© Northamptonshire Record Office
Three treasures from the Finch Hatton Archive
Artist: Various, William Dugdale, Ralph Treswell
Location: Northamptonshire Record Office
Date: circa 1580 - 1650
Materials: leather & vellum & parchment & ink & coloured pigments & paper & gilding
Dimensions: 1) 47.5 x 38 x 6cm; 2) 47.5 x 37.5 x 3cm; 3) 45 x 33 x 3.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £20,000 (Total: £135,000; tax remission)
Vendor: Trustees of the Winchilsea and Nottingham Settled Estates
Review number: 5286 (2003)
Provenance:
Archive of the Finch Hatton family of Kirby and Holdenby; on deposit at Northamptonshire Record Office since the 1920s.
Description:
1) The First Lord Hatton's Book of Seals which records many documents and seals that have subsequently been lost. Includes a depiction of the earliest known seal of an English noble, Odo of Kent, pre 1089; 2) The First Lord Hatton's Ceremonial of the Creation of the Knights of the Bath which follows the knight's progression from being bathed to the actual anointment; 3) Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chanceller, survey of property which includes maps by the cartographer Ralph Treswell.
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