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passed the Glazier shoppe. John told his father and Peter that he would catch up with them at the church and he lagged behind at the shoppe. He approached the doorway and hesitated a moment for his eyes to acclimate to the lower amount of light. Inside he saw that there were several individuals working intently at tables. The tables were high enough that the workers stood beside them as they worked on the glass lying on the tables. The interior of the shoppe was quite warm from the fire that was used to heat the tools. John knew that the activity of the shoppe was very busy, making it imprudent for him to interrupt. John didn't see anyone that he thought looked like Richard anyway. John left the shoppe and joined his father and Peter at the church.

Richard came in from the back of the shoppe where he had been unloading a new shipment of glass. 'Richard,' said the Master Glazier, 'after you get that glass unloaded, 'elp the new apprentice with the cuts for the upper center window.'

Richard looked at the window that the new apprentice was working. The cuts were fairly basic, but it reminded Richard how he felt when he was the new apprentice. He had been afraid to make unsupervised cuts also.

Soon work was completed for the day at the Glazier shoppe and since it was a market day, Richard headed for the market to meet Elizabeth. They had been meeting at the market at least a couple of times each week for the last few weeks and Richard had found opportunity to return to Burghley on a couple of occasions. Richard and Elizabeth were growing very close already and were developing a sincere love for each other.

At the market, Richard went straight to Elizabeth's stall.

'Richard,' called out Elizabeth's father, ''ow are you todee? It is gud to see you.' Elizabeth's father liked Richard and treated him like a son.

'I am well,' said Richard. 'We made great progress on our windows todee and we 'ave received the glass shipment that we were expecting.'

''ello, Richard,' Elizabeth said in a quiet voice as she embraced Richard. She was wearing a red dress that Richard hadn't seen before.

'You luk luvly, Elizabeth,' observed Richard. 'Your dress is very nice, did you make it?'

'I did, do you like it then?' she asked as she spun around for Richard.

They chatted easily about the events of the day and Richard helped them to load the wagon. It was Richard's custom now to walk along with Elizabeth as far as the Barnack road while her father rode the wagon and drove the ox.

It was nearly dark when John, Peter and John's father left the All Saints' church and gathered their horses and rode down St. John's street toward the bridge gate. Their progress was slowed on Saint Mary's street by a commoner's wagon being pulled by an ox. The wagon driver yielded to the horsemen and they continued on their way.

Richard left Elizabeth and her father at the Barnack road and then followed the Kettering road to Easton-on-the-hill.

The visit to Stamford ended much too soon for John and Peter, but they had to get back to their studies. Despite good intentions, John did not make it to Easton-on-the-hill or to the Glazier's shoppe and didn't see Richard before he left for Oxford. Richard did not know that John had been in Stamford.

1436 - Stamford

With the help of a new apprentice, Richard lifted the section of the window that he had just finished and admired it. The light poured through the glass for the first time and the scene that it contained seemed to come to life. This work was not made simply of colored glass, but was a painted masterpiece set in glass. An artist had painstakingly painted the glass and then the glass had been heated in an oven to seal the colors. Richard had been told that glass treated in this way may last for hundreds of years. He wasn't sure that he believed that, but he was pleased that in the near future this window would inspire the observer to praise God.

This window wasn't a large window, but would serve