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By George Bailey. 



HE ancient window, of which Plate VII. is a represen- 

 tation, is one of a series of five late perpendicular 

 windows, which were removed to Morley Church, 

 together with their glazing, from the neighbouring Abbey of Dale, 

 at its dissolution in 1539, and incorporated in the north aisle of 

 that church, which seems to have been rebuilt for the purpose. 

 The usual opinion used to be that these windows came from the 

 dining hall or refectory ; but Mr. St. John Hope has, we think, 

 given satisfactory reasons for supposing that they came from the 

 Dale cloisters, which were rebuilt by Abbot John Stanley, 1478 

 to 1482.* 



All the five windows were originally glazed with painted stories, 

 and were protected by outer shutters of wood, but about the end 

 of last century, the shutters having decayed, were not renewed; 

 the church was "beautified," and a most careless era set in, 

 which continued until 1829, when Mr. Fox, the late rector, first 

 entered on the curacy. The late Mr. Bateman said that " It was 

 the custom of the friends and visitors at the village, at times of 

 hospitality, such as Christmas and the Wakes, to show their regard 

 for the church and its interesting objects, by pulling a bit of stained 

 glass out of the windows to take home as a relic, or as an object 

 of amusement for children." t 



* Journal of the Derbyshire Arch, and Nat. His. Society, vol. v., p. 91. 

 t Reliquary, vol. xiii., p. 132. 



