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THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
It would be difficult to give an illustration of the entire window, but
the several coats-of-arms thereon are engraved
in the order in which
they occur.* He himself holds up (or perhaps I should say held up, for
nothing remains of his figure except his face) a shield, now defaced.
Torre tells us that it was, or a bend sable charged with three dolphins
argent. To his left are the remains of a leg and arm, mixed up in a
confused debris of fragments, which evidently formed part of a figure of
a mailed warrior kneeling, holding up a shield, still perfect, charged with
vaire a maunche gules.
In the light beyond are fragments of the other kneeling figures,
holding up shields. The nearest, utterly defaced now, was, according to
Torre, or, a bend sable charged with a dragon argent, that beyond showing
still the bend sable charged with three dolphins argent. In the light
on the right of the figure of the archdeacon are two kneeling figures, that
furthest east clad in armour, with a tunic of gold colour with broad stripes
of black, charged with three eagles displayed argent, and holding a shield,
or on a bend sable three eagles displayed argent.
Between him and the archdeacon there is another figure, similarly
clad in armour, with tunic of yellow and red stripe, holding above his
head a shield, bearing Or a bend gules.
Now, of course, it is very difficult absolutely to appropriate these
figures and shields to the individuals they were intended to represent but
;
my conjecture is that they represent the sons of Peter de Mauley, third
baron. Sir Harris Nicolas, f in a blazon of arms in a roll of the time of
Edward II., gives the following bearings of the De :
Mauleys Sir Peter de
Maulie, or a une bende de sable ;
Sir Robert, or a bend sable, and in the
bend three eagles argent
;
Sir John de Mauley, or a bend sable, and in the
bend three dolphins argent Sir Edmund, a bend sable, and in the bend
;
three wyvres or vipers argent. In the 32nd of Edward, viz. 1304, "Mons.
" Pieres de Mauley " is mentioned as " en la compaignie de Roi, and de la
" compaignie Mons. Pierre de Mauley, Mons. Robert, son frere, and Mons.
" Johan, son frere."
It is, I admit, an assumption that they were brothers ;
but I ground it
first upon their being represented in this particular manner together, and
secondly upon the fact that they must have been living about the same
time. Peter de Mauley, fourth, died in the third year of Edward II., viz.
1310. Edmund was killed at Bannockburn, 1314. Robert was alive in
1306 we know, for in that year, viz. 34th Edward I., in the "further orders
" for the safe custody of certain Scottish prisoners," is the following :
" La feme Mons. William .
Wysman
. . soit envee a Rokesburgh, pr. garder
" y en chastel, et soit livree a Mons. R. de Mauley, Viscount de Rokesburgh."
* See illustration. t Archaologia, vol. xxxi. page 247.