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 4to (bound up with the ‘Select Discourses’ of that preacher). 2. ‘Aqua Genitalis: a Discourse on Baptism,’ 1659, 12mo; 1667, 8vo; and 1670, 4to; an amplification of a sermon previously preached at All Hallows' Church, Lombard Street, on the occasion of the baptism of the infant son ‘of a minister in Lombard Street’ [see ]. 3. ‘Mensa Mystica,’ London, 1660, 1673, 4to, a treatise on the Eucharist; like the preceding, written in a more florid style than Patrick afterwards adopted when parochial experience had taught him the value of simplicity. 4. ‘The Heart's Ease, or a Remedy against Trouble, written for Lady St. John,’ 1660, 1671, 1665, 1699, 1839, and 1849. 5. ‘A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitudinarians, together with some Reflections upon the New Philosophy, by S. P. of Cambridge, in answer to a Friend at Oxford,’ 1662 (anon.); assigned to Patrick on both internal and external evidence. 6. ‘A Book for Beginners, or a Help to Young Communicants,’ 1662, which reached a seventeenth edition in 1713. 7. ‘An Exposition of the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer,’ 1665, 1668, 1672. 8. ‘The Christian Sacrifice,’ 1671, which reached a fifth edition ‘corrected’ in 1679, 1684, 1687, 1841 (ed. the Rev. W. B. Hawkins). 9. ‘The Devout Christian instructed how to pray,’ 1672; a book of family prayers, with private prayers for all emergencies. 10. ‘Advice to a Friend,’ 1673; one of the most beautiful of all Patrick's writings, and worthy of being bound up, as it was in Pickering's ‘Christian Classics’ in 1847, with Jeremy Taylor's ‘Contemplations of the State of Man in this Life and that which is to come.’ 11. ‘The Witnesses of Christianity, or the Certainty of our Faith and Hope’ (2 pts.), 1675–7, 1703. 12. ‘The Glorious Epiphany,’ 1675, 8vo. 13. ‘A Treatise of Repentance and Fasting, especially of the Lent Fast,’ 1686, Oxford, 1840. 14. ‘A Discourse concerning Prayer,’ 1686, 1705, 1838, and 1849. 15. ‘The Work of the Ministry represented to the Clergy of Ely,’ 1698, a new edition by W. B. Hawkins in 1841. 16. ‘The Dignity of the Christian Priesthood,’ 1704. He also translated Grotius's ‘Truth of the Christian Religion,’ 1680, and issued in 1681 a corrected version of Simon Gunton's ‘History of the Church of Peterborough.’

Besides these works, which were published in his lifetime, there appeared in 1719, twelve years after his death, a volume of attractive ‘Poems upon Divine and Moral Subjects, Original and Translations, by Bishop Patrick and other Eminent Hands.’ His verse translation of Aquinas ‘Upon the Morning we are to receive the Holy Communion,’ and his English version of the ‘Alleluia! Dulce Carmen’ are especially noticeable. In 1863 was published by Harvey Goodwin, for the first time, the ‘Appearing of Jesus Christ.’ Patrick's ‘Autobiography’ was first published from his own manuscript at Oxford in 1839.

‘Fifteen Sermons upon Contentment and Resignation’ appeared, ‘with an exact [but not exhaustive] catalogue of his works,’ in 1719. His chief works were collected (with the autobiography, but excluding the commentary and ‘The Appearing of Jesus Christ’) in nine volumes by the Rev. Alexander Taylor in 1858.

Kneller painted a portrait which was engraved both by Vandergucht and R. White. A portrait by an unknown artist is at Lambeth.

[Bishop Patrick's Works, passim, especially his Autobiography; Hunt's Religious Thought in England; Overton's Life in the English Church; Burnet's History of his own Time; Chamberlayne's Memoir of Bishop Patrick in his edition of the Parable of the Pilgrim; Notes and Queries, 8th ser. viii. 444; private information from Canon Warner, formerly vicar of Gainsborough.] 

PATRINGTON, STEPHEN (d. 1417), bishop of Chichester, was a native of Yorkshire, and was educated at Oxford, where he entered the Carmelite order. The letter which the Oxford friars addressed to John of Gaunt on 18 Feb. 1382 against the followers of Wiclif was sent by Patrington's hands. Patrington was one of the leading opponents of the lollards at Oxford, and, as a bachelor of divinity, signed the decrees of ‘the earthquake council’ held at London in May 1382. He was one of those whom the chancellor, Robert Rigge [q. v.], was forbidden to molest on account of their activity against the lollards. On 14 Jan. 1389 Patrington, who was now doctor of divinity, had license to read and preach at Lincoln Cathedral in the absence of the chancellor. About this time he appears to have removed from Oxford to London, where he acquired a great reputation as a preacher. In 1399 he was chosen twenty-second provincial of the Carmelites in England at an assembly held at Sutton (Harl. MS. 3838, f. 90). According to Lezana, however (ap. ), he was declared provincial of Lombardy in a general chapter held at Bologna in 1405, and named provincial of England in another chapter in 1411. Patrington enjoyed the favour of Henry IV, and also of Henry V, who shortly after his accession made him his confessor, and on 24 Nov. 1413 granted him an annuity of 69l. 10s. 6d.