1 1 8 T)r. Falconer on the Knowledge 



St. Audoen the bifhop of Rouen, 



A. D. 651. j^ jjjg hiftory of the life of his con- 

 st. Audoen. ■'' _ 



temporary St. Eligius, the bilhop of 



Noyon, * mentions a miraculous appearance in 



form of an arch or bow, about the great glafs 



windows of a certain church. 



The venerable Bede f relates alfo, 

 that about the middle of this cen- 

 tury, the art of making glafs was brought into 

 England by Benedict an Ecclefiaftic, the minifter 

 of Ofway, the king of Northumberland. 



Thomas Stubbs, however, in his 

 Wiefred^ * account of the prelates that have 

 bifhop of fucceeded to the See of York, fays, 

 Worceftcr. ^^^^ Wigfrid, bilhop of Worcefter, % 



brought firft into Britain the art of making glafs 

 windows, which is inconfiflent with what is re- 

 lated by Bede. 



Leo Oftienfis H fpeaks of the win- 



Leo^OfHenils. ^°^^ ^" ^'^ ^"^^ ^^'"§ "^^^^ ^^'^'^''^ 

 glafs plates fixed in lead, and faftened 



* Apparuit fubito in pariete circa vitroam maxlmam ve- 

 luti arcus in rotundo. Vita Sanft. Eligii. Lib. II. Cap. 45. 



f Chronicon Ranulphi. Higo'eni. Ed. Gale. Vol. I. 

 p. 235. 



X Vide etiam Bedam de Wiremuthenfe mcnafterio. L. J. 

 C. 5. de vitreis feneftris. 



11 Feneftras plumbo fimul ac vitro compaftis tabulis fer- 

 roauc connexJs inclufit. Leo. Oft. L. III.. C 27. 



together 



