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[THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
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buttress niche has on one side an ecclesiastic at prayer, and at 
the other side an ecclesiastic with book. 
Isaiah. Our Lady of Sorrows St. Edwin (king), 
holding her divine Son 
taken down from the Cross. 
Vision of Ezekiel. 
The large figures depict the prophet Isaiah with name and a 
scroll inscribed in Latin—“ Behold a Virgin shall conceive and 
bear a son ” ; Christ wearing a crown of thorns being taken from 
the Cross ; and St. Edwin in one hand holding a sceptre and in 
the other a cruciform church with central tower, and with part of 
name “ Ed. 
The panel below shows the vision of Ezekiel. On a blue back¬ 
ground stands a winged male, robed and belted, and holding a 
baton in one hand and a bell in the other. Opposite, on a red 
background stands a cherubim with hands crossed over the breast, 
and having four wings, two extended over the body and two 
expanded upwards. Between the figures is a winged wheel bear¬ 
ing a crystal. 
IV. South Aisle (first from east.) Two Lights. 
Salutation of SS. Mary and Elizabeth. From St. Nicholas, Rouen. 
This window (fig. 34) was brought from the Church of St. 
Nicholas, Rouen, and presented to the Minster in 1804 by Lord 
Carlisle, of Castle Howard. The subject is the Salutation of Mary 
and Elizabeth, taken from a painting by Bavoccio who died in 1612, 
aged 84. This glass was originally painted for a four-light window. 1 
Below are shields with the arms of the donor. 
V. South Aisle, East Window. Three Lights. 
St. John. 
The upper part of tracery shows St. John holding a chalice con¬ 
taining a dragon before the Emperor, who sits with a sword erect. 
The martyrdom of St. John exhibits the saint standing naked in a 
hooped tub between two men who are pouring boiling oil from a 
ladle on to his head. The Emperor Domitian and the Empress 
are present. 
1 Winston, 
