54 



On Church Bells. 



Robert Motte . . 

 Richard Bowler . 

 Joseph Hatch 

 Bartholomew Atton 

 Robert Atton 

 Francis Foster 

 .... Oldfield 

 Miles Graye . . 

 Thomas Nobbes . 

 Henry Pleasant . 

 Henry Penn . . 

 Wm. Cockey . . 

 Robert Catlin 

 Thomas Hedderley 

 William Dobson 



1578 



1603 



1605 



1624 



1610 



1659 

 17th century 



1625 



1641 



1702 



1704 

 1726—1743 



1740 



1762 



1811 



In the Liberate Roll, 26 



3. The composition of bell metal. 

 Henry III., sec. 12, is an entry of 10501b. of copper and 5001b. of 

 tin, and the metal- of an old bell, to be melted up with it to make 

 three new bells for the church of the castle of Dover. In the 

 Circle of Mechanical Arts, published by Mr. Martin, a civil engineer, 

 in 1813 (p. 354), it is stated that in bell metal there is about one- 

 fifth of tin. And in the Penny Cyclopaedia, tit. Bronze, it is stated 

 that Dr. Thompson found English bell metal to consist of 



Copper 80 . 



Tin 10 . 1 



Zinc 5.6 



Lead 4.3 



100 



Bell metal, therefore, consists principally of copper and tin, in 

 certain proportions, but each bell-founder has his secret mode of 

 amalgamating his metals. I believe that the best bell metal is 

 compounded of four parts of copper to one of tin. It is quite an 

 error to suppose that silver enters largely into the composition of 

 some bells. When the bells of my own church were taken down 

 the other day for the purpose of re-stocking them, it was observed 

 that the canons had become white in parts where there had been 



