First Civil War
At the opening of the civil war he raised a troop of horse for the parliament, and in 1646 was major in the regiment of horse commanded by Colonel Richard Graves. When the army and parliament quarrelled Scrope took part with the soldiers, and possibly helped Joyce to carry off Charles I from Holdenby to Newmarket. He succeeded to the command of the regiment about July 1647
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