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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK CHURCHES. 
Each of the five lights has alternately a red and blue background, 
and contains a large figure under a white lofty octagonal arcaded 
and pinnacled canopy supported by white buttresses. 
Saint. St. Dunstan. Bishop. St. Olaf. St. John. 
The northern light has a figure of a saint holding a staff, and 
at his feet lie two skulls. In the adjoining light is depicted St. 
Dunstan with hammers and giving his blessing. The central light 
contains the figure of a sainted bishop. The next figure is crowned 
and wears a beard, and holds in his left hand an open book. This 
depicts St. Olaf, the patron saint of the church. The outer light 
has a representation of St. John the Evangelist, whilst below are 
three small white and yellow stained figures, and part of a pallium 
marked with a cross. 
ST. CUTHBERT, Peaseholme Green. 
In the windows are a number of shields, namely, France and 
England, St. George, City of York, Merchants of the Wool Staple 
of Calais, Neville, argent three bars azure , argent a chief gules , and 
argent a bend or? A figure of a man pouring liguid into jars may 
be a fragment of a panel illustrating the miracle at the wedding at 
Cana. There is a saint holding a couple of daggers. The borders 
are made up of fragments. 
QUARRIES. 
There are a number of diamond-shaped pieces of glass bearing 
devices ; these are known as quarries. The late Rev. George Rowe 
made drawings of a large number. At St. Martin’s, Micklegate, 
is to be found the White Boar of Richard III., and the same 
window has the “ three white daises growing on a turf,’’ an 
emblem assigned to Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond and 
mother of Henry VII., who defeated the owner of the “ White 
Boar” badge at Bosworth Field. On windows in other churches 
are depicted such curious and varied subjects (figs. 69 — 73) 
as a wren playing a harp, a nutcracker playing a pipe, a cock 
crowing, a woodcock catching a fly, a crane, hawk, starling, 
hoopoe, goose, parrot, green plover, peacock, swan, and a nightin¬ 
gale or thrush playing a kind of violin. Another shows a fallow 
deer. There are many floral designs which include the oak and 
its fruit. A floral cross with ribbon is interesting, as it contains 
a text in English, when almost all were in Latin. 
