It was between these that malefactors were strangled.
The sixth has symbolical figures which I do not understand.

Ruskin suggests that they typify the degradation of human instincts.

A knight in armour is here.

A musician seated on a fish faces the Old Library.
There is no lettering, and as is the case throughout the figures on the wall side are difficult to discern.
The seventh represents the vices, and names them: luxury, gluttony, pride, anger, avarice, idleness, vanity, envy.
The eighth represents the virtues and names them: hope, faith, fortitude, temperance, humility, charity, justice, prudence.
The ninth has virtues and vices, named and mixed: modesty, discord, patience, constancy, infidelity, despair, obedience, liberality.
The tenth has named fruits.
Ruskin thinks that the eleventh may illustrate various phases of idleness.

It has no lettering.
The twelfth has the months and their employments, divided thus: January (indoors) and February, March blowing his pipes, April with a lamb and May, June (the month of cherries), July with a sheaf of corn and August, September (the vintage), October and November, and December, pig-sticking.
The thirteenth, on a stouter column than the others, because it has a heavier duty, namely, to bear the party wall of the great Council Hall, depicts the life of man.