Lord Roger de Scales was one of the 'eminent persons' forced by the rebels to march with them upon the insurrection of Jack Straw

Jack Straw (rebel leader)

For other uses, see Jack Straw Jack Straw was one of the three leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, a major event in the history of England.-Biography:Little is known of the Rising's leaders. It been suggested that Jack Straw may have been a preacher...

. He was a Commissioner of the Peace for Cambridgeshire and Norfolk for many of the years between 1373 and 1386. He was summoned to Parliament

Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England. In 1066, William of Normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws...

 from 1376 until his death in 1386. He attended the Coronation of Richard II

Richard II of England

Richard II was King of England, a member of the House of Plantagenet and the last of its main-line kings. He ruled from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. Richard was a son of Edward, the Black Prince, and was born during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III...

 in 1377.

Residences

Roger's main residence was at Rivenhall

Rivenhall

Rivenhall is a village and a civil parish near Witham in the Braintree District in the English county of Essex. It is near the small settlement of Rivenhall End. For transport there is the busy A12 nearby and Witham railway station. It has an Anglo-Saxon church which has a Roman villa...

 in Essex

Essex

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. He also held Haselingfeld in Cambridgeshire and gained Shaldford in Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

 and lands in Kent

Kent

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 through his marriage.

Family

Roger married Joane, daughter of, Sir John de Northwoode. They had the following children:-

• Lord Robert de Scales, 5th Baron Scales
  Robert de Scales, 5th Baron Scales
  Lord Robert de Scales was involved in an expedition to Aquitaine. He was Commissioner of the Peace for Norfolk from 1399 to 1401, and was the steward of the son and heir of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk due to his minority. He was one of the Peers who voted for Henry Bolingbroke to be...
  
  (1372–1402)

Joane later remarried to Sir Edmund de Thorpe, Jnr., without license.