. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. ucing Winstons plan of the window, andthe other Mr. Draytons scheme showing the original arrange-ment of the shields. It may be added that this paper can bestbe studied within view of the window itself. With the help of aglass most of the details can be seen from the iriforium of thechoir. In concluding these few words of introduction, I must expressmy thanks for help received from Mr. St. Clair Baddeleyand Dr. R. L. Poole of Oxford. G. McN. Rushforth. In Longfellows poem of The Golden Legend FriarPacificus, illuminating
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. ucing Winstons plan of the window, andthe other Mr. Draytons scheme showing the original arrange-ment of the shields. It may be added that this paper can bestbe studied within view of the window itself. With the help of aglass most of the details can be seen from the iriforium of thechoir. In concluding these few words of introduction, I must expressmy thanks for help received from Mr. St. Clair Baddeleyand Dr. R. L. Poole of Oxford. G. McN. Rushforth. In Longfellows poem of The Golden Legend FriarPacificus, illuminating in the scriptorium of the monasteryof Hirschau, says : It is growing dark ! Yet one line more,And then my work for to-day is come again to the name of the Lord !Ere I that awful name record,That is spoken so lightly among men,Let me pause a while, and wash my pen !Pure from blemish and blot must it be,When it writes that word of mystery. This was the spirit in which the monk worked ; and I thinkwe first must understand the spirit of the workers in glass Plate The East Window of,Gloucester Cathedral. 71 of the fourteenth century, as well as know what were theirmaterials and the tools they used, before we can reallyappreciate the full beauty of the wondrous glass in ourCathedral. These men, I love to think, gave their very best to Godshouse. Those ancient craftsmen never expected humaneyes to see their work, high up in the great East Window ;surely, therefore, their primary idea was the honour ofGod. I have spent more than two hundred hours workingon the scaffolds and in the Lady Chapel, and have oftenthought of the monk washing his pen, as I washed my coloursto get them quite pure and clear ; sometimes listening tothe voices of the choristers, and sometimes almost alone inthe great silent Cathedral. Perhaps something of the spiritof those early workers came over me. The more one seesand examines the work in stone or glass of this time, themore one is struck with the f
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