Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . armour,with a red furcoat, the lady in a white mantle, on which is a lion rampant, gules %over them is a fcroll with this infcription *? Lady lede us all fro harm to himyat lay ded in yi barm. In Landwade church are fome remains of painted glafs, coeval with the build-ing, which was erected in the reign of king Henry the fixth, confifting of feveralfigures of faints and angels. In the ealt window of Chrifhs college chapel are finallwhole length portraits painted on glafs, of king Henry the fevent
Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . armour,with a red furcoat, the lady in a white mantle, on which is a lion rampant, gules %over them is a fcroll with this infcription *? Lady lede us all fro harm to himyat lay ded in yi barm. In Landwade church are fome remains of painted glafs, coeval with the build-ing, which was erected in the reign of king Henry the fixth, confifting of feveralfigures of faints and angels. In the ealt window of Chrifhs college chapel are finallwhole length portraits painted on glafs, of king Henry the feventh, and fome othersof the family of Margaret countefs of Richmond, the foundrefs of the college. » Sandfords Geiical Hift. p. \oz. « Said by BlomeBeld to be the arms of Bokenham. See Blomeficlds CoUtft. Cantab. 243. where this Infcnptio:f is inaccurately copied, • in your armbeing given for in thy barm, i. e. lap, alluding to the figure of our lady of pity. « Thcfe were removed from a little chapel, faid to have been that of the foundiefs on the north fide«f the chapel. The VoLll fi 6^. GULTVESTn^fK OV n>!E OFTEEE TRUMPINGTOM EAMIIXIK TRrMTJ^^GTO^ CilUllCH. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 59 The windows of Kings college chapel at Cambridge exhibit a magnificent dif-play of painted glafs of the reign of king Henry the eighth. The greater part ofthefe are very well preferved, the colours are brilliant, and fome of the defignshave great merit. The great ealt window has eighteen different fubjeds of ourSaviours palTion. There are twelve windows on either fide of the chapel, each ofthem divided into ten larger compartments in two ranges, befides feveral fmallones in the arches ; thofe in the upper range contain fubjefts taken for the moflpart from the old tcrtament, and thofe in the lower range from the new teftament:the fmaller compartments are filled with the kings arms, and rofes, crowns,fleurs de lys, and portcullifcs, with thefe letters, H. K. (Henry and Katherine). Thegreat weft windo
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