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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

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