150 THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK CHURCHES. 
mentoniere 1 or chin plate is well shown. He is standing and 
thrusting the end of his spear into the mouth of a dragon. The 
corresponding light depicts a popular saint of York, namely St. 
Christopher, bearing the Infant Saviour. The saint wades amongst 
fishes with a staff blossoming with leaves. 
An inscription crosses the five lights :—“ OJalcar : mtortQ : ate: 
ttfiserm (lioljanm's) fife (Vomits fjtc tstam) fun freit at* (fnustram) 
(li^or in) canrrllo ticitatts: a by. tm(ello ^rtrto mtllcnc) quater ct septu 
(oqnio) tamcn atijunrto rrx in fjonore tuo ” (Have mercy on the soul of 
John Walker, Rector. He caused to be made this house and 
window in the Chancel of the Deity without contention in the year 
1470, to Thy honour, O King). 
The subject panels in the base depict 1, St. Mary Cleophas and 
her husband Alphaeus, with their four children Thaddeus (St. Jude), 
Simon, James the Less, and Joseph Justus in his mother's arms. 
One of the children carries a boat and another a staff; 2, St. 
Joachim and St. Ann, with their daughter the Virgin Mary with 
the Child Jesus ; 3, The Trinity is referred to above; 4, Zebedee 
and Mary Salome and their two children. St. Mary holds the 
infant St. John the Evangelist, who holds a book on which stands 
an eagle. Below was probably a figure of their son St. James the 
Great, but there has been inserted a figure of a female with basket 
containing two birds, being part of a panel depicting the presenta¬ 
tion of the doves in the Temple. 
The subjects in these panels accord with the tradition that 
Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, was three times 
married, Joachim being her third husband, the two others were 
Cleophas and Salome. By Cleophas, she had a daughter also 
called Mary, who was the wife of Alphaeus, and the mother of 
Thaddeus, Simon, James the Less and Joseph Justus. By Salome, 
she had a daughter also Mary, married to Zebedee, and the 
mother of James the Great and St. John the Evangelist. All the 
children were, according to the tradition, cousins of Our Lord, and 
grandchildren of St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin. 
The other panel in the base shows St. Ursula (named) crowned 
and standing, and holding a barbed arrow, her cloak opens and 
covers a number of small figures including a pope, a king, and 
virgins. The legend states that on the return from Rome of 
1 Dr. Gayner draws attention to the fact that the mentoniere is only represented 
on three brasses, all of which are in Yorkshire. 
