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Lot Essay
The panels display the arms of six the Bradshaigh Baronets, whose family seat was Haigh Hall, Lancashire between 1298 and 1780.
At that time the house passed to Elizabeth Dalrymple, great neice of Sir Roger Bradhaigh, when the male line died out and she married Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres in 1787.
The house was rebuilt between between 1827 and 1840 by James, 7th Earl of Balcarres, and featured extensive use of oak panelling in the hall and the Library, where these panels, alongside others similar, may have adorned a baronial chimney piece.
Haigh featured in Sir Walter Scott's Tales of the Crusaders, 1825, in which he relates the improbable legend of William de Bradshaigh, who, in 1324 returned from the wars in Scotland, killed his wife's new husband, and made her walk barefoot and dressed in sackcloth to their home at Haigh Hall once a week for the remainder of her life.
At that time the house passed to Elizabeth Dalrymple, great neice of Sir Roger Bradhaigh, when the male line died out and she married Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres in 1787.
The house was rebuilt between between 1827 and 1840 by James, 7th Earl of Balcarres, and featured extensive use of oak panelling in the hall and the Library, where these panels, alongside others similar, may have adorned a baronial chimney piece.
Haigh featured in Sir Walter Scott's Tales of the Crusaders, 1825, in which he relates the improbable legend of William de Bradshaigh, who, in 1324 returned from the wars in Scotland, killed his wife's new husband, and made her walk barefoot and dressed in sackcloth to their home at Haigh Hall once a week for the remainder of her life.