2. The building of the tower of Babel. An inclined plane with pieces across is used instead of a ladder.

3. Abraham implores the three angels to stay with him. He is on one knee, and the angels are in albs with the amice.

4. Abraham waits on the angels at table. One of them has his hand on a fish.

5. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

6. Lot's departure. His wife is turned into a pillar of salt. 7. Abraham leading the ass, with Isaac on its back.

8. Abraham, about to slay his son, is stayed by the angel.

East arcade :

1. Blessing of Jacob. Rebecca listening at the door.

2. Blessing of Esau.

3. Rebecca sends Jacob to Padan Aram.

4. Jacob takes the top off the well to give water to Rachel's

cattle. One beast is a camel.

5. Rachel brings Jacob to her father.

6. Jacob talks with the angel. Two others are near.

7. The angel touches Jacob on the thigh with a stick.

8. Meeting of Esau and Jacob. Leah and Rachel behind with the sheep.

South-east arcade :

1. Joseph's dream.

2. Joseph tells his dream to his father, mother, and brothers. 3. (1) Joseph seized by one of his brothers. (2) He is put into the well. (3) A kid has its throat cut over Joseph's garment.

4. (1) Joseph is sold to the seneschal of the King of Egypt. (This variation from the biblical narrative, where he is sold to the Ishmaelites, occurs also in the MS. 2 B. VII.) (2) The seneschal on horseback with Joseph behind him.

5. The brothers bring back the coat.

6. The seneschal presents Joseph to Pharaoh, who gives a stick into his hand.

7. Temptation of Joseph by Pharaoh's queen, not, as in the Bible, by Potiphar's wife. Both this and the former scene occur also in the MS.

8. Joseph accused.

South arcade :

1. Joseph is put in prison.

2. (1) The baker is hung. (2) The butler offers the cup to Pharaoh.

3. Pharaoh's dream.

4. Pharaoh consults a magician (?)

5. (1) Joseph delivered from prison; (2) kneels before Pharaoh.

6. Joseph seated, presiding over the threshing of the corn. A man throws straw into the Nile. In the MS. Joseph communicates the intelligence that there is corn in Egypt by throwing straw into the river, which thus reaches his father, 'com il est en soun chastel.'

7. (1) Arrival of the brothers. (2) One of them on his knees before Pharaoh.

8. (1) Presentation of Benjamin to Joseph. (2) The cup is put into his sack.

1. The cup found in Benjamin's sack.

2. (1) The brethren on their knees before Joseph. (2) Joseph falls on Benjamin's neck.

3. Jacob and his family going into Egypt. They are on

foot.

4. The brethren imploring Joseph not to take vengeance on them after Jacob's death.

5. The subject very doubtful. It possibly represents Joseph embracing his family and assuring them of his protection.

6. Moses and the burning bush.

7. Passage of the Red Sea.

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8. Destruction of Pharaoh and his host.

Armed figures

with shields (one of which is kite-shaped) and banners in a carriage.

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West arcade (right of doorway) :

1. Moses strikes the rock.

2. God gives the Law to Moses.

The variations in the history of Joseph found here and in the Cottonian MS. may have originated, as Mr. Burges suggests, with "some contemporary author who made the story into a sort of romance, adapting and altering the incidents to the manners of his time. We should also remember that Froissart is more than suspected of embellishing his history in a similar

XLII. The bosses of the roof are composed of foliage and chimerical animals, except that to the north of the west doorway, which is divided into three groups of figures, relating probably to some guild or trade who contributed to the building. They are armourers, musicians, and apothecaries. Between the bases of the small columns of the central pillar is some sculpture which seems to relate either to the romance of Reynard the Fox or to some of Æsop's fables. The original cap and base (from which these sculptures have been copied) are preserved in the cloisters. An ancient table, which stands in the chapter-house, and is apparently of the early Decorated period, should be noticed. It has been carefully restored. [Plate XIX.]

XLIII. A door from the cloisters opens into the grounds of the episcopal palace, the most interesting