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Description: Arms of Richard Foxe (sometimes Richard Fox) (c. 1448[1] – 5 October 1528) was an English churchman, successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Azure, a pelican in her piety one her nest proper . Izacke, Richard (c.1624–1698), (improved and continued to the year 1724 by Samuel Izacke), Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter, 3rd Edition, London, 1731, A Perfect Catalogue of all the Bishops of this Church ... together with the Coats of Armory and Mottoes Described, pp.25-50[1][2]. Pelican was a mythical heraldic beast, not drawn accurately from life. Traced from painting in an old Greek bestiary
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