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In the tracery are two quatrefoils-Angels with lamps burning; in the upper one, the Lamb and Flag. The subjects of this window are from the Parables of our Lord. In the first compartment: The Parable of the Talents; the Master and his good Servants; and the One with the One Talent only. Inscription—

2nd Compartment: The Good Samaritan; the Wounded Man, with Priest and Levite passed on—

3rd Compartment: The Publican and Pharisee in the Temple—

4th Compartment: The Pearl of Great Price; the seller holding the pearl between his fingers, and the purchaser with a bag of money; two others looking on-

At the foot of 1, 2, and 3 compartments, the panels are coloured geometrical forms. The fourth contains the arms of Thomas Sharp. (plate 1.) On a shield azure, within a bordure or, charged with eight roundlets a pheon argent. Crest, an Eagle's head erased, ducally gorged, or, holding in the mouth a pheon arg. Motto "Vtar nec metvam."

Artists: Heaton and Butler. Erected at the cost of the late John Wyley, of this City.

This industrious antiquary, born Nov. 7,1770, was educated at the Free Grammar School; at the death of his father, 1784, he continued the business of a hatter at the house in Smithford Street, known as Peeping Tom house (now at the corner of Hertford Street and part of the King's