Quarterly, 1st and 4th. Azure, semé de lis, or.
2nd and 3rd. Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale, or. King Richard the Second.
In the first window from the east, on the south side—Gules, three crowns in pale, or. This coat has been assigned to several imaginary personages, as for instance, the King of Crekeland. The panel surrounding the shield is coeval with it. It is not improbable that the other shields were originally surrounded with similar panels, and that these were inserted in lights having ornamental borders, and a ground of ornamental quarries. The ruby of the field is thin and smooth on the sheet, as indeed is all that in the Antechapel windows. The border of the panel is shaded with smear shading, stippled.
The remaining coats are of the time of Henry VIII. Some are fine examples of the period.
In the first window from the east, on the south side— Argent, on a chevron gules, between three pellets, a cock of the first. Over a fillet, vert, a chief of the first, charged with a double rose of the second, between two leopards' faces, azure. The shield, which is within a wreath, is surmounted by a mitre. John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln from 1520 to 1547.
In the second window from the east, on the south side—Party per fess or, and gules; a demi rose and de misun conjoined, counterchanged of the field. Issuant from the demi rose, is the neck of a double-headed eagle sable, and from each side of the rose issues an eagle's wing displayed, of the last. The shield is within a wreath much mutilated. It was originally surmounted by a Cardinal's hat, of which only the strings remain. Wood declares that these arms were given by the Emperor Maximilian, to William Knight, a Fellow of the College; Gutch adds, by letters patent, dated 20th July, 1514; and that he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1541. It is difficult to reconcile the existence of the Cardinal's hat with this statement, except on the supposition that it formed part of the original grant of arms.
Quarterly, 1st. Argent, a pelican in a nest feeding her young ones, vert.
2nd and 3rd. Argent, a lion rampant, vert.
4th. Argent, an eagle displayed, vert. Robert Sherburne, Bishop of Chichester from 1508 to 1536. The first quarter of the arms is much mutilated.
