Richard Patten is recumbent in effigy on the slab of a fair altar-tomb of alabaster, within a strong moveable enclosure of wooden palisades designed to defend it from injury. He is represented as a tall, wellmade person, not aged, of a comely pleasing countenance, without a beard, his eyes open and turned upwards, his hands closed ás in prayer. He is bare-headed; his hair regularly divided in wavy locks from the centre of the crown, and cut round, reaching only to the ears. He has a large figured ring, which seems to have had a stone or seal set in it, on the forefinger of the right hand; and a narrow plain ring on the little finger of the left. He wears a gown or robe with wide puffed sleeves and with plaits, reaching from the breast to the feet; a broad hem or border at the bottom; and underneath, a vest or waistcoat, of which the sleeves are tied at the wrists with double strings. The full face and open affable countenance, but in features not like any of the figures on the monument of Richard Patten; and the mitre different, and more splendidly decorated than the sculptured one. "His right hand holds nothing in it, the fingers close, not clinched, but held up and bending toward his face. His left hand ap 66 pears not. He had no beard." Mr. P. could see no arms, nor motto; nor procure any information about him. I apprehend he held the crosier in his right hand, and that the painting has suffered from tempest or some other accident since 1629. two |