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surface of the wall ; the elbow flexed, the hand grasping the 

 middle of a staff (slanting upward toward the East, and whitened), 

 the ends of the staff not distinguishable. Between the upper 

 part of the arm and the staff was the white page of an open book 

 with two black clasps (or perhaps a straight white skirt * with two 

 black feet appearing from beneath it 1), and other devices. 



(3). On a rich yellow-coloured back-ground were depicted a 

 multitude of long-skirted figures represented by means of black 

 and red lines on the yellow ; the folds of the drapery shewn 

 gathered in, as by a cord,t at the waist ; the sleeves tight ; one 

 figure with the right arm raised, and the hand close to the face. 

 This last (like most of the others in the same long row near the 

 top of the wall) much injured by the lowering and levelling of the 

 upper portion of the masonry to receive the roof at some period 

 subsequent to the painting ; all these upper figures being thus de- 

 prived of their heads. 



(4). Fragments of apparently similar figures, coloured deep- 

 yellow, black, and red, were scattered over the whole surface of 

 the wall, but too much injured to be identified; no faces nor 

 hands being visible. 



(5). Between the Carclew Arch and the Norman door, on the 

 main wall-space, were Inscribed Labels, or ribbon-scrolls, overlying 

 red, black, and yellow subjects like those described above. These- 

 scrolls were upon a white ground, done in black ; the letters well- 

 formed church-text ; no capitals being^met with. Several of the 

 letters were made to coalesce in diphthong style. The following 

 only were decipherable : 



[postremum 1] die' (contracted for " diem "),. 



q'd ad morieris 



[veil] ei vit'...e videas 



(6). A Church Tower (with spire rising above an embat- 

 tled parapet, and a belfry-window) close beside the inscribed 

 labels, but further east, Avas clearly drawn in black upon white ; 

 the yellow, red, and black figures being found underneath, 



(7). ToAvards tire lower part of the Carclew Arch were more 

 of the same series of designs, overlying the coloured figures ; but 



♦ Perhaps of St. Katherine, with wheel? Plate II, fig. 1. 

 ■); Like surooats of Njrman Knights. Plate II, lig.. 3. 



