206 tttE CHURCH BELLS OF DORSET. 



bells, two of them being at Washington, two at Beeding, and one 

 at Yapton. All bear simple dedications S. Michael, the Virgin 

 Mary, S. Katherine, and S. Margaret. The last takes the form 

 of the Salutation, which brings it near the Osmington S. Gabriel. 

 At Appledram, in the same county, are two bells with the same 

 lettering, but with P. W. under the cross, and these initials are 

 also on the second bell at Stowting, Kent. It may be that they 

 indicate the name of the successor to R, whom Stahlschmidt * 

 was inclined to identify with John de Romenaye or William 

 de Raughton, Metropolitan founders. But the R is probably 

 the initial of the founder's Christian name, and the blundered 

 Sf5R<9 ^ <3r?OF)pnneS points rather to an illiterate 

 founder than to monastic operations, such as we sometimes 

 find elsewhere. 



The larger bell at Stock Gaylard and the bell at Wraxall have 

 the same lettering. The former presents a strange contrast in 

 shape to its fellow just mentioned, the diameter being four- 

 thirds of the height. The A's are all placed sideways, The 

 reference to Wraxall should be 83, not 82. As Thomas Hey 

 " makede " the latter, no doubt he also " makede " the former. 

 The verb is a delightful survival, just as we read in an Old 

 English Homily not earlier than the thirteenth century, that 

 "makede Moyses" the sour water of Egypt to be sweet to the 

 folk of Israel, f This lettering is not identical with those on 

 the Haselbury Bryan second (Fig. 34) or third (Fig. 35). The 

 latter has moderately floriated letters, and the initial cross has a 

 crowned P at its foot. Tar rant Keynston seems to have unique 

 lettering, with signs of taste. 



Thus gradually ornament makes its way in the foundry, and 

 we chronicle some with crowned capitals, of which one seems 

 unique the bell in Bingham's Melcombe tower inscribed 

 O BCflCsfl (I^II7I<9fIS, with a cross much expanded at the 

 ends, engraved No. 21. I can find its counterpart nowhere, and 



Surrey Bells and London Bell Founders, p. '20. 

 t Old English Homilies, E.E.T.S., I., 129. 



