Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . ^.. .. vi ACCOUNT OF ALTHORP. [A. D. 1512 has been recently restored (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 ;-f-for, exclusively of the purchases above mentioned, he became theproprietor of Wormleighton in Warivickshire; which place hisde
Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . ^.. .. vi ACCOUNT OF ALTHORP. [A. D. 1512 has been recently restored (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 ;-f-for, exclusively of the purchases above mentioned, he became theproprietor of Wormleighton in Warivickshire; which place hisdescendants seem to have occupied, for a long period, as their prin- • The first print of these tomhs, in Mr. Bakers Hist, of the County ofKorlhamptnn, will give a correct notion of the beauty of the tomb in inscription on the tomb is thus : Here lieth the Boddies of Sir John Spencer Knight &: dame Isabel! his Wifeone of the daughters & coheirs of Walter Graunt of Snittcrfield in the Countieof War: Esquier her Mother was the daughter & heire of Huraphrie Rudingeof the Wich in the coun: of Worcester Esq: which John and Isabell bad issuSir Willm Spencer knight 1. An
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