Career
When James Croft became a Comptroller of the Household in 1570, Scudamore (though by then widowed) became a courtier and was appointed Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth and Standard Bearer to The Honourable Band of Gentleman Pensioners. He became Custos Rotulorum of Herefordshire in 1574, deputy lieutenant in 1575, High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1581, and knight of the shire for Herefordshire in the 1570s and 1580s, serving for six terms. He was elected Member of Parliament for Herefordshire in 1571, sitting continuously untl 1593 and again in 1597, sitting until 1601.
Following Croft"s death in 1590, his influence waned.