Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton

Henry, Lord Scrope of Bolton (1418-1459) was a member of the English peerage in Yorkshire in the 15th century.

Born 4 June 1418 to Richard Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Bolton and Margaret Neville, he was still a minor when his father died in 1420. As such, his lands and marriageability were in the keeping of his uncle Sir Richard Neville until the young Scrope was 21. He appears to have remained living with his mother, who undertook not to marry him off (being held to a £1,000 bond not to do so).[1] His inheritance was the subject of a brief feud between Richard Neville and Marmaduke Lumley, later Bishop of Carlisle, who had been patronised by Richard Scrope.[2] Lumley's claim was, however, "successfully resisted" by Neville.[3] Henry Scrope received seisin of his estates on 2 February 1439, and two years later he was summoned to parliament as a knight.[1]

Political and administrative career

Much of his career was concerned with administering the royal will in Yorkshire,[1] which was undoubtedly a source of income for him. For example, in the 1440s, the City of York offered him gifts to gain his "friendship".[4] He sat on commissions of the peace in 1448 and 1458;[5] commissioned to collect a subsidy in 1450; and to negotiate with Burgundy over infractions of the truce in 1449.[1] He was even on the Commission of Oyer and terminer in 1453, appointed by the Crown to investigate the violent Percy-Neville feud; this, as historian Ralph A. Griffiths has pointed out, was while he was actually involved in the feud, standing with Salisbury's sons against the House of Percy at the confrontation at Topcliffe, for example.[6] Henry Scrope, in later years, became a supporter of Neville on the West March with Scotland,[7] and was also summoned to the parliament of 1454 during the protectorate of the Duke of York, as part of what has been called a "Neville bloc" supporting the duke.[8] He was again summoned, similarly, to the pro-Yorkist parliament of 1460, and oversaw the appointment of Salisbury's youngest son George as Chancellor.[9]

Marriage and death

Scrope married, around 1435, Elizabeth Scrope (a cousin), who was a daughter of John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham. Scrope died on 14 January, 1459; his widow survived him until at least 1498.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cokayne, G.E., The complete peerage of England and Wales (Vol. XI, London, 1949), 543.
  2. ↑ Storey, R.L, 'Marmaduke Lumley, bishop of Carlisle, 1430-1450', Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 2nd ser. 55 (1955), 115.
  3. ↑ Griffiths, R.A., The Reign of Henry VI (Berkeley, 1981), 85.
  4. ↑ Griffiths, R.A., 'Local Rivalries and National Politics- The Percies, the Nevilles, and the Duke of Exeter, 1452-55', Speculum, 4 (1968), 595.
  5. ↑ Griffiths, R.A., The Reign of Henry VI (Berkeley, 1981), 410.
  6. ↑ Griffiths, R.A., 'Local Rivalries and National Politics- The Percies, the Nevilles, and the Duke of Exeter, 1452-55', Speculum, 4 (1968), 595, 605.
  7. ↑ Storey, R.L., The End of the House of Lancaster (London, 1966), 124..
  8. ↑ Watts, J., Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship (Cambridge, 1996), 306 n.200.
  9. ↑ Pugh, T.B., Duke Richard of York (Oxford, 1988), 206.
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