[Illustration] Richard Patten, who appears to have flourished before
the reign of Henry III. by his marriage with a coheiress of Dagenham
became possessed of the Court of that name in the county of Essex,
and was the remote ancestor of this family. John Patten of Dagenham
Court, living in 1376, removed to Waynflete in Lincolnshire; he was
the great-grandfather of the celebrated William Patten alias
Waynflete Bishop of Winchester; from whose brother, Richard Patten,
of Boslow, in the county of Derby, the present family descend. His
son was of Warrington in this county in 1536.
See the pedigree by Bigland and Heard drawn up in 1770, and printed
in Bloxam's Memorial of Bishop Waynflete for the Caxton Society in
1851.
ARMS.--_Lozengy ermine and sable, a canton gules_.
Present Representative, John Wilson Patten, Esq. M.P. for North
Lancashire.