. A Short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichfield. been before observed, that the stainedglass which was formerly placed in the windowsof this church, was totally destroyed in the civilwar. That which now adorns the principal win-dows of the choir was obtained by the Dean andChapter in 1802, through the able and generousassistance of Sir Brooke Boothby, Bart, who,travelling- through the Bishoprick of Liege inGermany, after it was under the dominion ofthe French, visited the dissolved abbey of Herck-enrode* Here twenty-five regular nuns of theGistertian order,
. A Short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichfield. been before observed, that the stainedglass which was formerly placed in the windowsof this church, was totally destroyed in the civilwar. That which now adorns the principal win-dows of the choir was obtained by the Dean andChapter in 1802, through the able and generousassistance of Sir Brooke Boothby, Bart, who,travelling- through the Bishoprick of Liege inGermany, after it was under the dominion ofthe French, visited the dissolved abbey of Herck-enrode* Here twenty-five regular nuns of theGistertian order, all of noble extraction, had beenin possession of a splendid revenue; and rebuildingtheir Chapel in the Kith century, had adornedthe windows with the choicest productions ofthe glass-staining art. This was precisely the period when the arthad attained its highest pitch of at this time the technical knowledge, by * This abbey was founded in 1182, by Gerard Compte doLooz and Mary his wife, and was esteemed one of the richestand most magnificent in the low < <a . <N - g. ^ %< *. ^ iK <* - *? S 5 s a ; 5 is 5 t 1 - a - t •! * s . ?=j - ? £ or i ;., *, ;. K - t. *, ;. K - c * :. KS - •. ^ - to - PAINTED WINDOWS. 9 from the base, on which it apparently rests,) tothe more intricate combinations of the floridgothic. It has been before observed, that the stainedglass which was formerly placed in the windowsof this church, was totally destroyed in the civilwar. That which now adorns the principal win-dows of the choir was obtained by the Dean andChapter in 1802, through the able and generousassistance of Sir Brooke Boothby, Bart, who,travelling- through the Bishoprick of Liege inGermany, after it was under the dominion ofthe French, visited the dissolved abbey of Herck-enrode.* Here twenty-five regular nuns of theCistertian order, all of noble extraction, had beenin possession of a splendid revenue; and rebuilding-their Chapel in the 10th
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