. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. sof water in Oldthorpe; but this seems to have been only anextension of some property previously acquired there; for it iscertain that Althorpe, so called, was purchased by this Sir JohnSpencer as early as the year 1508. The same Sir John afterwardspurchased Neivbottle and Brington, and died in the year tomb, with the recumbent figures of his wife Isabella,and himself, is the most ancient of t
. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. sof water in Oldthorpe; but this seems to have been only anextension of some property previously acquired there; for it iscertain that Althorpe, so called, was purchased by this Sir JohnSpencer as early as the year 1508. The same Sir John afterwardspurchased Neivbottle and Brington, and died in the year tomb, with the recumbent figures of his wife Isabella,and himself, is the most ancient of those seen in the chapel otBrington church. It is in the rich gothic style of that period, and heads of the old pews in the chancel. As these are undoubtedly of the end oftlie xivth or befpnning of the xvth century, and as it is not very improbablethat the same fate of decapitation, or destruction, which has befallen their com-l)anious, may in a few years attend these—I present the reader ^ath the follow-ing specimens ; taken, the one from the left, and the other from the right, onentering the chancel. Tliat, to the left, is St. Margaret. The right may be—any thing the reader ijii, ?Jii . h ^-m ^ -A . vi ACCOUNT OF ALTHORP. [ 151i> has been recently i-estored (in the decayed parts) with a strictadherence to the original model.* Of his younger and only bro-ther, Thomas, who was living in 1504-, nothing is known. The wealth of Sir John Spencer must have been prodigious ;-|-for, exclusively of the purchases above mentioned, he became theproprietor of Wormletghton in Jlanricks/iire; which place hisdescendants seem to have occupied, for a long period, as their prin- • The first print of these tombs, in Mr. Bakers Nisi, of the Count;/ ofSorthnmplnn, will give a correct notion of the beauty of the tomb in ( inscription on the tomb is thus : Here lietli the Boddies of Sir John Spencer Knight & dame Isabell his Wifeone of the (laughters & coheirs of
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