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 12 s. ix. DEC. 3} 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 443 In consequence of this Dr. Sewell bore the j nickname of " Shirts " for the rest of his I life. 1766. Exeter Cathedral. Great West ! Window. Figures of the Four Evangelists, St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Andrew, with many coats of arms. This was Peckitt's chef-d'oeuvre. A large copper-plate engrav- ing of the window, drawn by Peckitt, engraved by Pranker and dedicated to the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Exeter "with due respect and gratitude" by John Tothill, was issued. Another, engraved by Bichp.rd Coffin, " showing the various full- length painted figures of saints, coats of arms, &c. ; . . . a printed list of these embellishments is issued with the print," was also put out. Still a third illustration of it is given in Fowler's ' Mosaic Pave- ments and Stained Glass.' Yet in 1904, in spite of protests from the Society of Antiquaries (vide Proceedings, 2nd ser., vol. xix., pp. 204-5, 215, 222, 226 and 274), the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and other public bodies and private individuals, which called forth a vehement reply from " A Pre- bendary of Exeter" in The Morning Post of July 15 of that year, " what was the last work of the traditional glass -paint ing of England [was] cut out of the west window at Exeter" (E. S. Prior, 'Cathedral Builders,' p. 103). The author of a life of the artist in Bryan's ' Diet, of Painters,' 1904 ed., says the window was " barbarously removed," though the previously men- tioned " Prebendary," whilst claiming the " most loving care and intensest desire to preserve whatever it was possible to preserve," nevertheless stated that "every- one who really cared for the beauty of the Cathedral rejoiced when that miserable eyesore Was gone." It is now said to be stowed away in boxes. 1767. Oriel College Chapel, Oxford. East Window. ' Presentation in the Temple ' (since removed to one of the south side windows). Signed " Wall inv. W. Peckitt pinx et tinx. 1767." 1768. Strawberry Hill. Panels of old glass made up with " Strawberry Hill Gothic " surroundings for Horace Walpole (Walpole, 'Letters').^ 1770. Rothwell Church, East Window. Esq. 1775. Trinity College, Cambridge. Library, South Window, representing a female figure' emblematic of the University (or according to Dallaway, ' Observations on English Architecture,' p. 283, the ' British Minerva ') presenting Bacon and Sir Isaac Newton to King George III. It was designed by Cipriani and the cost of the work is shown by the following entries in the accounts of the Junior Bursar, printed in Willis and Clark's 'Architect. Hist, of Univ. of Cam- bridge,' vol. ii., p. 547 n. : 1772-3. To Mr. Cipriani for a painting for the South Window in the Library 105 1 774-5. To Mr. Peckitt for painting and staining the South window in the Library 315 1776. Denton in Wharfedale, Chapel of the Ibbetson family. Arms of Ibbetson. 1792. St. Mart in- cum- Gregory Church, York. Female figure representing ' Hope,' executed entirely in enamels on squares of white glass to the memory of two of the artist's daughters. .1793. South Transept, York Minster. Figures of Abraham, Solomon, and Moses, the fourth figure, St. Peter, having been erected previously, in 1768. The first two figures are alike in having rococo canopies and were probably Peckitt's latest works, being bequeathed by him to the Cathedral in his will, provided the Chapter should have them set up within one year of his death. As regards the other two, these have Gothic canopies, which; however, differ in design from one another though the bases are alike. The Moses figure evidently, therefore, dates midway between the St. Peter and the other two figures. In his will Peckitt, after bequeathing the Abraham and Solomon figures, which he stipulated were to be put in the first and second windows, stated " The figure of Moses with its lights of ornament the Revd. the Dean [John Fountayne, D.D., Dean 1747-1802] purposed to take and pay for for the third window." There had evidently been some hitch and though the window had been painted some years, it had not yet been fixed, and Peckitt directed that it was to be sold. At that time one of the three windows was already filled with painted glass containing a figure of Sir Jol n Petty the glass-painter (free 1470, died 1508 ; vide ante, ix. 64), and it was most probably the third window for which Peckitt had painted his Moses figure, and that he wanted it substituting for his predecessor's portrait, but that the Dean had reasonably enough objected. The Moses figure was, however, bought in 1796, and Sir John removed, as
 * The Last Supper,' given by Wm. Fenton,