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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2011
So much has been written about the Beauchamp Chapel that it is impossible to give any description without repeating more or less well-known facts, but with the exception of the glass, which in part was dealt with very fully by Dr. Hardy in 1909, writers have been content to generalize with regard to its detail; though J. G. Waller, writing on Christian Iconography in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1850 and 1851, used figures from the mullions of the east window to illustrate his subject.
page 313 note 1 Archaeologia, vol. lxi, 583.
page 313 note 2 Appendix to John Ross's Historical Account of the Earls of Warwick, by Thomas Hearn, 1729.
page 313 note 3 Description of the Church of St. Mary, Warwick, and of the Beauchamp Chapel.
page 314 note 1 Now preserved in Shakespeare's Birthplace Library, Stratford-on-Avon. The originals are apparently lost.
page 315 note 1 The Golden Legend as Englished by William Caxton, Temple Classics, vol. v, pp. 184–7.
page 320 note 1 Two Treatises on the Hierarchies of Dionysius, by John Colet, D.D., translated by J. H. Lupton, M.A. (1869), p. 20.
page 320 note 2 Batman uppon Bartholome, his booke De Proprietatibus Rerum (London, 1582), fol. 7b.
page 320 note 3 Our Fellow Mr. G. McN. Rushforth, who has most kindly read the proof of this paper, writes: ‘It is quite true that this is the regular conventional symbol for water, but angels are so essentially connected with the heavenly sphere that I cannot think terrestrial, mundane or earthly water is meant. I wonder if there is some reference to the “waters which were above the firmament” of Genesis i. 7, as distinguished from the “waters wrhich were under the firmament ”, i. e. the seas; so that it would be an element of the celestial sphere like the clouds.’
page 322 note 1 Batman, fol. 4a.
page 324 note 1 Op. cit., pp. 24, 25.
page 325 note 1 Batman, fol. 9b.
page 325 note 2 Batman, fol. 5a.
page 325 note 3 Vol. v, p. 186.
page 328 note 1 Since this was read this angel has been cleaned; it is evident that it has been much recut and repaired, and it may not be original.
