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king's party, and also tlie great feudal officials who<br />
naturally supported the monarchy. He holds the white<br />
rod of his office.<br />
2.—James Stuart, Duke of Richmond, K.G., Lord Steward<br />
of the Household, holding the sword of State. He<br />
once said that he did not want office or favour to make<br />
him loyal ; and he was one of the four noblemen who<br />
carried the King's body to the grave at Windsor. He<br />
is the type of the chivalrous, disinterested royalist of<br />
that time.<br />
3.—William Seymour, Marquis of Hertford, Knight of the<br />
Bath, Governor to the Prince of Wales, a religious,<br />
peaceful, scholarly man, another type of the best kind<br />
of royalist. He also helped to bear the King's body to<br />
the grave.<br />
4.—The face partially seen is that of Edward Sackville,<br />
Earl of Dorset, K.G., Chamberlain to the Queen. He<br />
represents the better kind of courtier and cavalier.<br />
In the upper compartments are the arms of York, and of<br />
Mr. Richardson, both surmounted with the Mayor's chain.<br />
In the lower spaces are the arms of Lord Clarendon, on<br />
the left, the King (centre), and Lord Falkland on the right.<br />
It is from a design by J. E. Doyle, Esq., and was manufactured<br />
by J. B. Capronnier, of<br />
Brussels.<br />
The thirteenth window is plain, but the scheme intends<br />
that this should illustrate the time of<br />
The Commonwealth.<br />
Thus—Oliver Cromwell, on his way to command the army in<br />
Scotland, entertained at York hy the Lord Mayor, William Taylor<br />
(July 5th, 1650).<br />
This completes the north side.<br />
The fourteenth window is over the entrance doorway, and<br />
was presented in 1866 by George Leeman, Esq., M.P. for the<br />
city, and thrice Lord Mayor in 1854, 1861, and 1871; it<br />
illustrates the House of Hanover, or<br />
Victorian Period.<br />
This window is one of five lights, and is commemorative of<br />
the meeting of mayors in the city in 1850, preliminary to<br />
the great Exhibition in London the following year. In the<br />
centre is the figure of Mr. Alderman Seymour, who was Lord<br />
Mayor of York at that time. On the right is a representation