This chair is in the Ratcliffe Room, Corby Castle, and is called _My
Lady’s Chair_, having belonged to the Countess of Derwentwater, who went
over to Brussels on the execution of her husband at the Tower 1715, and
died 1723. There is an account of it in the “Memorials of James Earl of
Derwentwater, collected by H. Howard.”
It belongs to the latter half of the 17th century, although the ornaments
have evidently been partly borrowed from very ancient examples.