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196 YORK.
to reconcile every one who had any hand in the
matter.
Archbishop Bowet, Scrope's immediate successor,
is noteworthy as having issued the last indulgence
known on behalf of the fabric fund of the minster.
The work gradually advanced to its completion during
his own occupation of the see, and the respective
episcopates of the prelates who followed him,
Kemp, Booth, and Neville. The munificent offerings
that were made at the tomb of Scrope have already
been mentioned, and the capitular body made large
grants out of their own funds. The choir was already
finished, as also the nave. The stately windows of
the choir transept—if we may apply that term to the
division which they mark between the choir and the
presbytery—rivalling in height the elevation of the
great east window, date from the earlier half of the
fifteenth century. That on the north side, with its
splendid glass, representing the life and miracles of
St. William of York, belongs probably to Bowet's
episcopate (1407-1423). The one on the south
side is later, and is said to have been given by the
executors of Langley, Bishop of Durham, who had
formerly been Dean of York. The life and miracles
Cuthbert are the subjects depicted in its glass,
of St.
through which the sunlight gleams at noontide with
so'much brightness and beauty. After the completion
of nave and choir the next work undertaken was the
re-casing of the great Norman piers of the centre
tower. The masonry of Archbishop Thomas was encased
with Perpendicular stonework, thus giving unity
of effect to the internal aspect of the building.