68 STAINED GLASS AT NORBURY MANOR HOUSE. 
The arms on Plate VI. have been so much broken that we are 
unable to say anything certain about them. We cannot find any 
connexions of the Swinnertons or Fitzherberts who bore arms 
that in any way agree with these fragments. There remains 
nothing of the charge on the dexter side, except the upper arm of 
a cross flory, which appears to have been debruised by a fesse ; 
it can scarcely be intended for Swinnerton, avgent, a cross formée 
flory sable, debruised with a fesse gules, because the portion of 
the cross is argent; besides, what appears like a fesse may only 
be a hole mended as we see it ; and if so, then the charge would 
be simply a cross flory, or more correctly, azure; a cross flory 
argent, The sinister side is quite as perplexing. What remains 
is gules; a cross crosslet, ov. There may have been a chief, or 
two more crosses crosslet. The names on the ribbon appear to 
be Henry Fulham, or Fuljam, Elton Oughton, and perhaps 
Rebekah Douley, of Elford; but the glass has been so often 
broken and mended that it is difficult to say that there are 
not portions of several names. It will be as well to state that 
the shield (Plate V.) is inverted in the window, we sup- 
pose in order to place the fragment with which one corner 
is patched the right way up. It will also have been observed 
that in Fig. 3 (Plate III.) the Fitzherbert chief is inverted. 
These are all the Heraldic glass at this time in the windows 
of Norbury Manor House. They form but a very small remnant 
of what were formerly there, judging from some accounts still 
existing. It is useless now to bemoan their loss; much of it 
was destroyed in the civil wars, and perhaps quite as much by 
the indifference of owners and carelessness of servants. 
A good deal of stained and painted glass still remains both 
in churches and private mansions, many pieces being of great 
antiquity, and having interesting histories attached to them ; and 
it would be a good thing if members of the various societies which 
now exist for the preservation of ancient objects would make use ~ 
of the printer’s art for their preservation, so that these things which 
are often the only connecting links with the men and women of the 
past, may be preserved to interest and inform those of the future. 
