1807.] 
time, the windows had been made of fine 
linen, or latticed wood-work.* 
Such are the first instances of the in- 
troduction of glass intechurches, although 
the rarity of its use for many centuries 
may be gathered from the following par- 
ticulars ; 
Gunton, in the History of Peterbo- 
rough (p. 27), says, that “ Robert de 
Lindesey beautifyed above thirty of the 
windows of Peterborough cathedral with 
glasses, which had been before only stuffed 
with straw.” 
~ In the Computus of Bolton Abbey, 
1299, quoted by Di. Whitaker,} the fol- 
lowing is the charge that occurs for glass 
windows, building, timber, &c. 
“ Pro fenestr’ vitreis, meremio, &e. ad 
fabricam Eccl’, exvyjs. uid.” And again, 
mm 1306: 
“*Dona recepta de Everardo Fannel 
ad fenestram vitream cancelli de Skyp- 
ton, vjs. vid.” 
In 1810, however, we have a charge 
which seems to indicate that ithe choir 
of the church lattices only were used. 
“ Pro laticuis ad chorum de Skypton, 
iis. ivd.”{ 
It is probable that when the windows 
of our churches were enlarged from the 
close, lancet, narrow shape, lattices were 
introduced: previously to that alteration, 
they appear to have been for the most 
part open. There is a small window at 
the east end of Iffiey church, in Oxford- 
shire, which still remains so. Glass, it 
is probable, even at a much later period, 
was neither common enough, nor cheap 
enough, to be generally used. 
So late as 1483, among the privy seals 
of Richard the Third, we read of a pay- 
ment ef five pounds to the prior of Car- 
lisle, which the king gave toward the 
making of a glass window:$ and the 
glazing of some of the windows of King’s 
* « Basilica, quondam ab Edwino rege 
monitu beati Paulini in Eboraco facta, tecto 
vacabat, parietes semiruti, & ruinam plenam 
minantes; solis nidisavium serviebant, pro in- 
dignitate rei Pontifex interno dolore commo- 
tus, materiam solidavit, culmem levavit, le- 
vatum plumbeis laminis ab injuria procella- 
rum munivit. Fenestris/ucem dabant wel panni 
" dinei_tenuitas, vel muitiforatilis asscraxis: ipse 
vitreas fecit. Decorem materiarum vetustas 
& multimoda tempestas obduxerat. Ipse il- 
las alba calce dealbavit,” &c. Saville, Re- 
rum Anglic, Script. Malmesb. p. 148, 
+ History of Craven, p. 325. 
t Ibid, p. 532. 
§ Harl. MSS. 433, f. 120. 
Montury Mac. No. i160, 
Phe Antiquary.—No. XIF. 17 
College chapel is said to have been paid 
for by a fine. 
Bishop Perey, however, from the total 
silence throughout the Northumberland 
Household Book, with regard to glass, 
was led to believe that this very beauti- 
ful and useful material, though applied to 
the decoration of churches, was not, even 
so late as the beginning of the sixteenth 
century, very commonly used either in 
dwelling-houses of the better order, or 
castles,’”* 
The following memoranda, if they do not 
militate against Bishop Percy’s opinion, 
-at least add something to our illustrations 
on the subject. 
One of the early Hostels of Oxford, 
which were at that period little more than 
ordinary houses, from the circumstance 
of its having glass windows, was called 
Glazéen-Hall.+ 
Among Madox’s Collections, of the 
49th year of Henry the Third is an ab- 
stract of a roll marked Woodstock—“ in 
emendatione defectuum domorum regis 
ibidem et fenestrarum vitrearum.”t 
d:vincing that so long ago as 1265, vlass 
windows were known in the patace of the 
monarch, And not only at Woodstock, 
but at Westminster, for under the year 
1268, we have the following anecdote in 
Fabyan’s Chronicle. Speaking of the 
troubles of that year, he says, “‘ The 
souldyors lyenge in Southwerke made 
many robberyes in Southrey and other 
places, and rowed over to Westmynster, 
and spoyled there the kinge’s paleys, and 
devoured his wyne, and brake the glasse 
of the windowes, and all other necessaryes 
to that. paleys they destroyed and 
wasted,” 
At a time when there were so many 
powerful barons rivalling their sovereign 
in courtly splendour, we can hardly sup- 
pose that the best apartments of their 
dwellings would have windows sheltered 
by nothing more than lattices. 
That C haucer’s chamber-windows were 
glazed, we certainly gather from his 
Dreine: : 
‘¢ My wyndows werein shet echone, 
And through the glasse the sunne yshone 
Upon my bed with bright bemis 
With many glad gildy stremis.”  L 
Qaa 
» GIVJe 
* Northumb. Hous. Book. 
+ Warton Hist. Eng. Poet, vol. i. p. 433. 
See Twyne Misc. quedam, &c. ad calc, 
Apol. Antig. Acad. Oxon. 
jy Aysc. Cat. MS5, 4565. 
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