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296 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
estates on the north side of the Trent. Out of the rest he provided for
his sister Alice, wife of Thomas Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel, who died
seized of the castle and manor of Castle-acre, Lewes, Reigate, and many
other estates belonging to the Warrenne family, and thus the arms of
Warrenne have been emblazoned amongst the quarterings of the Howard
family to this day. And so the House of Warrenne ended, and the great
castle at Conisbrough passed into other hands.
In his illegitimate children John, Thomas, William, Joan, Catherine,
and Isabel, we have no particular interest at York, except, perhaps,
William, whose arms chequey or and azure a chief argent are carved
in stone upon one of the pillars of the ancient nave of Trinity Church,
Micklegate,
but I do not know what was his connexion therewith.
We can well understand, therefore, that the arms of Warrenne should
be found in the Minster, and that they should be associated with those
who were his relatives or friends. Hence they may be noticed in
The Vestibule of the Chapter-house, on the west side, with Percy
Plantagenet, Roos, and Clare ;
and on the east side with Nevill and
Fauconberg.
In the north window of the Chapter-house they appear twice, with
Clare and Plantagenet, &c.
Again in the north-east window.
They are carved in stone on two shields in the south side of the Nave.
They appear in the glass of the fourth and eighth windows west
in the north side of the Nave.
And are emblazoned on the tabard of one of the figures in armour
in the border of the eighth window west of the north aisle of the Nave.
THE WAKES.
The BAR, though never carried alone, is a diminutive of the Fess,
occupying one-fifth of the field. In the fifth window east on the south side
of the nave, and on the wall beneath, are two shields associated with a very
interesting history, viz. Or, two BARS : gules, in chief three torteaux, which
are the arms of Wake.* Dr. Trollope (Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham), in
a paper read before the Lincolnshire Architectural Society, has given us a
most interesting account of one of that name. What a strange, wild epoch
was that in our national history when the Saxon dynasty was yielding to the
Norman power, and William the Conqueror, with his fierce band of barons
and retainers, was grasping with an iron hand the fair possessions of the
Saxon inhabitants, putting the lives and liberties of those who resisted
them into great jeopardy, and establishing, not without blood and cruelty,
the thraldom of a new and foreign despotism. No doubt there were many
who refused to submit themselves, and all that they held dear, to such an
* See coloured illustration.