Roger Scales, 4th Baron Scales (1354–1387) was one of the 'eminent persons' forced by the rebels to march with them upon the insurrection of Jack Straw in 1381. He was a commissioner of the peace for Cambridgeshire and Norfolk for many of the years between 1373 and 1386.Patent Rolls He was summoned to Parliament from 1376 until his death in 1386.Philip Morant, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex He attended the Coronation of Richard II in 1377.House of Lords, Supplemental Case of the House of Lords 1857
Residences Roger's main residence was at Rivenhall in Essex. He also held Haselingfeld in CambridgeshireFeudal Aids 1284-1431 and gained Shaldford in Essex and lands in Kent through his marriage.
Family Roger married Joan, daughter of, Sir John de Northwode. They had the following children:-
Robert de Scales, 5th Baron Scales (1372–1402)
Joan later remarried to Sir Edmund de Thorpe, Jnr., without licence.
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