Adrian Scrope (royalist)

The regicide Adrian Scrope, a contemporary distant kinsman, is sometimes confused with this man.

Sir Adrian Scrope or Scroope (d. 1667) was an Royalist officer in the English Civil War.

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Biography

Scrope was the son of Sir Gervase Scroope of Cockerington, Lincolnshire, who At the start of the war raised a regiment for King Charles I, and was left for dead at Edgehill, where he received sixteen wounds, but survived to 1655.[1]

Adrian Scrope served in the king's army during the war, and in 1660 was made knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II.[2] The fine imposed on father and son for their delinquency amounted to over £6,000.[3] He died in 1667.

Family

Sir Adrian Scroop, married Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Carr of Sleaford, and was the father of Sir Carr Scrope.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Firth 1897, p. 133
  2. ^ Firth 1897, p. 133 Cites: Clarendon, Rebellion, vi. 97; Rushworth, v. 707; Bulstrode, Memoirs, pp. 78, 85, 103.
  3. ^ Firth 1897, p. 133 Cites: Calendar of Compounders, p. 1327.
  4. ^ Firth 1897, p. 133 Cites: Blore, pp. 6, 9.

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