Heraldic Manuscript

Item author: John Leighe
Item date: 1588-9
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 350
Item date acquired: 1973
Item institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

82 coloured coats of arms taken by Leighe from the stained-glass of All Hallows Church, Northampton, which was destroyed by fire in 1675. Hitherto the heraldry was known only in an uncoloured, undated version in the BL and Bodleian

Item Provenance
Sothebys November 1973, from the Mainwaring archives