This is one of the most complex panels in the entire Miracle Window sequence. Its inscription is original, reading, Gustat distenta cute fit gustu macile[n]ta: “She tastes with a distended skin, by the act of tasting she becomes thin.” This is clearly the central scene of the miracle of Goditha of Hayes, but apart from the inscription, all that is left of this scene is the hand and staff on the far left of the panel and the lectern or font, with a hand above it, on the far right of the panel.

At some unknown point, this panel must have significant damage in its center. When he restored window nIII in 1857, George Austin Jr. repaired this damage by inserting a scene from window nV showing a monastic servant, the tall figure on the right, giving a poor, half-naked man a short-sleeved tunic.

This scene represents an event occurring very shortly after Becket’s martyrdom, the Canterbury monks decided to give away some of his clothing to the poor on behalf of his soul. These blood-stained items of clothing quickly became important relics. Benedict comments that the poor people who received these them “would have been happy enough, if they had not immediately and unwisely proffered them for sale at a small price.”

It is a pity that we have lost the glaziers’ image of Goditha at Becket’s tomb, but the gift of clothing scene is important in its own right, and we are fortunate that Austin preserved it in this way.