He continued to serve on the border in the early 1520s, being at Newcastle in the company of the earl of Surrey in 1523.
[2] This manor had been held by the Scrope family since 1393,[3] and Henry Scrope wanted to swap it for other lands rather than sell it for cash, and it seems likely that he bribed Cromwell to reach this end, though Cromwell did not accept the bribe.
[1] He died, between October[4] and December 1533,[1] and was buried alongside his ancestors, in Wensley, North Yorkshire.
[1] He had had no children by his first marriage, but had three sons by Mabel, the eldest of whom, John, succeeded him to the barony,[5] and who the year after his father died, concluded the Pisho estate negotiations, being 'eventually forced to settle for money rather than land' from the crown.
The marriage never happened as Scrope wasn’t sold on it, but she would go on to become queen consort to King Henry VIII.