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NR01

Bi-corporate lion, tongue out, crowned with jewelled coronet of fleurs-de lys, Tails upright join the bracket moulding.

NR02

Three men standing close to each other in a triangle; the two at the side defending themselves with daggers against men with daggers, who form the supporters.

Supporters - Man with dagger.

NR03

Woman with distaff, with a large cat looking over her shoulder.

Supporters - Monster.

NR04

Fiend seizing man by the skirt of his tunic.

Supporters - Square foliated ornament

N05

Triple-faced man.

Supporters - Grotesque monsters

N06

Foliate mask.

Supporters - Foliage

N07

Bearded mask.

Supporters - Foliage

N08

Two parrots facing each other.

Supporters - Oak-leaf

N09

Foliage.

Supporters - Leaf

N10

Seated man in hood.

Supporters - Oak-leaf

N11

Male mask with wings.

Supporters - Foliate mask

N12

Stag-hunt.

Supporters - Lion-mask in foliate square

N13

Winged beast.

Supporters - Foliate mask.

N14

Rose-tree.

Supporters - Garland of roses

N15

Winged monsters.

Supporters - Crowned head

N16

Foliage.

Supporters - Foliage

N17

Jack and the Beanstalk the giant grasping animals and a bird.

Left Supporter - Jack’s mother.

Right Supporter - Jack in foliage

N18

Foliage.

Supporters - Leaf

N19

Mask and foliage.

Supporters - Leaf

N20

Monster in foliage.

Supporters - Foliate square with face

N21

Castle gate with a portcullis.

Left Supporter - Man’s head in peaked helmet to which a camail is riveted.

Left Supporter - Man’s head in helmet, but the camail is laced.

N22

Corbel with double rose.

Supporters - Rose.

N23

Foliage.

Supporters - Foliage

N24

Hydra representing the Seven Deadly Sins.

Left Supporter - An exorcism.

Right Supporter - A bearded man, nude except for drawers, scourging himself

N25

Shield of Beauchamp of Warwick, a fess between six cross crosslets.

Left Supporter - Shield of Calveley, a fess between three calves, two and one,

Right Supporter - Shield of Curzon, diapered, on a bend three popinjays

N26

Man’s head with foliage.

Supporters - Foliate square

N27

Ram’s head.

Supporters - Foliate square

N28

Crowned male head.

Supporters - Harp

N29

Bearded man’s head with vine-leaves.

Supporters - Vine-leaf

N30

Lion’s mask.

Supporters - Scallop-shell

N31

Eagle with scroll.

Left Supporter - Eagle seizing a hare by the ears.

Right Supporter - Eagle with scroll

SR01

Walled city [?Oxford] with church.

Left Supporter - Bishop, seated on the bridge, exhorting five priests.

Right Supporter - The heads of five clerics in foliage; one wears a cardinal’s hat, and another has a crosier.

SR02

Winged monster.

Supporters - Leaf.

SR03

Holly branches.

Supporters - Fleur de lis.

SR04

Woman’s head with large, quilted hat.

Supporters - Leaf.

S05

Tutivillus Two women seated in a pew; standing behind them is a demon with bat’s wings eavesdropping.

Left Supporter - Woman kneeling, a pair of crutches under her arms, telling her beads.

Right Supporter - Tonsured monk bending forward asleep

S06

Foliage.

Supporters - Monster

S07

Foliage.

Supporters - Lion-mask

S08

Foliage.

Supporters - Foliage

S09

Rose bush.

Supporters - Rose

S10

Pair of tumblers with a head beneath.

Supporters - Flower

S11

Imp holding money-bags.

Supporters - Foliage

S12

Oriel window.

Supporters - Latticed window

S13

Large bearded head.

Supporters - Foliage

S14

Dragon.

Supporters - Flower

S15

Swan with partially extended wings.

Supporters - Grotesque bird

S16

Bearded man in a cloak.

Supporters - Oak-leaf

S17

Ape in a cowl issuing from a whelk-shell surrounded by foliage.

Left Supporter - Ape seated on a lily.

Right Supporter - Ape in a hooded cape

S18

Gateway with portcullis trapping Sir Yvain’s horse.

Supporters - Castle gateway, watchman’s head just visible, flag-post with flag blazoned.

S19

Foliage.

Supporters - Foliage

S20

Bearded head.

Supporters - Foliage

S21

Foliage.

Supporters - Foliage

S22

Head corbel.

Supporters - Leaves and mask

S23

Foliage.

Supporters - Foliage

S24

Man at desk lecturing; two small figures behind him hold staves; a small figure below him holds a book [penitent confessing]; two other figures in background.

Left Supporter - Man carrying books.

Right Supporter - Man wearing liripipe hood, reading

S25

Female centaur holding an axe.

Supporters - Hedgehog

S26

Bearded mask.

Supporters - Griffin

S27

Harpy with raised wings forming a collar.

Supporters - Rose

S28

Foliage.

Supporters - Foliage

S29

Foliate mask.

Supporters - Double roses [modern]

S30

Centaur in hood playing a pipe and beating a tabor.

Left Supporter - Centaur blowing a horn.

Right Supporter - Centaur playing a pipe

S31

Peacock in his pride.

Supporters - Peacock

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