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I. North Side (from the west). 
The first window has clear glass. 
II. North Side (second from west). Five Lights. 
Jesse—St. Thomas of Canterbury, SS. Margaret, Lucy and Agnes. 
The earliest glass in this window is a portion of a Jesse, dating 
from about 1130, and already referred to on pages 6 and 7. 
In the quatrefoils is a man on horseback and figures at the side, 
a figure having a rope around the neck, and in the lowest quatre- 
foil is another figure. 
The small quatrefoils have ornament on a quartered background 
of green and gold. 
Jesse. St. Thomas St. Margaret. St. Lucy. St. Agnes, 
of Canterbury. 
Dacve. Plantagenet. Old Percy. Cornwall. 
The second panel is an insertion and exhibits the birth of 
Thomas a Becket. 
St. Margaret thrusts a crozier into the mouth of a red dragon 
on which she is standing, and in her other hand holds a book. 
The background is diapered with sable, a lion rampant argent. Verdon, 
Sir Thomas de Verdon, of Northamptonshire, who was present at 
the Dunstable Tournament in 1308. 
St. Lucy is depicted holding a palm branch in her right hand 
and a book in the other, and with a sword thrust through her 
throat. The legend of her martyrdom states that “finally, a large 
fire having been kindled around her without harming her, a soldier 
pierced her neck with a sword, and she died." The background 
is red, studded with golden fleurs-dedys. 
St. Agnes holds an olive branch in her right hand. The back¬ 
ground is green diapered alternately with a silver fleur-de-lys and 
a silver lion rampant. 
The shields are 1, quarterly 1 and 4 gules a fess arg., 2 and 3 a chev¬ 
ron ermine between 3 . Browne gives 1 and 4 gu. a fess arg. 
between 6 crosslets or, 2 and 3 cliequey or and az. a chevron ermine. (Not 
identified) 2, Or three escallop shells argent —Dacre (William died in 
1319, his father was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1291) ; 3, Plantagenet; 
4, Old Percy; 5, Cornwall. 
