Adrian Scrope

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Colonel Adrian Scrope (Circa 1601 - October 17, 1660) was the twenty seventh of the fifty nine Commisoners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I.

1 From the Scrope family
2 The regicide
3 His portrait
4 His son William
5 Descendants
6 External links

[edit] From the Scrope family

Adrian Scrope occupied the Scrope mansion at Wormsley, Oxfordshire and was a member of the extended Scrope/Scroope family, members of which appear in four of Shakespeare's plays and whose descendants retain private ownership of Bolton Castle in the Yorkshire Dales.

[edit] The regicide

Adrian was the twenty seventh of the fifty nine Commisoners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I in January of 1649 after the English Civil War. Eleven years later, during the Restoration of the monarchy, Adrian Scrope was tried and found guilty of being a Regicide and was executed. He suffered the usual cruel punishment for high treason at that time of being hanged, drawn and quartered.

[edit] His portrait

Adrian's portrait was painted by (or after) Robert Walker and is displayed in the U.K. National Portrait Gallery.

[edit] His son William

One of Adrian Scrope's sons, William is thought to have come to North America where he changed his name to William Throope presumably to avoid retribution. William’s past and parentage is surrounded in controversy. Throop family tradition held by many branches of the family for generations has maintained William’s real name was Adrian Scrope, youngest son of Sir Adrian Scrope who was executed for regicide. Sir Adrian Scrope is belived to have told his sons to flee the country. William’s will, dated 12 Jun 1704, begins “In the name and fear of God, Amen. I, William Throope, in ye County of Bristol, yeoman, in the sixty-seventh year of my age and being under some indisposition of body,......” If he was in his 67th year in 1704, he would have been born in 1637, pointing to him being the son of William and Isabell (Redshaw) Throope rather than Adrian Scrope. Adrian Scrope's father was Sir Robert Scrope. Both Adrian and Robert are sometimes referred to with the name Scroope. Some of William's descendants are referred to as Throop.