17, A. "So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and
an homer of barley" (iii. 2).
The prophet pouring the grain and the silver into
[Pg 123] the lap of the woman, "beloved of her friend." The
carved coins are each wrought with the cross, and, I
believe, legend of the French contemporary coin.
17, B. "So will I also be for thee" (iii. 3).
He puts a ring on her finger.
18. Joel.
18, A. The sun and moon lightless (ii. 10).
The sun and moon as two small flat pellets, up in
the external moulding.
18, B. The barked fig-tree and waste vine (i. 7).
Note the continual insistence on the blight of vegetation
as a Divine punishment, 19 D.
19. Amos.
To the front.
19, A. "The Lord will cry from Zion" (i. 2).
Christ appears with crossletted nimbus.
19, B. "The habitations of the shepherds shall mourn" (i. 2).
Amos with the shepherd's hooked or knotted staff,
and wicker-worked bottle, before his tent. (Architecture
in right-hand foil restored.)
Inside Porch.