Family and Education
4th or 5th s. of Henry, 1st Lord Scrope of Masham (1312-92) and yr. bro. of Stephen, 2nd Lord Scrope (1345-1406) and Richard le Scrope (exec. 1405), abp. of York. m. by Sept. 1388, Elizabeth (b.1361), e. da. and coh. of David, earl of Atholl and Lord Strathbogie (1332-69) by Elizabeth (d. Oct. 1375), da. of Henry, Lord Ferrers of Groby (d.1343), wid. of Sir Thomas Percy (d.c.1387), yr. s. of Henry, earl of Northumberland (d.1408), 2da. Kntd. by Nov 1384.CP, i. 308-9; xi. 563-4; CIPM, xiv. no. 86; xvi. no. 721; Test. Ebor. i. 388-9; CCR, 1381-5, p. 590.
Offices Held
Commr. of kiddles, Yorks. May 1392, Feb. 1400; inquiry Mar. 1401 (water supply at Kingston-upon-Hull); array (E. Riding) Aug., Sept. 1403.
J.p. archiepiscopal liberties of Beverley and Ripon Yorks. 1 Aug. 1398, (E. Riding) 16 July 1401 – d.
Collector of a tax, Yorks. (E. Riding) Mar. 1404.
Main residences: Hollinhall; Haldenby, Yorks.
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Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
SCROPE, Sir John le (-d.1405)
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Oxford 1644
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