. The Redmans of Levens and Harewood : a contribution to the history of the Levens family of Redman and Redmayne in many of its branches . uld have permitted so incongruous a circumstance in ascene of conviviality ? This recess is in the west wail. The beautifullycrocketted canopy, Mr. Speight says, is enclosed in arectangular frame of carved stone. The foils of the archare cusped, plain, with leaf ornaments in the spandrils,and there is an excellently wrought vignette of foliage atthe base, terminated in mask-heads. One must lamentthe decay of so beautiful and unique an example of four-teenth
. The Redmans of Levens and Harewood : a contribution to the history of the Levens family of Redman and Redmayne in many of its branches . uld have permitted so incongruous a circumstance in ascene of conviviality ? This recess is in the west wail. The beautifullycrocketted canopy, Mr. Speight says, is enclosed in arectangular frame of carved stone. The foils of the archare cusped, plain, with leaf ornaments in the spandrils,and there is an excellently wrought vignette of foliage atthe base, terminated in mask-heads. One must lamentthe decay of so beautiful and unique an example of four-teenth century sculpture, now a prey to the elements. But fascinating as the subject is, there is no space todescribe further in detail the architecture of this ancientcastle, with its many chambers, its winding staircases,and passages, its dark dungeons, its mysterious vaults, itsparapets and sally-ports ; and we can only afford a hastyand fearful glance at the neighbouring Gallows Hill, onwhich the lords of Harewood strung up the victims oftheir summary justice in days when they had the powerof life and death within their small SIDKBOARD liN THE GREAT HALL OF HAREWOOD CASTLE. TO FACE P. 146. HAREWOOD MANOR, CASTLE & CHURCH. 147 The castle appears to have been rich in heraldic em-bellishment. The following is a list of the arms instained glass and graven in stone on the walls of thecastle and chapell, as seen and thus recorded by Glover,in 1584, during the occupation of the last of the Hare-wood Redmans :— (i) Redman—gules, 3 cushions ermine, buttons and tassels, or;and Daincourt—arg. a fess dancett6, between 8 billets, or. This shield appears really to have been Redman, quartering Alde- burgh, impaling Daincourt, quartering Strickland,(a) HuddUston—gules, a fret or. (3) Aldehurgh—gules, a lion rampant, charged with a fleur de lys. (4) Brt/jo/—gules, an orle, arg. No. 3 and 4 were in the Chapel. (6) Rythcr—az. 3 crescents, or. (7) Sutton—az. a lion rampant,
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