THE CHURCH BELLS Of t>ORSE. 20) 



must leave it, remarking the elegance of the lettering. Letters 

 of unusual form in the inscription % SpHCsSfl | CDp^Ip 

 Ol^fl ; EFJO UOBIS, formerly on the Haselbury Bryan 

 tenor, fortunately, have been preserved. They are engraved 

 (No. 36), and, as I cannot find them as yet either in the west or 

 in more distant counties, I can only look wistfully to Hampshire 

 or Wiltshire for enlightenment in this dilemma, as well as in the 

 case of the Nether Cerne tenor. 



On the strength of the inscription on the tenor at Wimborne 

 Minster one fine bell at any rate may be assigned to Dorset in 

 the Plantagenet period. When Anthony Bond in 1629 recast 

 this grand tenor, placing on it his monogram, the inscription, 

 which still remains, was "MR WILHEMVS LORINGE ME 

 PRIMO FECIT IN HONOREM ST& CVTBERG^ 

 RENOVABAR SVMPTV PAROCHIALI PER JB ANNO 

 DOMINI 1629," and after the names of the Churchwardens, 

 and initials, probably those of the three priests of the Minster, 

 is a shield bearing a chevron and three mullets. It is remarkable 

 that this bell appears to have been cast with a flat crown. Mr. 

 William Loringe was one of the Canons of Wimborne Minster 

 in the early part of the reign of Richard II. The care of the 

 parish authorities in the reign of Charles I. preserved the name 

 of the foundress of the Nunnery, the sister of Ina King of 

 Wessex, married to and divorced from Osred King of 

 Northumbria, Saint Cuthberga. 



Little Bredy fifth and East Morden fourth have the same 

 initial cross (43A), which appears to be No. 66 in Ellacombe's, 

 Somerset ; but I have not succeeded in finding its location in 

 the list of inscriptions in that county. The cross (8iA) at 

 Caundle Stourton was probably engraved from an inferior cast 

 of the same cross, and possibly Maiden Newton fifth (43A) is 

 another case. These have a certain affinity which connects 

 them with the treble at Chittern, Wiltshire, the only bell as yet 

 discovered which bears the name of John Barbur, doubtless the 

 John Barbor, of Salisbury, whose will has been most kindly 

 placed in our hands by Dr. Amherst D. Tyssen, the veteran 



