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A brass of an unknown man-at-arms, formerly in Mildenhall and now lost - after Stothard. c.1400

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Mildenhall Knight
1400
St Mary's Church, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England

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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of All Souls College
Drawing ... by Rev. Thomas Kerrich

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Library of All Souls College

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the lost Mildenhall brass may have commemorated a member of the Hethe family of Little Saxham, Suffolk. A significant feature of the brass was that the figure sported a collar with an ermine collared and under a crown, a device of either Henry IV or his second wife, Joan of Navarre. Peter Heseltine suggested the brass was to Thomas Hethe, d. 1414, who served John of Gaunt, Henry IV’s father, and asked in his will to be buried in the porch of Mildenhall church. However, as argued below, the C series probably ceased c. 1407. If this brass were to Thomas, it would thus have had to have been commissioned in his own lifetime, but a brass this prestigious is highly unlikely to have been placed other than in the main body of the church. There are other members of the family who are possible candidates. Nigel Saul has suggested that the collar perhaps points to the commemorated being Thomas’s father, Sir John Hethe, d. 1392, who was a Lancastrian retainer, or Thomas’s elder brother Robert, d. 1396, though his Lancastrian links were looser. Unfortunately the stylistic evidence is incapable of providing a precise dating within such a brief time-span, hence a definite attribution cannot be given.