June 24. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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spelling Jhesus with an h may perhaps be referred to 

 the same mistake. The inscription, then, runs thus : 



(&$t nufci collatum $t$wi ttftuo* namen amatum, 



which may be rendered, Jesus, that beloved name, is 

 given to me. The bell bears no date, but is of course 

 older than the period of the Reformation. But it re- 

 mains to be observed that the last letter of the three is 

 not an s but a c. It seems that in the old Greek in- 

 scriptions the substitution of the c for the s was com- 

 mon. Several examples are given in Home's Intro- 

 duction, vol. ii. pt. i. ch. iii. sect. 2., but we have not 

 room to quote them. Suffice it to say that at p. 100., 

 in speaking of the MSS. of the Codex Vaticanus, he 

 says, ' The abbreviations are few, being confined chiefly 

 to those words which are in general abbreviated, such 

 as ec, kc, ic, xc, for Qeos, Kvpios, lr\crovs, Xpttrros, God, 

 Lord, Jesus, Christ.' At the end of these words, in 

 the abbreviations, the c is used for the s. — Peter." 



This fourth bell is the oldest in the tower. The 

 third, dated 1667, has quite a modern appearance 

 as compared with it. The second, fifth, and sixth 

 are all dated 1708, and the first, or smallest, was 

 added in 1824. Peter Oelando Hutchinson. 



Sidmouth. 



An appropriate inscription is to be found on the 

 bell of St. John's Cathedral in this colony, date 

 London, 1845. It is in the words of St. Paul's 

 mission, Acts xxii. 21.: "I will send thee far 

 hence unto the Gentiles." W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Here is a modern achievement in this kind of 

 literature. It exists on one of the eight bells be- 

 longing to the church tower of Pilton, Devon : 



" Recast by John Taylor and Son, 

 Who the best prize for church bells won 

 At the Great Ex-hi-bi-ti-on 

 In London, 1 — 8 — 5 and 1." 



K. W. C. 



I continue (from Vol. viii., p. 248.) my Notes 

 of inscriptions on bells. 



Mathon, Worcestershire. A peal of six bells : 



1 . " Peace and good neighbourhood." 



2. " Glory to God." 



3. " Fear God and honour the King." 



4. " God preserve our Church and State." 



5. " Prosperity to the town." 



6. " The living to the church I call, 



And to the grave do summon all." 



Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Ten bells ; the 

 inscriptions on two are as follows, the rest merely 

 bearing the names of churchwardens, &c. : 

 5. " God prosper the parish. A. R. 1701." 

 10. " I to the church the living call, 



And to the grave do summon all. 1 773." 



The latter seems to be a favourite inscription. 

 The Rev. W. S. Simpson mentions it (Vol. viii., 



p. 448.) on a bell in one of the Oxfordshire 

 churches. 

 Fotheringay, Northamptonshire. Four bells : 



1. " Thomas Norris made me. 1634." 



2. "Domini laudem, 1614, non verbo sed voce reso- 



nabo." 



The two others respectively bear the dates 1609, 

 1595, with the initials of the rector and church- 

 warden, and (on the fourth bell) the words 

 " Praise God." On a recent visit to this church 

 I copied the following inscription from a bell, 

 which, being cracked, is no longer used, and is 

 now placed within the nave of the church. This 

 bell is not mentioned by Archdeacon Bonney in 

 his Historic Notices of Fotheringay, though he 

 gives the inscriptions on the four others. 



" Non clamor sed amor cantat in aure Dei. A. M. R. 

 R. W. W. I. L. 1602." 



The inscription is in Lombardic characters. Me. 

 Simpson notes the same at Girton, Cambridge- 

 shire (Vol. viii., p. 108.). 



Godmanchester, Hunts. Eight bells : 



1. " Thomas Osborn, Downham, fecit, 1794. 

 Intactum sillo. Percute dulce cano." 



("Our voices shall with joy-"| 

 4. " T. Osborn I ful sound 



fecit. 



Make hills and valleys echo 

 round. 



■1794." 



8. " Rev. Castel Sherard, rector ; Jno. Martin, Robert 

 Waller, bailiffs; John Scott, Richard Mills, 

 churchwardens ; T. Osborn fecit. 1794." 



Morborne, Hunts. Two bells : 



1. " Cum voco ad ecclesiam, venite." 



2. "Henry Penn fusore. 1712." 



Stilton, Hunts. Two bells : 



1. " Thomas Norris made me. 1639." 



Cuthbeet Bede, B.A. 



At Bedale, in Yorkshire, is a bell weighing by 

 estimation twenty-six hundredweight, which is 

 probably of the same date, or nearly so, as the 

 Dyrham bell. It measures four feet two inches 

 and a half across the lip, and has the following 

 inscription round the crown : 



* >&> iou : eco : com : fiam : cruce : custos : laudo : 



MARIAM : DIGNA : DEI : LAUDE : MATER : DIGNIS- 

 SIMA : GAUDE ;" 



the commencement of which I do not understand. 

 There are five smaller bells belonging to the peal 

 at Bedale, and a prayer bell. They bear inscrip- 

 tions in the following order : 

 The prayer bell : 



"Voco . Veni . Precare . 1713." 



s.s. 



