92 THE HELLS OF ST. PETER, DERBY. 



family of Hedderly, especially as that name is found on so 

 many bells in this County. The earliest mention of that name 

 found in connection with Derbyshire bells is on one at 

 Findern, which is dated 1704, and bears the name of Daniel 

 Hedderly, who was of Bawtry, Yorks., and there is another 

 of his bells at Breadsall, dated 1728. 'I'here is only a differ- 

 ence of sixty-eight years between 1704 and 1636, so that these 

 bells might easily have been the work of Daniel's father, or 

 uncle, whose name we may assume to have been Thomas. 

 There was a John Hedderly, of Derby, who reca<;t the great bell 

 at Melbourne in 1732* ; also Thomas Hedderly, of Nottingham, 

 whose name occurs frequently on bells in the County, e.g., 

 at Mickleover, 1742; West Hallam, 1743; Weston-on-Trent, 

 1760; Heanor, 1781, and of the same date at AUestree. 

 After him came George Hedderly, whose name is found at 

 Rosliston, 1778-1788-9; again at Breadsall, 1786, and at 

 Allestree, 1790; also at Risley, of same year. Messrs. Taylor, 

 of Loughborough, have informed me that there is a bell at 

 St. John Baptist's, Stowe, Staffs., dated 1632, which has the 

 same letters, " T. H.," upon it.f Though I have made 

 numerous inquiries from gentlemen learned in bells, I have, 

 so far, been unable to obtain any information leading to the 

 identification of " T. H." ; but the Rev. Canon Raven, D.D., 

 has written me that R. C. Hope, Esq., F.S.A., in an article in 

 the ArcJueological Journal, No. 1 98, Vol. L., names a Thomas 

 Handcock, of Walsall, who was a Bellfounder in 1636, and 

 he may be the founder of ibis bell. 



S. petei-'s, S)erbi\ 



From observations made by Mr. George Bailey during the recent 

 demolition of the tower of S. Peter's, Derby, in 1898, it would 

 conclusively appear that the original tower was of Norman 



* See Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. III., p. 407; also ReUquary, Vol. XIV., 

 p. 225, where an agreement between him and others is quuted re this bell. 



t See Lynam's Chureh Pells of Co. Stafford, plate 80. 



