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design, have been noticed in several antiquarian works, and various 
explanations of their import have been offered. In all of these the 
head of St. John the Baptist, of large proportionate size, occupies 
the centre, and the summit of the whole design is tilled with a re¬ 
presentation of a soul conveyed to heaven by angels. 
The Rev. E. Duke, of Lake, possesses one of these tablets similar 
to the present example, but with the addition of two figures in the 
back ground of St. Katherine and St. Helen. 
