He was a
Norfolk man, who became a friar in the
Dominicans' house at Cambridge about 1530, and was one of those who signed the surrender on its suppression in 1538. He proceeded B.D. in 1539. In 1541 he was one of the
six preachers whom
Thomas Cranmer appointed at
Canterbury Cathedral. He was also one of Cranmer's chaplains. Scory was accused for a sermon preached on Ascension day 1541, but nothing seems to have resulted. King Edward notes that when
Joan Bocher was executed (2 May 1550) for heresy, Scory preached, and she reviled him, saying that he lied like a rogue and ought to read the Bible. He was about this time made examining chaplain to
Nicholas Ridley, the bishop of London. In Lent 1551 he called attention to the want of ecclesiastical discipline, and to the covetousness of the rich, particularly in the matter of
enclosures. He was appointed to the bishopric of Rochester on 26 April 1551, and was a commissioner appointed to revise the ecclesiastical laws (February 1551–2). On 23 May 1552 he was translated to Chichester. He instituted a thorough review of the lands of the bishopric which was carried out 1577–80 by the young Swithun Butterfield. In dogma Scory was orthodox, and signed the articles of 1562, and the canons of 1571. He died at
Whitbourne, Herefordshire on 26 June 1585. He left money to charitable uses. ==Works==