Events
Date of Birth: calculated to about 1559.
This date is given by Comber (3:238).
Date of Burial: 21 June 1625.
Place of Burial: Preston, Sussex, England (St Peter’s).
The burial is given by Renshaw (p. 219), Hughes-Clarke (p. 96), Salmon and the Sussex Family History Group in their transcription of the parish registers.
Relationships
Father: Edward Scrase (died 1576).
Mother: Agnes.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Juliana Tuppin (died 1620).
This relationship is given by Bannerman (p. 178), citing Harl. 1562, fo. 163
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Tuppen Scrase (born about 1583 - buried 9 December 1633 at Preston) married Susan Haye.
John Scrase (baptized 13 September 1584 in Hove, Sussex - buried 1619 in Preston) married Elizabeth de la Chambre.
George Scrase married Mary Weller in 1623.
William Scrase was a citizen of London, and also a sea captain engaged in piracy. He married Priscilla Monke 11 February 1621 at St Mary at Hill in London.
Edward Scrase (baptized 1 April 1594 in Plumpton, Sussex). Edward spent time in a Spanish prison for piracy.
Agnes Scrase (baptized 9 June 1595 in Plumpton).
Walter Scrase married (1) Rose; married (2) Margaret Pollard in 1641.
Richard Scrase (baptized 20 September 1597 in Plumpton - buried 21 March 1625) married Elizabeth Goring.
Susan Scrase married Henry Alderton in 1618.
Henry Scrase (born about 1601 - buried 8 February 1640/1 in Hove, Sussex) married Joan Andrewes in 1627.
Barbara Scrase married Richard Ockenden 28 March 1608 in Rottingdean, Sussex.
Evidence
On 5 July 1589, Richard Scrase of Blatchington was a witness in an ecclesiastical deposition, where he stated he had resided at Blatchington about 14 years and was aged 30.
from the National Archives Catalogue (Exchequer: King’s Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission, E 134/7Jas1/Hil8)
Anthony Sherley v. Richard Scrase: Lands in the parishes of Preston and Blatchington; whether parcel of the manor of Blatchington otherwise Bletchington, Meets and bounds of such manors in the parishes of Preston, Bletchington, Aldrington, and Hove.: Sussex
[7 James 1/ 1609]
from Randolph Rawlinson v. Edward. Scrase, Rich. Scase (National Archives Catalogue, E 134/20Jas1/East12) Date: 20 Jas 1 1621-22
Randolph Rawlinson v. Edwd. Scrase, Richd. Scrase.: Ship freighted with iron by defendant Richd. with his son Edwd. (defendant) on board as factor, which ship left Falmouth and arrived at "ye Groyne," in Spain, where she and her crew were "apprehended for pirates," the ship confiscated to the King of Spain, and most of the men condemned to the gallies. Touching an account of monies alleged to have been disbursed by Geo. Rawlinson for the support of Edwd. Scrase and crew during their captivity in Spain.: Cornwall
[digital image of E126 no. 2, concerning the same matter]
Richard's burial (Preston parish register):
Mr Richard Scrace of Blatchington buryed the xxith of June 1625.
Commentary
Richard’s parentage
In the application of his son Tuppen for a coat of arms in 1616, Richard is described as the son of Edward. Certain “Deeds and Evidences” are cited. ( Lower p. 7) Richard was living at the time.
In his 1575 will, Edward Scrace of Bletchington named his wife Agnes and his eldest son Richard.
In her 1589 will, Agnes Scrase of Howe, widow, named her son Richard Scrase.
The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (v. 7, sub Blatchington) notes that Chancery proceedings show that “...Edward also had a lease of the manor from Lord Bergavenny, but when he died in 1576, his son Richard being a minor, Edward Covert, the overseer of his will, by misrepresentations obtained in 1583 a new lease for three lives. Richard Scrase on attaining his majority recovered possession….”
References
Bannerman, Bruce (ed.), The Visitations of the County of Sussex made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1633-4 by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald etc. (London: 1905).
Dunkin, Edwin Hadow Wise.Sussex Manors, Advowson, etc., recorded in the feet of fines, Henry VIII, to William IV, (1509 - 1833) Sussex Record Society Volume XX. (London:Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1915) [Page 465 gives fines related to Richard’s buying and selling parts of the manor of Warpisborne.]
England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living in Sussex. A database extraction of John Comber’s Sussex Genealogies (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931 -). Richard Scrase.
Hughes-Clarke, Arthur William, and Edward Bysshe. The Visitation of Sussex, anno domini 1662, made by Sir Edward Bysshe. (London: [Harleian Society], 1937).
Godfrey, Walter Hindes, and John Rowe. The Book of John Rowe, steward of the manors of Lord Bergavenny, 1597-1622: comprising rentals of twenty-seven manors in Sussex, manorial customs and information concerning the borough of Lewes, the hundreds with the Rape of Lewes, etc. (Cambridge: Sussex Record Society, 1928), [Page 246 records a connection through property with his father-in-law, John Tuppen]
Lower, Mark Anthony, “Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Scrase” in Sussex Archaeological Collections, Volume 8 (London: John Russell Smith, 1856).
Page, William, et al. The Victoria History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7.(London: A. Constable, 1905 -).
The Parish Registers of Hove and Preston 1538 - 1812. Transcribed by Ernest Fredk. Salmon (London: 1912).
Renshaw, Walter Charles. “Notes on the Scrase Family of Co Sussex”, in The Genealogist (New Series) Volume XX, pages 217 to 221, 1904.
Renshaw, Walter C. “Witnesses from Ecclesiastical Deposition Books, 1580-1640” in Sussex Archaeological Collections v. LVI (1914).
Sussex Burials, transcribed by the Sussex Family History Group, available on Findmypast.co.uk (accessed 18 April 2014).