2. Gules, an eagle displayed argent debruised by a bendlet azure. HAMELTON. 3. Argent, on a bend sable three bezants. 4. Argent, a lion rampant sable. 5. Sable, fretty or. BELLEW. 6. Argent, a lion rampant azure. MARKENFIELD. STAPLETON. BRUS. 7. Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last (a lion passant) or. LANCASTER. 8. Gules, two bars-gemels and a chief or. RICHMOND. 9. Paly of six gules and argent, a bend counterchanged. POLLINGTON. Sir Iohn Conftable knight maried Agnes the THE FRIEZE. The frieze of the "great chamber" is painted on boards, and displays the arms of the gentlemen of Yorkshire of Sir William Fairfax's time. The arms are arranged in wapentakes, the positions of which in the frieze are indicated on the plan of this room (Fig. 6) by the initials R.P.L., BU., L.W.S., &c. &c. Each wapentake is represented by a tree, across the lower part of the trunk of which is a white label bearing the name of the wapentake. The shields of arms are represented as suspended from the boughs of the tree, the foliage of which forms their background. Below are flowers and shrubs, with various animals disporting themselves. Among the animals represented are the deer, bear, goat, bull, lion, unicorn, elephant, camel, squirrel, otter, fox, boar, porcupine (or hedgehog), beaver, ape, dog, wyvern, griffin, and cockatrice, though in some cases the representation is so curious that it is by no means easy to decide exactly what animal is intended.1 At the north-east corner of the room the arms in the frieze are interrupted by a representation of a party of musicians. Of these there are six in all, four on the eastern part of the north wall, and two on the northern part of the east wall-three gentlemen and three ladies, placed alternately. All are seated on benches, on which are six open books, and two closed books at the ends. The three gentlemen are playing viols, probably one treble and two tenors. 1 One bay of the frieze (Rydale cum Pickering Lythe) is illustrated in The ladies are playing small lutes of the usual early type. Behind the figures is trellis-work, with vines and grapes, roses and honeysuckles.1 The "Regester of all the gentlemens armes in ye great chamber," already mentioned, was evidently what we know as Sir William Fairfax's Book of Arms, which was no doubt compiled by or for Sir William for the painting of this frieze. Mr. Joseph Foster has printed, from Harl. MS. 1394, "The Copy of Sir William Fayrfax' booke of Arms of Yorkshire," and I have collated the arms in the frieze with this copy. There are arms in the frieze which do not occur in this copy, and vice versa, and the same remark is true of the other three copies in the British Museum. The copy which Mr. Foster has printed is at the end (fo. 341 et seq.) of the volume containing Glover's Visitation of Yorkshire of 1584-5 (Harl. MS. 1394); all the arms are in trick, with the names written above. The other copies in the British Museum are-Harl. MS. 6070, fo. 374 et seq., in which the blazons are written; Harl. MS. 1367 (Jo. Withy's copy), fo. 67 et seq.; and Harl. MS. 1452, ff. 53b-57b, a partial copy only, ending with the Ainsty. The arms in the two latter copies are in trick. I have used these three copies in footnotes to the following list. The arms in the frieze as now painted are even less authentic than Elizabethan heraldry generally is, from the fact that errors and alterations have been made in repainting. This fact seems to me to be proved by a book in the possession of Mr. Hugh C. FairfaxCholmeley, of Brandsby, which contains a series of drawings of the arms in the frieze. The book is not dated, but as its title-page bears the arms of Fairfax impaling Tasburgh, it was evidently executed during the time of Charles Gregory Fairfax, who succeeded in 1845, and died in 1871. Two of the coats in the wapentake of Dickering are entirely different from those in the corresponding positions in the drawing in this book. For this reason, I have not considered it necessary to blazon the coats of arms in the frieze, but I have contented myself with a list of names. Where the blazon is the same as in the copy printed by Mr. Foster, I have simply given the name. Material differences are 1 These musicians are shown in the photograph of the room, Fig. 5. 2 Archaeologia, xlviii. 153. 3 In his edition of the Visitations of Yorkshire, 1584-5 and 1612 (1875), pp. 639-651. 4 Several other copies of this book of arms exist, though I have not had the opportunity of examining them. Shaw mentions a copy in the Duke of Newcastle's library at Clumber (Details of Elizabethan Architecture, p. 23). The arms of the gentlemen of the East Riding have been printed from Mr. Thos. Beckwith's copy of 1779 in Sir Tatton Sykes's library at Sledmere, in the Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, ix. 87. See Mr. A. S. Scott Gatty's note (p. 87, note 1) as to the copy by Glover in the College of Arms. 5 The notes marked F.C. in the footnotes to the following list of the arms refer to this book. noted in the footnotes.1 Where a coat in the frieze does not occur in Mr. Foster's copy, I have given the blazon in full. With regard to the numbering of the shields in each wapentake, the shields are not arranged on the trees in precise lines, and it is consequently somewhat difficult to arrange them in any definite order. My numbering is intended to read in horizontal tiers, from left to right. There are, in all, 450 shields in the frieze, of which seven are blank. RYDALE CVM PICKERINGELYFHE 1, Bonvile. 2, Barton. 3, Fairfax. 4, Spencer.2 5, Segrave. 6, Percehay. 7, Spencer. 8, Roos. 9, Dawson. 10, Mountforth. II, Pollard. 12, Atherton. 13, Holforth. 14, Wyvell. 15, Savile. 16, Grey. 17, Thornton. 18, Dalton. 19, Ermine, a cross potent vert, Leming of Pickering. 20, Gates. 21, Earl of Rutland. 22, Cholmeley. 3 BVLMER 5 1, Ellerker.1 2, Berwick. 3, Lovell. 4, Darley. 5, Beesley. 6, Moyser. 7, Coppindale. 8, Holme. 9, Thorpe. 10, Cholmeley. 11, Cholmeley. 12, Basforth. 13, Barnby. 16, Eglesfield. 17, Fenton. Bourchier. 22, Barton. 21, I, Robert 14, Thweng.' 15, Redman. 18, Marshall. 19, Gower. 20, Hungate. LANG BARVGH. CVM WHITBIE STRAND 3, Cuthbert Fairfax. Fairfax. 2, Edward Fairfax. 4, Gower. 5, Conyers. 6, George Fairfax. 7, Thomas Fairfax. 8, Salveyn. 9, Sayer. 10, Tocketts. 11, Henry Fairfax. 12, Constable. 13, (Blank). 14, Craythorne. 15, Strangwayes. 16, Ratcliff. 17, Layton. 18, Fulthorpe. 19, Rokeby. 19, Rokeby. 20, Evers. BYRDFVRTHE CVM ALLERTONSHIRE I, Mennell of Kilvington. 2, Deyvill of Angram. 3, Metcalf. 4, Thomlinson. 5, Tankard. 6, Chambers. 7, Danby. 8, Lascelles. 9, Argent, a chevron sable between three hawthorn trees proper, Thorneton. 10, Mennell of Hawnby. 11, Deyvill of Cuckwold. 8 12, Fox. 13, Talbot. 14, Bellasis. 15, Lepton. 16, Dawnay. 17, Fairfax. 1 I have not thought it worth while to notice some small discrepancies in the blazons. Azure in the book of arms is frequently painted as sable in the frieze; sable occasionally occurs as azure; and or and argent are often confused. 2 Nos. 4 and 7 are now the same. 3 Probably originally Ermine, a cross potent azure. See Visitation of 1612, Foster's ed., p. 543. 4 Now painted as Sable, a fret argent a chief or. In F.C. the field is azure. 5 Without the bordure, both in the frieze and in F.C. 6 Painted as Argent, a mullet sable, on a chief of the second two piles in point of the first. So also in Harl. MS. 6070, but with three piles on the chief. 7 Painted as Argent, on a chevron gules between three popinjays vert a mullet or. So also in F.C., except that the mullet is argent. $ In Harl. MS. 1394, John Thorneton's shield is blank. In MS. 6070 it is a different coat (Foster, p. 641). There is no Thornton coat in MS. 1367 or MS. 1452. GYLLINGE WESTE I, Layton. 2, Uvedalle. 3, Robert Wycliffe. 4, Girlington.' 5, Wandesford. 6, Gower. 7, Pudsey. 8, Wray. 9, Rokeby. 10, Warde." 11, William Wycliffe. 12, Anthony Caterick. 13, Frank. Caterick. 15, Covell. 16, Tunstall. 17, Gascoigne. GYLLINGEASTE. CVM. HALLYKELDE 14, George 18, Bowes. 1, Exilby. 2, Cleasby. 3, Bland. 4, Rokeby. 5, Warcopp. 6, Mennell. 7, Gatonby. 8, Argent, three chevrons braced sable, in chief three mullets of the last, Danby.* II, Greene. 12, Danby. 16, Vincent. 13, Bulmer. 9, Clervaux.5 10, Bowes. 14, Conyers. 15, Dakins. 19, Wandesford. I, Layton. 2, Crofte. 3, Argent, a chevron sable between three hawthorn trees proper, Thornton. 4, Spence. 5, Askwith. 6, Swale. 7, Metcalfe. 8, (Blank). 9, Conyers. 10, Metcalfe. 11, Bainbrigge. 14, Thoresby. 15, Aske. 16, Sowlby.9 8 12, Metcalfe. 13, Borough. 17, Henry Scrope. 18, Wyvill. 19, Danby. 19, Danby. 20, Henry, lord Scrope. OVSE AND DARWEN. CVM . HOWDEN SHIER I, Metham.10 2, Vaughan. 3, Edward Vavasour. 4, Aske. 5, Stillington. 6, Saltmarshe. 7, Gate. 8, Monckton. 10, Palmes. 11, Oughtred. 12, Babthorpe. 13, Metham.1o AYNSTYE 9, Hussey. 14, Acclom. 4, Snawsell. 13 1, Fairfax." 2, Thwaytes. 3, Gale. 12 5, Yaxley. 6, Vavasour. 7, Lawson. 8, Newarke. 9, Wood. 10, Clapham." 11, Frankland.15 12, Ingleby.16 13, Fairfax of Walton." 14, Sable, a maunch argent, a bordure of the second charged with six pairs of lion's gambs in saltire erased gules, Wharton.18 15, Fairfax.19 16, Stapleton." 17, Wilstrope. 1 Painted as Sable, a chevron between three gadflies argent. 2 This shield has a bordure gules. (So also in F.C.) Not in 3 Painted as Argent, a bend gules between three pewits sable; and so in F.C. 4 Nos. 8 and 12 are the same. Harl. MS. 1394, 6070, 1367 or 1452. 5 Painted as Sable, a saltire or. 6 In Harl. MS. 1394 and 6070, Peter Thornton's shield is blank. Not in Harl. MS. 1367 or 1452. 7 The field is painted azure. 8 No. 10 has a crescent sable for difference. Nos. 7 and 12 are not differenced. 9 Only two boar's heads in chief. CLARO 1, Ingleby. 2, Tanckard. 3, Conyers. 4, Kighley. 5, Drax.' 6, Faux. 7, Lindley. 8, Ermine, on a bend sable three pheons argent, Stockdale. 9, Banke. 10, Sothill. 11, Yorke. 12, Roos. 13, Azure, a maunch ermine debruised by a bendlet gules, a crescent of the last for difference, Norton. 14, Burton. 15, Staveley. 16, Newton. 17, Westby. 18, Pulleyne.3 19, Slingsby. 20, Aldborough. 21, Vavasour. 22, Clapham. 23, Beckwith. 24, Pulleyne." 25, Manners. 26, Mawde. 27, Palmes. 28, Goodricke. 29, Plumpton. 30, Fairfax. 31, Mallory. 32, Midelton. 33, Goldesborough. 34, Maleverer. BARKESTON I, Foster. 2, Tyndall. 3, Newby. 4, Eland. 5, Bates. 6, Oglethorpe. 7, Beverley. 8, Ellis. 9, Burton. 10, Twistleton. 11, Hammond. 12, Gascoigne. 13, Cressy. 14, Wytham. 15, Leedes. 16, Nelson. 17, Nevile. 18, Vavasour. 19, Babthorpe. 20, Stapleton. 21, Beckwith. 22, Barkstone. 23, Hungate. I, Lake. AGBRIDGE 6 2, Gascoigne. 3, Freeston. 4, Twistleton. 5, Hopton. 8, Blythe. 9, Fleming. 10, Argent, on a bend 6, Kay. 7, Beckwith. 8, Blythe. 9, Fleming. sable three mullets of the field, Hotham. 11, Jackson. 12, George Savile. 13, Argent, on a fess double-cotised azure three fleurs-de-lis or, a crescent sable for difference, Normanvile. 14, Peck. 15, Argent, a chevron between three rooks proper, Rokeby. 16, Waterton. Savile. 18, Rishworth. 19, Bradford. 20, Hugh Savile. 22, Waterton. 23, Kay. 24, Edward Savile. 25, Bunny. 27, Wentworth. 6, Gascoigne. 7, Savile.10 8, Lee. of Broughton. 12, Savile. 10 13, 8 17, Robert 21, Frobisher. 3, Savile, 10 4, Thornton. 26, Mallet. 5, Eland. 9, Lacy. 10, Savile.10 11, Tempest Azure, three pelican's heads erased argent." 14, (Blank.) 15, Beeston. 16, (Blank.) 17, Lacy.12 18, Savile.1o 19, Tempest of Bowling. 20, Calverley. 21, Copley. STANCROSSE CVM • OSGODCROS 1, Stanley. 2, Nevill. 3, Nowell. 4, Radcliff. 5, Burdett. 6, Aungier.13 7, Thomas Wentworth. 8, Bosvile." 1 Label of three points. 2 The fleurs-de-lis are argent. 3 No. 18 is the same as No. 24, except that it is differenced by a crescent gules. 4 The fess is or, instead of argent. 5 Painted as Azure, on a bend cotised argent three escallops gules, on a chief or three martlets sable. 6 The same as No. 10 in Barkeston. 7 Differenced by a crescent sable. * Barry of six gules and ermine. 9, Mering. 10, Roger Went Same as No. 16, but with three crescents sable. 10 As now painted, the differences in the Savile coats are-Nos. and 10, a mullet sable; No. 7, a crescent gules; and Nos. 12 and 18, a crescent sable. 11 Not in Harl. MS. 1394, 6070 or 1367. 12 Differenced by a crescent sable. 13 Per fess argent and azure (instead of or and azure). 14 Painted as Argent, five lozenges in fess gules, in the dexter chief a crescent sable. |