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" I will weep for thee ;
98 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
Another fall of man."
And Scrope's words are at least what he ought to have said, and what, let
us hope, he did say, for
they express the only reparation which he could
make for his conduct :
" Our purposes God justly hath discovered !
And I
repent my fault more than my death ;
He left
Which I beseech your highness to forgive,
Although my body pay the price of it."
no children, but his heir was his younger brother, Sir John Scrope,
who was restored to the barony eleven years afterwards, 1426, by Henry VI.,
who seems to have taken him into favour. He was made a Privy Councillor ;
Ambassador to the King of Spain and King of the Romans, 1420 to
;
Scotland, 1429; and was employed in diplomatic missions on many subsequent
occasions. Eventually he became Treasurer of England, and died
six years before the unhappy end of that King, 1455. His arms are in the
south transept of the Choir, impaling those of his second wife, Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Thomas Chaworth, of Wiverton, by his wife Nicholaa,
daughter and heiress of Sir Gerard Braybrook.*
Why the Chaworths carried the quarterings of Aufreton (azure two
bendelets, or) and Caltoft (argent,
an inescutcheon within an orle of ten
cinquefoils, sable) into which families they had intermarried, instead of
their own coat (Barry of ten, gules and argent, an orle of martletts
sable) I cannot say. Thoroton, in his History of Nottinghamshire, has
little of interest to record about them, though one member of the
family is, at least, closely associated with English history, viz., Maud,
daughter of Sir Patrick Chaworth, who married Henry, younger son of
Edmund Crouchback, second son of Henry III., and younger brother of
Thomas, Duke of Lancaster, beheaded at Pontefract ; and her granddaughter
Blanche married John o' Gaunt. The name of Chaworth is,
however, intimately associated with a tragic episode in very modern
history William Chaworth, the last of his race, being killed by his cousin,
William, fifth Lord Byron, great uncle of the poet. It could hardly be said
in a duel.f They were dining with a large party at the Star and Garter
Tavern, in Pall Mall, Jan. 26th, 1765, when an altercation arose between
them on the subject of preserving game. Heated with wine, they accidentally
met after dinner on the staircase, resumed their altercation, and
retired together into a private room, lighted by one tallow candle, wrangling
as they went. Very soon the bell was violently rung, and the waiter
entering, found Lord Byron supporting Mr. Chaworth, their swords drawn,
and the latter mortally wounded. What had actually happened was never
* See coloured illustrations. t Annual Register.