their period. The windows in the Chapels of University and Balliol Colleges at Oxford, by Abraham, and those at Wadham College, by Bernard, are remarkably fine. In this chapel, the windows are not all equally rich in their effect, nor of equal merit in the drawing and composition. The colours are generally well preserved, and increased in brilliancy by the strong contrast of bright lights and opaque shadows-a characteristic of the work of the Van Linges. Each window has four lights, and the subjects represented are arranged as follows, each figure bearing its appropriate attribute.

South Side. First Window.-1. St. Peter, with a key in his right hand. 2. St. Andrew, with a book open in his left hand, turning the leaves with his right; behind him, his cross. 3. St. James the Great, habited as a pilgrim, with staff, and holding a closed book. 4. St. John, the Apostle and Evangelist, bearing in his left hand a cup, from which a serpent is issuing.

These figures are on pedestals, and under very elaborate and curiously formed canopies; the head of each is encircled by a nimbus, and beneath is the name in Latin. Above, in the arched heading of the window, are figures of angels holding tablets, on which are the crests of the arms depicted beneath. In the third light of this window, at the left corner of the pedestal, is the date 1623; and in the fourth light, at the base of the pedestal, on the left

side, is inscribed Jo. Donne, Dec. Paul. F. F.; and just above this inscription is a cipher composed of the letters R. B. This cipher is also in the second light, at the right corner of the pedestal. The front of the pedestals is covered by figures of angels, bearing the arms of— 1. Henrici Comitis Southampton. 2. Gulielmi Comitis Pembrochiæ. 3. Johannis Comitis Bridgewater. Jacobi Comitis Caerlile.

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South Side. Second Window.-1. St. Philip, bearing in his right hand a cross, and in his left a closed book. 2. St. Thomas, with a carpenter's square in his right hand, and a closed book in his left. 3. St. Bartholomew, holding in his right hand a large knife, the instrument of his martyrdom. 4. St. Matthew, holding a lance.

These figures are on hexagonal pedestals, under rich canopies, and the head of each is encircled by the nimbus. In the spaces of the arched heading of the window are here also figures of angels holding tablets with the crests of the arms depicted beneath. In the second light, on the upper corner of the pedestal, are the letters R. B. In the fourth light, in the same position, is a monogram.

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Under the pedestals are the following inscriptions: -1. Georgius, Baro de Abergaveny et Maria Filia Edwardi Duc. Buckingh.; with the arms on the pedestal between the symbolical figures of Faith and Hope. Fra: Fane, unus Socioru hujus hospitii, Eques Balnei, Com. Westmorland, Baro de Despencer et Burghersh, cujus impensis &c. hæc quatuor lumina vitræis adornantur depictis, et Mariæ filiæ et heredis Antho. Mildmay, Militis. Año. Dñi. 1623. Arms between the figures of Temperance and Justice. 3. Henrics. Baro d' Aber. gaveny; et Francisca, fil. Tho. Com. Rutland. Arms

between the figures of Charity and Prudence. 4. Thos. Fane, Eques Auratus, et Maria, Uxor ejus, Baronissa Le Despencer. Arms between the figures of Wisdom and Fortitude. The date of 1623 is on all these pedestals.

South Side. Third Window.-1. St. James the Less, holding a fuller's club in the left hand, and an open book in the right. 2. St. Simon, bearing a saw in his right hand, and a closed book in the left. 3. St. Jude, holding in his right hand a closed book. 4. St. Matthias, bearing in his right hand an axe, and a closed book in his left hand.

This window differs in some respects from the two just described. There are no canopies, but a continued landscape forms the back-ground, with the representation of a city in the distance, and near the centre is a building, bearing much resemblance to Lincoln's Inn Chapel, with its ambulatory, and the buttresses terminating in pinnacles. The figures are finely relieved against the sky and clear water of the landscape, and the attitudes of each are studiously varied, as is the case indeed with the figures in the other windows. The pedestals differ from the others, being square, and the front covered by the arms. In the tracery above are angels holding the armorial bearings of the Spencer and Compton families. In this window the figures of the angels are nude; in the others, draped. Beneath the figures are coats of arms thus inscribed: 1. Robert, Lord Spencer of Wormleighton. 2. Sir Henry Compton, Knight. 3. Thomas Spencer, of Claverdon, Esq. 4. John Spencer, of Offley, Esq.

North Side. First Window.-1. King David, crowned, playing on the harp; over his other drapery, a scarlet robe lined with ermine. 2. The

prophet Daniel, with a golden verge or rod in his left hand. 3. Elias, with a sword resting on the ground. 4. Esaias, holding a book in his right hand; with his left, a saw.

These figures are on hexagonal pedestals, and under rich canopies. Above, in the arch of the window, are kings in robes, crowned. Beneath the figures, in front of the pedestals, are coats of arms, with the following inscriptions:-1. Jacobus Ley, Miles et Baronettus, Capitalis Justiciarius Domini Regis ad Placita coram ipso Rege tenenda assignatus et quondam Capitalis Justiciarius Capitalis Banci in Hiberniâ. 2. Humphridus Winch, Miles, unus Justiciariorum Domini Regis de Banco, ac quondam Capitalis Baro Scaccarii in Hiberniâ, et postea Capitalis Justiciarius Capitalis Banci in Hiberniâ. 3. Johannes Denham, Miles, unus Baronum Curiæ Scaccarii in Angliâ, et quondam Capitalis Baro Scaccarii in Hiberniâ, et unus Dominorum Justiciariorum in Hiberniâ. 4. Willielmus Jones, Miles, unus Justiciariorum Dñi Regis de Banco, ac nuperime Capitalis Justiciarius Capitalis Banci in Hiberniâ.

North Side. Second Window.-1. The prophet Jeremias, with a staff in the right hand, and ewer in the left. 2. Ezekiel, in the vestments of a priest, mitred, with the model of a church in his left hand. 3. Amos, clothed as a shepherd, with a crook and wallet. 4. Zacharias, the prophet.

These figures, also, are on hexagonal pedestals, under canopies of different form from the first window. In the tracery above are kings in robes, crowned, in beautiful colours. On the first and third pedestals is the date

1624. Beneath the figures, in front of the pedestals, are coats of arms with the following inscriptions :—1. Ranulphus Crew, Miles, Serenissimi Dñi Jacobi Regis Serviens ad Legem. 2. Thomas Harrys, Baronettus, et Serviens ad Legem. 3. Tho. Richardson, Miles, Serviens ad Legem et Conventionis Parliamenti inchoat. et tent. tricesimo die Januarii Año Dñi 1620, et ibm. continuat. usque octavum diem Februarii Año Dñi 1621, et tunc dissolut. Prolocutor. 4. Johannes Darcie, Serviens ad Legem.

North Side. Third Window.-I. Abraham, with a sword in his right hand, his left resting on the head of his son Isaac ; the intended sacrifice above, in the background. 2. Moses, with his rod, and the Two Tables of the Decalogue in his hands ; above, Moses receiving the tables on the Mount. 3. St. John the Baptist, habited in a camel's skin, with a staff in his right hand; and at his feet a lamb. In the upper part the baptism of Christ is shown. 4. St. Paul, holding a sword. Above is the conversion of Saul.

These figures are on pedestals, on which the names are thus inscribed:-STS ABRAHAM, PATER FIDELIUM; STS MOSES, LEGISLATOR; STS Jo: BAPT. PRÆCURSOR DOMINI; STS PAULUS, DOCTOR GENTIUM. In the tracery above are the figures of Temperance, Prudence, Charity, Hope, Faith, Justice. Beneath the figures are coats of arms borne by angels in front of the pedestals, with these inscriptions:-1. Xprs. Brooke et Thomas Saunderson, Mağri de Banco, quoru fidei hujus sacræ Fabricæ cura credita fuit fieri fecerunt, 1626. 2. Rolandus Wandesford, Ebora. Ar. et unus Magrʊm de