Page:Archaeological Journal, Volume 9.djvu/60

34 tua morsus tuus ero inferne. (See Hosea xiii. 14.) The tapestry is powdered with letters, crowned. From which I infer either that the tapestry does not belong to this figure, or that in the course of repairs wrong letters have been inserted. However it may have been a mere caprice to spirate the name.

No. 2. Abacuch p'pheta, is written on the pedestal. The scroll is inscribed D'ne audivi [auditi]]o'e tua' S) timui. (See Habakkuk iii. 2.) The tapestry is powdered with letters, crowned.

No. 3. Ysaias p'pheta is written on the pedestal. The scroll is inscribed, ecce virgo concipiet & pariet filium. (See Isaiah vii. 14.) The tapestry is powdered with letters, crowned.

No. 4. [B]aruc p'pheta, is written on the pedestal. The scroll is inscribed, Post hec in tri's visus est & cu' hom' co'v'satus est. (See Baruch iii. 37.) The tapestry is, however, powdered with letters, crowned. Most of the remarks made on No. 1 equally apply here.

No. 5. Mathusale fili's Enoch, is written on the pedestal. The figure holds a small scroll, which appears to be inscribed with the following words, Legem n mor'. The tapestry is powdered with letters, crowned. The following portion of the founder's legend is written across the pedestal.—Orate ꝓ Willm'o.

No. 6. Noe : : archa' : faba written on the pedestal. The figure holds an oar. The tapestry is powdered with letters, crowned. The portion of the founder's legend that crosses the pedestal is, de W

No. 7. Abraha' p'riarcha, is written on the pedestal. The tapestry is powdered with letters, crowned. The portion of the founder's legend which crosses the pedestal is. . . . ton fu'dator'.

No. 8. Isaac patriarcha, is written on the pedestal. The tapestry is powdered with letters, crowned. The portion of the founder's legend attached to this pedestal is istius

Each of the tracery lights A to F inclusive is filled with a canopy, under which is a military figure, winged as an angel, clad in a basinet andcamail, jupon, broad sword-belt, petticoat of mail below the jupon, and plate or cuirbouilli arm and leg armour. The figure holds a spear, to which a pennon charged with a plain cross is attached.