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S01

The Last supper. [Modern]

Left Supporter - Money bag.

Right Supporter - Orb.

S02

Lion and dragon bite each other.

Supporters - Oak leaf.

S03

Intertwining branches supporting seven roses and two rose buds. Whittington describes them as a bush of Lancastrian roses.

Supporters - Rose.

S04

Sir William Clere of Ormesby [d.1384] in armour and cloak, holds a label and his wife, Denise Wichingham, reads her

prayer book [both headless]; over his shoulder is W.

Left Supporter - Shield Charged  with Clere arms, on a fes three eagles.

Right Supporter - Shield Charged  with Wichingham arms, ermine, on a chief three crosses patee.

S05

Dragon with spread wings, and a whorled horn in the middle of its forehead. The dragon’s beard falls either side of its

face in tusk-like coils. The dragon’s left wing, growing out of the left leg, seems unattached to the dragon’s body. Its

front, spine and tail are beaded.

Supporters - Lion’s face with tongue out.

S06

Seated monk reading a book. R.C.., above stands for Richard Courtenay.

Left Supporter - As Bishop of Norwich he tends his sheep.

Right Supporter - As Chancellor of Oxford he feeds his scholars.

S07

Two wodehouses fight with clubs.

Supporters - Leaf.

S08

St. George, mounted and in armour, spears dragon [spear broken]; both beasts small in scale.

Left Supporter - Charged  with Thomas Hoo arms quarterly with a label impales two lions passant ermine.

Right Supporter - Charged  with St. Omer of Brundall arms a fess between six cross crosslets.

Both coats of arms hang by straps with Buckles and eyelets.

S09

Lion and collared bear fight.

Left Supporter - Collared monkey.

Right Supporter - Squirrel eating nut.

S10

John Clere, robed with gloves and dagger at his girdle, and his mother, Denise Wichingham, praying with hands

clasped around rosary at her belt.

Left Supporter - Shield Charged  with Clere arms, on a fes three eagles.

Right Supporter - Shield Charged  with Wichingham arms, ermine, on a chief three crosses patee.

S11

Wodehouse with club; two chained lions paw his knees; a scroll ‘War foli: Wat [Beware of folly man]

Left Supporter - Wodehouse clutching ear of dog that bites his hand/ wrenching open the jaws of a lion.

Right Supporter - Two lambs.

S12

The head of a king, bearded and crowned. Henry V?

Supporters - Leaf.

S13

Eagle claws dove and pecks lamb.

Supporters - Death-mask in profile, wreathed.

S14

Wyvern.

Supporters - Wyvern in roundel.

S15

Seated angel holds scroll [emblem of St. Matthew].

Supporters - Herald angel in roundel.

S16

Bare-legged wrestlers at ready; fashionable seconds have tall hats and puffed or slit sleeves.

Left Supporter - Boar and acorns in roundel.

Right Supporter - Swan crowned on neck in roundel.

S17

Two Bare-legged men in leather helmets spear a lion who mauls a man wearing drawers beneath his tunic.

Supporters - Wyvern in roundel.

S18

Ape in hood squeezes howling dog that is birched by chained ape; another dog looks on grinning.

Supporters - Chained ape blows pipes  in roundel.

S19

Missing

S20

Foliate mask.

Supporters - Hawthorn leaves set in diamond pattern.

S21

Owl in vine mobbed by small birds.

Supporters - Eagle pecking dove in roundel.

S22

Man in jerkin spears a griffin which claws a lamb.

Supporters - Lion mask with tongue out.

S23

Winged lion with scroll [emblem of St. Mark]

Supporters - Formal flower set within circle.

S24

Winged ox with scroll [emblem of St. Luke].

Supporters - Angel’s head.

S25

Schoolmaster thrashes boy; four others read books.

Supporters - Schoolboy writing a scroll.

S26

Ox, boldly carved [square flowers on edge of seat.]

Supporters - Leaf.

S27

Fox running away with cock; dog chasing him; woman with distaff; pig eating broth.

Supporters - Back view of rose.

S28

Wild man with club holds lion by chain. [broken]

Supporters - Lion with tufted mane, curled up.

S29

Lion with wavy mane. Square flowers along seat edge.

Supporters - Leaf in roundel.

S30

Man {Lechery}, dressed in a net and tall hat, riding a hart gripping its horn with one hand, holding a hare in the other.

Supporters - Blemya with dagger.

S31

Devil as wyvern.

Supporters - Face with side-whiskers, but with shaved crown, upper lip and chin.

S32

Antelope showing its two horns.

Supporters - Leaf in roundel.

S33

Over-dressed man [Vanity] holding stick with three dogs.

Supporters - Leaf.

N01

Norwich City Football Club.

Supporters - Football supporters in roundel.

N02

University of East Anglia.

Supporters - University buildings in a roundel.

N03

Virgin crowned by two angels and child holding dove.

Left Supporter - Shield  Charged  with William de Ufford arms, Earl of Suffolk. [d.1382] sable a cross engrailed or, with bendlet sinister

Right Supporter - Shield Charged  with John Lestrange arms [d.1375], gules two lions argent, semë de molets.

N04

Sir Robert de Illey of Plumstead [d.1398], helmet laid aside, bearing his armorial shield, charged ermine two

chevronels sable; his hair is fluffed out round his head

Left Supporter - Shield Charged  with Thomas Hoo of Brunvald [d. 1420] arms.

Right Supporter - Shield Charged  with Robert de Ufford of Wrentham arms sable a cross engrailed or, a bendlet

impales Felton.

N05

Bearded huntsman blowing horn, with bow {broken} and arrows, stags, and dogs.

Left Supporter - Stag.[head missing]

Right Supporter - Two stags.

N06

Naked man bitten by lion and two dragons.

Left Supporter - Vine leaves.

Right Supporter - Vine leaves and grapes [damaged]

N07

Sir William Wingfield of Letheringham [d. 1378] and his wife Margaret hand in hand and two small dogs.

Left Supporter - Shield Charged  with Wingfield arms on a bend three pairs of wings.

Right Supporter - Shield Charged  with Boville arms quarterly.

N08

Angel emerging from cloud holding crown [head lost]

Left Supporter - Angel playing psaltery [mutilated]

Right Supporter - Angel playing viol [mutilated]

N09

Mermaid suckling lion; mirror on couch.

Supporters - Dolphin swallowing its young.

N10

Eagle.

Left Supporter - Face rayed by hair.

Right Supporter - Face, crowned, rayed by hair.

N11

St. Michael slays seven-headed dragon.

Supporters - Leaf.

N12

Pelican in her piety.

Supporters - Pelican [heads missing]

N13

Samson astride lion rending its jaws.

Left Supporter - Crane.

Right Supporter - Owl.

N14

Ape riding leering beast backwards, holding its tail and beating it.

Supporters - Ape apparently with toothache, holding birch.

N15

Ox-headed leopard.

Supporters - Missing.

N16

Man {wrath}, lurching on a restive boar, grits his teeth and draws his sword

Supporters - Leaves and berries in roundel.

N17

Owl mobbed by little birds.

Supporters - Crested bird set in circular stem.

N18

Man, with portly belly, [greed/gluttony], with his cap falling off , wearing pointed boots riding a sow,  Holds a tankard in

each hand.

Supporters - Beaked merman.

N19

Angular corbel on small head with hair on each side.

Supporters - Leaf.

N20

Bishop’s head, mitre worn side ways.

Now SS

Supporters - Dove on cloud.

N21

Angel holding girdle.

Now SS

Supporters - Leaf.

N22

Shaggy calf with four-toes forefeet.

Supporters - Missing.

N23

Wyvern whispers into lion’s ear. [The Tempter]

Supporters - Wild rose.

N24

Pomegranates sprouting from the mouth of a scowling foliate mask.

Supporters - Curled leaf.

N25

Satan as a wyvern.

Left Supporter - Missing.

Right Supporter - Leaf.

N26

Castle with domed tower, trees in court, portcullis raised and gate ajar.

Supporters - Leaf.

N27

Ape hopping on one foot [lust] raised in a barrow, birching two apes pushing it.

Supporters - Man-headed wyvern.

N28

Rich-turbaned, two faced man {Deceit] soothes his smiling dupe but puts his tongue out at a snarling underling.

Left Supporter - A fat face, wearing a hat, looking towards centre with menacing grimace. His teeth are clenched.

Right Supporter - A coarse face with lips parted to show the teeth, looking towards centre.

N29

Two dogs lean grinning over ape, two more dogs grinning.

Supporters - Pomegranate.

N30

Hooded pilgrim rising out of shell, holds dagger and paddle sack.

Supporters - Wingless wyvern.

N31

Wodehouse with club in an oak sits on chained lion

Supporters - Eagle pecking wing or claw.

N32

Small head with curly hair at base of plain vaulting.

Supporters - Leaf in roundel. From St John Timberhill.

N33

Small head wearing flat cap at base of plain vaulting.

Supporters - Leaf in roundel. From St Mary Coslany.

N34

Small head with curled hair at base of plain vaulting.

Supporters - Leaf in roundel. From St Mary Coslany.

N35

Woman’s head in wimple and gorget, at base of plain vaulting.

Supporters - Leaf in roundel. From St Mary Coslany.

N36

Mitred head.

Supporters - A hart courant, facing inward [head missing] From St Mary Coslany.

N37

Uncharged shield.

Supporters - Leaf in roundel. From St Mary Coslany.

N38

Uncharged shield.

Supporters - Leaf in roundel. From St Mary Coslany.