Agard and Bate families of Foston & Scropton Records covering different aspects of both families' tenure in Scropton: there are manorial records, including extracts from court rolls; estate records, including 17th century surveys and rentals; household records, including the receipts for work done on Foston Hall after the arrival of the Bate family; and miscellaneous items of correspondence, including letters written to Francis Agard in the sixteenth century when a privy councillor in Ireland. [1533]-1778