Saints and Regular People

The two windows in York Minster that we're going to look at today each have the arms of a saint along with the arms of just a regular person (albeit presumably a rich one).

Here, with the central figure of St. Gabriel who is greeting the Virgin Mary (who is not included in this frame), we have in chief the attributed arms of St. Paul, Gules two swords in saltire points downwards proper.

The arms in the base of the window (above) are a little harder to positively identify. They are blazoned Vairy argent and gules a bordure azure bezanty [or, semy of bezants/roundels or]. John Toy, in A Guide and Index to the Windows of York Minster says these are the arms of A. S. Rymer. But the arms of the only Rymer in Burke's General Armory are given as Gules a tree eradicated or surmounted by a greyhound passant argent collared or. But Burke also cites a Rimmer with the arms shown here. Looking elsewhere, I can also find Delaryver, of Bransby, Yorkshire, and also Nicholas de la Rivere with these same arms.

So I'm at a bit of a loss here. Rimmer is easily seen as a variant spelling of Rymer (and vice versa); can Delaryver and de la Rivere also be variants of Rymer/Rimmer, and thus all part of the same family? I could make the argument in favor of that interpretation, but I could just as easily argue against it.

Fortunately, the next window contains no such similar uncertainty.

Here, above the central figure of St. John the Baptist holding the Agnus Dei, we see the attributed arms of St. William, Or seven mascles conjoined three three and one gules.

And below the central figure, we find the arms of Noel Goddard Terry, a grandson of Sir Joseph Terry (1828-1898). Sir Joseph was a British confectioner, industrialist and Conservative politician who served as Lord Mayor of York on three occasions. Joseph Terry and Sons, Ltd. is a chocolate confectionary company best known for their chocolate oranges. (There is a plethora of information about Terry's Chocolate Oranges on-line at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%27s_Chocolate_Orange.)

Noel G. Terry's arms are a differenced from Sir Joseph's by the use of the two martlets, each the cadency mark of a fourth son, and are blazoned: Ermine on a cross invected between in chief two martlets gules a fasces between in pale two roses argent and in fess two lions passant or.