I IO 
THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
The Festival of the Translation of St. William was kept upon 
the 8th of January, and that of the Burial on the 8th of June. 
The window was restored in 1895 at a cost of ^"572. 
For a detailed account of this interesting window the reader is 
referred to the valuable work on it, consisting of 151 pages and 
2 coloured plates, published by James Fowler, F.S.A., in the 
“ Yorkshire Archaeological Journal” for 1887. Mr. J. W. Knowles 
has photographs of the whole of the panels. 
II. South Transept. St. Cuthbert’s Window. 
The window, with the exception of an arcade below, occupies 
the whole of the south side. It consists of five lights which rise in 
four stages, divided by transoms, the arch being filled with tracery. 
It is similar to the St. William Window, but with only two rows 
of subjects instead of five below the lowest transom, and having 
one row Jess in the upper part of the window. There are seven¬ 
teen rows of subjects, five in each. 
Under the lowest transom, the donor, and those who were 
associated with or honoured by him, are grouped in the attitude 
of devotion around a grand central figure of St. Cuthbert in his 
episcopal vestments, bearing in his left hand, as usual, the crowned 
head of St. Oswald, in allusion to the head of that sainted king 
having been kept in the shrine along with the body of St. Cuthbert. 
The kneeling figures around represent Archbishop Bowet, Cardinal 
Beaufort, Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, Cardinal Kemp, Cardinal 
Longley or Langley (Bishop of Durham), Henry IV., Henry V., 
Henry VI., and John of Gaunt. In connection with the figure of 
Cardinal Langley is nearly the whole of a Latin inscription to this 
effect : “ Pray for the soul of Thomas Longley, Bishop of Durham, 
who caused this window to be made.” He had been a prebendary 
and also Dean of York, hence no doubt his splendid provision for 
the glory of the Minster. These nine kneeling figures are all 
suitably habited, and placed at desks; on some of them are 
represented scrolls with passages from the penitential psalms, in 
which the supplicants are supposed to be addressing God. “The 
Window of the House of Lancaster,” Browne terms it, for it 
depicts the three Kings of the House of Lancaster, Humphrey, 
Duke of Gloucester, and their illustrious fore-elder “ Old John of 
Gaunt, time honoured Lancaster,” and his son Cardinal Beaufort, 
and also four prelates attached to the Lancastrian party. 
