Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton (1418–1459) was a member of the

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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

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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).Cokayne, G.E., The complete peerage of England and Wales (Vol. XI, London, 1949), 543. 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. Lumley's claim was, however, "successfully resisted" by Neville. Henry Scrope received

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of his estates on 2 February 1439, and two years later he was summoned to parliament as a

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Political and administrative career

Much of his career was concerned with administering the royal will in Yorkshire, which was undoubtedly a source of income for him. For example, in the 1440s, the

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offered him gifts to gain his "friendship". He sat on commissions of the peace in 1448 and 1458; commissioned to collect a

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in 1450; and to negotiate with

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over infractions of the

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in 1449. He was even on the Commission of

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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

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at the confrontation at Topcliffe, for example. Henry Scrope, in later years, became a supporter of Neville on the West March with Scotland, and was also summoned to the parliament of 1454 during the protectorate of the

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, as part of what has been called a "Neville bloc" supporting the duke. He was again summoned, similarly, to the pro-Yorkist parliament of 1460, and oversaw the appointment of Salisbury's youngest son George as

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Marriage and death

Scrope married, around 1435, Elizabeth Scrope (his fifth 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. Their children included: * John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton * Richard Scrope of Bentley (d. 1485), who married Eleanor Washbourne of

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, and had nine daughters.Barbara Harris, 'The hidden role of sisters and sisters-in-law', James Daybell & Svante Norrhem, ''Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe'' (Routledge, 2017), p. 109-111. * Margaret Scrope (d.1496), who married John Bernard, Lord of the Manor of Abington, Northamptonshire.

References

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