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"brochys of King Henry and one lytyle broche," badges or tokens most probably brought by pilgrims from Windsor; and in the clerestory of Fairford Church, in Gloucestershire, his image was sculptured with those of Henry VII and of the Emperor-Saint, Henry of Germany.

To the above instances of images and paintings of Henry VI for devotional use in churches may be added: a sixteenth-century painting on glass in a window of Provost Hacombleyn's chantry in King's College, Cambridge; a wall painting, temp. Henry VII, in Alton Church, Hampshire. This last is nimbed, wears a red robe and ermine mantle and holds a sceptre.[1] Ancient representations of the King are also to be seen in the antechapel of All Souls College, Oxford; in St. Mary's Hall, Coventry, and in the church of Ashton-under-Lyne.[2] Lastly, on the screen at Ludham, in Norfolk, there is a painting of Henry VI, together with King Edmund the Martyr and Edward the Confessor.[3] Nor must there be forgotten the image on Prince

  1. Vide Times (21 December 1921 ).
  2. Ibid. (9 December 1921).
  3. Ibid. (3 December 1921).