Mary-Temple-Scrope

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Contents 1 Intention 2 Background 3 Evidence 4 Further work 5 Sources

Intention

This page is intended to explain and justify the acceptance of Mary (Temple) Scrope as the second wife of Adrian Scrope

Background

Adrian Scrope was one of the regicides of Charles I who, at the time of the restoration, was tried, convicted and executed for his role in the execution of the king. His trial was well documented and his life and family have been reported in Visitations, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and other sources. All of these sources report his marriage to Mary Waller and his seven children, with a discovery of a much younger daughter, Elizabeth, being recently added following discovery of a gravestone in Ireland.Adrian Scrope (bef.1601-1660)

Recent discovery of a document in a private archive stating that Mary Temple of Frankton married Adrian Scrope has suggested that Scrope had a second marriage. The statement is on the schedule attached to a mortgage document and is described at Schedule to Indenture Thomas Temple in Frankton 1658

This page introduces additional sources of evidence and links between them to validate the discovery and to show that it is the regicide Adrian Scrope and not one of the others who were living at the same time.

Evidence

The first sources of evidence are a series of letters between members of the Temple family from the Dunn archive. Several of these, from Anne (Temple) Busbridge to her daughters or from John Busbridge, mention visits or letters from 'Aunt Scrope' at Wormsley.^[1][2][3][4] Based on the original biographies of Adrian Scrope, where no family link could be found, it was assumed that 'Aunt' was just a term used for a friend of the family, but it can be used in context with the statement in the schedule because Mary was indeed the aunt to Anne Busbridge's daughters.

The next piece of evidence is an 'Anonymous letter'. This is another letter from the Dunn archive but it is undated and is addressed 'Most Deare niece' and is incomplete so has no signature.^[5] It is incorrectly attributed in the archive to Anne (Temple) Busbridge with a date of 1630. This has been transcribed and analysed at Letter from an aunt to a niece. The analysis suggests that the letter was written by Mary Scrope and dates from between 1658 and 1665.

Within the 'anonymous letter' the writer mentions 'my mall and edmond remembars thear servis to you'. This is the kind of statement used to convey comments about a child and particularly suggests a child named Edmond. Adrian Scrope's son Edmund Scrope was born in about 1626 and reported to have died around 1658 so was unlikely to be the child in the letter. However, further research has shown he had a second son Edmond Scrope. This son showed up in records of his apprenticeship in Bristol, which he started in 1675 when he would have been aged around 17. This could agree with the earlier Edmund dying and Adrian Scrope naming a new child after him.

The second Edmond became a trader and died in Barbados in 1694. He left a will that mentioned several family members, shown in the transcription and analysis Will of Edmund Scrope Barbados 1694. The will contains references to his niece Ann Adams. This is possibly the daughter of the 'dafter addams' mentioned in the anonymous letter.

Other items in the 'anonymous letter' linking to the other parts of the Temple family include references to 'nan temple' - Anne Temple, another niece; 'sister Hammond' - probably her brother-in-law's second wife Martha Hammond; 'brother Temple' - brother Thomas Temple.

The evidence links the anonymous letter to the Temple family and to Edmund Scrope and therefore to Adrian Scrope. The analysis has produced the following 'new' details

• Mary Temple became Adrian Scrope's second wife, before 1648
• Mary and Adrian had a son called Edmond, probably born around 1658
• The anonymous letter can be attributed to Mary Scrope, and dated 1659-1665

Further work

Items for further investigation

A recent discovery of a transcript of a parish register entry shows an entry for 'Adryan Scobe' marrying 'Marie Kempe' in a transcription at St Andrew by the Wardrobe, London in January 1643/4.^[6] It is possible this could be a mistranscription for Adrian Scrope and Mary Temple which needs to be checked if the original register is available.

From Foster's London Marriage Licences p.556 https://archive.org/details/londonmarriageli00fost/page/n307/mode/2up

Goddard, William of East Woodhey, co. Southampton, gent., widower, 30, and Dorothy Scrope, spinster, 19, her parents dead, with consent of her brother-in-law, John Collins, of Wormsley, co. Oxon, gent. - at Aston, Stokenchurch, or Ipston, co. Oxon. 12 Sept 1663

The dates, and dead parents, fit with Adrian and possibly with Mary. Collins may be the married name of one of the known daughters. The link to Wormsley is Collins, not Dorothy, but seems worth consideration.

In the 'anonymous letter' there are mentions of 'nall', 'mall' and 'doll' as children (or possibly doll as a grandchild). Doll could also be the Dorothy in the marriage shown above. The letter also mentions married daughters' names of Addams and Whatams. The Addams reference seems to agree with a reference in the will of Edmond Scrope mentioning his niece. Whatams is a reference to another newly-discovered daughter Elizabeth (Scrope) Whetham.

The introduction to The Ledger of Thomas Speed 1681-1690^[7] states "Two of Thomas [Scrope]'s younger brothers had been apprenticed to Speed". One of these was Edmond but this implies there was another. There are some mentions in the ledger of a Robert Scrope

Sources

1. ↑ Anna Busbridge to her daughter Mary Busbridge at Frankton; thanks her for the apricots; the hops have failed this year; her father and sister Anna have gone to Mr Poell's, it being Michaelmas day; proposal for her to go to her aunt Scrope's, 29 Sep, c1645, (ESBHRO) DUN 51/64
2. ↑ A[nna] B[usbridge] to her daughter Anna Busbridge at Thomas Temple esq's house at Frankton; family news; unreasonable to expect her uncle to take her to her aunt Scrope's again so soon, 30 Oct [c1648], (ESBHRO) DUN 51/65
3. ↑ A[nna] Busbridge to her daughter Mary Busbridge at Frankton; the purchase of material and the latest fashions, 18 Aug 1651, (ESBHRO) DUN 51/62
4. ↑ John Busbridge, Deans Yard, [Westminster] to his daughter Ann Farnden at Col Busbridge's house at Haremere. 27 Apr 1659. (ESBHRO) DUN 51/63A
5. ↑ [Anna Busbridge] to her niece ...; fashions in women's clothes, details of the funeral of her sister Hamond's eldest daughter; business of her brother Temple, whom she pities for having such a wife, 1630, East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO) DUN 51/57
6. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVJC-QZX : 13 March 2020), Adryan Scobe, 1643.
7. ↑ The Ledger of Thomas Speed 1681-1690 p xxxvii BRS