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200 HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
WALLER.
But the Bend was sometimes diminished one-half its size and called
a bendlet. This was again sometimes divided into two parts, called cotises,
which were sometimes borne with a bend between, or sometimes with some
heraldic charge or charges placed bendwise between them.
We have no illustration in glass or stone of this in the Minster now.
It was in former days illustrated on a cushion, which has long since passed
away but the historical associations connected with the armorial bearings
;
are so interesting that I cannot allow them to pass away too, but must do
what I can to rescue them at least from oblivion.
In Torre's history of the Minster we find the following entry:
" On an old cushion in the quire is embroydered these coats, viz.,
"(i) B, 3 left-hand gauntletts Or,
" impaling sable 3 leaves in bend
" argent between two cotices O.
"
(2) Argent a lyon passant gules
" inter 3 barrs sable, thereon 3 be-
" zants, and 3 bucks' heads cabossed
" sable in chief impaling as No. i .
"
(3) Lozengy gules and varrie im-
" paling as No. i.
"
(4) Sable 3 leaves in bend argent
" between 2 cotices O, impaling a
" lyon rampant sable debruised by 3 barrs gemelles gules.
" The (5) last, impaling paly of 6 Or and B, a canton ermine."
The cushion itself probably perished when the choir was burned, and
therefore we have no clue, from this crude illustration and vague description
thereof, as to its date or history; we can only surmise as to that. But
heraldry enables us to say that i, 2, 3 of these shields represent female
members, and 4 a male member of the Waller family and the families
into which they had married ; and shield 5 represents the alliance made
by some member of one of these families.
The arms on shield 3 seem to be the arms of De Burgh. Those on
shields 4 and 5 may be the arms of Maude, for I am assured that there was
no such connection with the family of Fairfax, and there was an old Yorkshire
family of Maude located at West Riddlesden, which bears the same
Torre mentions that a certain "Timothy
charges, though differently tinctured.
" Maude, M.A., clerk upon the Archbishop's collation, was admitted to this
" prebend of Holme Archiep
: then vacant by the resignation of Wm. Lister
"next preceding, A.D. 1622." The shield, then, No. 5 may be his arms impaling
the arms of his wife, Strelly or Shirley, for here again the charges are
the same, though the tinctures are different. I to think that the
am disposed