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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
The border to each light is red, on which are spaced alternately 
R.S. and squares azure a bend or —Scrope, in allusion to Richard 
Scrope, archbishop, who was beheaded in 1403, as a traitor, by 
order of Henry IV. 
VIII. Third from East. Three Lights. 
St. Edward the Confessor. 
Inscribed scrolls surround the head of the figures at the sides. 
This and the next window VIII. are similar. The apex subject 
is mutilated, the quatrefoils below contained the Procession of 
the Host, and a king and bishop with cross-bearer. The six 
small lights have a shield, St. George on horseback piercing the 
dragon with lance, St. Lawrence with gridiron, St. Katherine 
with wheel in her hand, a saint with comb, and the other was 
m utilated. 
The prevailing tone is white and blue with red. The central 
canopy consists of a tower supported by two heights of flying 
buttresses; the side ones have an octagonal canopy of two stages, 
a small figure occupying the centre of the upper one. Of the 
upper figures, the first is the Baptist, and the corresponding one 
probably St. Paul, holding a sword and book. 
Procession of the Host. King and Bishop with his cross-bearer. 
Shield. St. George on 
horseback 
St. Lawrence St. Katherine Saint 
with gridiron, with wheel. with comb. 
The Baptist. 
St. Paul. 
Pilgrim. 
St. Edward the Confessor. St. John Baptist. 
Our Lord with bannered 
cross, and a king 
with child in his arms. 
Bishop and Nobleman 
at table. 
Bishop sits with an 
ecclesiastic. 
The first of the large figures is a pilgrim, whose head is 
encircled with a mutilitated inscription, “lSe...S facitc bias liras 
.tab ...nobis.” The central one is the sainted King Edward 
the Confessor in a red robe and holding the sceptre in one hand 
and a ring in the other. The background is studded with golden 
circles enclosing the letter ]£, whilst a few enclose the letter (£. 
The third figure is probably St. John the Baptist, he holds a book, 
and his head is encircled by a mutilated inscription, “. att tnas 
tint .nvi” In the lower corner of the panel is a small figure 
