REPTON S MERRY BELI.S. I 7 



During the restoration of the Church in 1886, the opening 

 of the west arch necessitated the removal of the ringers' chamber 

 floor, which had been made, at some period or other, between the 

 ground floor and the groined roof, so the ringers had to mount 

 above the groined ceiHng when they had to ring or chime the 

 bells. There, owing to want of distance between them and the 

 bells, the labour and inconvenience of ringing was doubled, the 

 want of sufficient leverage was much felt : now the ringers stand 

 on the ground floor, and with new ropes and new "sally-guides" 

 their labour is lessened, and the ringing improved. 



When the bells were brought back from Loughboro' I made 

 careful " rubbings " of the inscriptions, legends, bell-marks, &c., 

 before they were raised and fixed in the belfry. The informa- 

 tion thus obtained, together with that in Vol. XIII. of the 

 Reliquary, has enabled me to publish the following details about 

 the bells. 



The " rubbings " and " squeezes " for the article in the Reliquary 

 were obtained by VV. M. Conway (now Sir Martin Conway) when 

 he was at Repton School. 



The \st {treble) Bell. 

 On the haunch, between three lines, one above, two below, 



FRAVNCIS TRACKER OF 

 LINCOLNS INN ESQ^ 1721. 



a border : fleurs-de-lis (fig. 7) : Bell-mark of Abraham Rudhall, a 

 famous bell-founder of Gloucester (fig. 7) : border (fig 7). 



A catalogue of Rings of Bells cast by A. R. and others, from 

 1684 — 1830, is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: this bell is 

 mentioned as the gift of Francis Thacker. 



At the east end of the north aisle there is a mural monument to 

 his memory. 



The 2nd Bell. 



On the crown a border of fleurs-de-lis (fig 9). Round the 

 haunch, 



