of the Ancienls refpe^ing Glqfs. 119 



together with iron, much as we fee them at 



prefent. 



Anaftafius* an hiftorian of Rome, 



Anailafiu3.' ^^^ ^^^ librarian to the Pope, men- 

 tions, that in the Pontificate of 



Leo III. who became Pope about the year 80a, 



painted glafs in windows was in ufe. The fame 



A. D 8-0 wJ^^^t- defcribes four large glafs or- 

 naments of the penfile kind, that 



were hung up in the church of St. Clement the 



•martyr, weighing fifty pounds. 



. ^ ^ The ftatutes of the church of Tra- 



il. D. U56. • , . T « • 



guier,t in Lower Britany, in the i2ih 

 century, fpeak of the windows of churches and 

 chapels being ornamented with arms, and mili- 

 tary enfigns, painted upon the gjafs in them. 



* HofFm. Lexic. Vox Feneftra. 

 . Idem fecit praedidus prsful in Ecclefia beati dementis 

 Martyris atque Pontificis, Regnuni quodpendet fupra altare 

 majus ex auro puriffimo fcu]ptile fine gemmis habens ia 

 medio crucem de Auro cuir. gemmis fixis in eadem cruce, 

 Vitreas quinque & quae pendent item Vitreas numero qua- 

 tuor penlantes libras quinquaginta. 



Anaft. in Vita Leoriis I V. 



t Qni fer.eftras ccclefiarum & capellarum diaarum 

 noftrarum civitates & diocefis aliquandodevotione aliquando 

 ambitione & fuperbia vitrare & vitris hujus modi arma & 

 figna depingi faciunt prxtenduntquc per appolitionem & 

 piifburam armc^Bh & fignorum hujus modi vitra memorata, 

 &C. Stat. Eccicf. Trecor. A. D. H56. 



A 4 Sugerjus 



