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it difficult to acknowledge any mode to' be so characteristic as the old-fashioned quarry.

Sashes hanging by weights were introduced in the reign ofCharles II .

Plate XIV. — SntftTOr Of ait showing the style of Painted

Glass in the Tudor times.

Stained Glass has been a favourite theme with English poets ; andentered into most of their descriptions of palaces, houses, &c.

The author of the Squire of Low Degree paints the oriel of theKing of Hungary ’s daughter as glazed with “ roiall glas, fulfylledwith ymagery.” Chaucer , in his Dream, fancies the windows of thechamber where he lay

-“ fori gglasttr,

iFull clcre, anti not an hole gcrasch, ,

'■ .. ®hat to beholhe it foas gtete jog;

Jpor fohollg all the storg of ®rog5S3as t'n the ctlaist'nge gforouafrt thus,

( ©f Rector, artb lung ^rt'amus.”

And Piers Plowman, speaking of a monastery he visited, belongingto a fraternity of Carmelite friars,* says, there were

* One of the pretences under which mendicant friars obtained benefactions from super-stitious people, was a promise to have their portraits, kneeling to Christ, painted and placedin the windows of their churches.

“ And mightes tou amenden us with money of thyne owen,

Thou shouldest knely before Christ in compas of gold,

In the wyde windowe westward, wel neigh in the middell.”— Crede.