34 PAINTED WINDOVv'S AT HADDON HALL. 



The sixth, and last, has a fetter lock at the end of a chain 

 in his left hand, undoubtedly designed for S. Leonard, the 

 patron of prisoners and captives. All these have their skirt, or 

 lower robe, powdered or decorated with small, conventional 

 roses, in yellow stain, with invected borders, and an annulet 

 in the centre. 



The background of the principal figures is composed of 

 quarries, with decorated centres. The lowest panels have been 

 re-glazed with plain glass, and the coats of arms re-set. Round 

 the central shield are five quarries from some other and later 

 window, each bearing a talbot, stained. A quarry above the 

 shield has the Staffordshire knot. It is probable that, for the 

 sake of uniformity, the glazier has removed the name of Richard 

 Vernon from the first shield, to which it seems to belong, and 

 placed it above the obliterated arms in the centre light. 



The East Window of the chapel, which is very large, has 

 five lofty lights below the tracery line, and thirteen openings 

 above. The tracery in the centre .light differs from the rest, 

 owing to the overlapping of the two side designs, the centre 

 light being common to both. The lowest tracery opening over 

 this central light is a trefoil ; higher still, two triangles, and at 

 the top, two " batements." On either side of the central tracery 

 are three " batements," each of the series being backed by an 

 " angell."* 



The original scheme of the glass seems to have consisted of 

 a Crucifixion in the centre, with SS. Mary and John on either 

 side, each of these being backed by other saints in the outer 

 Hghts. The figure of S. John Baptist seems to have been 

 placed in the room of S. John the disciple, because the figure 

 of the Virgin on the other side occupies her normal position. 

 We may hence safely conclude that the figure of the Evangelist 

 formerly occupied the corresponding position under the cross 

 opposite the Virgin Mother, and that therefore the figure of 

 the beloved disciple was one of the stolen portions. It was 



* A kind of triangular opening, with the outer side following the curvature 

 of the window arch. 



