368 John Barhor, of Salisbury, Brasier. 



colon, and letters. The cross is fig. 32 in Ellacombe's Church Bells 

 of Somerset, fig. 21 in his plates of Devon, and fig. 58 on p. 514 

 of his Devon book. The Cheriton colon is fig. 60 in Devon, p. 514, 

 fig. 48 in Somerset, and fig. 15 in his Church Bells of Gloucestershire. 

 The letters 0, T, A, L, of the Cheriton alphabet are figs. 46, 47, 49, 

 and 50, in Somerset, and figs. 16, 17, 18, and 19 in Gloucester. The 

 letter is also fig. 30 in the plates of Devon and fig. 59 on p. 514 

 of that book. 



Mr. Ellacombe gives these letters and colon as occurring in 

 Gloucestershire on the 2nd bell at Sapperton, and the 2nd at 

 Stanley St. Leonards ; but really these bells have the Chitterne 

 lettering and colon. 



At Alwington, Devon, the Cheriton alphabet occurs in conjunc- 

 tion with a cross, fig. 19 of Ellacombe's Church Bells of Devonshire, 

 and fig. 59 of his Church Bells of Gloucestershire. This cross was 

 certainly used by one or more founders who resided at Bristol. 

 Altogether there are good grounds for referring the group of bells 

 which we are now considering to some founder or founders who re- 

 sided at Bristol, and for placing their date a little later than the 

 time of John Barbor. 



Now there is preserved in the Council House at Bristol the will 

 of one John Gosselyn, who is described as burgess and belleter, the 

 date of the probate being May, 1450. Belleter, belleuter, bellyeter, 

 and bellzeter, are all equivalents of bell-founder ; indeed Billiter 

 Street, in the City of London, derives its name from the fact that 

 it was the habitat of the London bell-founders in the 15th century. 

 We also observe that a John Gosselyn is mentioned in the wills of 

 both John Barbor and Alice, his wife, and was one of the objects 

 of the bounty of each of them. 



These facts render it probable that John Gosselyn procured a 

 set of stamps to be made in imitation of those used by John 

 Barbor, and used them at Bristol, and that John Barbor's original 

 stamps went there also, and that the Chitterne wheel remained 

 there, while the others were further transported to Worcester, and 

 thence to London. 



A temporary employment of John Barbor's own stamps at Bristol 



