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Arms of the Leghs of Lyme, Piers (D. 1636) Or Thomas (D. 1639)

Arms of the Leghs of Lyme, Piers (D. 1636) Or Thomas (D. 1639)England, Hale Hall, Lancashire
1600-1625
White glass with silver stain and enamel
43.7 x 33.1 (17 1/4 x 13)
Some mended cracks and stopgaps; enamel flaked; marked 1286

Provenance: Sir Gilbert Ireland, Hale Hall, Hale, Lancashire; Grosvenor Thomas, London; Roy Grosvenor Thomas, New York, to 18 February 1926; William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles, to 1941; P.W. French & Co., New York; Preston Pope Satterwhite, Great Neck, N.Y.
Bibliography: Grosvenor Thomas Stock Book no. I, 216-217; item no. 1286; C.W. Post Catalogue (1939), vols. 101-104, lot no. 467-1; Hearst sale (1941), 330, lot no. 467-1.

Collection: J.B. Speed Museum (Louisville, Kentucky)
Object/Accession: 44.31.25

Arms: Quarterly of 17; 1 azure two bars argent a bend company gules and or (recte or and gules) (Legh, Adlington); 2 or a lion rampant gules (Legh of High Legh); 3 per pale azure and sable three boars counterchanged (Swineyard); 4 or three lozenges azure, two and one (Baguley); 5 argent a fess dancetty gules (Dutton); 6 or a fess argent (recte azure) (Beaumaris); 7 quarterly gules and or and over all a bend sable (Langley); 8 azure a chevron or between three crowns or (Corona); 9 gules a cross engrailed argent (Legh of Lyme); 10 azure on a chevron between three covered cups or as many mullets sable (Butler of Merton); 11 azure (recte argent) a pale fusilly sable (Danyers of Bradley); 12 vert a cross flory or (Boydell); 13 (charge stopgapped glass); 14 azure (recte argent) a cross sable and in dexter chief a fleur-de-lis sable (Haydock); 15 lozengy azure (recte argent) and sable (Croft of Dalton); 16 vert a chevron or between three crosslets (recte patonce) or (Boydell of Pulcroft); 17 argent a mullet sable, an annulet sable in dexter chief for difference (Waleton of Olnes Walton); over all an escutcheon of pretence, sable, within an orle of estoiles
argent, an arm couped, embowed, and armed proper holding a pennon argent (Legh augmentation); helm with mantling argent and gules; crest-coronet: an arm embowed and vested gules, holding in its hand a stone
Published in Checklist III, p 142, under ñThree Heraldic Panelsî (with 44.31.9 and 44.31.22)

Entry From: Checklist III Filed Under: J.B. Speed Museum, Kentucky, Louisville

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