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388 ; one, as an equestrian knight, in cloak and cap of vary-coloured skins, bearing an extended rod in his right hand. Certain people stood before the deputies in the form following. One man carried a spade in his right hand, and with his left, directed the motions of a herd. In his girdle hung a sickle, with which corn is cut, and vines and other trees pruned. To the right of the king a carpenter was painted before a knight; one hand bore a mallet, and the other a plane; in his girdle was a trowel. Also before the people stood a man having a pair of shears in one hand, and in the other a huge sword; with a note-book and a bottle of ink in his girdle: a pen stuck in his right ear. Moreover, in the same part of the painting was a man bearing a balance and weights in his right hand, and an ell-wand in his left; a purse containing various kinds of money hung at his girdle.

Before the queen were physicians and colourmen under this form. A man was placed in a master's chair with a book in his right hand, and an urn and box in his left. An