CHAPTER HOUSE. 
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In cinquefoils— 
Wavr nine — 
Meynell —arms mutilated, but probably—azure three bars gemelles 
and a chief or. Sir Nicholas de Meinel, Lord of Whorlton, 
was summoned to Parliament. He died in 1300. 
The window depicts twenty scenes in the life of 
St. THOMAS A BECKET, of Canterbury. 
Martyrdom. 
Shipwrecked 
mariners 
arrive at 
Canterbury. 
mutilated. 
Countess of Clare Insertion 
offering her Renaissance 
son at tomb. panel. 
Afflicted at the 
tomb. 
Insertion 
Angel and 
Shepherd. 
Figures.* 
Rescue of Wm 
of Gloucester. 
Confused 
gu. 3 Keys arg. 
(Ely) 
Persons at the 
Shrine. 
Funeral. 
Two wffleeled 
carriage drawn 
by an ©x. 
Mutilated.* 
Insertion* 
canopy. 
Horseman 
to Gloucester. 
Archbishop 
blessing. 
Fragments. 
Insertion* 
canopy. 
Insertion 
St. Laurence. 
Insertion 
St. Stephen. 
Insertion 
Martyrdom of 
Insertion 
St. Paul. 
Insertion 
St. Andrew 
St. John. 
St. Thomas a Becket 1 (Dec. 29th, 1170), Archbishop of Canter¬ 
bury, was assassinated by four of King Henry’s knights while at 
the altar. He was canonised in 1173. I n 1220 his bones were 
placed in a shrine, which was much resorted to by pilgrims. 
One of the legends concerns Roger, who was Archbishop of 
York during the time that Becket presided over Canterbury. 
Roger supplied his village of Churchdown, near Gloucester, with 
a supply of water from a neighbouring hill. During the cutting of 
an aqueduct a portion fell in and buried a workman named 
William of Gloucester, who, seeing his danger, invoked the help 
of St. Thomas of Canterbury. William was considered dead, 
and a priest read the Funeral Service. A woman, however, 
* Fragments said to be from churches of St. Martin (Coney Street), St. John, 
St. Sampson, and Bedern Chapel. 
X A window in the Choir, south aisle, also depicts events in the life of Becket. 
A Hospital to St. Thomas of Canterbury, stood outside Micklegate Bar, it was 
taken down about i860, and rebuilt outside Victoria Bar. 
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