\U SAINTS DELLS, 45 



The remaining £\i 10s. was not paid within the year as ordered, 

 for in 1698 we find the following resolution passed at a Parish 

 Meeting, held March 28 : — 



"It is this day ordered that what moneys is stated by the psent 

 "Churchwardens to be due to Mr. George Sorocold upon account of 

 " Hanging the Bells in All Saints Steeple be paid to the said Mr. Soio- 

 "cold by the officers of the said parish." 



There is, however, no further. record of the money having been 

 paid. 



The Treble, or smallest Bell, is zq inches in diameter at the 

 mouth,* and bears the following legend : — 



C>OI) (Omt. Fig. 6) SMTWM. (Ornt. Fig. 6) Jfr X \M 

 (Ornt. Fig. 6) €TK"^B©"K (Ornt. Fig. 6) ^T\j^ 

 WMJ^<3?£Mtt (Omt. Fig. 6) I T3,^<>CS (Ornt. 

 Fig. 6) 1678, in one line round the haunch in small foliated 

 Lombardic Capitals. 



The JS{ and IjE- in Mr Thacker's name are larger, and 

 of great beauty, but as they occur also on the 6th bell, we 

 shall have more to say about them further on. The ^E) in 

 the first word is upside down. Between the words is the small 

 running pattern, Fig. 6. The crown of the bell is encircled 

 by the fine moulding, Fig. r, and the same ornament is repeated 

 (points upwards) beneath the legend, except beneath the orna- 

 ment between the two names, where it is replaced by the letters 

 W. N. 



These are the initials of William Noone, of Nottingham, at 

 whose foundry the bell was cast. The names are those of Mr. 

 Francis Thacker, who was instrumental in purchasing the bell, 

 and of John Ragg, the Sexton of All Saints' at that time. 



I am unable to account for the discrepancy between the date 

 of the bell, and those given in the Book of Orders and on 

 the brass plate, as it does not seem probable that the bell was 

 recast so soon after its being placed in the Tower, and there are 

 no entries whatever specially relating to it in the Churchwardens' 

 Accounts. 



* The height of a Bell is about the same as its diameter at the mouth. 



