordeaux, in 1373/ Nothing appears to be known of him after this time until May 1383, when, being then a knight, he was appointed Seneschal of Acquitaine.^ Shortly afterwards a grant was made out of the customs for his sup- port,^ and in the 9th Ric. II. he was constituted governor of the Castle of Cherbourgh, which office he held in the 13th Ric. IIJ In that year it appears that he and his followers committed some offence against the Bishop of Durham, which on a reference was compro- mised, by his agreeing to offer in his own person a Jewel to the shrine of St. Cuthbert ; and on the 26th January 1390, the King ordered that the said Jewel should not be of less value than 600/.® As Seneschal of Acquitaine he was directed to conclude a peace with the King and Queen of Castile, in the 14th Ric. 11.^ and remained in Gascony until March 1392, as he was then one of the commissioners to receive the homage of the Count of Armignac, and to conclude a treaty of alliance with that prince.^® About this time he established himself in the favour of his Sovereign, from whom he soon afterwards received the highest honours ; and what- ever may have been his faults, he had at least the merit of display- ing unshaken fidelity towards his royal benefactor.

Sir William Scrope was appointed Vice Chamberlain of the Kings's Household in the 16th Ric. II. : ^^ in the same year he pur-

1 He is expressly called the eldest son in the deposition of Sir Robert Con- stable, p. 136. ' Deposition, page 172. ' Ibid, page 166. * Ibid, pages 136. 193. 210. 238. « Rot. Vase. 6 Ric. II. m. 28. « Pat. 7 Ric. II. 7 Rot. Franc. 13 Ric. II. m. 19. FcBdera, iii. pMv. p. 43. 8 Pat. 1 3 Ric. II. Foedera, iii. p' iv. p. 51. * FcBdera, iii. p' iv. p. 61. »*> Rot. Vase. 15 Ric. II. m. 2. »» Walsingham, p. 385.

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chased the sovereignty of the lale of Man from the Earl of Salis- ^ bury,' and on the 10th March 1394i, when the truce was confirmed with France, " Monsieur Guilliam le Scrop" is recorded to have assented to the proceedings " pour le Seigneurie de Man" as one of the " allies" of the King of England.^ A bond is extant dated 29 August 1393, in which, by the style of " William le Scrop Seigneur de Man et des Isles,"^ he acknowledges himself indebted to Richard WTiityngton, Citizen and Mercer of London, in the sum of IGGl. 25. Id., which was to be repaid on the feast of St. Martin next ensuing.'

Having been retained to serve the King for life, with the yearly fee of 200/. he obtained a grant of the town, barton, and Castle of Marlborough in Wiltshire in the 17th Ric. II. in lieu of that annuity,^ In July 1395, being then the King''s Chamberlain, he was one of the personages selected by Richard the Second to negociate his marriage with Isabel of France,* for which purpose Scrope and his colleagues proceeded to Paris. Shortly afterwards John Waltham, Bishop of London, appointed Sir William Scrope his executor, and bequeathed his best and most valuable vestment to the church of Salisbury, in order that prayers might be said for Scrope's prosperity during his life, and for his soul after his decease; but the motive for this proof of his good opinion does not appear.^

Sir William Scrope was employed on a diplomatic mission to France in the 19th Ric. 11. 1396,' and was Governor of the CasUes of Beaumaris and Queensburgh in the year following." In 1397, he was constituted Chamberlain of Ireland ;3 and on the 5th

> Ibid, and Olterbouroe, p. 183. The words are, the lale of Man — " cuui ' Fiedera, iii. p' iv. p. 95.

' Harleian Charter?, 56 A. 22. Whitjnglon was probably the renowned "Lord Major of London town."

' RoLOrig.lTRic.il. r. 1.

» Fcedeta, iii. pi iv. p. 108. 111. 112. 120.

' See a Copy of ihe Bishop of Salisbury's Will, dated in September 1395, in Ihe Lansdowiie MS. 207, E. f. 602. 609.

^ Rot. Frauc. 19 Ric. II. m. 19.

' Pat, 20 Ric. II. p. 3, m. 3,ajid p. 1, m, 25. ' Pat. 21 Ric.II.p. 1, in. 30.

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WiLLiABi^ August, being then with the King at Nottingham, he was one

EaRLOfWiLTS. 111. t 11« -iTxl

of the persons who debvered an appeal of treason against the Duke of Gloucester and the Earls of Arundel and Warwick, which ap- peal he prosecuted in the Parliament at Westminster in Septem- ber following.^ The Earl of Warwick being declared guilty, he was committed to the custody of Sir William Scrope and Sir Stephen his brother, to be taken to the Isle of Man, and there kept a prisoner.^

Probably in reward of his services on this occasion. Sir William . Scrope was created Earl of Wiltshire on the 29th September, 21 Ric. II. 1397, without ever having been a Baron. The influence which he possessed is strongly shewn by the limitation being to " his heirs male for ever ;^ ^ whilst in the case of each of the other peers on whom honours were then conferred, the dignity was limited to the heirs male of the body of the grantee, a distinc- tion which may be attributed to the intention of opening the succession to Scrope^s brothers, or his other collateral heirs male, in the event of his dying without leaving male issue. He was elected a Knight of the Garter shortly afterwards,^ and obtained various lordships which had been forfeited by the Earls of Arundel and Warwick : ^ he was also appointed Justice of Chester and North Wales,^ and was constituted Captain of Calais and Constable of Guisnes, the former oflice being granted to him for fifteen, and the latter for ten years.*^ A still higher dignity, however, awaited him, for on the 17th September, 22 Ric. II. 1398, he was made Treasurer of England.^

The Earl of Wilts was repeatedly present in Parliament in the 21st Ric. II., and was chosen proxy of the prelates and clergy to

* Foedera, iii. p»iv. pp. 132. 135. and Rot. Pari. iii. 374.

• Rot. Pari. iii. 380 b.

' See the Charter printed in the Fifth Peerage Report, p. 117.

^ He had robes of the Grarter, of scarlet cloth embroidered with the motto, pre- pared for the feast of St. George 22nd Ric. II. April 23, 1398. — ^Anstis' Introduction to the Register of the Order of the Garter, p. 13, from the Wardrobe accounts of that year.

» Pat. & Rot. Orig. 21 Ric. II. « Pal. 21 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 9.

' Rot. Franc. 22 Ric. II. m. 6. * Rot. Orig.

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

express their assent to the ordinances then made,' which he, with ^'" other peers, swore to observe ;'■ and about this time he took a promi- nent part in obtaining the repeal of a patent which had been grant- ed to the Duke of Hereford, securing the possession of whatever might devolve upon him by inheritance during his banishment.' Richard the Second's attachment to the Earl was specially mani* fested by his Will, dated 7 April 1399, in which he bequeatheti him two thousand marks, and a cup of gold of the value of twenty pounds, and appointed him one of his executors. Though Bcrope was retained to serve the King in his expedition to Ireland in June in that year, with forty men-at-arms and one hundred mounted archers, he did not accompany his Majesty; and on the 11th July, Edmund Duke of York, the Custos of England, appointed the Earl of WOts with Sir John Bussy, Sir Henry Grene, and Sir William Bagot, keepers of WalUngford Castle; on the news of Lancaster's invasion, in which fortress the young Qui placed for security.* Resistance to the usurper proved unavailing; «id on the dispersal of Richard's few adherents, the Earl, with Sir Henry Orene and Sir John Bussy, sought shelter in the castle of Bristol. Being compelled to surrender, they proposed terms, which were accepted, and by which their Uves were pro- mised them ; but, notwithstanding these conditions, the Earl of Wilts, Grene, and Bussy, fell a sacrifice to popular fury, and were beheaded about September 1399, without even the form of a trial, " ex clamore importuno vulgi et comitatus ut publici bostes rcgni."^ It was one of the first measures of Henry the Fourth's parliament to attaint them, when the EarVa honours and estates were forfeited to the Crown, He died without issue, and the fear which his father expressed that his attainder might affect the property of his brothers has been adverted to.'' The Earl of Wilts did not escape the odium which usually attends a royal favourite : he was generally disliked ; and Walsingham ' describes him in these words ; " Vir quo in humano genere de facili

' Eot. Pari. iii. 359. * Fadera,iii. p' if. p.lfll. See page 29.

' Ibid. 356. ' Ibid. 372, 373.

) Otteiboume, p.204. Monkof Eve$liam,p.l50.

44 HISTORY OF THE

WiLUAM, non invenietur nequior aut crudelior."" He married Isabel, who,

EarlofWilts. ...

according to some authorities, was one of the daughters and coheirs of Robert Lord Tiptoft ;^ but this is proved to be erro- neous by the facts, that Lord Tiptoft had no daughter called Isabel, and that Elizabeth Tiptoft, with whom she has been con- founded, was married in the 8th Ric. II. to Sir Philip le Despen- ser, who died in 1423.* There is reason to believe that the Countess of Wiltshire was the daughter, and eventually coheiress, of Sir Maurice Russell of Dorsetshire ; that she married to her second husband Thomas de la Ryviere, and had by him a son, Maurice de la Ryviere ; that she married, thirdly, Stephen Hayt- feld, Esq. and was by him mother of two daughters, Joan the wife of Drue Barentyne, and Elizabeth the wife of John Wenlok ; and that she died on the 1st of May 1437.' By the name of " Isabell que fu la femme William le Scrop,^' she presented a petition to the King and Parliament in 1401, stating that from the sudden death of her husband, he had made no provision for her ; that, as all his property had been seized, she was left " si povre et si dissolat que unque n^y avoit semblable de son estat ;^^ and that, in consequence of her destitute condition, the King had been pleased to grant her an annuity of two hundred marks, but which had not been paid for a whole year. She therefore prayed that she might have dower of her husband^s lands ; but the King granted her instead, one hundred pounds per annum, payable out of the Exchequer.*

The Earl of Wilts is stated by some of the Deponents to have borne the Arms of his family with a label, the colour of which is not specified ; and this statement is corroborated by the seal attached to his bond in 1393,^ which is in beautiful preserva- tion. According to a Roll of Arms^ which was apparently com-

' Leland's ItiDerary. ' Esch. 2 Hen. VI. No. 31.

» See Escheats 10 Hen. VI. n. 39.; 15 Hen. VI. n. 47.; 16 Hen. VI. n. 52. In that of the 15 Hen. VI. she is mentioned as '' Isabella Domina le Scrope.''

* Rot. Pari. iii. 483 b.

^ See page 41 antea. An engraving of the seal to that deed is given in the text.

* Now in the possession of the Rev. John Newling, Canon of Lichfield.

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

piled in the reign of Richard the Second, the Earl of Wilts, who is Mong^ William le Scrop," bore Quar- terly, 1st am^ 4th, the arms of the Isle of Man, with a. label of three points Ar- gent; and 2nd and 3rd, Azure, a bend Or, with a label of three points Gules. The Earl adopt- ed a different Crest from that of his family, namely a plume of feathers Azure issuing from a coronet Or,' which became tlie Crest of the Scropes of Bolton, whilst the Masham branch continued to

2. ROGER, SECOND LORD SCROPE op Bolton, the second son of Richard, first Lord Scrope, will be noticed in a subsequent page.

3. SiH Stephen Scrope, of Bentley in the county of York, third son of Richard Lord Scrope, is first mentioned as having served in the expedition with his father under the Duke of Lancas- ter in France in July 1373 ;• and the next notice of him is, that he

s in the army which invaded Scotland in 1384,' From the simi- larity of his baptismal name, he has been confounded by Dugdale and other writers with Stephen second Lord Scrope of Masham, and many of the following circumstances have been erroneously attributed to his noble kinsman and contemporary. In the 20th Ric. II. the safe custody of the Earl of Warwick, when banished to the Isle of Man,* was entrusted to him and to his brother the Earl

■ See the seal engraved in ihe text from a bond, dated 29 August 1393, pre- served in the British Museum, Uarleiao Charters 56, A 22.

' Depositions, p. 136. 195. 238. * Ibid. p. 238. ' Hot. Pari. iii. 3B0,

^

46 HISTORY OF THE

Sir Stephen of Wilts ; and in the same year he was appointed Justice of

SCROPE

Munster, Leinster, and Uriell in Ireland, where, it is said, he disgusted both the English and Irish by his maladministration of justice. If he imitated his brothers in abusing the favour of his sovereign. Sir Stephen is entitled at least to the praise of having resembled them in fidelity to him in his misfortunes. When Richard the Second took refuge in Conway Castle, Scrope accompanied him, and was present at the conference be- tween the Duke of Lancaster and the King at that place/ on which occasion he bore the sword of state.^ The historian who relates this anecdote describes Scrope as '^ a knight right worthy in arms, valiant and bold C^ and a contemporary writer presents a melancholy picture of Richard and his attendants, shortly be- fore he fell into the hands of the Duke of Lancaster. — " Thus ^^ spake King Richard to the Earl of Salisbury, to the Bishop " of Carlisle, and to the two other Knights, Sir Stephen Scrope and Ferriby, weeping most tenderly, and greatly lamenting, upon the walls of the castle of Flint ; so that I firmly believe no " creature in this mortal world, let him be who he would, Jew or " Saracen, could have beheld these five together, without being " heartily sorry for them."^

Notwithstanding his adherence to his former sovereign. Sir Stephen Scrope contrived to establish himself in the confidence of Henry the Fourth ; for, though accused of being cognizant of the conspiracy to dethrone that monarch by John Kighlee, Esq., he succeeded in proving his innocence. The trial took place before the Earl Marshal in the Court of Chivalry in the Moot Hall of Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the 2nd August 1400, when Scrope alleged, that since the proceedings commenced, he received intimation of a plan which Kighlee had formed to murder him in his manor-house of Bynbury in Kent in the June preceding ; and he contended that the accusation was malicious, and arose from a dispute about some lands. Scrope was acquitted, and declared to be ^^ a good

> Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II. : Archeeologia, vol. xx. p. 110 et seq. * Life of Richard II. by the Monk of Evesham, p. 155.

' Archaeologia, xx. p. 157.

FAMILV OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

and faithful subject ;" but Kighlce was declared guilty of the Sm intended murder, and adjudged to suffer the same punishment as would have been awarded to Scrope if the charge had been sub- stantiated :' he was however subsequently pardoned.'^

On the 10th December 1400, Sir Stephen Scrope and Sir Richard Grey of Codnor were made Governors of Roxburgh Castle;' and by indenture dated 14 December, 2 Hen. IV. 1400, Lord Grey and himself undertook the custody of that castle with forty men-at-arms, receiving in time of war, until the new fosse and fortifications were completed, 4000 marks per annum ; and after that time, 3000 marks. During a truce with Scotland, they were to be paid 2000 marks yearly; but in time of peace, what the King might think proper. It was farther stipulated, that in the event of an assault of the castle by the Scotch, they were to raise as many more men as thoy might deerei to be necessary for its defence ; and if it were besieged, the King agreed to assist them within a quarter of a year. The expense of victualling the said castle was to be paid by the keepers.*

In 1401, Sir Stephen Scrope returned to Ireland as Deputy of Thomas of Lancaster, the King's son ;* and if the following anec- dote be true, another instance is afforded of the admirable manner in which a woman sometimes uses her influence. It is said that his wife having heard the complaints which were made against him for his conduct whilst in Ireland some years before, refused to accompany him to that kingdom, '* except he would receive a " solemn oath on the Bible, that willingly he would wrong no " Christian creature in that land, that truly and duly he should " see payment made for all expences ; and hereof, she said, t " had made a vow to Christ so determinately, that unless it were " on bis part firmly promised, she could not, without peril of soul, " go with him. Her husband assented, and accomplished her " request effectually ; recovered a good opinion for his upright "dealing; reformed his caterers and purveyors; enriched the

' Foaden, iii. p* iv. p. 1< 1 RouScota Heo. IV. i

' Holinahed's Chronitle;

3. > Ibid. p. 196.

1. T. • Cotton. MS, Veapasianus, F. vii, f. 81.

of Ireland, p. 66.

1

4<

48 HISTORY OF THE

Sir Stephen " Country ; maintained a plentiful house. Remission of great

ScROPE

" offences ; remedies for persons endangered to the Prince ; par- ^^ dons of lands and lives he granted so charitably, and so discreetly, that his name was never recited among them without many blessings and prayers ; and so cheerfully they were ready to serve him against the Irish upon all necessary occasions.*" ^ The high opinion entertained of Sir Stephen Scrope by the young Lieutenant, Thomas of Lancaster, is shewn by the fol- lowing extract from a letter, addressed by that prince to his father King Henry the Fourth, dated at Drogheda, 18th Feb- ruary 14!01. After stating that Scrope had obtained his permis- sion to go to England, alleging that he could not serve any longer without payment of his wages, he added, that he intended to obtain an audience of his Majesty, on matters connected with his late custody of Roxburgh Castle. " I pray you, therefore, my ^^ sovereign Lord and father, to expedite the business of the said *^ Sir Stephen as speedily as you can, that he may return to me, ^^ for I cannot, if it please you, spare him long. He is of such great service to me, by reason of the great knowledge that he hath of the governance of the wars, and of the condition of the people here, on which subject be pleased to give full faith ^^ and credence to all he may state to you on my part, as well *^ touching the said matters, as other things materially relating to " the condition of this country.''^

The subjoined letter from Sir Stephen Scrope appears to have been written about this time. It is dated at Chester, on the 27th August, but the year is not mentioned, and it has been hitherto attributed to Stephen Lord Scrope of Masham. Many circum- stances, however, tend to prove that it was from Sir Stephen; more especially his statements, that he had little property, that he was then in the King's service with his Majesty''s son, and his request of a grant of the Isle of Man, which had been forfeited by his brother the Earl of Wiltshire.

* Holinshed*s Chronicles of Ireland, p. 67.

* Original. Cottonian MS. Titus B. xi. fo. 22. Printed at length in the Archaeologia, vol. xx. p. 249.

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

" Tres excellent, tres redoute, et nion essovereyn Seigneur ; *' " je me recommand a vostre haute et reall Majeste a tant come " aucun lege homme puis a son Seigneur soveryn ; desyranl ad " tout mon coer de oyer et savoyr bonez novellca de vos et de " vostre haute Majeste, le quell je pry a ly tout puissant que tous " jours maintener et encrez com vostre coer mesmes saver a multz " soheyder ou deviser; et vos doynt toujours le victoyr de lous " voz enemyz : Et, tres redoule el mon essovereyn Seigneur, jc " vous supply parDieux, et en overe de charyte, que vos plesse, " que je puis eatre en vostre memoyr: Et pour tant que je suy " en vostre servysse ovesk mon tres redoute Seigneur vostre Fitz, " que je ne soy pas en obly. Et parce je ay envoye devant vostre " haute prcsenz Hugh Cordoys, porteiir de ceste, pour pursuer " devenl vostre haute presenz touchant mon bille que je ay baylle " a vostre hautesse a mon deseyn de partir de vostre haute pre- " senz, touchant le ylle de Man, en cas que vous plest que ill " poursue pour le dit matre : Et altrement je le met en vostre " haute et graciouse volunte. Par en bon foy de Dicux, mon " essovereyn Seigneur, je ne ay null espoyr, ne null eyde de null " creature fors que de Dieux et de vostre gracyouse et haute " Majeste: Et parce par DJeux, que vos plesse penser de mon " pover estat, le quel je ne puis mayntener ne sustener en null " manier sanz vostre gracyouse ayde. Et serteyn el en bon foy " vos me troverez touz jours humble et loyale lege, et prest a " touz gervyces que vos me commandrez ad testous mon poayer " en corps et bienz sanz null fayntissc. Tres excellent, tres re- " doute, et mon essuereyn seigneur, je pry aly tout-puissant, que " touz jours maynten et encrez vost haute et realle Majeste en ioy, " honer, et prosperite, com vost graciouse coeur mesmez saver a " multz soheyder. Escrit a Chest', le xxvii. jour de Auste, de ma " propre rude mayn, en deffaute de un alt' clerk. Et par ce ie sup- " ply a vost hautesse, que vos please me tener pou' excuse de ceat " lettre. " Vosf humble Lege,

' A tres excellent, tres redoute, et mon essovereyn seigneur, le Hoy."'

' I ioward's Collection of Leilers, 410.

' S. SCROPP.

50 HISTORY OF THE

Sir Stephen gi^ Stephen Scfope returned to Ireland, and accompanied the

Earls of Desmond and Ormond in their successful invasion of the territory of Mac Murrogh in 1407, but he did not long survive that affair. He died at Tristel Dermot on the 10th February 1408, and about two years before his death he made his Will, which was dated on the 6th January 1405-6, and of which the following is a copy :

*^ In Dei noie Amen. Ego Stepfius Lescrop dominus de Bente- ley compos mentis ac in bona memoria et sanitate corporis exist^ necnon timens mortis perictum condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego animam meam deo beate Marie et omni- bus Sanctis ejus et corpus meum ad sepeliend in ecctia abat^ sancte Agathe juxta Richmund juxta tumbam dni Ricardi patris mei ittm. Itm lego Johanni de Esby Abbati dict^ Conventus unam pel- vem rotundam argenteam cum uno lavacr argent' pro eadem et quinq^ marc. Itm lego domino Johanni de Homyngton canonico il^m quinq^ marc. Itm lego cuilibet canonico dicti conventus xx. s. Itm lego Abbati predco in memoria pro aia mea unam calicem de auro & XX. marc. Itm lego Milicentie uxi mee duas pelves argen- teas cum duabus lavacr argenteis duodecem discos argenteos unum lectum cum lectis meis braudat^ cu toto apparat^ de rul^ worstede unum lectum viridem cum toto apparatu et omnia mea perrea et unum payn per coopertur uni^ lecf furratum cum me- nevere. Itm lego Stepfio filio meo precarissimo et fiedi duas pelves cum duabus lavarr argenteis xij discos argenteos unum siphum deauratu coopertum duos siphos argenteos coopert^ unii aut et unu lectu cum toto apparatu braudatu cum paplers nappariam pro tabulis | & pro tat armig et vat per unam vicem cooptam cum benediccoe mea beate Marie oim scorum et scorum dei et unum gladium longum quondam Edwardi Regis Anglie et mi legatum per prem meum. Itm lego Elizabet^ filie mee pro mari- tagio s ccc marc argent^ de maneriis meis in coin Kane levandum prout per feoffamentu de dictis maneriis meis per me confcm con- cess plenius appet cum benediccoe mea beate Marie oim scorum et scorum dei. Itm lego Johanni Tibbay de Wynsley unum vesti- mentum de sindone album et rub ij ere wets j paxbrede et unum argenteum. Itm lego Wiltmo Ferers unu equu meliorem meum X marc argent et c solid annuatim percipiend ad Pmiu vite sue prout per carta meam sibi inde confcam plenius potent apper.

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

51

Ifm Hugoni Curteys x raaro. Itin lego dno Pilippo capellano '^ meo X, ti. Itm lego Niclio Bouclond qiiinq, marP. Itin lego Wiltmo Pouotfrait unum siphum deauratum el unum cornii cum pedibus argenf \j discos argeoteos. vj sallaf argent' & x mare argent" annuatim percipiend ad I'miu vitc sue prout per carta meani S confcam plcnius poBt apper. Itm lego Thome Twhatys c solid. Johanni Gotenham xl. s, Morys Pounteyn v marc. Augneti dCt Chambn quatuor marc. Wittmo de Chamber quatuor marc. Pevel de Chamber v marc. Johanni Bedford xl. 5. Johanni Bedford Jofii Barbo'xl.s, Motynxl.s. Johanni Benyuton iiij marc. Johanni Murura xl. s. Wittmo Mongton v marc. Pet" Ferro' iiij marc. Pet" de Oascoign xl. b. Thme James xl. s. Wittmo Horsman v marc. Withno Newton quinq, marc. Johanni de BaPy xl. s. NicRo Lyon xl. s. Wittmo Trusluf ij marc. Wittmo Palfreman xx. s. Itm lego ordini frm minoif in Richinia x marc. Itm lego cuilibet fri ejusdem Conventua ad meu obitum existent' vj. s. viij. S. Ilm lego decern pauperib3 ad meu obitu orantihus viij. iiijd. cuilib3 eoruoi X denarios. Itm lego vij aliis pauperibus iBni existent' iiij.s. j. 3. cuilibet eoif septem 6. Itm lego v. aliis pauperibus ij. s. j.d. cui- libet eon V denarios. Ilm lego x 5. ad distribuend inP omnes alios pauperes ad diet' men existent' obitu. Itm tego et vote qd qutnq, misse celebrenf" pro aia mea cotidie per v dies et vj misse per vij dies cotidie pro se et decem misse per x dies cotidie pro se cu obtacoe ad qualibet missam per decern dies predcos. Itm lego cuilibet pau- peri oranti pro aia mea ad qualibet missam j denariii. Itm lego fribus prcdicat' Cantuarieii x marc. Ilm lego Fratribus Augustifi de London quinque marc. Itm tego Fratribus Camielit' de North- allerton qninq, marc. Ilm tego totum residuum bonu^ meoij mobilium et immobiliuni executoribus meis ad disponend pro anima mea et ad solveodu mea debita scdm discretionem suam prout coram deo volufint fnilere. Itm lego et promitto veto qd omnia mea dfbita forent soluta de omnibus bonis et catailis meis primu et principal!? si mea debita non poVunt plenar solvenda de residuo Iwnoit meoi{ nulla legata predicta. Et si contingat cjd residuum bonoij meorii non fuerit sufficiens ad mea debita solvenda tunc lego et concede qd nianerium meu de Byngbury in Cofii Kane vendetur p meos feoffaios tlicti nianerii ad sotvendu mea debita predca- Ita quo legal' predict' mea po?unt plenar et fideliP per- ticienda el imptenda secundu voluntatem et legacom meant pre- sentem. Itm legu Abbati de Mehfaunt xx. li. Itm lego magro de

52

HISTORY OF THE

Sir Stephen

SCROPE.

Rosse qui fuit arestatus ap Watreforth xx. ti. Itm lego et con- stituo meos executores timoi testamenti mei Milicentia Lescrop uxorem mea Johem de Tybbay personam ecctie de Wynsley Wiltm Ferre'set Wiltm Pontfreyt. In cujus rei testimoniu presentihuic testamento meo sigillum meu apposui. Dat^ vj^ die p^mi mens Januar anno dni miltmo cccc"** v***-

Probatum fuit presens testamentum coram dno in manerio suo de Lamhet' secundo die mensis Decembris anno dni miltmo cccc"° nono Scc.**'^

Sir Stephen Scrope married his father^s ward, Milicent, the second daughter and coheiress of Robert Lord Tiptoft, with whom he acquired the manors of Bentley in Yorkshire and Castle- comb in Wiltshire : she was bom in 1368,^ and was married in or before the year 1385.* Lady Scrope married secondly, on the 13th January 1409, the renowned Sir John Fastolf, K.G. who was then an Esquire serving in Ireland. He settled 100/. a year upon her for " her chamber,'^ which she continued to receive so late as the 24th Hen. VI. 1445-6. Fastolf survived her, and ordered his body to be buried under a marble tomb near the spot where she was interred in the conventual church of St. Bennet in the Holmes in Norfolk.*

Sir Stephen Scrope left issue a daughter, Elizabeth, who was unmarried at the time of her father's decease, and a son, Stephen, who settled on his mother's estate of Castlecomb in Wiltshire, and

I ^- was the ancestor of the Scropes of Castlecomb,

5io3\ now represented by William Scrope of Castle-

comb in the county of Wilts, and of Cockering- ton in the county of Lincoln, Esq.

The Arms borne by Sir Stephen Scrope of Bentley were, Azure, a bend Or, differenced by a mullet Ermine, in the upper part of the bend.^

' £x Reg. Arundell in Bibl. Lambeth asservat. vol. ii. fo. 40^ The copy in the toxt has been carefully collated with that Register, but it is obvious that there are many clerical errors. The same remark applies to the will of Roger Lord Scrope in pages 54, 55. ' Esch. 46 £dw. IIL u* 44. ' Rot Claus. 9 Ric. II. m. 29.

< Article " Fastolfe" in Kippis* Biographia Britannica.

^ Seal of Sir Stephen Scrope in 9 Ric. II. described in Thoroton's Nottingham- shire, p. 104, and a Roll of Arms now in the possession of the lUv. John Newling, Canon of Lichfield.

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i. Richard Scrope, a younger son of Richard First Lord ^"^' Scrope <)f Bolton. All which is known of liim is that by a deed dated at Laiigley on the vigil of the feast of All Saints, 40 Edw. 111., 31 October 1366, hia father granted him the manor of Lang- ley in the Bishoprick of Durham, to hold to him for life, together with ten shillings annual rent issuing out of the manor of Eshe in the said Bishoprick, he rendering to his father forty marks yearly. It was also provided, that if at any time the said rent should be in arrear for the term of one month, or if the said Richard should be promoted to any ecclesiastical benefite of the value of 40/. per annum, or if he should marry a woman who had inherited lands or tenements of that annual value, then, in that case, the said manor, &c. was to revert to the grantor or his heirs. No notice is taken of him in the Will of his father or brothers, and as the manor of Ijangley reverted to his brother, it is most probable that he died young and unmarried.

ROGER, SECOND LORD SCROPE of Bolton, the R™

Loni second son of Richard first Lord Scrope, was, according to the

inquisition taken on his father's decease in 1403, then aged thirty years and upwards,' but it is certain that he must have been considerably above forty.

It is remarkable that though so much is said of two of his brothers, scarcely any thing is known of Roger Lord Scrope : his name is not to be found in many contemporary records, nor is he once mentioned by the Deponents. He was summoned to Parlia- ment on the 20th of October and 23rd November 5th Hen. IV. 1403, but it does not appear from the Rolls that he ever sat under either uf the writs. Before the 4th Kic. II. 1380-1, Lord Scrope married Margaret the eldest daughter and coheiress of Robert Lord Tiptoft, one of his father's wards ; and on the 23rd of Sep- tember 1403 he made his Will, being then at Bolton Castle, which is remarkable from his bequeathing many of the same articles, and with the same conditions aa those up<m which he became possessed of them under his father's will.

I £scl].4IleD. IV. n° 3.

64 HISTORY OF THE

Roger, sicond « In dei nomine Amen. Ego Rogerus le Scrop diis de Bolton

Lord ScROPE. . ... ,. • o - i «^ j • • «n-

bone memone xxuj die mensis Septembr anno dommi miilio OGCC"^^ tercio apud Bolton condo testm meu in hunc modum. In primis do & lego animam meam deo et l^te Marie & omibus Sanctis & corpus meu deo placente ad sepeliend in mon AbBie sancte Agath jux" Richmd. Item volo qd omia debita mea (^aci? pbata primo & principalis psolvant' & qd omib3 & singlis quales- cumq^ fiSint qui vel que possint f^aciS probare qd quicq^ ab eis p extorsionem seu aliquo alio modo incongruo fieo vel habui de bonis meis satisfiat plenarie & indilate. Item lego ^dce AbBie quadra- ginta libras p & norale mortuarii mei. Itm lego cuitt canonico ejusd Abfeie ad obitu meu existenti vj.s. viij.d. Item lego Rico filio meo pcarissimo & heredi unu par de PaSnosSs de corayle cu monili aureo que quondam fuernt dni pris mei cum una cruce de auro qua usus fui & portavi cum bndictione dei gloriosissime vir- ginis Marie oim sanctoi^ & mea. Itm lego pdco Rico p capella de Bolton in Castro melius vestimentum meu integru cum meliori calice & turriBlo meliori cu duab3 ineliorib3 cruettis campana & pax- brede. Item lego eidem Rico unu portiforiu & unum missale de usu Eboif que Munt dni pris & hoc sub conditione qd semp remaneant rectis heredibus meis de corpe meo masculis. Itm eidem p principali camera lectum meum de velvet broudat' cum quatuor cos?s de ope de Arrays 8c quatuor tapettis ejusdem coloris lecti pdci cu linthrainib3 vidtt unu par de Reynes cu matresce blankett' & canvas p una vice pdict' lecto ptinen. Itm pelvem meu rotundu meliorem cum aquario de argento p pdca cania. Item p aula il^m aulam mea viridem cu griffons textam cu man- tellis armoif meoif duo carcatoria xij discos 8c xij salsaria argent^ unu salariu deauratu cooptum unu p pelv de argento coopt^ cu armis meis 8c dni Comitis Westmorland in fundo.^ Item duas ollas argenteas p butter meliores. Itm unum ciphum de argento cooptum vocat' le Constable cop. Itm unu maser vocat' Spang quos quidem ciphu & murram lego sub condic ^dict'. Itm una coupam cu uno aquario deaurato & enameles quam coupam cu aquario pdict^ quondam fuerunt dni Comitf ArundeD: duos discos p elemosina de argento cu armis meis & armis Com SufT quos dns pa? meus fiuit ex legatione Coin ^dictoi^ sub tti conditione qd semp remaneant rectis tiredibus meis in memoriale p^ctoif Comi-

* This cup is described in the Will of Richard Lord Scrope as having the arms of Neville thereon. Ralph Neville was made Earl of Westmoreland in 1397.

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turn. Itm meliorem meu Spiceplate arg. Itm ^ garderopa melio- Rooin, "■• rem gladium meum cum ijmib5 armatur meis artetriis fit tcntes tam ji corpe meo q'm |i municione Castri de Bolton. Itm in oiiii- bus ilontibus oflSc castri pdict' omia vasn enea ferrea pluinbea lignea k alia ulensilia & oiiiia legata pdca sibi lego sub tti condi- clone q^ nulla principalia pelat k lAff non. salva bridiccone di & mea. Itm p'dco Rico duo carcatoria argent' k nappiam de ope ^ principal! tabula in aula de Bolton ad seniel coopiend en so'napp et towale de [Wicto ope & ji sex tabulis in aula pdicta nappariam lineam competentem ad semel coopiend. Itm volo & p'n'' lego qd si debita mea ^aci^ |]bata vel aliqua male quesita ^lut ad principium istius testament! dcm est de bonis meis ull' legal' mea p^omiata plene psolvi no pnt qd de pdictis legatis pportionalit' retrahent' pro solutions debitoi} meoif. Ilm volo & lego qd residuum offiiu bonoi( meoi^ distribuat' & disponat' p executores testamenti mci & supvisores ejusdm secundum qd melius eis viderit p salute anime inee disponend. Itm volo qd ad obitu meu nulla fiat congregatio neq, solempnitas sed qd sint quinq, tapers cere circa corpus meu & qd serviciii fiat p Abbtem & Con*""' sancte Agath & p aliquos alios Abtetes sm qd viderit exec meia & qd xx" ti distribuant' inf paup- culos k egenos nouiie & toco dDe solempnitatf p executores meos ^cos. Kt ad oiiiia ista complenda & 6deliP pficienda ordino & eonstituo executores meos p magna gratitudinis affectione Marga- retani le Scrop ux?em meam ptarissimam Nicfimde Strylley milite Jotinem de Tibbay Ctieum Thomam Kesteven & Jofiem Grene- lane. Supvisores Po ejusdem facio k eonstituo ex causa pdict Henricii Fitz Hugh diim de Ravenswayth 8c Ricm de Norton. In cujus rei lestiom huic ^i'senti tcsto meo sigillu meu apposui. Dat die loco & anno suprodict.

CoDiciLLUs. — Memorandq*' si Ricus fiUus & heres Rici' [Hen- rici] de Grey dni nup de Wilton St Shirlond non consenciat ad mrio'" int' ipm k Matild filiam meam sollempnizatam quaiido idm Ricus ad etatem quatuordeccm annoi{ pven?it tune ego Ro^us Lescrop lego maritagium ejusdem Rici una cum custodia oim fVai^ suaif executorib3 meis in testament» meo nominat' ad dispo-

' Sic in the copy iu the Register at Larabelb, but it is properly written Henrici in the copy in the Arch i episcopal llegistry at York- Henry Lord Grey of Wilton died in the I9th Ric. II. leaving Richard hjs son three yeais of age, who, on his mother's decease in the 3rd Hen. IV., was found to be ten years old. It is not certain whether ihis marriage was consummated.

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Roger, second nend ad promotionem & maritagiura dee Matild et si concordat ad

dcm maritagiu idem Ricus cu ad dcam etatera pven?it tuc volo q*^ dicti execu tores mei disponant omia pficua dca^ ?ra2f ult* reprisas annuales p salute anime sue p discrecoem eoi^dem. In cujus rei testimo*"' huic ^senti cedule diet' testo raeo annex sigillu meu apposui. Dat' in Crastino sancti And? Apli anno r. r. Henrici quarti post conquestu quinto.

Tenore p^senciu nos Thomas &c. notum facimus q** xvij"" die mensis Januarii anno dni mitt*** cccc™**fcio in maiSio nro de Lamhith probatu fuit coram nobis testm dni Ro^ lescrop dni de Bolton una cu codicitt p^ntib5 annex Scc.'^^

Roger Lord Scrope survived his father only a few months, and died on the 3rd December 1403.- His wife Margaret Tiptoft was born in 1366,* and in the 7th Hen. IV. 1405-6 she married her second husband John Nixandser or Niandser. From a petition which she presented to Parliament in 1421 respecting her right to some manors, it appears that John de Tybbey, Clerk, one of her husband Lord Scrope's feoffees and executors, caused Nixandser to be indicted for ravishing Lady Scrope, of which offence he was however acquitted ; but on the 22nd July 1414 he was obliged to quit the country in consequence of having committed felony, and died about the year 1420.* The crime alluded to was the murder of the above mentioned John de Tybbey, and the circumstance is thus described in a contemporary chronicle under the year 1414. " On Seynt Marie Maudelyn day, John Neanser squyer, and his men, sclowen Maistre John Tybbay clerk, as he passed through Lad lane, for the whiche deth the same John Nyauncer, and iiij of his men fledden into Seynt Annes chirche withinne Aldrich- " gate ; and withinne the same chirche they were mured up, and men of diverses wardes watched them nyght and day. And the forsaid John Nyauncer and his men forsworen the Kynges lond, and passyd through the citee of London toward Caleys in there

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* Ex Reg. Arundell. in Bibl. Lambeth asservat. vol. i. fo. 204*.

* Inq. p. m. 5 lien. IV. No. 25. " Juratores dicunt Uogerus le Scrope Ch*r obiit die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Andree Apostoli ultimo pretcrito [In- quis. dated 1st July, 5 Hen. IV. 1404.] £t quod Ricardus Lescrope est filius & hsres ejusdem Rogeri propinquior & fuit statis decern annorum in festo Sancte Petronille Virginis ultimo preterito." ' Esch. 46 Edw. III. n*44.

* Rot. Pari. iv. 164.— See the Proofs.

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" schertes and breches, and icli of them a crosse in there hand."' f It thus appears that Tjbbey fell a victim to hia zeal for the Scrope family, as this attack upon him doubtless sprung from revenge for having prosecuted Niandser.

Lady Scrope made her Will on Friday the 13th of April 1431 m which she styled herself " Lady Margaret late wife of Sir Roger le Scrope, Knight and daughter of Sir Robert Tiptoft.' She ordered her funeral to be conducted at the discretion of her son Thomas Scropi. whom she appointed her executor; and de- sired that her body might be buried in the church of the Holy Tnnity of the pnory of Chnst Church, London. Her Will was proved on the 14th of May 1431.

Roger Lord Scrope bore the arms of his f t iniily, without any difference. By Margaret Tiptoft he had three children,

1 RICHARD, THIRD LORD SCROPE OP Bolton who was born 31 May 1393, and was ten years old at his father's death. . Thomas Scrope. All which is known of him is that he was the executor of his mother's will in May 1431 ; and that according to the inquisition 12th April 1459, on the death of Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton,' " Thomas Scrope Esquire, his uncle," was one of his Lordship's feoffees, in the 27th Hen. VI. 1448- 3, Maud, who was very young in 1404, and was then con- tracted to marry her father's ward Richard, son and heir of Henry late Lord Grey of Witton and Shirlond. From this period, all which is necessary to be said of the Family of SCROPE OF BOLTON will be found in the follow- ing Pedigree, whereby it will appear that the Barony is now vested in Charles Jones, Esq.

' CbroQicle of Loudon, p. 08, 99.

' Id July, 10 Hen. IV. 1409, the keeper of Cowyk Park, alias ifae Park of Kilpyn, was ordered to deliver " a ar'e tres cheie & bien amee Margarie Dame Le- scrop," twenty oaks out of Ihe said park, and a similar warrant was issued on the same day to llie paiker of Phippyn Park to deliver six oaks to ber. (Records of ihe Duchy of Lancaster,) ' See the Proofs and lUuslration».

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CHARTER BY WHICH ALICE AND MAUD, DAUGHTERS OF PHILIP LE SCROPE, CONVEYED LANDS IN PLOTMANBY TO THEIR UNCLE, SIMON LE SCROPE, 6 JOHN, 1205.'

[Referbed to in page 6.]

Omnibus hominibus presentibus et futuris Matildis et Alicia filie Philippi Scrop salutem. Scitis nos dedisse et concessisse et presenti carta nostra confirmasse Simo'i Scrop et heredibus suis totam terram que fuit Philippi Scrop patris nostri io feodo et in hereditate sicut finalis Concordia facta fuit in curia domini Regis per cyrographum apud Ebor. die Martis primo ante festum sancti Gregorii anno regni Regis Johannis sexto coram ipso domino Rege, G. fil. Pet. com. Essex, Simoni de Pa- teshill, Magistro Rad. de Stokes, Jacobo de Potema, Justiciariis, et aliis fidelibus domini Regis tunc ibidem presentibus, inter nos et predictum Simonem Scrop, scilicet in Flotemanbi unam carucatam terre cum omnibus pertinenciis et duos sol. redditus de Walt* Scankes et de here- dibus suis per annum et molendinum ad ventum, et in Folketon duas bovatas terre in dominico cum pertinenciis et servicium unius bovate terre et dimid. quas Henricus fil. Will'i tenuit et servicium dimidie bovate terre quam Walt* tenuit, et in Hundemanbi unam . bovatam terre cum pertinenciis, in Neubigging dimidiam carucatam terre cum perti- nenciis, & in Boitona tre sol. redditus et unam libram piperis per annum de triginta et tribus acris terre quas Willis Scrop tenuit, et in Hesel unum toftum et in Willardeby duas bovatas terre cum pertinenciis unde recognitio de morte antecessoris summonita fuit inter nos in predicta curia, scilicet quod idem Simon recognovit totam terram predictam cum pertinenciis esse jus nostrum. Et pro hac recognitione et fine et Con- cordia concessimus eidem Simoni totam illam predictam terram cum pertinenciis tenendam sibi et heredibus suis de corpore ejus genitis de nobis et heredibus nostris imperpetuum faciendo forinsecum servicium quod ad illam terram pertinet pro omni servicio. Et si ita contigerit quod idem Simon obierit sine herede de corpore suo genito tota predicta terra cum pertinenciis redibit ad nos et ad heredes nostros post obitum

' From the original among the muniments of Bolton Hall. VOL. II. K

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ipsius SimoDis quieta de heredibus ipsius Simon is imperpetuum. £t pro hac concessione et confirinacione predictus Simon dedit nobis viginti marcas argenti et Alicie matri nostre quinque marcas et x solidos. £t sciendum quod nos attornavimus ipsum Simonem ad faciendum pro nobis capitalibus dominis servicium quod ad illam terram pertinet. Hiis tes- tibus, Rad. de Norma'ville tunc vie. £bor\ Rad. de Muleton, Walt'o de Bovi*gton, Rad. de Novavilla, Rob. de Boithorp, Hug. de Magnebi.

One Seal contains a Griffin passant winged, inscribed, sioill' si'okis scROp. — ^The other seal is defaced.

CHARTER BY WHICH SIMON LE SCROPE OF FLOTMANBY, AND INGOLIANA HIS WIFE, GRANTED LANDS IN WENSLAY TO THEIR SON HENRY LE SCROPE.*

[Referred to in page 7.]

Omnibus has literas visuris vel audituris Simon Scrop de Flotemanbi ' et Ingoliana uxor ejus salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse et totum jus nostrum quietum clamasse Henrico filio nostro et heredi de tota terra nostra in Wandesle videlicet in villa et in territorio cum omnibus perti- nenciis predicte terre spectantibus^ illam videlicet quam tenuimus de Osberto filio Nigelli domino de villa de Wandesle/ et nos ipsos a predicta terra omnino dimisisse et dictum Henricum filium nostrum et heredem interposuisse ut ipse et heredes sui eam teneant et habeant libere quiete et pacifice pro omni seculari servicio et domanda ut unquam liberius tenuimus sicut in carta nostra continetur, et in hujus rei testimonium sigilla nostra buic scripto apposuimus. Hiis testibus, Eustach. de Ludha' tunc vicecomite Ebor*, Walt'o de Folketon, Henrico filio ejus, WiU'o de Redb'n, Walt'o de Sourebi, Will'o de Thameton, Ada de Drifeld, Will'o de Drifeld, Rad. filio ejus, Rob'to de Kelvi*gholm, Henrico filio WiU'i, Henrico Gurlewald de Folketon, Rad. Nobili, et Henr. de Fordon de Flixton, et multis aliis.

One of the Seals contains a Griffin passant without wings, and is inscribed — s .... on i p. — ^The other seal is obliterated.

NOTICE OF THE LANDS OF WILUAM DE SCRUB, IN LINCOLNSHIRE, BEING SEISED ABOUT THE 5'** JOHN, 1205, FOR FORGING THE KING^S SEAL.

Rex, &c. Vic' Line'. Scias quod dedimus Ade de Essex' clerico nostro pro servicio suo omnes terras et tenementa et jura que fuerunt Wil- lelmi de Scrubz, cujus terre et tenementa sunt excaeta nostra per felo- niam quam fecit de falsificacione sigilli nostri, et ideo tibi precipimus

' From tlie original among the muniments at Bolton Hall.

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quod eidem Ade vel certo nuncio suo litteras istas tibi deferenti plena- riam saisinam inde in omnibus sicut ex dono nostro sine dilacione habere facias et precipias omnibus tenentibus de terris et feodis illis quod eidem Ade tanquam domino suo de cetero sint intendentes et respondentes. Teste me ipso apud Lutegar' xxxviij die Nov. Rot. Glaus. 6 John, m. 1 1.

CHIROGRAPH BETWEEN SIR HENRY SCROPE, KNIGHT, AND THE ABBOT OP

ST. AGATHA, 1 JANUARY, 7 EDW. lU. 1333-4.

Hoc cyro^aphum inter dominum Henricum le Scrop militem advo- catum Abbathie sancte A^the cum pertinenciis ex una parte et domi- num Johannem de Percebrigg Abbatem predicte Abbathie et ejusdem loci conventum ex altera testatur quod cum predictus Abbas etconventus tenent de predicto domino Henrico diversa tenementa infra comitatum Ebor' et libertatem Richmondie per multa et diversa servicia, predicti Abbas et conventus concedunt pro se et successoribus suis quod de cetero tenebunt imperpetuum predicta tenementa de predicto domino Hen- rico et heredibus suis per tale servicium ex incremento preter supradicta servicia que hactenus fieri solebant de predictis tenementis videlicet quod predicti Abbas et conventus et eorum successores invenient unum canoni- cum idoneum capellanum divina celebrantem sumptibus ipsius Abbatis et conventus et eorum successorum omnibus et singulis diebus in ecclesia sancte Trinitatis de Wendeslagh ad altare beate Marie in eadem villa pro animabus Wiiri le Scrop et Co'stancie uxoris ejusdem Will'i patris et matris predicti domini Henrici et antecessorum suorum et pro animabus heredum dicti domini Henrici et Margarete uxoris ejus et heredum de corporibus eorum exeuntium. £t pro animabus domini Galfr'i le Scrop et Ivette uxoris ejus et animabus heredum de corporibus eorum exeun- tium. £t pro animabus heredum dicti domini Henrici. £t pro anima domini Henrici de Lasci quondam comitis Lincoln. £t pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctbrum. Ad que servicia et cantariam predictam ut predictum est facienda predicti Abbas et conventus se obligant pro se et successoribus suis imperpetuum. £t si predicti Abbas et conventus vel eorum successores de predicta cantaria in aliquo tempore defecerint bene liceat predicto domino Henrico et Margarete uxori ejus et heredibus de corporibus eorum exeuntibus et heredibus dicti domini Henrici qui pro tempore fuerint distringere in omnibus terris et tenementis cum perti- nenciis quas dicti Abbas et conventus de dicto domino Henrico tenent infra comitatum Ebor' et libertatem Richmondie et distrecciones retinere quo- usque predicti Abbas et conventus qui pro tempore fuerint de predicta

1 From the original among the muniments at Bolton Hall.

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cantaria et arreragiis satisfecerint. £t si forte erenerit qaod absit quod aliqui Abbates vel conventus qui pro tempore emnt aliquam acqoietan- tiam vel acquietancias impetraverint ad predictam cantariam extiiiguend% predict! Abbas et conventus concedunt pro seet successoribus suis quod ilia acquietantia vel acquietantie vacua et vacue sint et pro nullis habeantur. Et pro hac concessione dictus dominus Henricus dedit predictis Abbati et conventui ducentas libras sterlingorum in magna necessitate sua« In cujus rei testimonium parti hujus indenture penes dictum dominum Henricum remanenti dicti Abbas et conventus sigillum suum commune apposuerunt, et parti hujus indenture penes predictos Abbatem et conven- tum remanenti predictus dominus Henricus sigillum suum apposuit. Dat. apud sanctam Agatham die Sabati primo die Januarii anno Domini M**ccc tricesimo tertio et anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii a conquestu septimo.

The Seal is inscribed — sigillum £cclesi£ s'c£ agathje, and pre- sents on the obverse, an Abbot under a canopy, holding a crosier in his right hand with the legend s. abbatis s'cje agatha.

INQUISITION AFTER THE DEATH OP SIR HENRY SCROPB, 10 EDW. III. 1336.

Ju R atores dicunt quod Henricus le Scrop obiit 7" die Septembris &c. Dicunt etiam quod dictus Henricus tenuit maneria de Westboulton East Boulton Parva Boulton &c. in comitatu Ebor' qui quidem Henricus recog- novit predicta maneria esse jus Ricardi de Langeford cappellani ut ilia que idem Ricardus habet de dono predicti Henrici. Et pro hac recog- nitione fine et concordia idem Ricardus concessit predicto Henrico pre- dicta maneria. Et ilia ei reddidit in eadem curia habenda & tenenda eidem Henrico de capitalibus dominis feodi illius tota vita ipsius Henrici. Et post decessum ipsius Henrici predicta maneria integre remanebunt Willielmo filio ejusdem Henrici & hseredibus masculis de corpore suo Sec, tunc post decessum ipsius T^illielmi predicta maneria integre re- manebunt Stephano fratri ejusdem Willielmi & heeredibus masculis &c. Et si contingat quod idem Stephanus obierit sine heerede masculo de corpore suo &c. tunc post decessum ipsius Stephani predicta maneria integre remanebunt Ricardo fratri ejus Stephani & heeredibus masculis de corpore suo &c. Et si contingat quod idem Ricardus obierit sine httrede masculo de corpore suo &c. tunc post decessum ipsius Ricardi predicta maneria integre remanebunt rectis hseredibus predicti Henrici &c.

Dicunt etiam quod dictum manerium de Parva Bolton tenetur de domino Galfrido le Scrope per servicium militare. Dicunt etiam quod Willitslmui le Scrope est Alius & heeres ejusdem Henrici propinquior & ekt uitttti» lexdecim annorum.

FAMILV Oy SCROPE OF BOLTON. 69

BXTHACT PROM THB INQUISITtONS AFTER THB DEATH OP SIR WILLIAM SCROPE, KNT. 18 EDW. [11- 1344.

Inq. coram Jolianne Windsor cscaetore Warr' et Leic', 5 Jan. 18 Ed.lII.bundellalD Ed. HI. m. 61, " JuratoMB dicunt ((uod Wmjelmua filius Henrici le Scrope lenuit apud Medbume in Com. Lecesir, de Bege in capile per servitium ij'' per annum solvend' in scaccar' Regis per ma- nus Vic. Leic, et idem Willielmus obiit 17 Novembria ultimo preierito, et quod RicarduB le Scrope frater predict! Willielmi est herei et etatis 17 annonira."

Inq. coram Thoma de Rolceby escaetore Regis in Com. Eboru' die Lune prox. ante festum Pasche 19 Ed. III. m. 61. " Juratores dicunt quod Willielmu$ le Scrope filius Henrici obLit sine herede masculo, et quod manerium de EdJington couceditur Henrico Scrope ad termiaum Tite ; remanere Willielmo filio predict! Henrici in feodo tallialo masculo : remanere Stephano fratri ejusdem Willielmi defuDcto et hecedibus mas- culis ; remanere Ricardo fratri ejusdem Stephani."

CHARTER OP RICHARD FIBST LORD SCROPE OP BOLTON, GRANTING THE HANOH OP LANGLEY CO. DUHHAH TO RICHABD HIS SON, 31 OCTOBER 40 EDW. 111. 1366.'

SciANT presentea et futuri quod ego Ricardus Le Scrop miles dedi coDcessi et hac present! carta indentata confirmavi Ricardo Ulio meo manerium meum de Langley cum perlinentiis una cum redditu decern solidorum exeuntium annuatim de maoerio de Esshe cum perlinentiis in Episcopalu Dunelm. Habendum et teiieodum ad totam vitam ipsius Ricardi filii mei Reddendo inde annuatlm michi ad totam vitam meam XL marcas sterlingorura ad festum sancti Martini in yeme et Pentecost per equales portiones et faciendo capitalibus dominis feodi illius servicia inde debita et consucta. Et si contingut predictus reddttus xl marcarum post aliquem terminum per unum mensem a retro existeie in parte vel in toto vel si Ricardus filius meus piomotus fuerit ad aliquod beneficium ecclesiastic um de valore xl librarum per annum aut maritatus fuerit ad aliquam puellam habentem terras et tenementa de valore xl librurum per annum per descensum liereditarium per me vel heredes meos bene liceat ex tunc michi et heiedibus meis manerium predictum cum perli- nentiis una cum redditu predicto decern solidotum annuali cum perli- nentiis inlrare el retinere imperpetuum. Et ego vero predictus Ricardus et heredes mei manerium et redditum x solidoruni annualem supradictos cum suis perlinentiis prefato Ricardo tilio meo ad totam vitam suam in

' From Ihe arigin.il among ilie muDinieuls al Uolioti Hall.

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forma prenominata contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus et defendeinus. In cujus rei testimonium parti hujus carte indentate penes prefatum Ri- cardum (ilium meum remanenti sigillum meum apposui, alteri yero parti ejusdem carte erga me resident! prefatus Ricardus filius meus sigillum suum apposuit. Hiis testibus, Rogero de Fulthorp, Johanne de Byrtley, Gilberto de Clyfton, Joh'e de Byscopdale de Coverham, Joh'e del Orchard de Langlegh, et aliis. Dat. apud Langley in vigilia Omnium Sanctorum anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum quadragesimo. Sealed with a device.

EXTRACT FROM THE INQUISITION AFTER THE DEATH OP RICHARD, FIRST LORD SCROPE OF BOLTON, WHO DIED 30 MAY, 4 HEN. lY. 1403.

Inq. apud Lecest' die Mercurii prox. ante festum sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno 4 Hen. IV. coram Reginaldo de Langham escaetore Regis in Com. Leic. The Jury found that ** Ricardus le Scrope Chivaler obiit SO die Maii ultimo preterit, et quod Rogerus le Scrope Chivaler est filius et heres ejusdem Ricardi et est etatis SO annorum et amplius."

EXTRACT FROM THE INQUISITIONS AFTER THE DEATH OF ROGER, SECOND LORD

SCROPE OF BOLTON, 5 HEN. IV. 1405.

Inq. capta apud Melton Mowbray 1 Julii 5 Hen. IV. coram Petro Pilly escaetore Leyc'. ** Rogerus le Scrope Chivaler tenuit die quo obiit conjunctim cum Margareta uxore sua adhuc superstite roaneria de £mer- thorpe et Wymondham et terras in Barstone tenend' eisdem Rogero et Margarete et heredibus de corporibus eorum, remanere rectis heredibus ipsius Margarete, et manerium de Emerthorpe tenetur de Rege ut de Honore de Leycestr' per servitium militare, et manerium de Wymond- ham tenetur de Rege ut de Honore predicto per servitium militare, et Ro- gerus obiit die Lune prox. post festum Sancti Andree ultimo preterite, et quod Ricardus le Scrope est filius et heres ipsius Rogeri et etatis 10 an- norum in festo Sancte Petronille Virginis ultimo preterite."

By the Inquisition taken at York, which agrees as to the time of his death and his heir with the above, it was found that " Ricardus le Scrope Chivaler tenuit Estbolton et Westbolton in Wenslawdale : manerium de Estbolton tenetur de domino Castri de Richmont et manerium de West- bolton tenetur de Rad'o Comite Westmerland*."

EXTRACT FROM THE INQUISITION AFTER THE DEATH OF RICHARD, THIRD LORD SCROPE OF BOLTON, WHO DIED 8 HEN. V. 1418.

Inq. in Com. Hertf. die Lune prox. ante festum Martini 8 Hen. V. '* Juratores dicunt quod Richardus Scrope de Boltone obiit 29 Augusti

ultimo preterito et quod Hi pinquior et heres tEtatis 3 i

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON. 71

lius ipsiiis Kicardi est filius ejus pro-

PBTITION FROM MARGARET LADY SCROPB, WIDOW OP ROGER, 8EC0> SCROPE OF BOLTON, TO THE COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT, 9 BEN. ^

a LORD 1421.'

A LEs tres sages Comunes en cest present parlement, Supplie humble- meut Margarete, qui fuist la femme Roger Scioope, Cliivaler, que corae Nicholl' Slrellay Chtvalet, Richard de Norton, et Johan TybbayClerc, qui feurent les fefies le dit Roger le Scroope, assignerent par lour Taitez en- denteez al dite Suppliant en dower, nome de dowement du dit Roger Scrope, les Manoirs de Clif et Downam, ove les appurtenauntz ; el tout?, les terres et tenementz en Walboum et Morek ; le Manoiir de Mi- deltou ; touz les terres el tenementz en Sniderby et Tliornbtirgh, ove les appurtenauntz ; quatre marcz de rent a prendre des Manours de Edling- lon et Burton ; les Manours de Braken, Sladmere, Ediingtoii, et Warnesworth ; rentes, terres et tenementz en Bralhewell, Wadworth, Al- worthelay, Loversale, et Bentelay ; et toutz les teoementz en Hull, deinz le Countee d'Everwyk, en allouance de certeines autres terres et tenementz qui furenl a dit Roger: desqueux manours, terres et tenementz, la dite Supliante fuist seise tant qua I'an vij"" le Roy Henry, pelr le Roy q'ore est, que Deux assoile, qu'ele prist a baron une Johau Nixaiid- ser : lequele Johan par excitaclon de dit Johan Tibbay fuist endite, de ce qu'il avoit raveye la dite Supplianle, de quele rapele le dit Johan fuist arreigne en Banke le Roy, et illoesque acquitt, solonc le ley del tene, come appiert de record. Lequel Johan Nixandger, le xxij jourde Juyll, I'an seconde de Roy q'ore est, pur une felonie qu'il ad fait devaunt, abjura la terre. Apres quele abjuracion, Richard le Scrop, come litz et heir au dit Suppliant, par cause de I'empeshementdu rape avaunt dit, entra en les ditz manours, terres, et tenementz assignez en dower ; prote- naunt, que la dit Suppliaunt ne poet avoir accion duraunl la vie du dit Jo- ban Nixaundser, lequell Richard Scrope morusl avaunt le dit Johan Nyaiid- ser, et toutz les ditz maooires, terres, et tenen^entz, assignez al dit Sup- pliant en dower, furent seisez en la mayn le Roy, par cause que feusl trove devaunt I'Eschetour de Bokingham, que le dit Richard Scrope fuist seise del manour de Hameldene, et mesme le manour tenoit de noatre S' le Roy par service de chivaler, tant que disseisie par le dit Suppliant, William Acworth, et autres, la ou le dit manour de Hamelden est tenuz de Count de Sat" et nemy de nostre S' le Roy ; et le dit William Acworth, Guy Fairfax, et William Diggings, <jui

' Kol, Pari, iv, p. 164.

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feurent seisiz du dit maDoir de Hameldene long temps devant que le dit Richard Scrop dens avoit, tant que disseise par le dit Richard Scroope. Sur quoi le dit William, Guy, et William Diggings entre- roDt, et lour estate contindront, tanqe ils furent oustez par vertue de dit office; apres quele ouster, le dit Johan Nyandser morust. Que pleise a vous tres honurables Seigneurs, de assenter en cest present parlement, et prier a I'haut et puissant Prince le Due de Bedford lieutenant d'Engleterre, et touz les Seigneurs Espirituelx et Tem- porelx en cest present parlement assemblez, que la dite Suppliaunte par auctorite d'icest present parlement poet estre prive, et avoir avantage del dit Record en Baunk le Roy, par lequele le dit Johan Nyandser fuist acquite vers chescune persone, soient ils prive ou estraunge al dit Recorde. Et auxint par mesme I'auctorite, q'ele poet entrer en toutz les dit manours, terrez, et tenementz a luy devaunt assignez, come desus est dit, et les tener et enjoyer selonc I'effect et content du dit assignement en dower; ascune chose par le dit Johan Nyandser, devaunt faitz, ou ascune seiseyn en le mayn nostre S** le Roy, des manoirs, terres, et tenementz, ou ascunes patentes nostre S** le Roy des ditz manoures, terres, et tenementz, ou ascune parcelle de eux faitz, nient obstant; pur Dieuxet en overe de charite.

Hesponsio, — Soit il en la eleccion del Suppliant, de suer au Roy par voye de grace avoir ceste partie, ou q*ele vorra sue en la Chauncellery du Roy pur son recoverer avoir, solonc le cours de la comune ley.

EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF RALPH NEVILLE, FIRST EARL OF WESTMORE- LAND, IN CORROBORATION OF THE STATEMENT THAT HIS DAUGHTER MARGARET MARRIED RICHARD, THIRD LORD SCROPE OF BOLTON.

<< Item filise mese Lescrop j ciphum deaureatum."

THOMAS SCROPE, SURNAMED BRADLEY,* BISHOP OF DROMORE.

As this eminent person cannot with certainty be affiliated, it is de- sirable that a few words should be said of him in this place, for his rank and talents were too conspicuous to justify his being passed over in si- lence. From the circumstance of his being nearly one hundred years old at his decease in 1491, and from the arms on the monument which for- merly existed in Lowestoffe church to his memory, being those of Scrope

1 He was called ^ de Bradley'' from his birth-place, as was then the custom upon entering into religious orders ; and acquired the nidiments of his education in the little priory there. Nicbob* Leic. vol. ii. p. 509.

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of Bolton quartering Tiptofi, difFerenced by a crescent,' it might be pre- suiDcd that he was the second son of Roger second Lord Scrope of Bol- ton by Margdret Tiptoft ; but this conjecture is rendered improbable by their having a son, Thomas, who was an Esquire so late as the year 1448.' As no notice is taken of the Bishop of Dromore in any of the records or wills which have been discovered, it would be useless to hazard conjec- tures about his parents. Bale states that Thomas Schofe was born at Bradley in Leicestershire, and was descended from the Lords Scrope of Yorkshire; and, says Fuller,' " rolled through, many professions," which he thus describes —

"1. He was a Benedictiae, but found that order too loose for his con- science. 3. A Carmelite of Norwich, as a stricter profession.

3. An Anchorite, (the dungeon of the prison of Carmelitisme.) where-

in he lived twenty years,

4. Dispensed with by the Pope, he became Bishop of Dromore in

Ireland.

5. Quitting his bishopiick, he returned to hia solitary life; yet so,

that once a week he used to walk on his bare feet and preach the Decalogue in the villages round about,"

Fuller adds — "He lived to be extremely aged; for about the year iiiS, cloathed in sackcloth and girt with an iron chain, he used to cry out in the streets — ' That New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb, was shortly to come down from Heaven prepared for her spouse: Rev. xxi. : and that with great joy he saw the same in the spirit.'

" Thomas Waldensis, the great anti-Wicklevite, was much offended thereat ; protesting it was a scandal and disgrace to the Church. How- ever, our Scroope long outlived him, and died aged well nigh one hundred years, ' Non sine sanctitatis opinione,' say both Bale and Pitz ; and it is a wonder they meet in the same opinion."

Bishop Scrope wrote various theological pieces, the titles of which are given by Bale. He was made Bishop of Dromore in Ireland in' 1449, consecrated at Rome in 1450, and by Pope Eugenius IV. sent legate to

' GiUingwaier'a History of Lowestoffe, pages 295, 340. Nkhola' Leic. ul supra.

■ See the next page. ' Puller's Worlliies, Suffolk, p. 69.

' According to Ware's Catalo^e of the Bishops of Ireland, succeeded to that See in 1434 and resigned il in 1440; bullhisaco ■with other authorities.

TOL. II. L

. 768.

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the isle of Rhodes. Whilst bishop, he was, in 1454, instituted by Ed- mund de Grey Lord Hastings to the rectory of Sparham in Norfolk. In 1460 he resigned the bishoprick, and came again into Norfolk as vicar- general to the bishop of that diocese, whose suffragan he continued to be during twenty years. He was instituted to the vicarage of Trowse in Norfolk in 1466, became Vicar of Lowestoffe in Suffolk on the 27th May 1478, and died at that place on the 25th January 1491, where he was buried. According to Bale these lines were inscribed on his tomb —

'' Venit ad occasum morbo confectus amaro. Spiritus alta petit, pondere corpus humum.''*

EXTRACT PROM THE INQUISITIONS AFTER THE DEATH OP HENRY FOURTH LORD

SCROPE OF BOLTON, 37 HEN. VI. 1459.

Inq. apud Wobume Chapell in Comitatu Bedd' die Veneris prox. post festum Omnium Sanctorum anno regni Henrici VI. tricesimo septimo coram Thoma Suthwicke escaetore. " Henricus Scrope de Bolton obiit 14 Januarii ultimo preterite. Elizabetha uxor ejus super- stes habuit manerium de Sondon in Comitatu Bed* in dotem, et Johan- nes le Scrope miles est filius et heres propinquior Henrici et etatis 22 annorum in festo sancte Marie Magdalene ultimo preterite, et mane- rium de Sondon tenetur de Johanne Duce Norfolc' ut de Mariscalcia Anglic per servitium ob' per annum tantum."

Inq. capta 12 Aprilis anno 37 H. VI. apud Doncaster coram Will'o Stoke escaetore. ^* Juratores dicunt quod dictus Henricus Scroppe diu ante mortem suam fuit sesitus jure hereditario postmortem Ricardinuper Domini le Scrope de Bolton militis patris sui ut filius et heres ejusdem Ricardi de maneriis de Westbolton, Ridmere, Prestone, Wenlaghe, Ley- bum, Homeby, Burton in Byshopsdale. Et sic inde seisitus omnia maneria, &c. per cartam suam datam secundo die mensis Septembris, anno regni regis Henrici sexti vicesimo tertio dedit et concessit Roberto Nevill nuper Episcopo Dunel* jam defuncto, Ric'o le Scrop clerico, Will'mo le Scrope clerico, Thome le Scrope armigero, Roberto Danby Justiciario, Joh'i Lounde clerico, habend' sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum. Et sic inde seisiti dederunt, &c. Johanni Domino le Scrop jam defuncto et aliis ad usum predicti Henrici le Scrop. Et dicunt quod Thomas Scrope armiger avunculus predicti Henrici domini le Scrope, fuit nuper seisitus de xl. messuagiis &c, et dedit per cartam suam datam 7 Nov. 27 Hen. VL Magistro Ric' Scrope clerico Rectori ecclesie de Wensley et aliis ad

' See the whole inscription in Nichols^ Leicestershire sub Bradley, in which he is said to have been *' Progenie clarus, Scrouporum sanguine.*'

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

UBum predict! Henrici Lescrop. Obiit iste Henricus dominus Scrope 14 Januarii anno 37 H.VI. et Joliannes le Sctope' armiger est filing et heres ejus propinqiiior et fuit in feato Sancte Marie Magdalene ultimo preteritt)

"Y RicnuRD ofScropeknyght Lord of Bolton kavyngwellmy wyttes — ^To be byryed atte the Abliey of Seynt Agase in Rycliemondscbyre — Abbey of Seynt Agase xA of gold — that Thomas be pay d of the good that ys owand hym — he to make a state of Pysso ' to niyn executo's as good as has eny — Syr Rauffof Guyr be payd of the good that is owand tyll hym of the manor of Langtey and Watsalle — he to make astate in tlie same land." He ordered that there should be " founden v prestes for me and t clerkes and iij pou' men — yika prest to have xij marc and yike clarkvj mark, yike pou'' man ij marks — unto the tyme that myn e tours may gete lycens of the Kyng and of the Pope lo founde a Colege for the prestes &c.— Myn eieculours to make the cost of the byggyng and the arayng of the sayd College — To the Churche werkes of York x/. — iiij ordres of Freres in York and Freres in Rychemond to pray for me — My younger son' that y have be my wyfF that he be gov'ned be myn enecutours — he have xxl. of lyflod when he comys to full age duiyng his lyve. — An neys Marshal! lo have xsMyll here maryage and she be well gov'ned. — Y wyll that the eldest sone y have by here have xx/. of gold. — Yoiig' sone that y have by here xxl. and they be gov'ned by myn executo'a. — Cosyn mayster Marmnduc Liimley to have all the lond in Bysschop Ryke of Derham tim of hys lyf ewtakeLangley and Watsalle. — Yif so be thai the Kyng be good lord to myn executours and to my wyll I wyll forgeve half the gold that the Kyng awe for my wages npon weddys.' — Cosyn Marmaduk Lumley, a cuppe of sylver ys callid the Con- stable boUe. — My Lorde of Clarence nl /.—He appointed " my Lord of Clarence and my cosyn mayat'r Marmadue Lumley clerke," his executors. — Y beseche my lorde of Clarence that hebe good lord and myn executour

' According [o the Inquisition taken at "Woubom Chapeli" in Bedfordshire, John le Serope Knight, vfas tweniy-/iuo years of age.

' Tlie Manor of Pisboo, In HerlfoTdshirc.

' Apparently Richard, aftei-wards Bishop of Carlisle, who was Ihen aboul a year old.

* His wages for serving in the wars of France, for the payment of which he had I. raceived weddys, i. e. pledges or security, which probably consisted of plate or jewels.

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as my tryste ys in hym above all other creatures. — Wreten at Rone xxiiij Janyii* 7 H. V.'" 1420. — Proved 8 November 1420 before Mr. John Gascoigne by MaiTnaduk Lumley.

ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF JOHN, FIFTH LORD SCROPE OP BOLTON,

1494—1498.

" At Estharlyng S July 1494 I John Lorde Scrop. — To be beryed in the Abbey of Seynt Agas in Yorke Shyre yf I deceasse in the forsaid Shyre, and yf in the Shyre of Norff than to be byryed in the queer of the Blake Fryers in Thetforde or in another as convenyent. — Wyffe Anne, goods, &c. — Sone and heir Henry Scrop, stuff at Bolton Castle &c. — said Sonne, plate which I leyd to plegge to St. Christopher's gylde in York. — Residew to my executrice or executours. — I name my wiff Anne now Lady Scrop, sole executrice, which charge if she take I name coadjutors Guy Fayrefax, Henry Heydon knyghts, Willy am Berdewell Esq. Henry Spelman, John Aylwerd, P'sson of Estharlyng, and John Paynot P'sson of Westonfavell — if she refuse, then I ordayne my seid son Henry Scrop, Guy Fayrefax and Henry Heydon knyghts, executours, and Willyam Ber- dewell, Henry Spelman, my broder Thoms Metcalff of Nappay, and the others, coadjutors — Surveyours Bishop of Ely, my Lord Privy Seall, the Erie of Oxinford and the Earle of Surr."

Codicyll dated 8th August 1498 which *' though I be not in power to

subscribe it with myn ease yet I comaund and will that it be sealed with

myn armys and privy signett. — ^To my lady my moder, a cuppe, &c. —

To Syr Henry Scrop, my son and heir my parlement Roobys. — Wiff Ann,

Lady Scrop, surplusage of the revenues of the manor of Harleston. — Mais-

ter Rauff Scrop, my broder, lityll bibyll at Bolton. — Robert Scrop, my

broder, my chamelett gowne. — Abbey of St, Agas, my bybill imprented

and my book also imprented called Cronica Cronicar*. — To the College of

Russheworthe, vestments. — Wife Anne, rev'sion of lands in Suffolk after

her decease to litill John Scrop and the heirs of his body lawfully coming

— remaynderto son Henry Scrop. — Lady my moder Elisabeth to holde for

lyff, manors &c. which she had of the gyft of my lorde my fader Henry

Lord Scrop." — Feoffees to be enfeoffed of my manors of Disford, Rayn-

ton, Norton and Synderby, M idyl ton Quemow, Sutton Howgrave, and

Thomebargh, Fencotez, Fletham and Uckurby co. York for wife Anne,

if she be my executrix ; if not, to hold the same for ten years, to pay

debts, &c. — also said feoffees to be enfeoffed of my manors of Bryg-

nail and Homeby co. York — after decease of my mother, all lordships

»

I Lord Scrope was at the siege of Rouen in 1419, and early in 1420.

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Sic. which belong to her, to remain to my son and bis heirs, that of Hamylden excepted for three years. — If my said son act contrary to my will, my manor of Pysho with the park in Sabrigeworth co. Herts, manours of Rampton and Cotenham ro. Carabrigge &c. to be sold and given by my said wife unto som other worshipfull man Slc. — " Whereas I and my seid son Henry for dyv's causes concernyng the mariage of Alice doughter and heir of my cosyn Scrop of Upsale the which is maryd to his eldest son, stonde bownde to the Kyng to pay to hvni 400 marcs beside 100 that I have payed to the Kyng for the same cause, it is aggred betwix me and the said Henry that if 1 decesse before it be all payd, the said Henry shall pay the same reaidew, for which I grant hym to enjoy all the londs &c. which were my seid cosyn's Scrop of Upsale, which shall com to myn hands, duryng the seid doughter's noneage — Whereas T have granted to my said son towarde the maryage of his doughter Elizabeth to be maryed to a gentilman clepid StapilLon 400 marcs."

Proved 8 November 1498 by the procurator for Henry Lord Scrop of Bolton, executor.

OF THE WILL OF ANNE, WIDOW OF JOHN, FOURTH LORD SCROPE

OF BOLTON, 1498.

Anne Scrop, Lady Scrop of Harlyng— KSlh August, 1498— To be buryed in the chapell of Seynt Anne joyned to the chauncell of the churche of the holy appoatellis of Seint Peter and Paule in Estharlyng in the tombe with my late worshipfull husbond Sir WiU'm Chamber- layn — High awter &c. of said chirche 100s.— Said chirche of Harlyog ij clothes for the high awter of russelt velvett and pondered Ac. — To oure Ladye awter wher my fader ligh in the seid chirche. — Church of Quyden- ham 26s.— St. Mary chirche of Stratton 40s. ifec — Chirche of Barnham- brom 20s. — Chirche of Bekerston 6s. 8d. &c. — Chirche of Lounde 13s. 4d. Jkc.— Chapel of our Lady in Wakton 6s. 8d. Ac— College of Russhe- worthe, vestments, &c. — Gunvyle-hall, Cambridge, vestments, &c. — Chirches of Foxton, Weston, vestment with my huabond's arms Sit Will'm and mine departed.— Churches of Omberton, Addyngton, Gad- desden, Stanford, Lorton, Blondeston, Lirlyng in Newton, Wymondham, Gnatishall, altar cloths &c. — College of Attilburghv marcs towards repair- ing chapel whereat myn auncestres the Mortymers ligh — Priory of Cha- combe, a chalis and my husbond's name Sir Robert and myn upon the foote— Friars of Thetford, white friars of Cambridge where I am foundresse, cloths &C-— Austyn fryers in Thetford, where my great grauiidame Mar-

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gery Tudenham daughter of Sir Thomas Jenney ligh, and Dame Eliza- beth Hengrave her daughter. — Priories of Bokmham (wfaeie ligh of myn auncestres), Letheryngham, Westacre, Castelacre, noones at Tbetford, vestments &c. — Dame Elizabeth Moantney Gs. 8d. to pray for me. — Priouress of Lampsey and ladies there where I am suster 20s. to pray for me. — Dame Barbara Jemyngham, my keneswoman there 6s. 8d. — Pri- ouries &c. of Crabhouse, Sholdham, Blakbargh, Marham, Larow, Brose- yerd (where I am suster), to pray for my soul ; Dame Anne Jemyng- ham there my keneswoman. — Austin friars, London, where my cousin Sir Thomas Tudenham is buryed, vestment with his arms and the aims of Harlyng departed. — Austyn friars Norwich, where I am suster 20s. — Grey friars of Babewell where I am suster. — Hous of Syon, where I am suster, 40s. — Priory of St. Tdoffes, wher of myn auncestres ligh. — Priory of Redelyngfeld.^Nevew, Robert WyngfeUL, bed, &c. — Elizabeth Cokett 40s. &c. — Anne Bardewell 6s. 8d. &c. — Jane Poky, 40s. — Anne Cathorp 20s. &c. — Margaret HowyslSs.4d.&c — Jone Kirstemas, 15s.4d. — Niece Elizabeth Wyngfeld, my god-daughter, beeds which were my suster*s Dame Elizabeth Wyngfeld. — Niece Elianore gown &c — Anne and Elizabeth Brampton, frontletts &c. — ^Anne Spelman, bonnet, &c. — Jane Hasset, gown &c. — Old BardewelFs wyf, gown &c. — Mar- g^aret Chamberlayn, gown &c. — Sir John Hamelyn, the steward 5 marcs. — My lady, my lord's moder, sawter, &c. — ^To my lady, wyff to my son, now Lord Scrop, gyrdylL — My yonge lady of Upsall, a glas &c. — Yche of my lord my 8on*s daughters, a remembraunce. — Litell John Scrop, my botell cheyned &c. — Son Lord Scrop, a bolle. — Broder Maister Rauff, goblet. — Broder Robert Scrop, crewse of sylver for Renysshe wyne. — Suster Bygott — Sister Radcliff. — Suster Katherine. — Nece Wymondham — Son Henry Scrop, a white roosse with a balys &c. — My Lorde of Suff, my godson, a premer which Kynge Edward gaufie me. — Lady of Ozin- ford, coffer. — My lorde of Surrey a Frenche book, called the Pistill of Othia. — ^Lady of Surrey, a demyssent &c — My lord Howard, a ring &c. — Lady Jane Knyvett, spoon of beryl &c. — Sister Dame Elizabeth Wyng- feld, white ruban &c — Sbter Dame Anne Wyngefeld, towels &c. — Nece Anne Echingham, ring &c. — Niece Katherine Brewse, ring &c. — Yche of my nevews, my suster Dame Elizabeth^s childem, an old noble, and over that to my nevew Sir Edward, a Frenche book. — Nevew Sir John, a cup whiche I have to plegge of his, so that he pay £l0 to myn oxGCUtour»,— Cosyn Dame Elizabeth Chamberieyn, girdle &c. — God- daughter Anne Knyvett, gold chain &c. — Cossyn Dame Elizabeth Foikewe, a forke for grene gynger. — Cosain Dame Elizabeth Cal- thorpe, ipoon for grene gynger. — Niece Margaret Berdewell, bed

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&c. — Anne Everton, towel &c. — Cossen Dame Ele*^ Lovell, ring. — Her daughter Anne» my grand-daughter. — ^Anne Este, ring. — Ka- therine Lenthorp, ewes &c. — Dorothe Curson, ring &c. — Dame Anne Blakeney, whyte booke of prayers — Broder WylFm Wyngfeld, spoon. — Sir John Benyngham, Sir Wyll'm Knyvett, Sir John Paston, Sir Wyll'm Wyndham, Sir Robert Clere, Sir Wyll'm Boleyn, Sir Robert Lovell, Sir Gregory Lovell, spoons &c. — Sir Henry Heydon, cup.^--01d Wyll'm Bardewell, cup, and I pray him, after his decease he will leve it to his daughter my nece Margaret. — Sir Henry Hug. gard, Richard and Robert Southwell, Humphrey Catty sby, Roger Pilkington, Richard Puddisey, Roger Palle, Robert Harydunce, John and Edward Jemyngham, Robert Barnard, Thomas Blake, Robert and William Brampton, John Hassett, each a spoon. — Will'm Bardewell the younger, an old noble.— Robert Bardewell, my godson, ewes &c. — Will'm Mountney and Will'm Chamberlayn, my godson, ewes &c — Will'm Tyllys, pair of fustians &c. — Robert Bastard, a bed &c. — John Yaxley, the serjeant, a spoon &c. — Groddaughter Ursula Fitzwater, yf she be a woman of religion, 5 marcs — Groddaughter Anne Fitzwater, to pray for me, a premer. — Sir Thomas Lovell, a garter of gold. — Syster Wyndham, girdle. — Dame Anne Heydon, girdle. — Old Southwell's wyff, a coffer &c. — ^Thomas Fynchin, bedde &c. — Cosyn Anne Henyngham, Margaret Jemyngham, M*** Yaxley, each a sampler &c. — Elizabeth Denton, girdle. — Anne and Mary Teryngham, each a pair of sheets. — Niece Margaret Bardewell, bedde &c. — Nephew Robert Wyngfeld and Sir Thomas Fyncham, 2 quart pots &c. — Thomas Mayhewe 20s. — Niece Eleinor bedes. — Executours my nevew Robert Wyngfeld Esq. which I have brought up sythen he was a child of iij yeres old, my cosyn Will'm Bardewell the elder, maister Thomas Fyncham, and Sir John Candisshe, parson of Quydenham.

Proved 8 November 1498, by Robert Wyngfeld and Thomas Fyn- cham, executours, Will'm Bardewell renouncing, and power reserved to Sir John Candisshe.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS TO THE MEMORY OF THE

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

In Wenslay Church.

On a marble stone ; ** Hac teguntur humo Henricus Scrop Richardusque D'nl Henrici de Bolton et Mabillse uxoris suce minores natu liberi : Quorum alter xxv° die decessit Martii : Alter xxviij° Julij A** D'ni Mo DXXV."

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Upon a wooden pew formerly belonging to the dissolved Coenobium of

St Agatha, near Richmond»

** Here lyeth Henry Scrope Knight the vii of that nayme the ix Lord of Bolton and Mabeli his Wyefe Doughter to the Lord Dakers de Grays. Here lyeth Henry Scrope Knight the Third of that name and The Right [Honorable] Lord Scrope of Bolton and Elizabeth his Wife daughter "

In the Church of Stoke Rochford in Lincolnshire ,

Is the following inscription to the memory of Blizabeth daughter of

Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton, and her husband. " Pray for the soil of Mastyr Olyv* Sentjohn 'squier sonne unto y' right excellent hye and mightty prynces duchess of Som'sptt, g'ndame unto ou' Sov'eyn Lord Kyng Herre the vij. and for the soil of dame Elizabeth Bygod his wiff, whoo dep'ted frome this t'nsitore liffe y* vij day of June i' y' yeer of ou' Lord M CCCCC. and in."

In llamhleden Church,

On the tomb of Ralph Scrope, Prebendary of Ailesbury, Rector of Hambleden in Bucks, and Archdeacon of Northumberland, younger son of Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton.

** Of your charite praye for the soul of maister Rauffe Scrope, some tyme person of this Church, which decessed the 20 day of March in the yere of our Lord 1516, whose soule God pardon."

On the tomb of Robert Scrope, another son of Henry fourth Lord

Scrope of Bolton.

'^ Orate pro animabus Roberti Scrope et Katerine uxoris sue. Hie autem obiit xxv die Augusti A. D. mill'mo quingent'mo "

In Langar Church in Nottinghamshire. On a large Monument, with effigies, arms, &c.

*« The Right Honourable and Noble Lord Thomas Lord Scrope, Baron of Bolton, Masham, and Upshall, of the Most Noble Order of the Garter Knight, Lord Warden of the West Marches, Steward of Richmond and Richmondshire, and Bow-bearer of all his Majesty's Parks, Forests, and Chaces within the same, lyeth here buried, and dyed the 2** day of September, anno Dom. 1609.

" The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Scrope, &c. married the Right Honourable Lady Philadelphia, daughter to the Right Honourable

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Lord Henry Carie^ Baron of Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain to our late Queen Elizabeth her Majesty's Household, who died the $ of February 1627, and had issue only one son, Emanuel Scroope/' &c.

In the Church of Wivenhoe, to. Essex ^

On the tomb of Elizabeth daughter and coheiress of Sir Richard Scrope, second son of Henry fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton.

** Of your charitie pray for the soule of the high and noble Lady Elizabeth Scroope, first married to the noble Lord William late Vycount Beaumond, Lord Comyn, Bardolphe, Phelip> and Erpingham ; and after wife unto the high and noble Lord John, sumtyme Earl of Orford, High Chamberlin of England and Admiral of the same, Vycount Bulbeck, Lord Scales, Councellor to our Soveraint Lord the King, and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter. The which Lady Elizabeth departed to God the 26 day of June 1537, on whose soule and christen soules Ihu have mercy."

In the Church of Castle Hedingham, in Essex,

To Dorothy, another daughter and coheiress of the said Sir Richard

Scrope. ** Prey for the soul of Dorothy Scroope, dawghter of Richard Scroope, brother to the Lord Scroope, who 1491."

NOTICES OF ARMS OF SCROPE OF BOLTON, AND OF

THEIR CONNEXIONS.»

In IVenslay Church,

The following arms and inscriptions were extant on the 18th October 1622, in Wenslay Church :

On the wall, towards the cemetery, the following shields of arms, viz.

1. A bend, and in the sinister chief point an annulet [[Scrope.]

2. A fess between three leopards' faces [De la Pole.]

3. Three chevronels interlaced in base, and a chief Or [Fitzhugii.]

4. A bend, surmounted of a label [Scrope of Masham.]

5. Abend [Scrope.]

6. Three waterbougets [Roos.]

♦ From a MS. in the College of Arms, entitled " Dugdale's Yorkshire Arms," and the Collection therein of " Arms, epitaphs, and inscriptions in churches and houses in that county, made by Roger Dodsworth between 1618 and 1629.*' VOL. n. M

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7. A saltire [Neville.]

8. A saltire between four martlets [Oysell.]'

Upon the door of a wooden pew which formerly belonged to the dissolved Coenobium of St Agatha,

9. A shield charged with the arms of Scrope, impaling Chequy a fess [Clifford.]

Around the said pew are the figures of several Lords Scrope of Bolton with their arms ; the names, which remained in 1622, are as follow:

1

2. Henry the first.

)

10. Arms under each figure, Azure, a bend Or [Scrope.]

4

5. Phylipe the fyrst

6. Symond the fyrst.

7. Henry the second.

8. Wyllyem the fyrst.

9. Henry the third.

10. H . . . .

11. Scrope, impaling Or, a fess between two chevronels Gules [Fitzwalter] with this inscription, " Henry the fyrst the first Lord Scrop."

12. Scrope, impaling Gules^ three waterbougets Argent [Rods] with this inscription, ** Wylliam Scrop the Second."

IS. Scrope, impaling Azure^ a fess between three leopards faces Or [De la Pole] with this inscription, *' Richard the first of the name."

14. Scrope, impaling Argent, a Saltire engrailed Gules [Tiptoft] with this inscription, ** Roger the first."

15. ScROPE quartering Tiptoft, impaling Gules, a Saltire Argent [Neville] with this inscription, " Rychard Scrop the Second."

16. Scrope quartering Tiptoft, impaling Scrope of Mash am, within the Order of the Garter,* and with this inscription, " Henry the Second."

17. Scrope quartering Tiptoft, impaling Fitzhugh quartering Azure, a Lion rampart Or [. . . .]

» See Gale's " Registram Honoris de Richmond,'' Appendix, p. 56, where the arras of Oysell are given, Argent, a saltire eugrailed between four birds Sable. The family of Oysell held lands in Richmondshire adjoining to Wenslay, and probably contributed, with the Nevilles, Lords of Middleham, to the erection of Wenslay church.

* It is nowhere stated that Henry fourth Lord* Scrope of Bolton, who married £lizabeth daughter of John Lord Scrope of Masham, was a Knight of the Garter.

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In the North Window

18. Azure, a Chief indented Or[FiTz Randolf ofSpennithorne.]

19. Argent, a Lion rampant Azure [query Cleseby.]

20. Argent, a Lion rampant double queuee Sable, charged on the shoulder with a mullet Or [query Stapleton.]

21. Azure, three chevronels interlaced in base Or, a chief of the last

[FiTZHUOH.]

22. De la Pole, as before.

23. SCROPE.

In Svnllington Churchy co. York,

SCROPE.

Or, a lion rampant Azure [Percy.] Gules, three ivaterbougets Argent [Roos.] Cheque Or and Azure, a fess Gules [Clifford.] Scrofe.

In the Churches of Bolton Percy and Kippaxy co. York.

Azure, a bend Or, within a bordure Gules, charged with mitres Or. Probably the arms of Richard Scrope Bishop of Carlisle.

In York Cathedral, Scrope of Bolton.

Scrope of Bolton, the bend charged with a crescent. Scrope of Bolton, on the bend a lozenge charged with a saltire. Azure crusilly and a quintfoille Or [Umfreville.]

In Pocklington Church.

Or, a fesse dancette Sable [Vavasour] with an impalement of Scrope OF Bolton quartering Tiptoft and Scrope of Masham.

In Staynton Churchy co> York. Scrope, impaling Argent, a saltire engrailed Gules [Tiptoft.]

In Masham Church.

On a tomb. WyviLL^i/^r^eringPiooT, Fitz Randolf and Scrope of Masham, impaling Azure, a bend Or, in the sinister chief point a crescent Argent [Scrope.]

In Richmond Churchy co. York.

Scrope of Bolton. Scrope of Bolton quartering Tiftoft.

M 2

Bl HL^roRv or the

In Cnft Ckmrck, r^ York, Sciiopc qMortenrng Tinorr, viikiii tb« Ga/ler.

Im Arketcw Ckmrck, eo. Tort. Azare^ a bend Or wiih a label Argent ^Sckope.] Argent, a taltire engrailed Gules [Tirrorr.j ScEOPE qmarttrimg Argent, a sahire engrailed Goles [Tiprorr.^ In the tooth «iDdov, the effigj of a man kneeling, witli these am» : ScEOpE qmarttrimg TiPTorT, with a mallei on the centre point, and

this inscription : *' Orate pro animabos omniom Benefactonim Magistri

RiCAKDi ScKOPE, qui istam fenestram Titramnt.'*

Pmmicd Glass is York Minster,^

Third window of the clerestory of the Quire on the North side.

In the 9th light of the upper tracerr abore the great lights. An an- gel robed Gules, winged Or, with an escocheon of arms on his breast charged with Azure a bend Or within a bordure compony Or and Gules. The bordure is not at present risible.

In the next, the 8th light. Another angel robed Sanguine with these arms on his breast. Azure, a bend Or [Scrope] impalimg Or, a lyon ram- pant Sable [Welles.]

In another light is the image of a Pope with the legend **^ Sanctus Stephanus Papa** underneath ; at the bottom, a row of fire escocheocs of the arms of Scrope of Bolton.

In Crojfland Churchy co- Lincoln*

In one of the windows. Azure, a bend Or [Scrope of Boltoh.]

In Stoke Rockford Churchy co, Lincoln,*

In one of the windows. Quarterly Or and Gules, within a bordure Sable bezantee [Roch- ford] impaling Azure, a bend Or [Scrope of Bolton.]

In another window. Rochford quartering Scrope of Bolton. Scrope quartering Tiptoft.

' Copied from Torre's MS. description of York Minster, remaining in the office of the Register of the Dean and Chapter in York, and compared with the glass at present remaining.

« Uarleian MS. 6829, f. 239- * Ibid. f. 273.

FAMILY OF SCROPE OF BOLTON.

FATBNT ?0R8IDD1NC ;OHH LORD EGROPS OP BOLTON TO BBAR THE ARMS OF THB ISLB OF MAN IN THE EXPEDITIOK INTO PKANCE 15 EDW. IV.

" Rex omnibus ad quoa &c- salutem. Sciatis quod Inspeximus Literas nostras, sub sjgno nostro manuali signatas, et per Milites Garterce Dostite inspectas, factas io h^c verba. Edward, hy the grace of God, King of England and of Fraunee, Lord of Ireland, &c. Remembryng tbe pretence and clayme of John Lord Scrop, shewed unto us, for the beryng of th' Armes of th' Erie of Man, which nowe oure right trualie and right wel beloved Thomas Lord Stanelej Stuard of oure House- holde berith, for brevenes of tyme havyng no convenyant season to know the deterinynation of the same, and provydyng that no variaunce be hadde nowe in oure voiage, Have wolled and desyred that for the tymes and seasons that the seid Lordes shall contynue in oure service, in oure Realme of Fraunee, Duchie of Normandie, and els where byyonde the See, and also unto oure and their retournyng next to this oure Realme of England, or either of theym, that the said Lord Scrop shall absteyne and forbere the use and weryng of the seid Armes of th' Erie of Man, whereunto for the seid desire he is agrede, Alwey forseyn that the seid will, desire, ab.flinence, and forberyng be not prejudicial! nor damage in that behatve unto the seid Lord Scrop, ne to his heyres, nor be of non effect, strength, nor vertue, but for the tyme above expressed. El hoc omnibus quorum interest in hac parte innotescimus per prssentes. In cujus &c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium primo die Maii [15 Edw. IV. 1475.]— Pat. 15 Ed. IV. p. 2. in. 24. Fffidera, vol. V. p' iii, p. 60.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MACD lADY PABRF, WIDOW OF SIR THOMAS PARKE, AND THOMAS LQKD DACRE OF GILLGSLAND, IN 1523, BF.LATIVE TO A MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE SON AND HEIR APPARENT OF HENRY LORD SCROPE OF BOI.TON AND KATHERINE PARUE DAUGHTER OF THB SAID LADY PARRE, WHO AJTEUWARDB MARRIED KING HENRY THE EIGHTH."

Henry Lord Scrope of Bolton married Mabell daughter of Thomas Lord Daere, and the heir apparent of Lord Scrope mentioned in these letters, was his grandson, which explains the interest Lord Dacre mani- fested respecting his marriage. Henry Scrop« must have been a child at tbe period in question.

' See the Noles al the end of the Volume.

' These inleresiing letters are copied from Whitaker's History of Kichroond- sbire, vol. i. p. 384 et xeq.

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MAUD LADT PARRE TO THOMAS LORD DACRB.

" Most honorable and my very good Lord, I hertly recommend me unto you. Where it pleasid you att your last beyng here to take payn in the mater in consideracion of marriage between the Lord Scrop*s son and my doughtor Kateryne, for the whiche I hertly thank you ; at which time I thought the matter in good furtherance. Howe bee yt, I perceyve that my seid Lord Scrop is not aggreable to that considera- cion, as more playnly may appere unto you by certeyn articles sent to me from my seyd Lord, the coppy of which articles I send you herein inclosyd. My Lord's pleasour is to have a full answere from me before Lammas next comyng, wherefore it may please you to bee so good to have this mater in your remembraunce, for I perceyve well this matter is not lyke to take effecte, except it be by y^ur helpe. The joyntour is lytle, for xj c marcs whiche I woll nott passe^ and my seyd Lord wyll DOtt repay after marriage hadd, and cc marcs must nedys be repayd yf my doughter Kateryne dys before the age of xvj yeres, or ells I shuld breke Master Parr's wyll,^ whiche I shold be lothe to doo ; and ther can be no perfyte marriage untill my Lord*s son come to the age of xiiij. and my doughter to the age of xij, before whiche tyme, if the marriage shuld take none effect, or be dissolved, either by deth, wardshipp, disagrement, or othei'wyse, whiche may bee before thatt tyme, notwithstondinge marriage soiemnysed, repayment must nedes be hadd of the hole, or ells I myght fortune to pay my money for no thin ge. As for the daye of payment, I am content with the first day, and the resydue of his days of payment bee too shortt for me. Gladd I wold be to have the mater goe forthe yf itt myght be convenyently : yff it please you to call to remembraunce the communicacion before yow at Greenewiche was that I shold paye att your desyre xj c marcks, whereof c marcs in hand, and every yere after c marcs, whiche is as muche as I may spare, as you knowe ; and for thatt my doughtor is to have c marcs joyntour, whereof l marcs I to have