A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
he Wiltshire estates on the death ofhis father in 1787, and those of North and South Cocker-ington, &c. in Lincolnshire, in 179r5, at the decease withoutissue of Mrs. Peart Scrope, only child of Mary, Countessof Deloraine, sister and heiress to Frederick Scrope, esq.of Cockerington, in virtue… … The Scropes of Castle Combe descend inthe direct male line from Sir Richard LeScrope, knt. first Baron Scrope of Bolton,lord hi^h treasurer and chancellor to bothKiuf/s Edward III. and Richard II. Wewere therefore wrong on a former occasionin describing the Scropes of Danby as theonly remaining…
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