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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 243. 



The first, or lightest of the peal : 



" Gloria in excelsis Deo. 1755. Edw d Place, rector; 



Seller, 



Ebor. . . 



Jn° Pullein, churchwarden." 

 The second : 



« Iesus be ovr speed. P. S., T. W., H. S., I.W., M.W. 

 1664." 



The third : 



" Deo Gloria pxa Hominibus. 1627." 



The fourth : 



" Jesus be our speed. 1 625." 

 The fifth : 

 " Soli Deo Gloria Pax Hominibus. 1631." 



The letters P. S., on the second bell, are the 

 initials of Dr. Peter Samwaies, who died April 5, 

 1693, having been thirty-one years rector of Be- 

 dale. 



On the fly-leaf of one of the later registers at 

 Hornby, near Bedale, is written the following 

 memorandum : 



" Inscription on the third bell at Hornby : 



• When I do ring, 

 God's praises sing ; 

 When I do toll, 

 Pray heart and soul.' 



This bell was given to the parish church of Hornby by 

 the Lord Conyers in the reign of Henry VII., but, 

 being broken, was recast by William Lord D'Arcy and 

 Conyers, the second of the name, 1656." 



Patonce. 



Charwelton Church, Northants : 



1. Broken to pieces : some fragments in the vestry. 

 On one piece, " Ave Maria." 



2. " Jesus Nazarenus rex Judeorum fili Dei miserere 



mei. 1630." 



3. appears a collection of Saxon letters put to- 



gether without connexion. 



4. " Nunquam ad preces cupies ire, 



Cum sono si nonvis venire. 1630." 



Heyford Church, Northants : 



1. " God saue the King. 1638." 



2. " Cum cum Praie. 1601." 



3. " Henry Penn made me. 1704. 



John Paine, Thmoas [sic"] Middleton, church- 

 wardens." 



4. " Thomas Morgan, Esquier, gave me 



To the Church of Heford, frank and free. 1601." 



With coat of arms of the Morgans on the side. 

 Floore Church, Northants : 



1 . " Russell of Wooton, near Bedford, made me. 1 743. 

 James Phillips, Thomas Clark, churchwardens." 



2. " Cantate Domino cantum novum. 1679." 



3. " Henry Bagley made mee. 1 679." 



4. " Matthew Bagley made mee. 1679." 



5. "John Phillips and Robert Bullocke, churchwar- 



dens. 1 679." 



6. " To the church the living call, 



And to the grave do summonds [sic] all. 



Russell of Wooton made me, 



In seventeen hundred and forty-three." 



Three coins inserted round the top. 



Slapton Church, Northants : 



1. [The Sancte bell] " Richard de Wambis me 



fesit " [sic]. 



2. " Xpe audi nos." 



3. " Ultima sum trina campana vocor Katerina." 

 All in Saxon letters. No dates. 



Inscription cut on the frame of Slapton bells : 

 "be . it . KNO 



WEN . UN 

 TO . ALL . TH 

 AT . SEE . TH 

 IS . SAME . TH 

 AT . THOMAS 

 COWPER . OF 

 WOODEND . 



MADE . THIS . FRAME. 

 1634." 



Hellidon Church, Northants : 



1. ■ God save the King. 1635." 



2. " Ihs Nazarenus rex Judaeorum fili Dei miserere 



mei. 1 635." 



3. " Celorum Christe platiat [sic] tibi rex sonus iste. 



1615." 



4. Same as 2. 



Dodford Church, Northants : 



1. " Matthew Bagley made me. 1679." 



2. " Campana gravida peperit Alias. 1674." 



3. "Ihs Nazarenus [&c, as before]. 1632." 



4. "Ex Dono Johannis Wyrley Armiger. 1614." 

 And five coins round the lip. 



5. Inscription same as 3. Date 1626. 



6. Ditto ditto Date 1624. 



Wappenham Church, Northants : 



1. " Henry Bagley made me. 1664." 



2. "R. T. 1518. *" 



3. " Praise the Lord. 1599." 



4. "god SAVE KING JAMES. R. A. 1610." 



Three coins on lip and bell-founder's arms. 



The Sancte bell was recast in 1842, and hangs 

 now in the north window of belfry. 



