In the first of the six panels devoted to Eilward of Westoning’s story, the most famous and fantastic miracle of Becket’s early cult, a judge points at two men who are holding a third – Eilward – prisoner. Eilward had taken some humble items out of the home of his neighbor, Fulk, because Fulk had refused to repay a debt of a penny. Fulk chased after Eilward, hit him on the head, and tied him up. In his written account of the story, Benedict explained that Eilward had only taken items to the value of what he was owed, meaning that this was really not a crime at all, but that Fulk made it appear that Eilward had committed a significant theft by tying more goods onto him than he had actually taken (it seems that tying stolen items onto a captured thief was common practice).

The poet who wrote the inscriptions followed this line of argument as well. The inscription reads “The surety was modest; it is judged a wrongful theft.” In Benedict’s account, Eilward is judged more than once, by different judges, and undergoes an ordeal of water. The glaziers, with just six scenes in which to tell a complicated narrative, provided viewers with a single trial and condemnation scene.