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eirclei inscribed within the trefoils, and the surrounding spaces are filled 

 >rith the arms of France and Castile, 





Fig. 5. 



Fig. 8. 



Fig. 



Fig. 8. 



The first light of the second window in the apsis is in sixteen compart- 

 ments — lozenges and half-quatrefoils (fig. 6). The subjects are generally 

 obscure and do not appear to belong to each other ; the ground, which is in 

 figured circles crossed by a trellis, is very handsome ; the border, plain red 

 with small blue rosettes. 



The second light is unlike the first, and differs totally from anything else 

 in the chapel ; it fits its place too well to have come there by accident, but 

 the style plainly indicates its date to be the 14th century. It is divided by 

 plain iron work into rectangular compartments (fig. 7), of which twelve 

 remain. Each of these is subdivided into three, and the same subject, with 

 Tariations, is repeated in eleven of them, viz., in the centre a throned figure, 

 placed within the convolutions of a rich flowing arabesque, and a standing 

 figure under a canopy on each side ; the upper figure of the eleven is God 

 the Son, the next below, the Virgin. It is evidently a portion of a Jesse 

 window. In the centre of the upper compartment and in the head of the 

 light the arabesque is beautifully developed, and the Dove appears among 

 the scroll work. In the head is God the Father and two angels, filled up 

 with the arms of Castile. The whole of this light is in the highest degree 

 brilliant and harmonious, and in the best preservation. It is impassible to 

 believe it contemporaneous with the rest of the glass, though how it came 

 to be thus interpolated where all the rest is uniform in style it would be 

 difficult to conjecture. 



No. 3 in the apsis contains twenty-two compartments, in the form of the 

 vesica piscis (fig. 8), each divided into two subjects, generally referring to 

 the Nativity, but some do not appear to belong to the rest ; some of the 

 damage and patchwork previously noticed is to be observed in this window. 

 In the top compartments and heads of the lights a building is represented, 

 with figures incensing, probably the holy house of Loretto. In the head of 

 the window is an angel, the Virgin and child, and God the Son, with the 

 arms of France and Castile. The ground of the window is a plain trellis, 

 with a border of fleurons. 



No. 4, thirty-eight compartments, in squares and quadrants, relating prin- 

 cipally to the crucifixion and events connected with it, with groups of saints 

 and angels in the upper compartments. What is not actually destroyed is 

 mostly in high preservation, but three of the principal compartments are 

 lost and the squares filled with patchwork, and two others are misplaced. 

 The ground of this window is a rich and beautiful trellis, with medallions of 

 the arms of Castile, and a border of fleurons, and iu the Centre of each 

 division of the four quadrants a very rich quatrefoil. 



The first light of No. 5 shows eleven compartments, in lozenges, and a sort 

 of quatrefoils (fig. 9), with a common trellis ground, and a border of very 



Fig. 9. 



Fig. 10. 



Fig. 11 



graceful fleurons. The second light is difl'erent,— regular quatrefoils (fig. 

 10), on a ground semf' of Castile, and a sort of festoon border, rather un- 

 graceful. The subjects are generally obscure, and apparently unconnected. 

 The circumcision and the beheading of St. John are the only two which are 

 obvious in the first light, and Moses with the tables in the second. In the 

 head are three saints with the arms of Castile misplaced. This window i> 

 not in very good preservation, and the glass itself is much corroded and 

 perished. 



In No. 6 there are twenty compartments in quatrefoils. The subjects 

 appear to be from the history of Noah, but they are for the most part obscure. 

 This window is in rather better condition than the last ; the ground and 

 border the same as in the second light of the last window ; seme of Castile 

 with festoons. 



No, 7, twenty compartments, in circles and half of the vesica piscis (fig. 

 11); the subjects obscure, but Tobit and his dog, and Daniel in the den, 

 with a lion with a human face, are to be distinguished ; the ground it a 

 handsome trellis pattern, with a border of fleurons. 



This completes the windows in the apsis. 



The first window on the south tide contains forty compartments, all in 

 circles (fig. 12); the ground a trellis, with a fleur-de-lis in every square 

 formed by the intersections. The subjects in the two first lights are from 

 the book of Job ; of course the devil plays a conspicuous part in the history, 

 and is represented with much liveliness of imagination ; the burning of 

 Job's bouse is represented with edifying simplicity, his satanic majesty per- 

 forming the incendiary in person. In the other two lights the subjects ar« 

 not so clear ; in the four top compartments are angels incensing. The head 

 of the window is arranged as described on the north side, hut the quatrefoil 

 compartments represent buildings surrounded by arabesque work. 



No. 2 on the south side is a window of extraordinary beauty ; there are 

 eighty compartments, quadrants, with a quatrefoil in the centre of every 

 four (fig. 13); in each quatrefoil is Castile, and between the quadrants ii 

 also a medallion of Castile on a ground of rich mosaic. The subjects are 

 various and abound in royal personages — those from the book of Esther are 

 the most obvious. The head of this window is similar to that of the last. 

 This window is particularly to be noticed for its rich, brilliant, and harmo- 

 nious eff'ect, aided no doubt by its position to the south. The form of the 

 compartments, which the iron work follows throughout, fall in well together, 

 and leave no awkward or irregular shapes in the ground. From the number 

 of thrones and tabernacles on red grounds, there is more rich colour than 



