32 PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL. 



square projections placed diagonally at its angles, after the plan 

 of an angular buttress. 



In the bottom panel of this light is a shield ar. fretix, gules, 

 with eight plates, evidently for Vernon. The space above 

 this coat, resembling a chief, is vacant, and filled with plain, 

 modern glass, but which, as appears from the shield in the 

 adjoining light, once contained the family or bearer's name. 

 The Vernons of Sudbury bear argt, a fret sable, with a canton 

 gules. Henry Vernon, Esq., of Farnham, Surrey, has on his 

 brass (1656) a canton, and a frette with a plain quatrefoil in 

 the uppermost opening, as if for difference. 



The centre light has a fine representation of S. Anne teaching 

 the youthful Virgin. The design is much like the treatment of 

 the same subject in the east window of All Saints', North Street, 

 York, and may have been executed by the same artist, for the 

 two are apparently coseval. 



S. Anne is attired in a white mantle, with an embroidered 

 lower border, relieved with stain. She wears a widow's hood 

 and wimple. The outer head-dress is of ermine, lined with 

 blue, and is doubled over backwards from the forehead. The 

 nimbus is white, with a yellow cusped trefoiled border. The 

 principal dress, or kirtle, of the mother, is of ruby; a little of 

 which is visible below the mantle on the dexter side. 



The Virgin child has a wreath of small white-clustered pearls 

 round the head, with a large amber or golden ornament in the 

 centre. Her jacket, or jupon, is green, with a lower border of 

 ermine. The skirt of her frock is blue, of a very fine, chaste 

 quality, gracefully folded at the feet, which it conceals. 



A narrow apron, or fall, of ermine depends from the neck, 

 while attached to the waist is a jewelled pendant of crowned 

 roses formed of pearls, each with a golden centre : the crowns 

 are also yellow. The right hand of the mother is placed by 

 the upper arm of the child, whilst the left hand on the other 

 side touches the margin of the book held by the Uttle maiden. 

 The eyes of the child are slightly raised, as if in contemplation. 

 The device on the shield beneath is destroyed, but above is the 



name iRicar& Demon. 



