SCROOPE, OF DANBY. SCROOPE, SIMON-THOMAS, esq. of Danby-upon-Yore, in the county of York, m. 3rd March, 1789, Catherine, eldest daughter of Edward Meynell, esq. of Kilvington and Yarm, in the same shire, and has issue, SIMON-THOMAS, b. 17th April, 1790, m. in 1821, Mary, Edward Gerard, b. 5th January, 1796. Frederick, b. 25th December, 1801. Catherine-Dorothy, m. in 1826, to Anthony-George Frances. Mary-Barbara, who d. unmarried in 1797. Mr. Scroope succeeded his father 3rd January, 1788. Lineage. This is the only branch now remaining of the once eminent family of LE SCROPE, which was ennobled in the persons of HENRY LE SCROPE, and of SIR RICHARD LE SCROPE, by King EDWARD III.; the former* was son and successor of Geffrey le Scrope, of Clifton upon Yore, in the county of York, chief justice of the Court of King's Bench, temp. EDWARD II. and EDWARD III. The latter was CHANCELLOR AND KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEAL in the reign of HENRY SCROOPE, of Spennythorne, m. 1. FRANCIS, of Danby, who m. Dorothy, daughter of Anthony Caterick, * HENRY LE SCROPE was summoned to parliament as a baron, 25th February, 1342; in which dignity he was s. by his elder son, Sir Stephen le Scrope; and his second son, Sir William le Scrope was created Earl of Wiltshire. SIR RICHARD LE SCROPE was summoned to parliament as a baron, 8th January, 1371. This was the nobleman who had the memorable contest with Sir Robert Grosvenor, as to the right of bearing certain arms. His descendant was created EARL OF SUNDERLAND by King CHARLES I.-See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage. ANNE, who wedded Edward Topham, esq. of Aglethorp. The representation of the family eventually devolved upon the eldest son of CHRISTOPHER, of Spennythorne, HENRY SCROOPE, esq. b. 14th October, 1605, who thus became " of Danby." This gentleman espoused first, Anne, second daughter of Sir Edward Plumpton, knt, of Plumpton, in the county of York, and had an only daughter, ANNE, who m. Thomas Tempest,esq.of Broughton, in the same shire. Mr. Scroope m. secondly, Anne, daughter of Robert Scroope, esq. of Wormsley, in Oxfordshire, and had an only son, ROBERT, who d. s. p. He died himself in 1642, and was s. by his brother, SIMON SCROOPE, esq. of Danby, b. in 1615, m. Mary, daughter of Michael Warton, esq. of Beverley, and had issue, SIMON, his heir. Catherine, m. to Roger Strickland, John, b. 18th September, 1668. SIMON SCROOPE, esq. of Danby. This gentleman espoused Anne-Clementia, daugh Mary, m. to Nicholas Errington Sta- Margaret, m. to John Messenger, esq. SIMON SCROOPE, esq. of Danby, b. 14th November, 1666, m. first, Mary, daughter of Robert Constable, Viscount Dunbar, but by her had no issue. He espoused secondly, Frances, daughter of Ralph Sheldon, esq. of Beoly, in Worcestershire, and had, inter alios, SIMON, his successor. Henry-Joseph, a merchant at Leghorn, Mary-Dorothy, m. to Thomas Strick- SIMON-THOMAS, his heir. Clementia - Elizabeth - Frances, m. to James Maxwell, esq. of Kirkconnell, and d. issueless, 10th November, 1815. Mrs. Scroope was eventually co-heir of her brother, George Meynell, esq. of Aldborough. Mr. Scroope d. 3d January, 1788, and was s. by his son, the present SIMONTHOMAS SCROOPE, esq. of Danby. Arms-Azure a bend, or, quartering the ensigns of many illustrious families, including those of Tibetot; Badlesmere; Gifford; Marshall, earl of Pembroke ; Strongbow; Mac Moragh, King of Leinster; Lacy, earl of Lincoln; Lupus, earl of Chester; Conyers of Danby, &c. Crest---Out of a ducal coronet, a plume of ostrich feathers. Motto-Devant si je puis. BETHELL, OF RISE. BETHELL, RICHARD, esq. of Rise, in the county of York, M.P. for the East Riding of that shire, b. 10th May, 1772, m. 26th April, 1800, Mary, second daughter of William Welbach, esq. of the City of London, and of Ravensworth Cowton, in Yorkshire. Mr. Bethell inherited the estates under the will of the late William Bethell, esq. who died in July, 1799. Lineage. THOMAS BETHELL, or AP ITHILL, of Maunsel, in the county of Hereford, was father of THOMAS BETHELL, esq. of Maunsell, who espoused Elizabeth, daughter of George Rogers, esq. and had issue, 1. John, who d. s. p. II. Nicholas, of Maidenhead, in the county of Hereford. III. Hugh (Sir) knt. of Ellerton, in the IV. ROGER, of whom presently. 1. John, of the county of Hereford, 2. Richard, father of RICHARD, devisee of his uncle. m. Ann, daughter of James Cli- 1. RICHARD, who eventually 3. James. 4. George, in holy orders, 5. Ann, deceased. 7. Frances, d. unmarried. The fourth son of Thomas Bethell and Elizabeth, his wife, ROGER BETHELL, esq. acquired the estate of Rise, in Holderness. He died and was buried there, 22nd March, 1625. His son and successor, HUGH BETHELL, esq. of Rise, wedded Ellen, daughter of Thomas Johnson, esq. of Bishop's Burton, in the county of York, and by her (who d. 26th September, 1648) had issue, John. HUGH BETHELL, esq. of Rise, who wedded Margaret, daughter of Sir John Dawney, knt. and died in 1677, leaving no surviving issue. The second son, JOHN BETHELL, esq. of the county of York, espoused Mary, daughter of Richard Hildyard, esq. and was s. at his decease by his son, HUGH BETHELL, esq. who married first, Mary, daughter of Edward Skinner, esq. of Thornton, in the county of Lincoln, and had by her a daughter, Mary, wife of William Somerville. He wedded secondly, Sarah, daughter and co-heiress of William Dickof York, by whom he left at his decease in enson, esq. of Walton Abbey, in the county 1716, a son and heir, Hugh Bethell, esq. of Rise and Walton Abbey, high-sheriff of Yorkshire in 1734. This gentleman wedded Ann, daughter of Sir John Coke, bart. of Bramhill, by his wife Alice, daughter of Sir Humphrey Monnoux, bart. of Wootton, and dying in 1752, was s. by his son, HUGH BETHELL, esq. of Rise, high-sheriff of Yorkshire in 1761, who died unmarried 8th May, 1772, when the estates passed to his brother, WILLIAM BETHELL, esq. of Rise, who served the office of sheriff in 1780. This gentleman espoused Charlotte, daughter of Ralph Pennyman, esq. but dying without issue, 25th July, 1799, devised his estates to his kinsman, the present RICHARD BETHEll, esq. of Rise, M. P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire. Arms-Ar. on a chevron, between three boars' heads, couped sa. an estoile or. Crest-Out of a ducal coronet or, a boar's head couped sa. Estates At RISE, WALTON, and various HUGH (Sir), of Rise, who received the townships in the East Riding of Yorkshire. honor of knighthood, 29th October, The first of the Bethells who possessed Rise 1658. This gentleman served the was Roger Bethell, who died there in 1625, office of high sheriff for Yorkshire in Walton Abbey came into the family by the 1652. He m. Mary, sister and co-marriage of Hugh Bethell, esq. with Sarah, heiress of Thomas Michelburn, esq. daughter of William Dickenson, esq. of Carlton, in Yorkshire, and had an Seats Rise, and Walton Abbey, both near only son, Beverley. MURE, OF CALDWELL. MURE, WILLIAM, esq. of Caldwell, in the county of Ayr, colonel of the Renfrew militia, b. 9th July, 1799, m. 7th February, 1825, Laura, second daughter of William Markham, esq. late of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, and granddaughter of his grace, Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York, by whom he has issue, the original stock of Polkelly, and may be the same Reginald who, together with a Gilchrist More, signs the Ragman Roll in 1296, and whom Nisbet takes to be the old Polkelly Mores," the root of the Mores, an antienter family than the Rowallans." The MURES of Caldwell are immediately | BERT II. the first of the STUART KINGS; descended from SIR REGINALD MORE or but of this there is no evidence and it apMURE, of Abercorn and Cowdams, who appears as likely that he sprang directly from pears to have been chamberlain of Scotland as early as 1329, the first year of the reign of David II. The name occurs, written at various periods, More, Mure, Muir, Moor, &c.; and from the correspondence of the armorial bearings, seems to be the same originally as that of the MOORES The paternal inheritance of Sir Reginald of Moore Place, in Kent, now represented seems to have been Cowdams, in Ayrby the Irish Moores, Marquises of Drog-shire, not far from the original seat of the heda. The arms of "Muir of Caldwell," | and "Muir of Rouallan," being then the two chief houses of the name in Scotland, are exhibited on page 46 of the Scottish Heraldry, emblazoned by Sir David Lindsay, LORD LYON, about the year 1540. Those of Caldwell present the plain shield of the Mores, "three mullets on a bend;" while on the shield of Rowallan are quar-wards ROBERT II., dated 1367, confirming tered the wheat-sheaves of the Comyns. family. These lands belonged to him previously to 1328, as shewn by an agreement concerning them between him and__the monks of Paisley, dated in that year. They have ever since continued in the family, Mr. Mure, of Caldwell, being still their feudal superior. They are next noticed in a charter of the Earl of Strathern, after the previous deed of 1328. Johannes Mure, jun. de Cowdams, appears in 1446 as one of the commissioners for fixing the boundaries of the Burgh of Prestwick, and the papers relative thereto, now preserved at Caldwell, The most ancient of the name on record are the Mores of Polkelly, near Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire; one of whom, David de More, appears as witness to a charter of Alexander II. The direct male line of Polkelly becom-extend as far back as 1475. ing extinct, the estate passed, by marriage of the heir female, to the Mores of Rowallan, cadets of the family, who had acquired the neighbouring estate of Rowallan, from the COмYNS, its ancient lords. Crawford, the Scottish genealogist, supposes Sir Reginald the chamberlain to have been a brother of Sir Adam More, of Rowallan, whose daughter, Elizabeth, was QUEEN Consort of Ro Sir Reginald acquired his extensive estates of Abercorn, &c. in the Lothians and Stirlingshire, by marriage with one of the co-heiresses of Sir John Graham, of Eskdale and Abercorn; another of whom wedded Walter Steward, of Scotland; and a third, Sir William Douglas, "the Knight of Liddesdale." He obtained also, by grant from the crown, on the forfeiture of More, of Polkelly, (supposed his younger brother) and Robert Boyd, of Kilmarnock, for the slaughter of Mark Neilson, of Dalrymple. He was s. by Sir Andrew Murray in 1332, the lands of JOHN MORE, the first who is designated of Tillybardine. These were afterwards re- "Caldwell," as appears from a letter of restored for a pecuniary consideration, by his mission, granted Oct. 29, 1409, by the Reson, Sir William More, to Sir William Mur-gent Duke of Albany, to him, Archibald ray, ancestor of the present Duke of Athol, as appears from an indenture dated 1341. Sir Reginald adhered steadily to the patriotic cause during the English wars in DAVID the Second's reign, and was one of the commissioners appointed, in 1340, to treat with the Lords Percy, Moubray, and Nevil, of a truce between the two nations. He died soon after, leaving two sons and a daughter, viz. J. WILLIAM, who succeeded to Abercorn. He was one of the twelve nobles, who, in the parliament of 1357, in the name of the whole estates of Scotland, appointed commissioners to treat with England for the release of King DAVID II. On his death without male issue, his lands of Abercorn, Erth, Torwood, the Dene near Edinburgh, &c. passed with his daughter, CHRISTIAN, to Sir John Lindsay, of Byres, ancestor of the Earl of Čraufurd. II. GILCHRIST, who continued the line of the family. III. Alicia, m. first, to Sir William de Herch (or Herries); and secondly, to her cousin, Sir John Steward, of Ralston, son of Walter Steward of Scotland, by Isabel Graham. For this marriage there exists two dispensations from Benedict XII. dated Avignon, the one, 13th July, 1340; the other, 10th May, 1341. JOHN MORE, Lord of Caldwell, who is witness along with George Campbell, Lord of Loudoun, Robert More, of Rowallan, and others, to a charter, dated January 19, 1430. The circumstance of his name taking precedence in the subscription, he being also styled Lord of Caldwell, while the other is simply, Robert More, of Rowallan, is adthat the Mores, of Caldwell were now conduced by Crawford and others as evidence The next possidered chief of the name. sessor of Caldwell was JOHN MORE, whose charter under the great seal, bears date, 1476. By Elizabeth, his wife, he left a son and a daughter, namely, ADAM (Sir), his heir. Marjory, m. to John, Lord Ross, of Hawkhead, ancestor of the present Earl of Glasgow. Her effigy appears recumbent by the side of that of her husband, under an arched niche, in the choir of the church of Renfrew; the three mullets of Caldwell, still visible on the tomb, with this inscription: "Hic jacet Johns Ros miles quondam dominus de Hawkhede et Marjorie uxor sua, orate pro." . . . He d. before 1492, and was s. by his son, SIR ADAM MORE, of Caldwell, knighted by JAMES IV. and designated in the crown writs, Nobilis vir Adamus More de Cald Sir Reginald's elder son dying without male well, miles. "He was," says Crawford, “a issue, the younger, GILCHRIST MORE, became the male representative of the house of Abercorn. To him descended the property of Cowdams. The estates of Caldwell, in the shires of Ayr and Renfrew, he is supposed to have acquired by marriage with the heiress of Caldwell of that ilk, then a family of some note, having given a chancellor to Scotland in 1349. Crawford is of opinion that at this time the estates of Rowallan and Polkelly also came to the Abercorn line by a second marriage of Gilchrist with the heir-female of Rowallan, these, he adds, were afterwards settled on the younger children, issue of this marriage, whence the subsequent Mures, of Rowallan and Polkelly, two distinct families. Rowallan passed, about a century ago, by an heir-female, to the Campbells of Loudoun, now represented by the Marchioness Dowager of Hastings, Countess of Loudoun, in her own right. The male line of Polkelly is also extinct. To Caldwell and Cowdams succeeded gallant stout man, having diverse feuds with his neighbours, which were managed with great fierceness, and much bloodshed."He wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Sempill, of Eliestoun, and sister to John, first Lord Sempill, by whom he had four sons and two daughters, viz. CONSTANTINE, who predeceased his father, s. p. JOHN, heir. Hector, who was slain in a feud at Robert, who had a remission granted Elizabeth, m. to George Lindsay, of Janet, m. to John Stewart, of Ardgowan |