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| - The hanging was made for the Chapel of the Holy Ghost at Basingstoke which was believed to have been set up by Sir William Sandys at the site of an earlier chapel built during the reign of Henry VIII. The chapel, which is now in ruins, was the burial place of the Sandys family. At the time when the hanging was made, the head of the family was Henry Sandys 5th Baron, who was killed in a Civil War skirmish in 1644. When the Revd Joseph of Basingstoke described the hanging in 1819, it was in Mottisfont House in Hampshire, where it belonged to Sir Charles Mill Bartholemew, a descendent of the Sandys Family.
The remainder of the chapel fittings are also enumerated, from a description given by the steward to the Mottisfont Estate, Thomas King. They consisted of an altar frontal embroidered with the Last Supper, some pieces of purple velvet with the initials IHS, a desk hanging of purple velvet embroidered in gold and silver with the arms of Sandys, two book covers and a folding cushion with the letters 'THS' on the outside and the arms of Sandys on the inside. The four corners of the cushion are flanked by cherubs. (en)
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