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304 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
" Groves, in the west. I suppose, Sir, that I need not acquaint you with
"the result of that undertaking. Everyone knows that the Royal party
"was routed, and all the heads of them, among whom was the curtain
" champion, imprisoned at Exeter. It happened to be his friend's lot at
" that time to go the western circuit. The trial of the rebels, as they
" were called, was very short, and nothing now remained but to pass
" sentence on them, when the judge, hearing the name of his old friend,
"and observing his face more attentively, which he had not seen for
" many years, asked him if he was not formerly a Westminster scholar.
"By the answer he was soon convinced that it was his former generous
"friend, and without saying anything more at that time, made the best of
" his way to London, where employing all his power and interest with the
"Protector, he saved his friend from the fate of his unhappy associates.
" The gentleman whose life was thus preserved by the gratitude of his
" schoolfellow, was afterwards the father of a son whom he lived to see
" promoted in the Church, and who deservedly
fills one of the highest
" stations in it."
A note adds " : The gentleman here alluded to was Colonel Wake,
" father to Dr. Wake, Bishop of Lincoln, and afterwards Archbishop of
" Canterbury. As Penruddork, in the course of the trial, takes occasion
" to say ' he sees Judge Nicholas on the bench,' it is most likely
" was the judge
of the assize who tried the Cavalier."
that he
THE
The shields which adorn the walls
HILTONS.
of "the Vestibule" of the Minster
are all painted in the same tincture, so that it is impossible to say
accurately to whom they belong ; but there is one, consisting of two bars,*
which is at least worthy of conjecture, for this may be the arms of Mainwaring,
the founder of which family, Ranulphus, a noble Norman in the
train of William the Conqueror, received for his share of the spoil, Peure,
or Over Peover, in Cheshire, and sixteen lordships contingent thereto ;
but
I can find nothing to connect this family with York. Powell, in his History
of Wales, gives these arms to William Maudit, who he tells us fought under
King Louis against Henry III., in Lincolnshire, 1217, associated with Saere
Quincey Earl of Winchester, Henrie de Bohun Earl of Hereford, Gilbert
de Gaunt Earl of Lincoln, Robert Fitzvvalter, Richard Montfychet, Gilbert
* See coloured illustration.