Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland

Emanuel Scrope danced in The Somerset Masque at Whitehall Palace on 26 December 1613.

[3][4] Sunderland left his very considerable unentailed estate and Bolton Castle itself, to his illegitimate son by a settlement dated 20 May 1629;[5] that son dying in 1646 left his estate between his three sisters, and Bolton Castle to his eldest sister Mary.

[9][10] Having inherited Bolton Castle John, like much of Yorkshire, declared for the King during the English Civil War.

From Autumn 1644 until November 1645 the castle was besieged by Parliamentary forces, Sir John surrendered only after the last of the horses and all other animals are eaten, with the garrison inside starving.

As punishment, the castle was ordered to be slighted with much of it pulled down, and John Scrope was fined £7,000.