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NEW COLLEGE CHAPEL AND HALL, OXFORD.
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No. 2. Joel p'pheta is written on the pedestal of the canopy. The scroll held by the figure is inscribed, In valle josaphath iudicavit o'es ge'tes.—(See Joel iii. 12, of which this seems a paraphrase.) The tapestry is powdered with letters I, crowned.

No. 3. Amos [p'ph]eta[1] is written on the pedestal. The scroll is inscribed, qui [æd] ificat in celu' assenc'one' sua'.—(See Amos ix. 6.) The tapestry is powdered with letters A, crowned.

No. 4. Micheas p'pheta is written on the pedestal. The scroll is inscribed, De [Si] on exhihit [egredictur lux & v]erbm' de vert.—(See Micah iv. 2.) The tapestry is powdered with letters M, crowned.

No. 5. Ada pm' pa [ter] is written on the pedestal. The figure holds a spade, and looks sorrowful. The tapestry is powdered with letters A, crowned. Part of the founder's legend is written across the pedestal of this and the next three canopies.

No. 6. Eva m'r oi'u viveciu' is written on the pedestal. The figure holds a distaff. The tapestry is powdered with letters E, crowned.

No. 7. Seth filius Ade', is written on the pedestal. The figure holds a book. The tapestry is powdered with letters S, crowned.

No. 8. Enoch tra'slat' is written on the pedestal. The figure holds a small scroll, incribed, ivit cu' deo. The tapestry is powdered with letters E crowned.

The tracery lights of this window A to F inclusive are each filled with a canopy under which stands an angel. Troni is written upon a small scroll at the foot of each canopy in the lights A and B. The angels throughout these tracery lights are alike in design. The canopies have alternately blue spire grounds, and red tapestries, or vice versâ. The smaller tracery lights are filled with ornaments, such as leaves, monsters, &c., painted upon white and yellow stained glass.

FIRST NORTH WINDOW OF THE ANTECHAPEL FROM THE WEST.

Light No. 1. Osee p'pheta, is written on the pedestal. the figure holds a scroll inscribed, O mors ero [mo]rs

  1. The missing parts of the inscriptions, when this is practicable, are supplied within brackets.