208 THE CHURCH BELLS Of DORSET. 



campanologist, and author of The Church Bells of Sussex. This 

 important document will be printed at length by the Wiltshire 

 Society, and it suffices to give a few points in the last testament 

 of this Brasier, citizen of Franc Sarum. After a beautiful 

 exordium, in which he says that " nichil morte certius and nichil 

 incertius," he directs that his body be buried in the Church of 

 S. Edmund, in Nordhile, and leaves many legacies in money 

 and chattells a pair of " biluwes" and the weight of 200 (Ib. ?) 

 of ol/ce cenene to John Peccham, to Humphrey, the founder, los. 

 worth of the same, to Peter Brasier (perhaps the P of whom we 

 are in search) his gear and his best gown. The local detail is of 

 great interest to the good folk of Salisbury, especially fifty " paria 

 de blanketts" to the bedridden and sixty "paria socularum " 

 to tramps (vagrantibus) in the city. The probate of this will 

 was made on August 27th, 1403. 



The hexameters from the hymn to S. Christopher and the 

 English rhyme to S. Katharine, found on the third and fourth 

 bells at Shapwick, were given on p. 106, as well as in the list of 

 inscriptions. 



That the two have the same origin is rendered probable by a 

 connecting link at Little Hormead, to be mentioned directly. I 

 cannot identify the stops, which seem to belong to S. Katherine. 

 Possibly a guild of S. Katherine may be discovered at Bristol or 

 Salisbury. 



The wheel, appropriately placed on the S. Katherine's bell, is 

 No. 96, engraved on p. 204 and on p. 7 (Fig. 8) of North and 

 Stahlschmidt's Church Bells of Hertfordshire, from Little Hormead 

 second, which bears a cross not engraved before (Fig. 7), and a 

 dedication to S. Margaret in the small elegant letters on 

 Shapwick third. The fifth at Deophan, Norfolk, has the same 

 wheel stop, except at the rhyme, where it is supplanted by a 

 larger one of the same type. The inscription is (in apparently 

 different type) 



. SIS@O. 



