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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
with short staves, and preceded by a man bearing the sword of 
state sheathed. The high priest, in red, wearing a golden cap of 
dignity, bows towards the procession. The panel beneath shows 
Christ in prison 1 with figures at the grated window. Outside, 
standing on the steps, is the jailor, bearing over his shoulder a 
staff from which dangles a couple of keys. The subject beneath 
shows Pilate in a red robe bearing a sceptre and seated. His 
sword-bearer sits near. His wife is in white and gold and wears 
a crown. Before Pilate is the person making the charge from a 
book. Jesus is between two men. 
In the base of central light is the shield of Archbishop Lamplugh, 
gules keys in saltire and crown above , impaling or a cross sable. The side 
lights contain a seven-rayed wavy golden star. 
II. South Aisle (third from east). Three Lights. 
This window contains the earliest glass in the Lady Chapel and 
was made about 1380. The design of the canopies is based on 
that of the castellated architecture. The tone is yellow and blue 
relieved by red. The tracery is dated 1783. 
The central canopy consists of an octagonal tower of three 
stories with flying buttresses. The central lower story is open 
and contains a cherubim, whilst over each side buttress is a figure 
blowing a trumpet. The other canopies are different, a figure on 
the balcony blows a long trumpet 
The central figure represents King Edward the Confessor with 
sceptre and a ring in his left hand. He stands between a pilgrim, 
having a crimson inner garment adorned with white escallop 
shells, and St.John the Evangelist who is barefooted, and holds a 
palm branch in his left hand, and in the other a clasped book on 
which stands a golden eagle. 
A Pilgrim. 
St. Edward the Confessor 
with ring. 
St. John the Evangelist. 
Massacre of 
the Innocents. 
Christ disputing with 
the Doctors. 
Baptism of Christ. 
St. Elizabeth with the 
Infant St. John. 
1 There is a similar representation of a mediaeval stone prison, with porch and 
stairs, on one of the Chapter House windows. 
