Book Title: The archæology of baptism / by Wolfred Nelson Cote.

Author: Cote, Wolfred Nelson, d. 1877

Image Title: Baptism of Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick

Description: As an infant, Richard de Beauchamp (c. 1382-1439), who would become the Thirteenth Earl of Warwick, is baptized by immersion into a hexagonal font. Bishop Richard Scrope (d. 1405) lowers the child into the font face-forward, as a figure with a service book stands right of him. At the front of the crowd, the child’s godfather, King Richard II of England (r. 1377-1399) observes the ritual.

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