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THE SCROPES. 91
having been kept under close guard at Baginton in Warwickshire, and
deprived of his office of Constable, received his pardon, and having taken
the oath of allegiance, returned to his northern home. William Clifford,
however, the guardian of Hotspur's son, young Henry Percy, still held the
castles of Berwick, Warkworth, and Alnwick, until his father's confiscated
estates should be restored. Badges of the white hart were being widely
distributed in Essex, and word was despatched to the King, who was absent
in the west, urging his presence in the north. He came at once to
Pontefract, and thence to Thorp, near York.*
I suppose the unsettled state of things seemed to indicate a good
opportunity, and accordingly another effort was made, Hardyng says, "by
" good advyse and counseill of Master Richard Scrope," together with
Thomas Mowbray, the Earl Marshal. He was the eldest son of the Duke
of Norfolk, one of " the five lords appelant " in Richard II.'s reign who had
initiated revolutionary proceedings against him in Parliament, 1356, and
in dealing with whom Richard had, for once, exhibited his father's vigour
and courage, arresting the Duke of Gloucester, the Earls of Arundel and
Warwick, and banishing Hereford (now Henry IV.) and the Duke of
Norfolk, when, on the trumpery plea of a quarrel concerning loyalty to him,
they entered the lists to settle their differences. Norfolk died in exile.f
His son, therefore, would perhaps have naturally sided with Henry IV.;
but he married Constance, daughter of John Holland, Duke of Exeter,
brother of Thomas, Earl of Kent. She was also cousin to Joan,
Henry Lord Scrope, while Margaret Welles, mother of Margaret,
wife of
wife of
Stephen Lord Scrope, was Mowbray's father's sister. So that there is
ample reason why he should be found associated with the house of Scrope
in aid of the house of Mortimer.
Northumberland favoured the movement, but remained at home,
excusing himself to Henry, who required his presence with him, on the
plea of illness and old age.J Archbishop Scrope caused an instrument of
ten articles against Henry to be affixed to the doors of the churches of
York, and having preached a sermon to the same effect in the Minster,
joined Mowbray, who had gathered a considerable force at Shipton, in the
forest of Galtres, near York. The Earl of Westmoreland met them with
an inferior force, and feeling his inability to cope with them, had recourse
to stratagem. He invited a conference, heard their grievances, assured
them that they should be attended to, and then suggested that, as their
object was attained, their forces should be at once disbanded. The
unsuspecting Archbishop, anxious for peace, fell into the trap. The armed
*
Wylie's History of Henry IV. History of the Percies.
tTaswell Langmead's Constitutional History.
t History of the Percies, vol. i. p. 234. Browne's History of York Minster.