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 12 s. ix. SEPT. 24, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 247 2. South window of Hall. Figures of Our Lord, Moses and Elias, also a glass sundial, 1687 (since removed). Wadham College, Oxford. Gyles exe- cuted work for this college, but what is not known. (Letter of Gyles to Thoresby, Jan. 10, 1707-8, printed in Thoresby' s 'Letters,' 2 vols.. 1832.) Leeds Grammar School, built or restored 1692. Founder's arms and Ars Gramma - tica. Removed in 1784. (Thoresby, ' Du- catus Leodiensis,' 2nd ed., 1816, p. 83, note.) StiUingfleet Church, Yor fo?. Three -light | window, north side of chancel. Arms of Stil- lington impaling Bigod, with inscription: " These armes were here placed 1520 and renewed in ye yeare 1698. Henricus Gyles Eborac." Fairfax Chapel, Denton in Wharfedale, Yorks. King David playing the harp and St. Cecilia playing the organ, " accom- panied by an incongruous assemblage of figures playing upon violins, violincellos, trombones, pipes, and ' all kinds of music.' " Executed 1702. (Thoresby, ' Let- ters.') Though pronounced by his contem- poraries to be " the noblest "painted glass window in the North of England," this would not seem to be one of the artist's happiest performances . Catherine Hall, Cambridge. Davies (' Walks through York,' p. 171) says Gyles executed a window for Catherine Hall in 1703. Trinity College, Cambridge. Library. Arms of Queen Anne, 1704. Presented to the college by Samuel Price, goldsmith, of Lombard Street. Heslington Hall, near York. Dining room. Arms of Hesketh. Removed from east window, St. Lawrence Church, when the old church was pulled down. JOHN A. KXOWLES. (To be continued.) BUTLERS OF DURHAM: OLD BRITISH HATCHMENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS. THE French Revolution prohibited all ar- morial bearings, and caused the destruction of those that existed in France. When the of Fine Art, Ashmolean Museum, who has made a study of glass and glass-painters of the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries, for kindly drawing his attention to the above items. revolutionay wave reached the Netherlands,, in 1795, the example was followed, but for- tunately not so thoroughly executed as in France. Monuments of stone in churches and other public buildings were undoubtedly muti- lated, and hatchments, &c., of combustible material were, frequently, either made bon- fires of, or else sold as firewood in the open- market. Some energetic lords of manors, however, devoted to these relics of the past, assisted by faithful retainers, managed in many places to preserve them, by hurriedly taking them dow r n, and stacking them in the roomy garrets of their old houses or castles. In some instances they have since been replaced and again adorn their ancient familiar sites. Not so at Renesse. It is there that, some fifteen years ago,. I had the good fortune to come across one of these old, out-of-the-way hoards that had not been remembered for more than a cen- tury. Staying at Haamstede, in the island of Schouwen, we visited the neighbouring little township of Renesse and went over the old church, stone -bare like the majority of Cal- vinistic places of worship all the world over. To my great delight, however, we were allowed the free run over an old uninhabited castle, named Moermont, that had belonged in days gone by to the old Lords of Renesse. To my amazement, in one of the many, mostly empty, vast storerooms, I came upoa an immense collection of debris of the period I have referred to. All sorts of broken remnants of epitaphs and armorial dedications in marble greeted my eyes ; but what interested me most were the innumerable small shields with the arms of the " seize quartiers " of those that had been buried in the Church of Renesse long ago, and that had been originally grouped in proper order round the now mouldering hatchments, but could no longer be appor- tioned all of a heap on the floor ; hundreds of them ! saved from destruction, no doubt, but useless there, and unfortunately no longer breaking the monotony of the whitewashed walls of the really fine old Gothic church shivering in its nakedness. I was fortunate enough to pick up, at random, a coat of arms labelled " Butler " ! Azure a chevron or, charged with a croissant argent, accompanied by three cups or, 2, 1. The arms of the Butlers of Durham !