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Rh the spire ground is blue, and the tapestry is red, powdered with letters, crowned. The figure, which, as before mentioned, is an exact duplicate of that in No. 4, is evidently a representation of St. John the Evangelist. The countenance is sorrowful; the right hand is pressed against the head, in the other is a book. The pedestal is crossed with the following portion of the founder's legend: istius collegii.

A is occupied with the representation, under a small canopy, of a Bishop on his knees, in apparent adoration of the figure in B, which, though mutilated, may be easily recognised as that of our Saviour, seated, and exhibiting the wound in his side to the kneeling Bishop, which, I apprehend, personifies William of Wykeham. This figure is likewise under a canopy. An angel under a canopy is inserted in each of the lights C to K inclusive. The smaller tracery lights are filled with monsters or other ornaments.

The Coronation of the Virgin is represented in L and M, but the subjects have been transposed, the figure of Christ now occupying L, and that of the virgin M. Each figure is under a canopy. An angel, in female attire, under a canopy, occupies each of the lights N to V, inclusive. The smaller tracery lights are filled with monsters or other ornaments.

Having described the subjects in these windows, I proceed in the next place to state my reasons for supposing that they were originally arranged as I have mentioned.

One remarkable feature is, that the pedestal of no canopy in the lights Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, is crossed by any continuous scroll, and that the pedestals of the canopies in Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 are so crossed; the scroll being as before mentioned, inscribed with the Founder's Legend. This circumstance, when considered with reference to the design and arrangement of the glass in the other windows of the building—the contents of one of the West and of the two North windows of the Antechapel have already been described—raises a strong inference that the glass in the first-mentioned series of lights originally occupied an upper tier of lights, and that the glass in the series of lights secondly mentioned originally occupied a lower tier of lights. That such lights are the