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THE SCROPES. 103
official " of our Consistorial Court at York, to admonish all and singular the
" (Rural) Deans of the whole diocese of York, in order that the Deans may
" each of them, all and singular, in his or their deanery or deaneries,
" admonish with effect, whom we also admonish by these presents, that they
" each of them refrain themselves, under penalty of the law, from this kind
" of reverence of the said place."*
Dean Stanley thinks that the Dean and Chapter paid no attention
to this stilted admonition, and that the observance was allowed to continue,
though eventually, perhaps at the Reformation, the statue was removed and
destroyed.
However, the conflicting animosities of York and Lancaster went
smouldering on for another twenty years, until, in
1485, Henry VII., by his
marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV., united the rival
and their
sanguinary
feuds ceased for ever.
factions,
THE DE MAULEYS.
The next cluster of shields illustrating the Bend is
in the south aisle
of the Nave, fourth window from the east, and represents the achievements
of several members of the family of De Mauley, at the time when this
Nave was built the owner of Mulgrave Castle, and one of the most powerful
baronial houses in the north. The window itself has suffered much by
lapse of time, so we must turn to the invaluable manuscript history of the
Minster, drawn up with indefatigable labour by James Torre, the learned
and to whom we are indebted for much
antiquary, who lived 1649-99, information concerning the property or buildings of the Minster, many
traces
of which would otherwise have been obliterated.
By his help we can discern that the confused mass of coloured glass
at the lower part of the middle light represents
" an archdeacon in a chair,
"habited sang, B, and gules;" and on the same authority we can accept
what no longer exists, viz. : that " At his feet is written
" ... en fee flDaulq?, Hrcbe 2) ..."
i.e.
Stephen de Mauley, Archdeacon. He held that dignity in 1289, and
also possessed it in 1306. In 1298 he was instituted to the prebend of
Bugthorpe, so that he was in office during part, at least, of the time of the
erection of the Nave, and the window may therefore have been erected by
him during his life, or by his friends after his death, to commemorate his
tenure of office and the dignity of the family of which he was a member.
For, unless I mistake, the shields depicted hereon indicate the several
members of his generation, both by kindred and alliance.
* Memorials of Westminster Abbey (p. 522), by Dean Stanley.