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- From Find a Grave:
Colonel Adrian Scrope ~ 1601-1660
Burial: After Colonel Adrian Scrope's execution, as a special favor, his body was returned to his family for burial, rather than being put on display. Colonel Adrian Scrope is buried in London, England.
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Spouse:
Mary Waller 1608-1660
Married: 29 November 1624 - St Giles in the field Fields, Middlesex, England.
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Colonel Adrian Scrope (c. 1601 – 17 October 1660) was the twenty-seventh of the fifty-nine Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross after the restoration of Charles II Not to be confused with the politician, a contemporary distant kinsman, and his grandfather, Adrian Scrope (Royalist). Adrian Scrope was born at Wormsley Hall in Oxfordshire and was baptized at Lewknor on 12 January 1601.[23] He was the son of Robert Scrope of Wormsley and Margaret, daughter of Richard Cornwall of London. His family was a younger branch of the Scrope's of Bolton.
Scrope's eldest son, Edmund, was made fellow of All Souls' on 4 July 1649 by the parliamentary visitors, was subsequently keeper of the privy seal in Scotland and died in 1658. His brother Robert was about the same time made fellow of Lincoln College, and created by the visitors B.A. on 19 May 1649.[26] Scroope left 5 sons and 6 daughters, including Margaret, Anne and Elizabeth. Elizabeth married Jonathan Blagrave, related to Daniel Blagrave who is also a signatory to the Charles I Death Warrant. Elizabeth is buried in St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland and her tombstone (defaced of any mention of "regicide") shows she lived 83 years.
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Scrope's fourth son, and ultimate heir, was Thomas Scrope, whose son was John Scrope. John Scrope died without issue in 1752 so the Wormsley estate was inherited by the heirs of his sister Anne (d.1720), wife to Henry Fane of Brympton, essentially the third son, Henry Fane of Wormsley (1703-1777). The Fane family held onto Wormsley for circa 230 years, until the 1980s, when sold to a Getty.
At the proceedings on 12 October, Scrope claimed he acted as instructed by Parliament but admitted to an 'error of judgment'. While the presiding judge, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, agreed he was "not such a person as some of the rest", Browne's evidence meant he was condemned to death. On 17 October, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross, along with Thomas Scot, Gregory Clement, and John Jones Maesygarnedd; as a special favor, his body was returned to his family for burial, rather than being put on display.
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Louise Walsh Throop DEBUNKED the Scrope myth that William Throop was the son of Col. Adrian Scrope in her 1981 TAG article. She wrote:
"Though it is certain that an Adrian Scroope was briefly in Hartford soon after the Restoration and there is a distinct possibility that he may have been son the regicide of that name, NO EVIDENCE has been found to connect him with the Bristol William Throope."
See "Proposed Etiology of the Throope-Scroope Tradition" by Louise Walsh Throop, C.G., The American Genealogist Vol 57 (1981), pages 110-112.
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1600 - 1660 (60 years)
