Sir Stephen Scrope Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Stephen le Scrope, Lord Scrope of Masham, 2^nd but 1^st surviving son and heir, born about 1345; served as an Esquire in the army before Paris, April 1360. He joined the crusading army raised by Peter of Lusignan, King of Cyprus, and was knighted by him on the taking of Alexandria, October 1365; served with John of Gaunt in Guienne, 1373. He was summoned to Parliament from 23 November 1392 to 1 January 1405/6; Commissioner de walliis et fossatis, Holderness, co. York, 30 November 1396; on the Commission of the Peace and Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, co. York, East Riding, 10 March 1396/7, and 28 November 1399 to 15 December 1405; Liberty of Beverley, 1 August 1398; granted 100 marks per annum for life by Richard II, 7 July 1399. Commissioner of Array, co. York, East Riding, 18 December 1399; Commissioner to inform the King's lieges that the laws will be observed, co. York, 11 May 1402. Commissioner to settle disputes relating to Scottish prisoners taken at the battle of Homildon, 3 March 1402/3; Commissioner to levy the subsidy, co. York, East Riding, 24 March 1403/4, but discharged. He gave a power of attorney to receive seisin in the manors of Ecclesall, Upsall, &c., Purification, 2 February 1404/5.

Stephen le Scrope married, before 15 December 1376, Margery, widow of John de Huntingfield, son and heir apparent of William de Huntingfield, Lord Huntingfield, probably a daughter of John de Welles, Lord Welles, by Maud, daughter of William de Ros, Lord Ros. He died 25 January 1405/6, and was buried in the Scrope Chapel in York Minster. His widow, who was admitted to the Gild of Corpus Christi, York, l416/17, died 29 May 1422.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XI, p. 570

Stephen married Margery de Welles, daughter of John de Welles and Maud de Ros.¹⁴¹ (Margery de Welles was born about 1350 in Bonthrope, Lincolnshire, England and died on 29 May 1422 in England ¹⁴¹.)