Friday 26 May at 3:00pm Nicholas Merchant on The Scrope Family and Danby on Yore

Between the reigns of Edward II and Charles I the Scroope family (as it was then spelt) produced an Archbishop, two Bishops, one Lord High Chancellor, two Chief Justices, four Treasurers, five Knights of the Garter, two Earls and 20 Barons.

The family arrived in England with Edward the Confessor, before settling in Wensleydale in C12th. Here the histories of the Scropes and the Markenfields became intertwined through marriage and battle.