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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
St. John 
in Cauldron. 
St. John 
before Domitian. 
Page with horses. Visit of Magi. 
St. Edward the Confessor 
Massacre of 
the Innocents. 
Flight into Egypt. 
giving his ring. 
Banishment of St. John. 
Insertion 
A pilgrim. 
St. John giving the ring 
to two pilgrims. 
St. John visited by 
At the Altar. 
an angel. 
In the lower part is depicted a page in a buttoned red jacket, 
a white hood, and yellow tight pantaloons, holding two white 
horses. The next two lights illustrate the visit of the Magi ; two 
kings bear goblets, and one with crown on his arm is kneeling and 
presenting a goblet of gold coins to the Blessed Virgin and the 
Infant Jesus. The next two depict the Massacre of the Inno¬ 
cents : in one light are three soldiers in armour, one in plate 
armour bears on it argent a lion rampant sable , the other light shows 
four soldiers and a mother pleading for her infant. The next 
light represents the flight into Egypt. 
The window consists of three large subject panels under canopies, 
and three subject panels below under canopies. Each canopy 
consists of a three-tiered embattled octagonal tower, the niches 
contain figures—a cherubim occupying the centre, and on each side 
of the tower is a soldier, and on the upper story is an angel. The 
underside of canopy is triple arched and is somewhat similar to the 
central one in Window I. but is less castellated. 
The large figures depict St. Edward the Confessor with his assigned 
shield azure a cross patoncc between five martlets or. He is crowned 
and one hand holds the sceptre whilst the other grasps a ring held 
between his forefinger and thumb. This ring he is presenting to 
St. John, whom he mistakes for a poor pilgrim. The next is an 
insertion, it depicts a pilgrim barefooted and bareheaded with shell 
in one hand and a clasped book in the other. The canopy is early 
fourteenth century work and has niched buttresses containing two 
tiers of figures. The third light shows St. John (head inserted) 
presenting the ring to two pilgrims who carry scrips and staves. 
The subjects below are probably the banishment of St. John by 
the Emperor Domitian, St. John at an altar receiving an angel, 
and in the centre a figure before an altar on which lay an open 
book. 
The central border is a traceried, thin, wavy, vertical, golden 
band, on a red ground ; the side lights have been alternately the 
arms of Plantagenet and France. 
