220 Bradford-upon-Avon. [Parish Church. 
we possess none of them at present, as the dates on the bells now 
in the Tower are all subsequent to the period of that enquiry. The 
entry to which we allude is contained in a document relating to 
‘Church Goods,’ is to be found in the Record Office in Carlton 
Ride, and is as follows :— 
‘‘BRADFFORDE. Delivered to Robert Browne and to Richard Rundell i cuppe 
or challis by Indenture of xvi ounces and v belles. 
In plate to the Kinges use v ounces. 
It appears from the minute book of Vestry, that in 1735 there 
were already siz bel/s in the Tower of the Parish Church. A reso- 
lution was passed, Aug. 19th, in that year ‘That the Churchwardens 
have full power to agree with some Bell-founder for two new 
bells, (less than the present Treble) in order to make it a Ring of 
Eight bells, the said two Bells to be brought forthwith and sett up 
at the parish charge.’ These bells cost, as appears from the accounts 
of the following year, the sum of £93 14s. 23d., exclusive of the 
expense of hanging them in the Tower, and were supplied by a 
founder of the name of ‘Cockey.’ Neither of these bells appears 
to be in the Tower at the present time. The Vestry accounts of 
1755-56 show that a considerable sum was then expended in alter- 
ations, &c., with regard to the bells, a founder of the name of 
‘Rudhall’ having been employed for the purpose. 
Of the present peal, the fifth and seventh were cast in the year 1614 
at the foundry of John Wallis in Salisbury. The third and fourth 
were cast, in 1680, by Roger Purdue of Salisbury. In 1754 the 
first, second, and sixth bells were cast at the foundry of Abel Rud- 
hall of Gloucester. When the original tenor was placed in ‘the 
Tower is not known; it was broken about seventeen years ago, and 
was recast, in 1842, by Messrs. Mears of London. 
Suspended in the Ringing-loft are the following lines, entitled 
‘The Bells, an address to the Ringers,’ written by the late Vicar, 
the Rev. H. Harvey. 
Sacred to Gop the Lorp and in His Hotse high raised, 
May holy sounds from us be heard, and He be praised; 
Bradford, when joy abounds, ‘tis ours with gladdening voice 
Thy Sons newborn in Crist to bid in Him rejoice: 
And when by death assailed and sunk in whelming grief, 
‘Tis ours to bid them mourn in Him, and find relief. 
