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108 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
Stephen, were her sons. What more likely than that the Archdeacon
should have placed in the window his mother's arms ;
while the coats on
either side would be his father's ?
They remain unto this day. That shield
on the east side contains vaire a maunche gules, that on the west side, or a
bend sable. In the Hotham pedigree at Dalton it is stated (on I know not
what authority) that the latter were the arms of Nigel Fossard, whose
daughter, Johanna, married Robert de Turnham, and that the former are
the arms of Peter de Trehons, Esquire to King John, who married Isabella,
only child and heiress of Robert de Turnham. It is somewhat remarkable
that the arms of Turnham are nowhere emblazoned on the window ;
but if
history is to be trusted, there may have been good reason why the descendants
of Peter de Trehons and Isabella de Turnham did not perpetuate the shield
of the former ;
and why the Mauleys, who were the elder branch, and the
Hothams, who were the younger, preferred to bear only the arms of Fossard
"differenced." Indeed, the associations with the arms of Fossard are all
agreeable, those with the arms of Trehons as distinctly painful.
Any one who has visited Mulgrave Castle, and driven through the
picturesque domain of undulating woodland, carpeted with luxuriant undergrowth,
and bounded on the south side by the vast expanse of moorland,
and on the north by the beetling cliffs and stormy waters of the North Sea,
cannot be at any loss to decipher and appreciate the selection made by the
brothers for the " differences " of their coats of arms. It is even now a spot
to kindle romantic sentiments in the hearts of the most callous tourists,
and one can well imagine the enthusiasm which would be aroused by these
scenes in the hearts of those who, in days when the present moor and woodland
formed only a part of a vast forest, spent their lives amidst its glades
in the exciting occupation of the chase, or embarked from the shore to
gather
"the harvest of the sea." How attractive to them each bird that
sojourned amidst the branches, or reptile that crept beneath the brushwood,
or fish that infested the sea tokens in their eyes perhaps of mysteries which
they had not unravelled, and types of characteristics which they would fain
imitate in their future lives. Reared from childhood amidst such associations,
what wonder that one chose the eagle which soared above his head ; another
the viper that crept beneath his feet ;
another the dolphin or porpoise that
swam in the sea. Types of powerful soaring ambition, quiet, unostentatious,
yet deadly and successful craft, and of buoyant vigour never extinguished
under the waves and storms of life, but able to ride triumphant over them.
John de Mauley, or Hotham, carried
also or, a bend sable differenced
by three mullets argent*, which shield was borne by his descendants, for
appears in the east window of the south transept in the Choir, where it is
probably the shield of John de Hotham, Prebendary of Stillington, 1310, or of
* See illustration.
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