William’s successor, Henry Murdac, teaches his Cistercian monks, who all have monastic tonsures. He wears the archiepiscopal pallium and holds an open book. The Cistercian monks in their white habits gather round him, several of them also holding books. The two at the back next to the throne wear coloured copes. By choosing this scene, Thornton avoids yet another consecration scene, and emphasises Murdac’s Cistercian connection. The bottom section of the window thus ends with the triumph of William’s enemies in 1146/7.
