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within three monkeys, as in a cage. The graver charge of indecency attaches to a sculpture on the Decorated Font at East Keal, Lincolnshire. Norman and Early English' Fonts are very generally supported by central and surrounding shafts; Decorated and Perpendicular by a single stem. This is the case indeed almost invariably in the latter, though the Font in Trinity Church, Hull, and some of the Cornish Fonts are exceptions; but not a few Decorated Fonts retain the earlier arrangement in this respect, as at Ketton, Rutland, and Iildershani, Cambridge. A kind of intermediate form occurs in the fine early Decorated Font at Linwood, Lincolnshire, where the square stem has its angles rounded off into engaged shafts, with plain capital and base mouldings. Sometimes a simple octagonal block is placed immediately upon a plinth, as at St. Martin's, Stamford, Goadby Marwood, Leicester-shire, and Heveningham, Norfolk; and the sides of these Fonts are usually ornamented with the flowing window tracery and geometric figures of the style, not cut deep in the surface, but formed of half-round mouldings. In some Decorated Fonts we observe the shafts merging or becoming engaged in the central stem, just as the clustered column grew out of the pier surrounded by detached shafts. This may be seen at Wolston, Warwickshire, Ditchingham, Norfolk, and a great number of examples. The angles of octagonal Decorated steins have usually

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