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NEW COLLEGE CHAPEL AND HALL, OXFORD.
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Prin : ci : pa : tus is written on a small scroll at the foot of each canopy in the lights A and B. The smaller tracery lights are filled with ornaments as in the last window.

SECOND NORTH WINDOW OF THE ANTECHAPEL FROM THE WEST.

No. 1. Light. Sophonias p'pha, is written on the pedestal of the canopy. The scroll held by the figure is inscribed, Hec est civitas gl'riosa quia dicit ego sum. (See Zephaniah ii. 15.) The tapestry is powdered with letters S, crowned.

No. 2. Daniel p'pheta, is written on the pedestal. The figure points downwards with its right hand, as if in allusion to the den of lions. On the scroll is written. Post ebdomadas septuagenta (sic) duas occit'. (See Daniel ix. 26.) The tapestry is powdered with letters D, crowned.

No. 3. Jeremias p'pha, is written on the pedestal. The scroll is inscribed Patre' vocabis me dicit d'ns (see Jeremiah iii. 19.)). The tapestry is powdered with letters I crowned. Across the pedestal is written the following portion of the founder's legend, orate p——— Which is either an insertion, or else shows that this figure was taken from some other window having prophets in its lower tier of lights.

No. 4. Abdias p'pha, is written on the pedestal. The scroll is inscribed, et rectum erit d'nm d'ni amen. The tapestry is powdered with letters A crowned.

No. 5. Jacobus p ar———, is written on the pedestal. The tapestry is powdered with letters I, crowned. The following portion of the founder's legend is written across the pedestal orateWillmo.

No. 6. Judas ma . . . . (Machabeus?) is written on the pedestal. The figure has a coronet and sceptre. The tapestry is powdered with letters I, crowned. The following portion of the founder's legend is written across the pedestal, de Wykeh'm ep'o.

No. 7. Moyses dux P'li dei, is written on the pedestal. The figure holds in his left hand a green diptych, inscribed with Lombardic capitals. The tapestry is powdered with letters M, crowned. The pedestal is crossed with the following portion of the founder's legend, Wynton fu'dator.

No. 8. Aaro' is written on the pedestal. The lower part of the tapestry is powdered with letters A, crowned, and the following portion of the founder's legend crosses the pedestal,