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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
III. North Side (third from west). Five Lights. 
St. Edmund — St. Peter. 
The tracery, with the exception of the upper quatrefoil, contains 
thirteenth century glass. The upper quatrefoil is filled with 
modern glass. In those below, the west one contains a figure, the 
east one a bishop, whilst the lowest has two bishops on horseback. 
The small quatrefoils are heraldic, the western one bearing 
or saltire gules , and the eastern one vert, cross or. 
Archbishop. St. Edmund. St. Peter. King & Bishop. Archbishop. 
Eure. FitzRanulph. Plantagenet. Neville. Buhner. 
i, An archbishop holding a crozier with pendant ; 2, St. Ed¬ 
mund—King, holding in his right hand an arrow, and on each 
side of him is a long white arrow ; 3, St. Peter with a church in 
his right hand and two upright golden keys in the other ; 4, King 
and a bishop with pastoral crook ; 5, An archbishop holding a 
crozier with a pendant. A two-lined inscription is below :— 
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BAH: DeiltF: ($)&($<&$!>&&<&): (jT£>OC: fk®HE 
St. Edmund, whose festival is commemorated on November 
20th, was King of East Anglia. He was defeated by the Danes, 
who bound him to a tree and shot him to death with arrows. 
Over his shrine a monastery arose with a town now known as 
Bur)/ St. Edmunds. He was a popular saint in East Anglia, 
where some fifty-five churches are dedicated to him. 
The shields are 1, quarterly or and gules , on a bend sable three 
escallops argent (Eure or Evres). — Sir John de Eure was Sheriff of 
Yorkshire 1310 ; 2, Azure a chief indented or. — FitzRanulph of 
Middleham ; 3, Plantagenet ; 4, Neville.—Ralph Neville, to whom 
Middleham descended through his mother, the eldest daughter of 
Ralph FitzRanulph. He died in 1331 ; 5, Bulmer.—Ralph de 
Bulmer, of Wilton Castle. In 1308 he had a charter of free warren 
in Wilton, Bulmer, and Welburn. He was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 
1331, and died in 1357. 
