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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
and Peter was found carefully concealed in a bundle of canvas. 
He was brought back to the monastery and there ended his days. 
This window is a picture of historic interest of great national 
importance and of unique character. The student of the Edwardian 
period of English History lingers long at this contempory painting 
and recalls the deeds of the great characters whose portraits are 
before him, and as he gazes on the various heraldic devices, visions 
of the age of chivalry rise before him, whilst his curiosity is 
aroused as he is reminded that an Englishman was King of the 
Romans, and that the King’s uncle, Frederick II. of Germany, 
was also King of Jerusalem. 
II. The Bellfounder’s Window 1 (second from east). 
Three Lights. 
Subjects —Bellfounding and St. William. 
This window (fig. 22), known as the “ Bellfounders,” was given 
by Richard Tunnoc, who lived in Stonegate. His family consisted 
of Agnes his wife, Katerine his daughter, John and Richard his 
sons, and a servant called Turner. He was one of the bailiffs of 
the city in 1320-1, and represented the city in Parliament in 1327. 
He died in 1330 and was buried in the Nave of the Minster before 
the altar of St. Thomas the Martyr, at which altar he had estab¬ 
lished a daily service for his soul, and had endowed the chantry 
with four marks yearly, payable out of a house in Stonegate. 2 In 
his will, proved July 1330, he is described as a citizen and lived in 
his own house in Stonegate, which was confirmed to him in fee 
in 1311-12 by King Edward II. and granted to him by the pre¬ 
bendary of Osbaldwick for the annual rent of twenty shillings. 
Each pictorial subject is within a pilastered niche with a bell 
suspended from a cinquefoiled arch, surmounted by a crocketted 
gable with a pointed trefoil in the spandril. The pilasters or 
shafting has zig-zag enrichment. The gable carries two rows of 
arcading, four arches below and five above, and in each is a bell 
suspended from a wooden stock. Each arch is under a crocketted 
gable. 
1 Coloured illustrations of the lower subjects are given in Ellacombe’s “Bells of 
the Church.” 
2 The site is now occupied by Mr. Tindall’s shop. 
