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In the East Window by which the present church is separated from the 
Cross Isles and remains of the old church Mr, Nowell the Steward has put some 
painted glass, which he took out of the old dining room in the abbey house, 
bearing the arms of a Family of the Dacres of a Bastard line, as appears by the 
Bar in them. 
Mr. Nowell, steward of Naworth estate, perhaps superintended 
the putting up cf the wall and window, and whilst engaged in 
this work conceived the idea of embellishing the window with the 
three coats of arms which still remain there. These coats are 
thus described by Chancellor Ferguson : 
The central one represents ‘the arms of Dacre the Bastard, with his quarter- 
ings: 1. Dacre; 2. Grimethorpe or New. Greystoke (the chaplets); 3. Old 
Greystoke (the cushions); 4. Boteler; 5. Multon; 6. Ferrers; 7. Morville; 
8. Vaux. Over all a bend sinister argent. The coat to the sinister is turned 
wrongways up, but is a quarterly coat: 1. Dacre; 2. New Greystoke; 
3. Boteler; 4. Ferrers. The coat to the dexter is broken and a portion gone. 
Enough remains to shew that it represents the quarterings of Thomas Dacre, 
impaling gules a fess-argent, three cinquefoils sable in chief, for Denton of 
Denton, whose daughter he married. Above is the word ‘“‘ Virtutem,” and 
below is the date 1559.—(C. and W. Arch. Trans. iv. 508-9.) 
The significance of the date 1559 is explained by the following 
lines under the central coat : 
Mille et quingentos ad quinguaginta nobemgue 
Adjice, et hoe anno condidit istud opus 
Thomas Daher eques, sedem qui primus iw istam 
Wenerat, extincta religione Ioct. 
$jec Gobardus ect Oederat, deboverat ante 
Wenricus, longe premia militie. 
which may be thus translated : 
‘To 59 years add 1500, and in that year Thomas Daker, knight, who after 
the extinction of the religion of the place was the first to come to this house, 
founded this work. These possessions Edward had given him; Henry before 
had promised them as rewards for long military service. 
‘This Thomas Dacre, founder of the family known as the Dacres 
of Lanercost, a natural son of Lord Thomas Dacre, K.G., earned 
the favour of Henry VIII by defeating the Scots in 1542 at the 
battle of Solway Moss, and of Edward VI by his diligence as one 
