m and Eve with a tree betwixt them; the serpent
deceiving them with apples; God speaking to them and cursing the
serpent, and an angel with a sword driving them out of paradise.
VI. _Armourers._--Adam and Eve, an angel with a spade and a distaff
assigning them labour.
VII. _Gaunters._--Abel and Cain killing sacrifices.
VIII. _Shipwrights._--God foretelling Noah to make an ark of light wood.
IX. _Fyshmongers, Pessyners, Mariners._--Noah in the ark with his wife
and three children, and divers animals.
X. _Perchemyners, Bukbynders._--Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac; a
ram, bush, and angel.
XI. _Hosyers._--Moses exalting the serpent in the wilderness; king
Pharaoh; eight Jews admiring and expecting.
XII. _Spicers._--Mary and a doctor declaring the sayings of the prophets
about the future birth of Christ; an angel saluting her. Mary saluting
Elizabeth.
XIII. _Peuterers, Founders._--Mary, Joseph willing to put her away, an
angel speaking to them that they should go to Bethlehem.
XIV. _Tylers._--Mary, Joseph, a midwife, the child born lying in a
manger betwixt an ox and an ass, and the angel speaking to the
shepherds.
XV. _Chaundelers._--The shepherds speaking by turns; the star in the
east; an angel giving joy to the shepherds that a child was born.
XVI. _Goldsmithes, Orfeures._--The three kings coming from the east,
Herod asking them about the child Christ; with the son of Herod, two
counsellors and a messenger.
XVII. _Gold-beters, Mone-makers._--Mary with the child and the star
above, and the three kings offering gifts.
XVIII. _Masons._--Mary with the child; Joseph, Anna, and a nurse with
young pigeons; Simeon receiving the child in his arms, and two sons of
Simeon.
XIX. _Marashals._--Mary with the child, and Joseph flying into Egypt, by
an angel's telling them.
XX. _Girdellers, Naylers, Sawters._--Herod commanding the children to be
slain, four soldiers with lances, two counsellors of the king, and four
women lamenting the slaughter of them.
XXI. _Sporiers, Lorymers._--The doctors, the child Jesus sitting in the
temple in the midst of them, hearing them and asking them questions.
Four Jews, Mary and Joseph seeking him and finding him in the temple.
XXII. _Barbers._--Jesus, John the baptist baptising him, and two angels
helping them.
XXIII. _Vyntners._--Jesus, Mary, bridgeroom and bride, master of the
household with his family with six water-pots, where water is turned
into wine.
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