84 SCROPE. SCROPE or LE SCROPE or SCROPE DE BOLTON. Barony by 1, Sin RlCHARD LE Scrope, of Bolton, ( a ) co. York, 3il Writ. anc i yst. s. of Sir Henry le ScitorE,() of the same, successively t it-i (1317-3t> Chief Justice of the King's Bench and of the Common Pleas and Ch Baron of the Exchequer, by Margaret, said, by some, to be <la. of Loup Fitzwaltkr and, by others, of l.oun Hoos or Kknual. He was b. about 1326, being aped 1 8 when found heir to his ebb st and only surv. br.. Sir William Vt SOROPS, of Bolton affd., who d. s.|>. 27 Nov. 1344, aged 24. He was nt the battle of Creasy, 20 Aug. 1346, after which date there was hardly any engage- nient by sea or land" in whieh he did not distinguish himself, being at that of NeviU'i Cross where he was Knighted on the Held, 17 Oct. 1846, at the siege of Calais, 1347 ; the battles of Espagnols-snr-mer, 1350, of Berwick, 1366, of Najani, 1367, lit the taking of Edinburgh. 1384, fto. He was M I', for Yorkshire, 1364, and was sum. to Pnri.C) as a Baron (LORD SCROPE or LE SCROPE) by writs from 8 Jan. (1370/1), 44 Ed. III., to 14 Aug. (1402), 3 Hen. IV., directed Kic. Le Scrope. L. Trbasuhh, 1371-75 ; Steward of the household, 137S : L. Chancellor Oet. 1378, to July 1379, and again Nov. 1381 to July 13S2 : Warden of the Western Marches. 1879, His celebrated controversyC 1 ) with Sir Kiehard Urosvenor us to the right of bearing the arms of " Azure, a bend, or " was. after I years dispute, terminated in 1 If 0 by the Court of Chivalry iii his favour. ( e ) He m, Blanche, sifter of Michael, Kaiii. ok Suf- folk, 1st da. of Sir William DB LA Pole, a Baron of the Exchequer, by Catherine, da. of Sir Walter NORWICH. She 4. before 1378. He is said to have m. secondly Mary, da, of Sir John MosTFOHD, or. according to others, of ( — ) Si'ENi'K.R. He d. 30 May 1403 aged 75, and was bur at the Abbey of St. Agatha at Easby, in Hiehiiiond.-liire.( r ) Will dat. at Pfahiobury, Herts, 2 Augl400 pr. 31 May 1403.K) ut York.('>) Inq. port mortem. ( a ) His principal seat, built by himself, was Bolton Castle (now in ruins) in Wensley, in the North Hiding of Yorkshire, but he held also Bolton by Hnwland er West Bolton, in the West Riding. The former gave, in 1689, the name of Bolton, ns a Dukedom, to the Marquesses of Winchester, to whom by a descent (tho* mi illegiti- mate one) it had passed. See p. 8S, note " b." ( h ) There was a Henry Le Scrope sum. to a Council (not a Pari ) 25 Eeh. 1342, but he probably was Henry Scrope, of Masham who was sum. as a Huron in 1350. (<=) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. ( J ) " This was the third dispute of a similar nature ill which Scrope had been engaged. At the siege of Calais, in 1347, his right to the crest of A crab, Utuluf from a dwnl Coronet, was challenged, but without effect, and he continued to bear it. Again in Paris, in 1360, a Cornish Squire, named Carminow. disputed his right to the arms on his shield, when both parties were adjudged to be entitled " [I'oss's " Judgta,"] ( c ) The proceedings are well ed. by the accomplished Sir X. Harris Nicolas in two quarto vols., and at vol. ii, pp. 1-161, is an elaborate account of the different houses of Scrope. The like had been contemplated, but not effected, as to the house of Grnsvenor. An interesting review thereof is in the " Quarterly Reeiew" for April 1836. ( f ) "The union of such qualities as he possessed, both as a soldier and a statesman, are seldom to be found in one man. Tho' connected with all the intricate proceedings of the unfortunate reign of Hie. II., he steered clear of the shoals on which his contemporaries stranded, and well deserved the character that Walsingham gives him that he was a man who had not his fellow in the whole realm for prudence and integrity " [Foss's "Judge!."] (8) This will, with many others of the Scrope family, is printed fa exter.so by the Surtees Society in their " Test. Ebor." ( h ) In this will he mentions " Roger, my son nnd heir " ; gives his "second sword" to " Stephen my son " (i.e., Sir Stephen Scrope, of Bentley, co. York, whose will is Hat. 6 Jan. 1405, and who is the ancestor of the Soropes of Castlecomb, Wilts, existing in the male line sslate as 1851 ), giving cups to his da. (Milieent), his da -in-law ( Margaret) and to his kinsmen, Sit Stephen Le Scrope [probably Stephen, Lord Scrope de Masham], Sir John Le Scrope [probably the br. of Stephen], and Sir Henry Le Scrope | probably the 1st son of Stephen], as also his best cup to Richard, Archbishop of York, " cariB- simo Patri et Filio nieo.' These last words have been explained as nienning only h spiritual relationship " the word son, as well as father," being " more probably used in a spiritual dense." (See Nicolas's " Scrope and Grosveuor roll," vol. ii, p. 121).
