ANCIENT PAINTED WINDOW, HAULT HUCKNALL CHURCH, 45 



queen. With indignant words of defiance S. Ursula rejected his 

 offer, upon which, the pagan, seized with fury, bent his bow 

 which he held in his hand, and with three arrows transfixed her 

 breast, so that she fell dead at his feet ; " but her spirit ascended 

 into heaven with all her glorious sisterhood of martyrs whom she 

 had led, and there with palms in their hands they stand round 

 the throne of Christ, and live in His light and His approving 

 smile, blessing and praising Him for ever." 



In the east window of the north aisle of Morley Church is a 

 figure of S. Ursula, with eleven virgins in her lap, in the act 

 of ascending into heaven. 



S. Ursula is invariably represented with a crown on her head 

 as a princess, an arrow in her hand as a martyr, and on each side 

 several of her virgin companions, as in this most interesting 

 fragment at Hucknall, In this figure, as before, the darker 

 shades represent the stain ; all the rest is white. The lower 

 extremity of the arrow-shaft is yellow ; the upper, white. The 

 dresses of the virgins beneath the right hand are also yellow, as 

 well as the remains of the kirtle of S. Ursula. As eleven virgins 

 are usually depicted with this saint, and only six are visible on 

 the right side, we may fairly presume that five others were 

 placed under the diverging mantle on the left. 



We now come to the four lower panels beneath the principal 

 figures. 



The Rev. Dr. Cox, in his " Churches of Derbyshire," i., 245, 

 gives a quotation from an old heraldic visitation of Derbyshire 

 made in 1611, from which it may be inferred that more old glass 

 existed at Hucknall then, than at present ; and it seems very 

 probable that some of the glass in the present window, particularly 

 two of these lower panels, formed part of these demolished 

 windows. 



There was certainly a window to the memory of Richard 

 Pauson, containing the arms of some religious house of royal 

 foundation. 



Again, there was the figure of a man kneeling, wearing a 

 tabard bearing the Sauvage arms, viz.: ist and 4th, argent, a 



