Sir Richard Perryn, 'The Honourable Sir Richard Perryn Kn[igh]t. One of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and Vice Chamberlain of the County Palatine of Chester'. The black object in Perryn's left hand is the black cap, symbolic headgear worn by English, Welsh, Irish and Northern Irish judges in criminal cases when passing a sentence of death.

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