Charles Cotton

“ His flowing and curling Saxon hair, and venerable beard, spread over his breast and shoulders, and we cannot fail to recognize the appropriate statue of King Ethelbert.
The veteran king to the right, also having a long beard but short hair, holding a sword in his left [hand] while his right is in a gesture seeming to deprecate teh use of it may well be pronounced to be the Conquerer. ”

“ As an adult he is described as "tall of stature, and slender of body, whereunto all his members were proportionately correspondent, of comely visage, where did glisten his bountifulness of disposition. ”

“ The paper and writing appear to be of about the middle of the nineteenth century, and the subject is the architecture of the Western Towers of the Cathedral and the Screen of the Six Kings. The references to the screen, in view of the interest shown by many who took part in the recent pilgrimage to Canterbury, and their inquires whom the statues represent, will be a welcome contribution to the clearing of a fog of uncertainty that has exited for over 300 years. ”