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clearly established; perhaps those most deeply interested scarcely knew
themselves. Lord Byron was tried by his peers for manslaughter, and
pronounced guilty, but claiming exemption from sentence as a peer, under
a statute of Edward VI., he was dismissed on paying the fees, and retired
to Newstead, where he lived a secluded life for 30 years, dying 1798. Mary
Ann, the only child of William Chaworth, married John Musters, of
Colwick Hall, and is commemorated in the poems of Lord Byron as
" Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honoured race."
On the window immediately beside the arms of Scrope and Chaworth
are two shields of Scrope of Masham. The one has simply a bend or and
label ; the other the bordure of mitres already mentioned. There is also
another shield, bearing on a bend sable three mullets or, probably the arms
of John Hotham, who married Ivetta, daughter of Sir Geoffry Scrope. One
of the shields over the west arch bears a fesse dancette, probably Sir Wm.
Vavasour, whose name appears on the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll.
Other shields there are in the south transept, which are probably
connected with Scrope. The escallops of Dacre, and a fesse between six
crosslets in stone above the north arch, are perhaps the cognizances of
Margaret, daughter of the sixth Lord Dacre, who married John, a younger
son of Sir John Scrope; he died in 1452, leaving no children, and was
buried in the Minster. The other shield may be the arms of Beauchamp ;
but I think are probably those of Sir Robert Laton, who held lands at
Laton and Melsonby, temp. Richard II., and who appears, by his deposition
in the Scrope and Grosvenor roll, to have been for many years a
companion-in-arms of the Scrope family. The lions rampant on the stone
shields above the east arch represent, no doubt, Mowbray and Percy, so
intimately associated, as we have seen, with the house of Scrope.
The stone shields on the north and south sides of the Choir, between
the transept and the nave (i.e.
the part probably built by the Archbishop)
seem to carry out the same story. The altar then stood one bay nearer
the west than now. On the north side, then, we have five shields representing
the sacredness and dignity of the Archbishopric of York: (i)
The
emblems of the Passion ;
(2) the seven pointed stars of St. Wilfrid ;
(3) the
keys, (4) the swords, of St. Peter ;
(5)
the seven mascles of St. William.
Then follow Sir i ( ) Henry Scrope, the bend charged with a very substantial
"umbra leonis " (2) a chief, three chevrons in base, possibly the arms of
Henry, Lord FitzHugh, whom Sir Henry Scrope in his will calls " consanguineo
meo," i.e., as we have seen, his uncle, and to whom he leaves two
books, " pro remembrancia"; (3)
a saltire charged with a crescent, possibly
Sir William Nevill, second son of Ralph, second Baron Nevill, a distinguished
soldier, gentleman of the bedchamber to Richard II., and a