A tall stage set depicting a large room with medieval pictures, patterns and motifs on the upper parts of the walls. On the left, there is an alcove and two sets of doors. At the back is a tall screen and an elaborate curtained four-poster bed containing a man in sleeping garments and a nightcap. To the right is a tall wooden desk with a religious picture in a Gothic frame sideways, near a short staircase leading up to a balcony door. Seven men (two of them tradesmen), three women and a child, all in medieval garments, are standing or sitting around the room listening to an important-looking man who is reading a document out loud.