THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
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persecution of the Christians in Alexandria, she pleaded for the Faith 
before the Emperor Maximin, who sent his philosophers to confute 
her arguments, but instead Catherine succeeded in making con¬ 
verts of the philosophers. The King, on learning this, was so 
enraged that he ordered the philosophers to be executed, and cast 
Catherine into prison, during which she was attended by angels. 
The Empress and the minister Porphyry visited Catherine in 
prison and both were converted. The Emperor ordered Catherine 
to be tortured between wheels, but in this he was defeated, as she 
was rescued by angels. Subsequently she was scourged and 
afterwards beheaded, and angels carried her body to its grave on 
Mount Sinai, whilst her soul was conveyed into heaven. 1 
The central light is diapered with oak leaves and fruit, and has 
a border formed of the twining stem of the Vine with leaves and 
grapes on a ruby ground. The adjacent lights (fig. 12) are en¬ 
riched with the Maple and have heraldic borders— gules, triple- 
towered castles until gates open argent for Queen Eleanor. The outer 
lights (fig. 11) are decorated with the Ivy, and have for borders 
the stem and leaf of the Maple on a red ground. 
II. The North Window. 
St. Thomas of Canterbury. 
In the tracery are the arms of:— 
Plantagenet (Edward I.)—Each side of the point of shield has azure 
a fleur-de-lys or (France). 
Clare —or three chevronelles gules. Gilbert de Clare, Earl of 
Gloucester and Hertford, married Joan of Acre, daughter of 
Edward I. He died 1295. 
Clifford —Robert, Lord Clifford. 
Clare —Gilbert de Clare, grandson of Edward I. His uncle, Bogo 
de Clare was Treasurer of the Minster from 1287 to 1294. 
Plantagenet (Edward I.) 
Warrenne —cheeky or and azure. John de Warrenne, Earl of 
Surrey and Lord of Conisborough, served in the Scottish 
wars. He died in 1304. 
1 The six subjects in the Heraldic window in the Nave also refer to St. 
Catherine. A Hospital to this Saint stood on the Mount, it has been rebuilt in 
Holgate Lane. 
