Photograph Notes: The Scrope family has been associated with Castle Combe since at least as far back as the C14th - and a descendant, G.P.Scrope was living at the Manor House in the first half of the C19th. The arms of Scrope (top left) are, perhaps surprisingly, some of the most famous in all heraldry. This is because of a case brought at the Court of Chivalry in the late C14th. The case was Scrope v. Grosvenor - that latter being the family name of the Dukes of Westminster. No two families in the same country should have exactly the same charges (emblems etc.) in the same colours on their shields, but in 1385 it was realised that both Sir Robert Grosvenor from Cheshire and Richard Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton in Yorkshire were bearing the arms "Azure a Bend Or" (a gold diagonal stripe on a blue shield). As a general rule the simpler a shield is, the older and more venerable it is, so this shield, having simply an "ordinary" (the diagonal band) of one metal (gold) on a plain field of a colour (blue) made it extremely ancient. Both parties claimed to have used the arms since the time of the Norman Conquest. The case came to the Court of Chivalry to decide, and eventually in 1389 it was decided in favour of the Scropes. The Grosvenors eventually settled on Azure a Garb Or (a golden wheatsheaf on a blue background). Nearly 500 years later, the case obviously still rankled with the Grosvenors, because in 1877 the 1st Duke of Westminster, a direct descendant of Sir Robert Grosvenor named his promising stallion "Bend Or". It went on to win the 1880 Derby amongst other races, and meant that finally "Bend Or" was associated in people's minds with the family of Grosvenor. One last interesting feature is that there was a third claimant to these arms, the Carminow family of Cornwall. Their claim was even more spectacularly ancient that those of the other two families - as they claimed to have used the arms "since the time of King Arthur". Fortunately this unprovable claim never had to be tested, as it was deemed that the Carminows could use the same arms as the Scropes - because they lived in a separate kingdom ... Cornwall ! See a history of Castle Combe and the Scropes here sites.google/site/castlecombewiltshire/home/castle-combe-museum/scrope-s-history Also see the shared description of the Manor House for more information.

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