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keys." This would tally with the era of the Lewanick benches, 

 — now, alas! no more— one of which was dated 1546- It is 

 noticeable that there are no armorial bearings of any private 

 family whatever; one, would have almost expected the ch< 

 and three laurel Leaves of the Trehvwnys to be present, yet their 

 non-appearance is scarcely strange, seeing that the family had 

 quitted their ancestral home a century before the benches 

 marie. 



It would be rash in the extreme to enter into the symbolism 

 of these ends. Some ' who know' have been heard to assign a 

 distinct, symbolic meaning to not a few of them — imagination 

 can certainly do a j^reat deal in this way: while others, who 

 would be surprised if their opinion were not, beyond question, 

 have as confidently affirmed that the figures thereupon are 

 nothing in the world but mere ornamentation, conventionally 

 treated. To state facts and suppress theories is a safe method 

 of procedure under such circumstances : let a simple catalogue-, 

 therefore, suffice : — 



I, 2, '.',. A form of ornamentation, 

 which may be described as 

 being something like an Octo- 



fii < ;, .vji i/ '. •■: o ' • • 

 diverging from a. central body. 



4. An gel, winged, with star on lore- 



head ; holding a shield charged 

 with IH'C. 



5. Tracery and scroll-work. 



6. Same as 1 . 



7. Two human heads with fishdike 



bodies, one on either side of a 

 stemmed fluted vessel. 



8. Human head and body, scroll- 



work for wings, arms extend- 

 ed, hands holding two tassels ; 

 body, from waist, merged into 

 a conventional Octopus. 



9. Tracery above two dragons ; 



mouths within rim of stemmed 

 vessel. 



10. Human body, holding decora- 



tion terminating in tassels, 

 above half a medallion, with 

 (?) horse's head. 



11. Angel holding shield, charged 



with a heart, between two 

 bands and feet. 



12. Birds peeking blackberries on a 



flowing spray. 



J 3. ("Front.; Scroll- work— presumed 



sea-weed. 



14. Same as 1. 



15. Two dragons ; tails united by a 



cord passing round sterns of 

 two opposed vessels in centre. 



16. Two fish, — ojjen mouthed, with 



human head and body, armless 

 and legless, between them — 

 above birds and blackberries. 



17. Panel tracery. 



18. A winged cherub, resting on 



narrow orifice of vase-like 

 vessel. 



19. Panel tracery. 



20. Two human-headed monsters ; 



fish-like bodies. 



21. Same as 16. 



22. Same as 19. 



