 Abt 1485 - 1548 (~ 63 years)
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| Name |
Scrope, Mary |
| Born |
Abt 1485 |
England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Buried |
25 Aug 1548 |
St Mary, Low Leton, Essex, England |
| Person ID |
I08095 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
14 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Scrope, Richard, b. Abt 1439, Of Bolton, Yorkshire, England , d. 1485, Friar Preachers, London, England (Age ~ 46 years) |
| Mother |
Washbourne, Eleanor, b. Abt 1450, Of Wichenford, Worcestershire, England , d. 1505-1506, Augustine Friars, Norwich, England (Age ~ 56 years) |
| Married |
Abt 25 Nov 1467 |
England |
| Family ID |
F02305 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- www.oxford-shakespeare.com
MARY SCROPE (d. August 15, 1548)
Mary Scrope was one of the nine daughters of Sir Richard Scrope of Upsall, Yorkshire (d.1485) and Eleanor Washbourne (d.1505/6).... She was left a third part of £1000 for her dowry by her stepfather, Sir John Wyndham (d.1502). Mary married first, c.1509, Sir Edward Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suffolk (d.1515), by whom she had four sons and one daughter, Sir Henry (1509-1571), Ferdinand, Edward, Edmund, and Elizabeth. Her will mentions a daughter named Margaret and does not mention an Elizabeth, presenting me with a small mystery yet to be solved. In between lying-ins, she had an active career at court from 1509-1527 as one of Catherine of Aragon’s ladies. ... Mary Scrope’s second husband, to whom she was married by the beginning of 1532, was Sir William Kingston (by 1476-September 4, 1540), constable of the Tower from 1524 until his death. ..During the imprisonment of Anne Boleyn, Lady Kingston was called upon to hear Anne’s apology to Mary Tudor and deliver it to the king’s daughter after Anne’s execution.... David Loades, in his biography of Mary Tudor, says she was in charge of a joint household for Mary and Elizabeth from March 1538 until April 1539...She asked to be buried at Painswick, Gloucestershire with her second husband, but her memorial brass, dated 1557, is at Low Leyton, Essex, where she was apparently buried on September 4, 1548.
The will of the testatrix’ sister, Elizabeth (d.1537), Countess of Oxford, contains bequests to the testatrix and her second husband, Sir William Kingston (c.1476-1540):
Item, I give and bequeath to my brother, Sir William Kingston, knight, ...Item, I give and bequeath to my sister, Dame Mary, his wife, ...
Item, I give and bequeath to my sister, Dame Mary Kingston, and to my sister, Jane Brewes, ....
Strype records the following verses on a brass plate on the south wall of the old chancel of the Church of St Mary at Low Leyton commemorating Lady Mary Kingston:
If you will the truth have,
Here lieth in this grave,
Directly under this stone,
Good Lady Mary Kingston,
Who departed this life, the truth to say,
In the month of August, the twenty-fifth day,
And as I do well remember,
Was buried honourably the fourth day of September
The year of Our Lord reckoned truly
MVc forty and eight verily,
Whose yearly obit and anniversary
Is determined to be kept surely
At the cost of her son, Sir Henry Jerningham, truly,
Who was at this making
Of the Queen’s Guard chief captain.
(See Strype, John, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Appendix 1, Chapter 13, p. 115)
Will of Mary Kingston:
In the name of God, Amen. I, Mary Kingston, widow, the 12th day of July in the year of Our Lord God a thousand five hundred forty and six, and in the 38th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eight ... and my body to be buried at Painswick where my late husband, Sir William Kingston, knight of the honourable Order of the Garter, whose soul God pardon, lieth buried; .... Item, I bequeath to my Lady Mary’s Grace my thick book of prayers covered with gold; Item, I bequeath to my son-in-law, Sir Anthony Kingston, an image of Saint Anthony with a diamond and a pearl ... Item, I bequeath to my son-in-law, Sir John Jerningham, knight, a cup of silver and gilt to the value of five pound sterling; Item, I bequeath to my Lady Anne Grey, my daughter-in-law, .... Item, I bequeath to my sister Bruse a hoop of gold ... Item, I bequeath to my sister Seynteclere, wife to Sir John Seyntclere, knight, a gown ....Item, I bequeath to my niece, Elizabeth, her daughter, a ... Item, I bequeath to my nephew, John Bruse, ... I bequeath to my cousin, Sir Walter Stonor, knight, ...my cousin, his wife, ...Item, I bequeath to my son, Henry Jerningham, my farm of Bydfeld in the county of Gloucester, ...Item, I will that Mary Jerningham, daughter to my said son, Henry Jerningham, ... Item, I bequeath to my daughter-in-law, Margaret Hasset Blennerhasset?)....Furthermore I make my said cousin, Sir Walter Stonor, knight, and John Ryder, esquire, to be the supervisors of this my last will...
This codicil made the 22nd day of August in the year of Our Lord God a thousand five hundred forty and eight, I, Mary Kingston, widow, ... I will and bequeath the same to Mary Jerningham, daughter to my son, Henry, as parcel of the implements of my mansion house in Leyton; ...son Henry Jernyham... Also I give to my daughter Frances, his wife...
The same testament was proved, with the codicil, before the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury at London on the 25th day of January in the year of the Lord the thousand five hundred 48th by the oath of ...
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