Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1390 Scrope ya bi John Beaufort, ɗan'uwan ɗan'uwan Sarki Henry IV na gaba, a kan Crusade na Barbary
zuwa Mahdia, amma in ba haka ba kadan ne aka sani na farkon rayuwarsa. An ba shi shekara-shekara da Sarki Richard II ya ba shi Henry IV bayan Richard ya yi watsi da shi, kuma a cikin 1403 Scrope an yi masa lakabi da'sarkin sarki', kuma ya yi yaƙi a gefen Henry IV a yakin Shrewsbury. An kashe kawunsa, Richard Scrope, Archbishop na York, a ranar 8 ga Yuni, 1405 saboda shiga cikin Arewacin Arewacin Sarki; duk da haka Henry Scrope bai shiga cikin tawayen kawunsa ba, kuma yana bauta wa Sarki a Wales lokacin da ya gaji mahaifinsa da ƙasashe a 1406. A cikin 1408 ya raka 'yar Henry IV, Philippa, zuwa Denmark don aurenta, kuma a cikin 1409 ya tafi Paris a kan aikin diflomasiyya tare da ɗan'uwan Henry IV, Henry Beaufort.