View source for Simon Scroop 1666-1723


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===[[name::Simon]] [[name::SCROOP]] or [[name::SCROOPE]] or [[name::SCROPE]] [[date of birth::1666]]-[[date of death::1723]]===
[[file:P1120469(2).JPG|thumb|One of Scroop's bookplates (British Museum Franks Collection *432)]]
====Biographical Note====
Son of [[family::Simon Scroope]] of [[location::Danby on Yore, Leyburn, Yorkshire]] and [[family::Mary Scroope|Mary Warren]]. Married 1. [[family::Mary Scroop|Mary Constable]]; 2. [[family::Frances Scroop| Frances Sheldon]]. Scroop belonged to a long-established Roman Catholic family, inheriting the ancestral home Danby Hall on his father's death in 1691, which was in turn inherited by his eldest [[family::Simon Scroop|son]] and namesake. He was a brother-in-law of [[crossreference::John Messenger]]. 

====Books====

The Franks Collection contains two of his engraved armorial bookplates dated 1698 where his name is spelled ‘Scroope’ (26365-6), and four without a date where it is ‘Scroop’ (26367-9, *432). 

Example: Senate House Library, [S.L.] I [Exquemelin - 1684] Vol. 2.

====Sources====
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*Burke, J. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain'', 1835, vol. 1, 451.
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903-4.
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