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36 istius collegii; but the feet only of the figure belong to the high priest. The rest belongs to a prophet, part of another window, who appears to be Nahum, from the corresponding part of the tapestry being powdered with letters, crowned, and from the following inscription on the scroll held by the figure: ecce sup' montes ewa'geliz'atis ann'catis. (See Nahum i. 15.)

Each of the tracery lights A to F inclusive is filled with a canopy, under which is a winged figure habited in the civil dress of a king, i.e. crowned, holding a sword and sceptre, and clad in a tunic with short skirts, a furred tippet, hose, and shoes. Dna : cio : nes 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 former windows.

The arrangement of the subjects of these windows in their original order, is a somewhat troublesome task, requiring a close attention to detail, and continual references to individual lights. It will be convenient to distinguish the windows by calling one the Northern-East window, and the other the Southern-East window; and, with a view to render the following investigation more intelligible, I subjoin diagrams of both windows, in which the lower lights are numbered, and the principal tracery lights lettered in a consecutive series, commencing in the Northern-East window.

No. 1 light. The glass in this light consists of portions