ter, and beginning at the north-east end of the
choir:--
1. Two keys in saltire--Chapter of York.
2. Six lions rampant--Ulphus.
3. Three lions passant guardant, a label of three points, each charged
with three fleur-de-lis--Thomas, Duke of Lancaster.
4. Three lions passant guardant, a border--Edmund of Woodstock.
5. A bend between six lions rampant--Bohun.
6. Checky, a fess--Clifford.
7. A cross flore--Latimer.
8. Barry of ten, three chaplets--Greystock.
9. The instruments of the Passion.
10. Three estoiles of six points, a border--St. Wilfrid.
11. Two keys in saltire, a border engrailed--St. Peter.
12. Two swords in saltire, a border engrailed--St. Paul.
13. Seven lozenges conjoined, 3, 3, and 1--St. William. (Archbishop
and Patron Saint.)
14. On a bend, a lion rampant--Musters.
15. A chief, three chevronelles interlaced in base--Fitz-Hugh.
16. On a saltire, a crescent--Neville.
17. 18. A fess dancette--Vavasour.
Those on the south side, beginning at the west end, are as follows:--
1. A cross--St. George.
2. A cross flore between five martlets--Edward the Confessor.
3. Three crowns, 2 and 1--King Edwin.
4. Barry of six, on a chief, two pallets between as many esquires
based--Mortimer.
5. Six lions rampant, 3, 2, 1, with a horn on the west side of the
shield (referring to the famous gift of lands)--Ulphus.
6. A lion rampant--Percy.
7. Quarterly, 1 and 4 a lion rampant for Percy, 2 and 3 three luces
hauriant for Lucy--Percy.
8. A bend, a label--Scrope of Masham.
9. Six osier wands interlaced in cross--Bishop Skirlaw.
10. A bend, a border charged with mitres; over all a
label--Archbishop Scrope.
11. Three water bougets--Roos.
12. A saltire--Neville.
13. On a cross five lions passant guardant--City of York.
14. Three fusils in fess--Montague.
15. A fess between six cross crosslets--Beauchamp.
16. A lion rampant--Percy.
17. France (ancient) and England (quarterly), with a label of three
points--Edward, Prince of Wales.
18. France (ancient) and England (quarterly).
The vault of the choir is of wood, like that of the nave; it is an
imitation of the vault destroyed by the fire of 1829. It is covered with
a network of ribs that obscure the main structural lines of the
vaulting.
The aisles of the choir are of much the same size, design, and
proportion as those of the nave. Their vault i
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