Stafford (died 1695); Archbishop Lamplugh (died 1691); and
Archbishop Matthew Hutton, (died 1757). All of them, like most of the
other tombs in the choir, remarkable only for ugliness.

[Illustration: Monument of Archbishop Bowet.]

#Stained Glass.#--Undoubtedly the chief glory of the minster is its
glass. There are 25,531 square feet of ancient stained glass in the
church--at least twice as much, that is to say, as in any other English
cathedral, and perhaps more than in any other church in the world. And
this glass is of all periods. There are fragments of Norman in the five
sisters and in some of the windows of the nave; Early English in the
five sisters; Decorated in the nave, and Perpendicular in the choir.
Further, the glass is almost all of very high quality--far higher, for
instance, than that in King's College Chapel, Cambridge--and of infinite
variety of effect. It ranges from the simple, almost uniform scheme of
the five sisters, to the strong contrasts, definite forms, and
glittering colours of the great west window.

It would require years of investigation and the writing of a large book
to give an adequate description of this glass, and this has not yet been
done. Facts, both as to its origin and subsequent history, are almost
altogether wanting. As we see them to-day, the windows are in almost
inextricable confusion. At some time or another, perhaps at the
Reformation, or during the Civil Wars, the glass has been removed from
its setting, and afterwards carelessly pieced together. It is now in the
condition of a puzzle wrongly arranged. Outlines of figures have been
filled with scraps of different colours, male heads fitted to female
bodies, or inserted alone in incongruous surroundings, and glass of one
period mixed with glass of another. Add to this that the glass was
generally renewed and restored by one Peckett about 1780, who inserted
patches and curious geometrical patterns of his own manufacture wherever
possible, and an idea may be obtained of the difficulties which will
beset anyone who tries to write an adequate book on the subject. It is
only possible here to point out the main characteristics of the
different windows and some of the chief points of interest about them.

The glass in the nave is mostly Decorated, with occasional Norman, Early
English, and later insertions. Except in the three west windows, it is
very fragmentary, and includes many of Peckett's additions.

The great west wi