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 - Abt 1543
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| Name |
Scrope, Margaret |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Abt 1543 |
England  |
| Person ID |
I09857 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
14 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Scrope, Robert, b. Abt 1442, Of Bolton, Yorkshire, England , d. 25 Aug 1500, Of Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, England (Age ~ 58 years) |
| Mother |
Zouche, Katherine, b. Abt 1450, England |
| Married |
Abt 04 Nov 1469 |
England |
| Family ID |
F03103 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- A NUN’S LIFE:
BARKING ABBEY IN THE LATE-MEDIEVAL
AND EARLY MODERN PERIODS
by
TERESA L. BARNES
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF ARTS
in
HISTORY
Portland State University
2004
Also a member of the titled aristocracy was the nun Margaret Scrope. She was the granddaughter of Henry, Fourth Baron Scrope of Bolton, Yorkshire. Her father was Robert Scrope, and Margaret was related through marriage to the Countess of Oxford.[77] At Barking, Margaret served as precentrix in 1527, and was a “lady of the pension” in the mid-1530s.[78] The fact that she was sent or chose to go to Barking Abbey from Yorkshire suggests the abbey still held a certain prestige or cachet among the English aristocracy, even at this late date in its history. Sturman suggests that after the dissolution Margaret went to live with her sister, Elizabeth Peche, in Kent because she appears in Elizabeth’s will which was proved in 1544. Elizabeth left “to my sister Dame Margaret Scrope sometime nun at Barking five pounds sterling.”[79] However, mere mention in a will in no way proves the two women lived together after Barking’s dissolution, and furthermore, Elizabeth’s will must have been written more than a year before it was proved, for according to Court of Augmentations records, Margaret died in 1543.[80] Margaret was also known to have given away one of the books previously in Barking’s library, The Mirror of the Life of Christ, to an Agnes Goldwell, who may have been one of her sister’s servants.[81]
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