STAINED GLASS AT NORBURY MANOR HOUSE. 157 
judge the coat or tunic was made of two colours of cloth. The 
glass is a good deal rubbed in parts, so that it is not quite 
clear ; but there are indications of such stripes, and cloths so 
fashioned were worn. The hat is very similar to one still worn 
and known as the wide-awake, but in other respects the dress is 
the same as those just named. 
It would be interesting to ascertain whether glass representing 
the months exists in any other of our old halls or manor houses, 
as no doubt much of it was used about the date attributed to 
this, and the costumes, being those in use during an entire 
century, would seem to indicate that this was quite a conventional 
way of representing the months coming down from Saxon 
times, or earlier, the dresses, however, being modified as the 
fashions changed. There are so many calendars and other 
MSS. in which the occupations of the months are represented 
in a similar way to those in our plates, as well as on sculptured 
stones, inlaid floors, tiles, wall paintings and wood carvings 
generally accompanied by the signs of the Zodiac, that we 
should not wonder if in some of the windows of our old 
manor houses other examples exist. At present but few examples 
in glass are known ;_ but Mr. Fowler, in the article from which we 
have previously quoted—and to which we refer our readers 
as being full of interest, and in which this subject is exhaus- 
tively treated—has mentioned three small medallions in Dewsbury 
church, Yorkshire, and two others in the Mayor’s parlour at 
Leicester ; and of these he has given coloured plates in the 
Arche@ologia. Besides, there appear to be none known at present 
except those we now lay before our readers. 
It will strike the minds of most observers that it is not a little 
remarkable that quite a revolution has taken place in dress since 
these old panes were painted, that of the labouring class having 
been adopted by the leisured class ; and now we see them used 
by all as being more convenient for these work-a-day times, for 
there has taken place such a change in men and manners that 
now absolute hard work and not amusement has become the 
necessity of all conditions of men, and will continue to be so 
