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if for difference ; but this is certainly a mistake, and may have 

 been inserted at some time when the shield was undergoing 

 repair. 



In the great rose window at the east end of the church are a 

 number of pieces of armorial glass, which, while they have — with 

 one exception — no local reference, are nevertheless of such great 

 intrinsic interest that they must not be left uncatalogued. 



In the middle of the window is a fine piece of modern glass 

 painting — the royal arms of England within a garter — inserted 

 in this prominent position, no doubt, in order to mark the fact 

 that the church was built during the reign of Queen Victoria. 

 The remaining achievements are of very various dates and styles 

 of heraldic art ; and reading them from the top of the rose in the 

 direction taken by the hands of a clock they are as follows : — 



1. Apparently a shield made up of variously coloured fragments 

 of glass, at any rate illegible. 



2. Somewhat broken and imperfect but having the look of 

 Azure a covered cup or, with blue and gold mantling about the shield 

 — probably German work of the latter part of the sixteenth century. 



3. A magnificent achievement of the very best German early 

 renaissance style of drawing. The shield is Quarterly of four: 1. 

 Argent a lion gules ; 2 and 3. Argent a lion gules on a chief sable 

 three roundels argent ; 4. (very difficult to decipher— it appears to 

 be) Azure issuing from a mount in base vert a crosier or headed 

 argent surmounting two clubs in saltire gold. From the crowned 

 helm surmounting this shield issues the crest — a demi lion gules. 



4. Another German renaissance achievement of extreme in- 

 terest, representing the arms of Hantz Graf zu Mountfort Vogt zu 

 Veldkirck, whose name and title are so inscribed, together with the 

 date 1526, on a panel of white glass below the shield. The arms 

 are Argent a gonfanon gules ringed or, and the crest is a mitre gides. 

 The owner of this most interesting achievement was of the noble 

 family of Montfort, Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, seated in 

 Styria as early as the ninth century. The bearing by this house 

 of their well-known charge — a gonfanon, or church banner — and 

 their mitre crest, not less than the title of Vogt, indicates that 



