This jacket is offered to the market for the first time after being discovered recently. It features the name'Metcalfe' and the place name of'Askrigg' twice inside the jacket. The Metcalfe family are a well known English family who have links to the royal houses of Scotland, England and Denmark in the 10th Century.
The family fought at the Battle of Agincourt and James Metcalfe was awarded land in Askrigg where he built Nappa Hall. The Metcalfe family lived at Nappa Hall for centuries.
This means the owner of this jacket could well have lived in the hall during the war, and if not ...
