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THE PAINTED GLASS IN THE NORTHERNMOST WEST WINDOW OF THE ANTECHAPEL. Eacli of the eight lower Hghts of this window is occupied, as ah-eady mentioned, with a canopy containing a single A B C D E F 1 2 3 4 - S 7 8 figure ; and I will state, since an attention to such minutiae will tend materially to facilitate our investigation of the other windows, that each of the canopies in Xos. 1 and 3 has a flat hood, its spire background coloured blue, and the tapestry back of its niche, which extends upwards to the groining of the niche, red ; and that the canopies in Nos. 2 and 4 have projecting hoods, red spire grounds, and blue tapestries. Whilst in the lower tier of lights, Nos. 5 and 7 have projecting hoods, blue spire grounds, and red tapestries ; and Nos. 6 and 8, flat hoods, red spire grounds, and blue tapestries. By which means, as will be perceived, a perfect alternation of form and colour is maintained throughout the canopies. All the canopies have projecting j^edestals ; but those only of the lower tier of lights are crossed by the founder's legend, " Orate pro Willelmo de Wykeham episcopo Wynton fundatore istius coUegii," which is written upon a continuous scroll, divided only b}" the mullions of the window. Light Xo. 1. Jonas ppheta is written across the pedestal of the canopy. The figure, which, like the other Old Testament worthies, has no nimbus, holds a scroll inscribed, Hebreus ego sii c^ dominu d'm celi ego timeo. — (See Jonah i. 9.) The tapestry is powdered with letters |, crowned.^

• The crowned letters bring to mind

Chaucer's prologue to the Canterbury Tales :— " Of smale corall aboute hire arm slie A pair of bedes gauded all with grene, And thereon heug a broche of gold ful shene. On whiche was first jTitten a crouned A, And after, Amor raicit omnia."