3^ PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL. 



window. The commemorative inscription, happily perfect, is 

 as follows : — 



©rate pro antmabus IRicarM t^ernon et BeneMcte 

 ixi'ors eius que fecerunt ano &ni /llMllesimo cccc'"° 

 UVij, 



Treatment. — Beginning with the north side, we have at the 

 top an " angell," filled with two broad, white foliations, on a 

 yellow ground, springing from a circular centre, the leaves lined 

 and shaded with brown. The next opening is a small " bate- 

 ment " containing a female figure bearing a cross over the right 

 shoulder. Had this been intended for S. Helena, Empress, she 

 would hardly have been depicted without her crown. It may 

 be for S. Agnes, or perhaps some other less distinguished per- 

 sonage. 



The principal figure is wanting in this first light, and the 

 quarries are all plain. At the bottom, resting on the inscrip- 

 tion band, is a small, mutilated figure in plate armour, with 

 sollerets, kneeling at a draped prayer desk, on which lies an 

 open book. His sword-belt is decorated with square jewelled 

 bosses. The scabbard has a central line of annulets, perhaps 

 meant for jewels, down its side, and is guarded at the end with 

 a pointed metallic casing. On the right arm is a shield bearing 

 the Vernon arms, fretty, sable, having a spiked boss in the 

 centre. This fragment is set in quarries, after the style of the 

 lowest ones in the central light, and foreign to this windorv. 

 The whole of this piece is executed in white glass. The second 

 light has two plain " batements " at the top, depicting the 

 Annunciation, with a kneeling angel holding the salutation 

 (" Ave Maria," etc.) on a scroll in one light, with the B.V.M. in 

 the other. The latter, with a slight inclination of the head 

 towards the messenger, is a graceful figure. In her right hand 

 is an open book, slightly lowered; her left hand is raised, as 

 if surprised, and wondering at the visitation. A vase of lilies 

 is in the foreground. The central figure of the light beneath is 

 the B.V. Mary, keeping her station by the Cross. The head 



