colouring in both figures and costumes. In England, however, where light-admitting grisaille had already been freely used during the mosaic period, and the glazier began the fourteenth century untrammelled by any sudden demand for brilliant illumination, we shall easily observe a tendency directly contrary to that just remarked in France. The English Decorated windows are much deeper in tone than the Perpendicular ones which followed them. These latter seemed to have proved a satisfactory solution of the lighting problem for the English climate. Indeed, we shall see some at St. Neot, manufactured as late as 1530, that are copied after others of the preceding century, and yet the later ones are obviously from the hand of an artist so skilful as to have readily worked in the contemporary Renaissance manner, had he not deliberately preferred the earlier one. Those who desire to study this subject seriously should read Lewis F. Day's excellent "Windows of Stained Glass" (1897). EARLY ENGLISH BEFORE 1280 -------------------------------------------------------------- PLANTAGENET { Edward I. 1272 1280-1380 { Edward II. 1307 DECORATED { Edward III. 1327 { (Crécy, 1346) { (Poitiers, 1356) ------------{------------------------------------------------- { Richard II. 1377 1380-1500 PERPENDICULAR LANCASTER { Henry IV. 1399 { Henry V. 1413 { (Agincourt, 1415) { Henry VI. 1422 YORK { Edward IV. 1461 { Edward V. 1483 { Richard III. 1483 TUDOR { Henry VII. 1485 ------------{------------------------------------------------- { Henry VIII. 1509 1500-1550 { Edward VI. 1547 RENAISSANCE { Mary, 1553 { Elizabeth, 1558 STUART { James I. 1603 TOURS