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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
The borders to the three lights have on a red ground, a silver 
vertical staff having golden suns alternately, with entwined white 
labels with name “ Bofcoet and full-faced wolves’ heads argent. 1 
Near the base one of the golden suns has a triangle within it, 
while another contains a square. 
In the head of each light is a wolfs head with a long stick in 
its mouth. 
V. Second from West. Three Lights, c. 1423. 
The “ Parker ” Window. 
St. Thomas of Canterbury, St. John of Beverley St. William of York. 
The tracery has now clear glass. Torre gives an archbishop in 
each of the lower tracery, and an angel in each of the six lights 
beneath. The prevailing tone of the window is white and red. 
St. John of Beverley. 
St. John at Mass. 
King Athelstane 
at the altar of 
St. John of Beverley. 
Herbald falls from 
his horse. 
St. Thomas of Canterbury. 
King Henry II. 
and his Chancellor. 
A Throne and Ecclesiastics. 
(Arch)bishop martyred 
at altar. 
St. William of York. 
Ouse Bridge. 
Civic reception of 
the archbishop ? 
Enthronization of 
St. William 
as archbishop. 
The first light shows an archbishop “iscs. Holjts IScbcrlac ’ on a 
red background studded with white crowns around fleurs-de-lys. 
The archbishop in a red chasuble is kneeling at an altar, the 
reredos of which depicts the Crucifixion with the attendant figures 
of the Blessed Virgin and St. John with a book. The archbishop 
is elevating the Sacred Host, towards which a white dove is 
descending. A deacon and sub-deacon assist the archbishop, and 
there are several persons praying. King xA.thelstane is in plate 
armour, with belt and knife sheath, and wearing large golden 
spurs. On his shoulders are fixed large white wings bearing 
“ 2 aci ^tielstan.” He kneels before an altar bearing St. John en¬ 
throned between the Blessed Virgin and St. Gabriel, and St. Peter 
with a church and keys. On the altar the king pledges his knife, and 
lays it and his gauntlets on it. The knife is of the falchion shape 
and on the hilt is a shield bearing quarterly the arms of France 
1 The badge of Robert Wolveden, Treasurer of the Minster. 
