Abstract
It has been observed concerning this curious window, that there was some difficulty in ascertaining which of the figures might be intended for Becket. But as the central portrait in the upper compartment is alone ornamented with a mitre, it is, I think, justly remarked at p. 368, of the IXth Volume of Archæologia, that it was probably designed for the primate. The words under the lower middle figure might occasion a doubt, it being drawn in a military habiliment, and not differing in the least from the figures in the side pannels declared to be those of the murderers of the archbishop. However, as I imagine, Martim Thomæ signifies, in general, that the martyrdom of Thomas is the subject of this relick of antiquity, which obviously exhibits persons rather than things. For not a single trait of the murderous act is displayed; and without the inscriptions it might long have remained uncertain to what historical occurrence this coloured glass alluded.
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