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NEW COLLEGE CHAPEL AND HALL, OXFORD.
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and a russet mantle over it. The niche tapestry is powdered with letters S and letters A, crowned.

The tracery lights of this window, A to F inclusive, are each filled with a canopy, under which stands an angel. Cherubim is written upon a small scroll at the foot of each canopy in the lights A and B. The smaller tracery lights are filled with foliage and monsters.

SOUTHERNMOST WEST WINDOW OF THE ANTECHAPEL.

This is likewise a figure and canopy window.

No. 1 light. On the pedestal is written Maria Egipc'aca. The figure is that of a female. The niche tapestry is powdered with letters M, crowned.

No. 2. Sc'a Martha is written on the pedestal. The figure is that of a female. The niche tapestry is powdered with letters M, crowned.

No. 3. This light is a good deal mutilated. The pedestal is inscribed Maria Jacobi, and the lower part of the niche tapestry is powdered with letters M, crowned. But the figure itself is that of a prophet, holding a scroll like the figures in the north windows, inscribed visitabo oves meas & liberabo ea[s].—(See Ezekiel xxxiv. 12.) The remainder of the niche tapestry is powdered with letters E, crowned.

No. 4. This light is also much mutilated. The upper part of the figure is that of a Queen, and the niche tapestry is powdered with letters W, crowned. The lower part of the figure belongs to a different subject. The pedestal is inscribed Sc's Cuthbert' and is crossed by the following part of the founder's legend:—Orate p Willmo; from which I conclude that this part of the design belonged originally to a lower tier light of some window.

No. 5. Sc's —— is written on the pedestal. The figure is that of a Bishop. The niche tapestry is powdered with letters B, crowned. A portion of the founder's legend, now missing, crossed the pedestal.

No. 6. Sc's Bri . . . . . . is written on the pedestal. The figure is, however, that of a female. The niche tapestry is powdered with letters C, and letters B, crowned. A portion of the founder's legend, now missing, crossed the pedestal.

No. 7. The figure is that of a female. The niche tapestry