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 12 S. IX. SEPT. 24, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 245 Twichet has reasonable grounds, for the first John Leventhorpe, who came from Leven- thorpe Hall in the West Riding of Yorkshire, married Katharine, sole daughter and heir of Twychet. She died and was buried at Sawbridge worth in 1431, and he, two years later. Their brass, on the floor of the chapel, had five shields, of which un- fortunately only two remain, displaying the arms "of ( 1 ) Quarterly, France modern and England ; and (2) England differenced with a label of three points, each charged with as many fleurs-de-lis, as borne by Henry of Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, Hereford and Lancaster, afterwards King Henry IV. From this it is evident that John Leven- thorpe was connected either officially or by consanguinity with the House of Lancaster, as the collar of SS which he wears also bears witness. The arms, however, are found on another brass on the floor of the south aisle, of which the male figure is lost and only the female remains, together with three out of the four shields of arms which were originally there. On one of these shields Leventhorpe quarters them ; and on another this quartered coat impales the lady's arms. (It is worthy of note incidentally that the arms on this lady's dress, and occupying one shield and impaled on the other, are gules, three crescents or, a canton ermine, which Cussans in his ' His- tory of Herts ' designates doubtfully Coke* ; but they are certainly those of Dallison or Dalyson, as Haines's k Monumental Brasses ' and W. F. Andrews' s ' Hertfordshire Brasses ' both state. This brass is therefore evidently that of Thomas Leventhorpe, the great grandfather of Sir John, who married Joan, daughter of George Dallison of Northants, and died in 1527.) But in connexion with these arms another suggestion, based on a like possible inaccuracy of tinctures as the artist showed in the case of the Leventhorpe coat, and of which we shall have another example later, is admissible. So, with a change of tinctures, azure, a lion rampant argent within a bordure engrailed or, is ascribed by Pap- worth to Tirrell of Herts, or, with bordure indented instead of engrailed, to Sir Roger Tyrel ; and by Burke to the Tyrrell family of locality not specified. This identification likewise has its claim to consideration, since Thomas Leventhorpe who died 1492, married Katharine, daughter of Tyrell of Tyrell Hall, Essex. The coat on the left of Sir John Leven* thorpe's monument bears arms Leventhorpe impaling Brograve, argent, three lions pas- sant guardant in pale gules, and calls for no comment. The coat on the right shows Leventhorpe impaling argent, a bend engrailed between six billets, sable. In this case the artist has reversed the tinctures ; the correct blazoning, the arms of the Alington or Allington family of Wymondley, Herts, and Horseheath, Cambs, being sable, a bend engrailed between six rillets argent.* These arms comprise the only record in Sawbridgeworth church of /he unfortunate Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, the first baronet, who met his death in a duel with Sir Arthur Capel at Little Hadham n 1636 at the age of 44. He married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath, Cambs, and Wymondley, Herts. From the fact that this coat i& found on his father's monument it would appear that he erected that memorial. Sir John's effigy has a hole in the breastplate,. and on the evidence of this the tomb is locally reputed to be that of the dead duellist, the hole representing the sword-thrust from which he died, whereas it is only the socket of an iron bar which supported the hilt of his sword. The home of the Leventhorpes, Shingey Hall, no longer survives. Its site is indicated by a moat close to Trim's Green. The house there is now a farm. The notes raise various points for discus- sion, which I would welcome. Also, I should like information as to whether it was usual for a son to place his arms on his father's monument. HERBEBT C. ANDREWS. at Sawbridgeworth, through the marriage in 1672 of Mary Leventhorpe to John Coke of Mel bum, Derbyshire. GLASS-PAINTERS OF YORK. (12~S. viii. 127, 323, 364, 406, 442, 485; ix. 21, 61, 103, 163, 204.) HENRY GYLES. THE most famous of this family of glass - painters. Born 1645. Fifth child of Ed- mund Gyles (b. 1611, d. 1676) and Sarah his wife. He had thirteen brothers and sisters, all but two of whom, viz., Rebekah, the youngest, who lived to be twenty,
 * he second baronet, eldest son of Sir John,
 * The Coke family succeeded the Leventhorpes
 * This coat is also found with eight billets.