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 2. Close helmet, XVIIth century, crested, a bull's head (Fig. 1709).

Tradition. Associated with the monument to Humphry Wykeham and Mary, his wife.

Crest. ''A bull's head erased sa. charged on the neck with two chevronels arg.'' (Wykeham.)

Cf. Bloxam, "Monumenta Sepulchralia," p. 136. [Photographs by Mr. A. K. Wickham.]

SWINBROOK. 

1. Helmet, 1560-70, crested, a bird's head (vide ante, vol. iv, p. 115, Fig. 1201).

2. Helmet, 1580-90, crested, a bird's head (vide ante, vol. iv, p. 115, Fig. 1201).

Tradition. Associated with the monument to the Fettiplace family, over which the helmets hang.

Crest. A griffin's head erased vert, beaked gu. (Fettiplace.)

THAME. 

[Communicated by Mr. J. G. Mann, B.A.]

Helmet, third quarter of the XVIth century, painted black outside and red inside, the mezeil gilded; crested, a ram's head (Fig. 1710).

Tradition. None. Hanging in the chancel on the south wall, over the monument to John Clark, ob. 1537. There are many monuments to the same family of later date.

Crest. ''A ram's head arg. armed or.'' (Clark.) [Photograph by Mr. A. K. Wickham.]