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within the said park, yearly during her life, &c." Apartments 

 were also assigned to her separate use in the manor-house. 



Richard Scrope, Esquire, in 1525, obtained livery of the estates 

 of Castle Combe, Oxendon in Gloucestershire, and others. He 

 served the office of Sheriff of Wilts in 1546-7, and twice paid the 

 fine for his discharge from being made a knight of the Bath — one 

 of the base inventions for obtaining money to which the sovereigns 

 of that time had frequent recourse. Richard Scrope was thrice 

 married : first, to a daughter of Robert Amydas, goldsmith of 

 London, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, who married 

 Martin Bowes, son of Sir Martin Bowes alderman of London ; 

 secondly, in 1532, to Mary, daughter of William Ludlow of Hill 

 Deverell, Wilts, by whom he had three sons, two of whom died 

 young, and five daughters, who all married in the neighbourhood. 

 Upon his death in 1572, his only son, George, at that time twenty- 

 six years of age, obtained special livery of his estates, dated 3rd of 

 June, 1573, on payment of £63 to the use of the Queen (Eliza- 

 beth) . He married Susannah, daughter of John Eyre, of Wood- 

 hampton, Wilts, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. 

 His eldest son, John, appears from the Court Rolls to have entered 

 into possession of the manors of Castle Combe and Oxendon a few 

 years before his father's death — namely, in 1601, in pursuance of 

 articles of agreement whereby his father released the same to him, on 

 conditions ; among others, of the payment of certain annuities to his 

 father, and sisters, and also finding the former " meete, drinke, and 

 logynge, and one man for his necessarye attendance, and keepynge 

 a brace of geldings to his use." "Also to pay all charges and ser- 

 vices due on the estates," amongst which is enumerated those " of a 

 light-horseman and of coat armoure." 



John Scrope, who on the death of his father, in 1604, was 

 twenty-eight years of age, married Jane, daughter of Henry 

 Brone, Esquire, of Athelhampton, Dorset, by whom he had a 

 numerous family of daughters, but only one son, John, who died 

 about m'x weeks before his father, in the year 1645, so fatal to 

 Other loyalist families. John Scrope the younger, bore a captain's 



commission in Lord Pembroke's regimenl of militia, and as his 



death occurred but seven days after the battle of Islip-bridge, in 



