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 12 s. ix. NOV. 19, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 405 near the New Walk, York." A month or I so later the following advertisement ap- peared, addressed To the admirers of that much distinguished Art of PAINTED & STAINED GLASS Now on sale and may be seen every day during the Race- Week, at Mrs. Peckitt's Frier Walls, from ten in the morning till seven in the evening. A j valuable collection of the WORKS of the late Mr. Peckitt, consisting of windows for Churches, Chapels, Libraries, Halls, &c. Variety of Flowers and Fruit Pieces, Ornamental Windows, and a pleasing assortment of plain Stained Glass. Also will be SOLD The MANUSCRIPTS for Painting and Staining of Glass with a complete Assortment of Colours ready prepared, Cartoons, Drawings, and Uten- sils, which will enable an injenious person im- mediately to conduct the Art. if^^- Application to Mrs. Peckitt as above. (York Chronicle, Aug. 25, 1796.) Some few of the above objects were no | doubt disposed of from time to time, but the bulk of them remained unsold until seventy years afterwards, when they were ; finally dispersed by sale at auction ' after the death of the artist's daughter, as shown j by the following advertisement in The j Yorkshire Gazette of Feb. 24, 1866 : Friar House, New Walk, York. Sale of the valuable STAINED GLASS, Household Furniture and other Effects, the property of Miss j Peckitt deceased. (Inter alia) Three Magnificent Stained Glass Windows each measuring 7ft. 4in. by 3ft. 3in., ! larger ditto 8ft. by 3ft. 8in., portraits of their late Boyal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Duke | of York, 32in. X 25in. Portrait of Reuben (sic) 33in. by 2 Sin. Three portraits of the Marquis of j Buckingham, George Saville (Baronet) and Dr. j Garnett, Bishop of Clogher, each measuring 21in. i by$16 in. Three specimens of Fruit and Flowers I5in. X 10 Jin. The Virgin Mary 3ft. by 2ft. Gin. with a large quantity of Stained Glass of various sizes and patterns, Glass Stainer's Materials ; Oil Paintings and Engravings. (Here follow items of household furniture, &c.) The writer's father, who was at the sale, I says the portraits and figure windows ' fetched good prices, far beyond his pocket, j He, however, bought an ornamental window with cupid heads for 6, which is now in the entrance hall of No. 23, Stonegate. The Marquis of Rockingham portrait was bought, along with other glass, by a Mr. Bainbridge j and is now in Australia. The late Sir Ralph Payne Gallway possessed a portrait on glass painted by Peckitt, but whether i bought at the above sale or not is not known. I Peckitt was not only self-taught, but evidently did all the work himself. He is i therefore the only example of an ' art crafts- man ' of which we have any record during the five hundred years' history of the York School of Glass Painting. The obituary notice of him in The York Chronicle, which appeared the day after his death, stated that " he had no assistance whatever from any other artist in the many curious discoveries which he made," and Miss Peckitt, in re- butting Dallaway's ' Observations,' pro- tested that her father " was not instructed by anyone nor assisted by any person except my mother. 1 ' BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PECKITT. Hargrove, W. 'History of York,' 1818, vol. ii., pp. 70-71. Anon. ' William Peckitt, Restorer of the Art of Glass Painting,' Furniture Gazette, vol. 6, 1877, p. 322. Davies, R. ' Walks Through York,' 1880, pp. 29 and 176-179. Bell, C. Bryan's ' Diet, of Painters,' 1904 ed.. Benson, G. ' Painted Glass Windows in the Minster and Churches of York,' 1915, pp. 187-188. WORKS. 1753. Panel representing Justice in a Triumphal Car with the arms of the City of York above, inscribed " Given to the Cor- poration of the City of York by their very humble servant, W. Peckitt, Glass Painter andStainer, 1753." Now in the Old Council Chamber, Guildhall. It was for this work that Peckitt received the freedom of the city. 1754. York Minster, South Transept. Figure of St. Peter for which Peckitt received 10 14s. Becoming .dissatisfied with this as being a specimen of his immature skill, he had it taken out and presented another in 1768 (vide press cuttings from York- shire papers in Hailstone Collection, York Minster Library). 1755. Coxwold Church, Yorks. Faucon- berg Arms. 1755. Bishopthorpe Palace. Arms of Archbp. Sterne, signed " W. Peckitt, 1755." The other coats of arms of Archbishops were evidently done from time to time. Drake, that arms of Archbishops were erected by Archbp. Drummond (1761-1776) and painted by Peckitt. 1757. Great West Window, York Minster. New heads painted for figures of Arch- bishops. For this work he recieved 4 18s. (Browne, Hist, of York Minster,' p. 316).
 * Hist, of York,' small ed., vol. iii., p. 79, says