The Queen's College . of which the first is 1 See .Appendix G, ii. 252. * See above, n. 1, p. l66. * Langtons windows, dated 1518, give Wolseys arms, his cardinals hat whichhe got in September, 1515, and the arms of the see of York as he modified introduction of Wolseys arms seems to indicate some connexion betweenWolsey and Langtons ante-chapel in which the window was originally 1518 Wolsey was busy with foreign politics. His building activities atMagdalen ended with his compulsory resignation of the senior bursarship therein 1500. Though he could hardly have been on buildi


The Queen's College . of which the first is 1 See .Appendix G, ii. 252. * See above, n. 1, p. l66. * Langtons windows, dated 1518, give Wolseys arms, his cardinals hat whichhe got in September, 1515, and the arms of the see of York as he modified introduction of Wolseys arms seems to indicate some connexion betweenWolsey and Langtons ante-chapel in which the window was originally 1518 Wolsey was busy with foreign politics. His building activities atMagdalen ended with his compulsory resignation of the senior bursarship therein 1500. Though he could hardly have been on building work in Oxford at thesame time as Langton he might have been interested in other peoples buildingworks there. Pace, who had been with Cardinal Bainbridge at Rome, wassecretary to Wolsey in 1515, and Wolsey succeeded Bainbridge as Archbishop ofYork in 1514. He was at this time at work on Hampton Court Palace, which hebegan building in 1515, and handed over to Henry VHI in 1526. * See Appendix G, ii. 248. PLATE XV^Il. THE CONFUSED COAT OF ROBERT LANGTON LANGTONS ARMS 169 charged with a key and the other with a dagger in bend, both or.^Mr. Everard Green (Somerset Herald) has been kind enough tosuggest that these arms indicate the holy places visited byLangton on his pilgrimages. The Tau cross would representSt. Antony of Egypt; the escallop, St. .Tames of Compostella;the wheel (really a demi-wheel), St. Catherine, who was buried onMount Sinai; the cross, really a cross-potent, would refer toJerusalem; the torteauxes with their emblems, St. Peter andSt. Paul (a sword, not a dagger), buried at Rome. What Woodcalls a plummet Mr. Green thinks may be the vase of precious oint-ment of St. Mary Magdalen, whose grave is at Tarascon. Langtonis otherwise known to have visited Compostella, and a quarto is saidto have been published in London in 1522 called the Pilgrimageof Mr. Robert Langton. clerk, to St. James of Compostell, ofwhich, however, no copy is known. A drawing of the confuseda


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