CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE (Oxford).

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE (Oxford). (Founded 15 16, by Richard Fox, successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and Lord Privy Seal to Kings Henry VH. and VIII.)

The escocheon divided into three parts paleways, the centre division argent, thereon an escocheon charged with the arms of the See of Winchester ensigned with a mitre, all proper, the dexter side azure, a pelican with wings endorsed feeding her young or, vulning her breast gules, being the arms of Richard Fox ; on the sinister side the arms of Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, viz., sable, a chevron or, between three owls argent, on a chief of the second as many roses gules.

[Recorded in College of Arms at the Visitation of the County of Oxford. 1574. As to the division of the shield refer to note, sub Brazenose College.]

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