76 On Church Bells. 



bells of Malmsbury Abbey, which have long since disappeared, was 



ibe following epigraph : 



" Elysiam caeli mmquam conscendit ad aulam 

 Qui furat hanc nolam Aldekni sede beati." 



Anglice, 



1 In heaven's blest mansion be ne'er sets bis feet 

 Who steals this bell from Aidelm's sacred seat." 



11. But I must hasten to a conclusion, and now come to the last 

 division of the subject, viz., a comparison of the respective sizes 

 and weights of tenor bells, of Wiltshire and other peals; from 

 twenty-six inches to sixty inches diameter. 



N.B. The figure after the locality denotes the number of bells 

 in the peal. 



Wootton Rivers, 5. 



Stratford Sub-Castle, 2. 



Ebbesborne "Wake, 3. 



Charlton, 3. 



Winterbourne Dantsey, 3. 



Week, Hants, 3. 



Allington, 3; Orcheston St. George, 2. 



St. Ebbe's, Oxford, 8. 



Ham, 4. 



Easton Royal, 3. 



Nunton, 3; Toney Stratford, 3; Winterbourne 

 Earls, 3 ; Idmiston, 4 ; Chute, 2. 



Tilshead, 3 ; Orcheston St. Mary, 3, 



Tidcombe, 3; Odstock, 3. 



Rushall, 3. 



Bishopstone, 3; Newton Toney, 4; Ludgershall, 5; 

 Laugharne, Carmarthen, 6. 



St. Thomas', Oxford, 6. 



Preshute, 5. 



Chilton Foliott, 5 ; Devizes, St. James, 4 ; Stock- 

 ton, 4 ; Winterslow, 4. 



Maddington, 3. 



Poulshot, 3; St. Lawrence, Winchester, 5. 



Britford, 5. 



St. Peter's in the East, Oxford, 6. 



