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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July 28. 1855. 



* In another similar MS. the name of a Sir 

 William Domville occurs. Many names, viz. Prin- 

 dergast, Gibbon, Fitzgerald, Power, Fitzedmund, 

 Russell, &c. &c., occur in the Latin manuscripts 

 of the fourteenth century. James F. Ferguson. 



P.S. — The above-mentioned writings marked * 

 are probably private documents which were lodged 

 in some public office pendente lite ; and (as is very 

 often the case) not restored to the owner after the 

 termination of the suit. 



POPE, AND BATHCRST THE BOOKSELLER. 



A letter, without date of year, from Pope to Ba- 

 thurst, has been lately published in the Gent. Mag. 

 The circumstances stated in elucidation are briefly 

 these. Motte, who published the Miscellanies, 

 died March 12, 1758 ; and was succeeded in busi- 

 ness by Bathurst (Feb., p. 146.) ; and the letter, 

 now first published, says the editor or contributor, 

 "seems to show that he (Pope) continued to re- 

 ceive from Motte's successor, Mr. Bathurst, to 

 whom it is addressed, considerable sums on ac- 

 count of the Miscellanies'" (March, p. 261.). 



Now, with all deference to the editor or con- 

 tributor, the letter only shows that Pope held a 

 -bill of Bathurst ; but not that it was given for 

 profit or copyright of Miscellanies, or anything 

 whatever to do with that work. As to Bathurst 

 as successor to Motte, and the payment to Pope, 

 that is surely out of the question, for Pope died 

 fourteen years before Motte. 



The history of the Miscellanies in connexion 

 with Motte is briefly this. Motte published the 

 "first," "second," and "last volume," in 1727. 

 Some years after. Pope resolved to publish another 

 volume, which Motte, to use Pope's words, " de- 

 liberately refused." Motte soon saw his error, 

 and applied to Pope on the subject, probably 

 backing his solicitation with a friendly word from 

 Swift. Pope replied : 



" All I can do were to speak to Mr. Gilliver, as you 

 requested, to give you the share you w* have in y" pro- 

 perty, and to set aside my obligation and covenant with 

 him so far to gratify the Dean and yourself. You cannot 

 object, I think, with any reason, to the terms which he 

 pays, and which at the first word he agreed to." 



This was the last, though called " the third 

 volume," of the Miscellanies. Motte, as we see, 

 was then in business ; and indeed, as other letters 

 prove, continued in business some years after. 

 I can only suppose that Bathurst was the appren- 

 tice, servant, or partner of Motte, long before he 

 was his successor. P. A. B. 



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No. 300,] 



THE BELLS OF BLETCHLEY IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 



I beg to offer the subjoined history of the bells 

 of Bletchley Church, well known to many who 

 travel on the North-western Railway. The ac- 

 count has been extracted for me by my friend the 

 Rev. T. Delves Broughton, the present Rector of 

 Bletchley, from a MS. book bequeathed to the 

 custody of the Rectors of Bletchley for the time 

 being, and written on parchment by the late 

 Browne Willis, Esq., the antiquary, who lived at 

 Bletchley, and restored and beautified the church 

 there. 



As the account is minutely descriptive of the 

 way in which a peal of bells found their way into 

 the tower of an old English parish church, it may 

 not be uninteresting to those whose attention has 

 been drawn to the subject of church bells. 



Alfred Gatty. 

 " An account of other disbursements which have been 

 made since this first account, as the casting of the bells, 

 which were intended and designed to be altered when the 

 church was first set about to be beautified ; though those 

 were let alone till the last, and not attempted till the 

 year 1712 ; in which j'ear, on St. John Baptist's Day, viz. 

 24 June, the five old bells being very untunable, which 

 had hung in the tower ever since the year 1629, when 

 they were cast out of four large bells, were taken down, 

 and with 18 cwt. of additional metal (which cost, with 

 the carriage of it from Arseley in Bedfordshire to Bletch- 

 ley, with other expenses in buying it, 65/. 16s.), were de- 

 livered to Mr. Abraham Rudhall of Gloucester, 2d July 

 following, in order to be recast into six, at which time the 

 weight of the said five bells was as follows : 



cwts. qra. lbs. cwts. (jrs. lbs. 



Of the first or treble 5 2 24"^ 

 Of the second - 6 2 8 I Total of y" 

 gfttSh" :iO \ ! -ght^-43 6 7 

 Of the fifth or tener 12 1 2 J 



And the charge for recasting of them, and adding two 

 trebles, as follows : 

 "Expenses in the Casting the five Bells, and making a Peal 



of eight. 

 Paid as before for mettal bought, and brought £ s. d. 

 from Arseley, co. Bedf. - - - 65 16 



Carriage of said five bells and mettal bought at 

 Arseley, and bringing them back when cast 

 into six - - - - - 22 15 



Paid to John and Richard William of Kings 

 Sutton, CO. Northton., for taking down the old 

 five bells and making frames for eight, and 

 hanging the said eight bells - - 35 7 6 



Paid to William Grace, smith, of Bletchley, for 



iron-work, &c. about the frames and bells - 9 13 

 Paid for timber bought at Beauchampton, and 

 given to make the frames and carriage there- 

 of, and for screws bought at London, brasses, 

 &c., at least - - - - - 25 



Paid Mr. Rudhall for mettal of his own, added to 

 make the trebles, weighing about 10 cwt. at 

 6/. 10s. per cwt., as appears by his bill - 64 10 



Gave Mr. Rudhall for casting the bells - 53 15 



Paid for carriage of the two trebles from Glous'', 

 and of a new tener from thence, and y« tener 

 yt was first cast to be changed - - 15 10 



292 6 6 



