He was the son of John Scory, the bishop of Hereford. His father"s patronage made him a prebendary of Hereford, 1565-1569. According to John Aubrey his father "loved him so dearly that he fleeced the Church of Hereford to leave him a good estate".
He was acquainted with the diplomats Michel de Castelnau, and through him Bernardino de Mendoza. At the time of the laying of the Francis Throckmorton plot Scory was on the fringe of the conspiracy, was examined, and had Castelnau write to Francis Walsingham on his behalf. lieutenant came out that Scory as intermediary had arranged for Leicester to meet Mendoza at a dinner held by Customer Smythe.
In a similar role, he had set up a meeting of Gaston de Spinola, envoy from Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma in Flanders, with the queen.
Scory was at the same time suspected as the author of the scurrilous Leycester"s Commonwealth. He did know something of its circulation, to Henry Noel.
His father"s death in 1585 involved Scory in a chancery case with the new bishop of Hereford. In 1587 the privy council asked Edmund Colles and others to settle the dispute.
The History of Parliament calls Scory a "swindler".
Scory was on good terms with Sir Philip Sidney. But Sidney broke off the relationship in July 1583. His court connections were influential here, and are presumed to have given him favour with George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon as nominator.
Scory went to Simon Forman to have impotence treated in 1598.
In 1615 he had extensive self-interested discussions with the king on the privileges of baronets. Dying in 1617, he was buried in Saint Leonard"s, Shoreditch.
He had two sons.
Scory was Member of Parliament for Newtown, Hampshire, Isle of Wight in 1597.
