Coventry, Guildhall 182 Splendid row of ancient English kings, and, below, a great tapestry. In the centre of the window, and again on the tapestry, appears Henry VI., who was a member of the guild. Handsome example of mediæval hall. York Minster, East Window 188 Tremendous sheet of colour, 78 by 32 feet. Lower half of stone frame built in a double plane, and carries a gallery across face of the glass. Winchester, Nave 200 The excellent effect produced by the Fifteenth Century fragments with which this window is glazed proves that colour is more important than design in glass. Note swerving to right and left of two principal mullions, thus relieving a monotony of upright lines. Map of Renaissance Tours 214 London, St. George's, Hanover Square 220 A Renaissance Tree of Jesse from Belgium, readjusted to fit its new embrasures. Figures unusually large for this subject. Fine colours and drawing. Lichfield, Lady Chapel 232 Excellent example of Renaissance colouring, freer from applied paint than then customary. This glass was brought from Belgium. Guildford, Bishop Abbott's Hospital 240 Charming and complete glazing of a small chapel. Renaissance glass coloured by the process of enamelling, often unsatisfactory because bits are apt to peel off. STAINED GLASS TOURS : : IN ENGLAND : : INTRODUCTION The errand of a window seems always to have been that of beauty, although it has more than one way of performing that service. Sometimes it seems to have chosen the inspiring manner of recalling ancient wars, as would appear from the "Dreme" of Chaucer: "And sooth to sayn, my chamber was Full well depainted, and with glass Were all the windows well y-glazed Full clear, and not an hole y-crazed, That to behold it was great joy: For wholly all the story of Troy Was in the glazing y-wrought thus, Of Hector, and of King Priamus; Of Achilles, and of King Laomedon, And eke of Medea, and of Jason; Of Paris, Helen, and of Lavine." Sometimes the errand is that of beauty alone, so "mystic, wonderful," as to make it seem that magic was invoked to yield so fair a result. In his "Earthly Paradise" Morris voices this feeling: "Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmastide such wondrous things did show, That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines a-row, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day."