The dog returned to Legh's home and was the foundation of the Lyme Hall Mastiffs.
Five centuries later, this pedigree figured prominently in founding the modern English Mastiff breed.
[2] An old stained glass window remains in the drawing room of Lyme Hall portraying Sir Piers and his devoted mastiff.
[5] He was buried at St Michael's Church, Macclesfield in the Legh Chapel, which had been built to receive his body.
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