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90 SC'KOrE. of Calais, 186S, and Warden "f the Northumberland marches, 1370. to 1378-79, being theu a Banneret, he was sent by Rie. II. to treat, of a league with Charles, King of Navarre. He m. Joan. He d. 31 July (1331) 15 Rie. II., aged about 76. II. 1391. ~. STicrnEM (Lk .Scrope), Loud Scuope, 2d but Irt surv. fs. and li.('), 6. about 1345 ; served in the wars of France and in the Holy Laud, being Knighted at Alexandria in 1365, ami being at the battle of Najara, 1307. He was aged 10 and upwards at his father's death in 1391. and mm sum. to pari, from 23 Nov. (1898) Hi Kie. II. to 1 Jan. (1405/6) 7 Hen. IV. He »;. before 1376. Margery, widow of John dk Hn8TntOPlBI.il (by some writers called Lord HuNTINt!HE[.D da. "of John (DC YVki.I.K.O, 5th Limn Wh.i.ks, by Margaret [or Meaner), da. of John (Mowbray), Lord Mhwkkay. He <l. 25 Jan. 1405/6, and was bur. in the Scrope chapel, in York minster. Will dat. 5 and pr. 25 Jan. 1 405/6 at York.! 1 ') His widow was admitted of " Corpus Chriati," York, 14 1(5- 1 T, and d. 29 May 1122. IH. 1406, 8. Henry (Le Scrope), Lord ScRorE de Masham, 1st to s. and h.. b. about 1374, being aged 30, or 33, at his father's death in 1415. 1406. He was snip, to parl.(°) from 26 Aug. (140S) 8 Hen. IV. to 26 Sep. (1 114) 2 Hen. V. by writs directed " lleuriro le Scrope de ifatkam," He was in offices of the highest trust, being on an embassy to Denmark, in 1406; to Trance ill 1408 and itgata in 1413; to the Duke of Burgundy in 1413, &c. ; was L. Treasurer 1409 ; K.G, about 1410. In Mi l he was sent to 1'aris to negotiate the King's marriage, but conspiredC) with the French in a plot fur the King's destruction, was found guilty at a trial at Southampton, and beheaded there 5 Aug. 1415, when, having been att tinted, nil hi« honours were forfeited. He in. firstly (dispensation ix post foclo 5 Feb. 1393/9, (°) endorsed by Archbishop Scrope 11 July 1399, the parties being related in the 3d and 4th degrees, 1 Philippa, widow of Sir John de Ros,( f ) 1st da. ami coheir of Sir duy |>E Bryan, s. and h. of Guy, Lord Bryan. She if. s.p. 19 Nov. 1106. He m. secondly, lie. G Sep. 1410(») to marry in the chapel of the manor of FoxHete, Joan, widow of William, Lonu WlIXOrjQHBl db Erksby and formerly of Edmund ( I'i.antagknet) Di ke of York, 2d da. of Thomas (Holakd), 2d Earl of Kknt, by Alice, da. of Richard (FlTzALAS), Eari. of Aiu snBi. He d. s.p. His will dat. 3 June 1415. (6; His widow m. fourthly (pardon 11 Aug. 1416) as his first wife, Henry (Bromflete) Lord Vesxt, who d. 6 Jan. 1467/8. She d. s.p. 12 April 1434.

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IV. 1426. 4- Sir John Le Scrope, of Masham afsd. ; 3T. br. of the above, being 4th of the ft sons of the *Jd Lord, became, ft Sep 1418 (when he wns aged 30 and upwards) after the death s.p. of his two elder brothera,( h ) heir to the attainted Barony and the family estates. "He appears to have obtained a restoration to his brother's honours and inheritance in 1421,"( i ) becoming thus LORD SCUOPE DE MASHAM, and, certainly, he was sum. to parl.(«=)asa Baron from 7 Jan. (1425/6) 4 Hen. VI. to 26 May (1455) 33 Hen. VI, by writs directed " Johanni Le Scrope de Masham." P.O., 1424 ; was on an embassy to Spain and to the King of the Romans, 1428, to Scotland, 1429, &c; served in the French war ; L. Treasurer 1432. He m. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Cha WORTH, of Wiverton, Notts, and only child and h. to her mother, his first wife, Nicola, da. and h, of Sir Gerard Braybroke. He d. 15 Nov. 1455, and was bur. in (») His eldest br. Sir Geoffrey Le Scrope, Knighted, before Paris, 1360, d. s.p. aud v.p., being slain at Piskre in Lithuania in 1362. ( b ) See p. 84, note " g " (<=) See p. 89, note " d." (*) Richard ( Plnntagenet) Earl of Cambridge, and Sir Thomas Grey, a northern Knight, were his confederates. His treason will always be remembered from the spleudid denunciation in Shakespeare's " Henry P." ( e ) Test. Kbor. (Surteea Soc), vols, ii, iii, and iv. ( f ) Sic not of " John Devereux " as is often stated. ( B ) Enrolled in Pub. Rec. office. See " Genealogist " N.S. vol. i, p. 266. ( h ) These were (1) Sir Geoffrey Le Scrope, living 1409, who d. s.p. before 1418, ami (2) Stephen Le Scrope, clerk, Archdeacon of Richmond, who d. 5 Sep. 1418. (') "Nicolas;' the words "appear to have " being omitted in " Courtliope."