106 THE CHURCH BELLS OF DORSET. 



3. Recast by John Warner & Sons London 1887. Thomas 



Hears founder London 1843 This bell was added 

 A.D. 1843 Robert Broadley Rector R. Tucker and E. S. 

 Knight C.W. 



4. Recast by John Warner & Sons London 1887 T.P. Anno 



Domini 1681. R D N D C W. 



5. Recast by John Warner & Sons London 1887 John Colfox 



Elias Punfield churchwardens Cast by Thomas Bayley, 

 Bridgwater 1764 



6. Recast by John Warner & Sons London 1887 Thomas 



Mears founder London A.D. 1726 recast 1843 R. Tucker 

 and E. S. Knight C.W. 



7. Recast by John Warner & Sons London 1887 %* AD. 1630 



8. Thomas Mears founder London The gift of J. Grancell 



and Joan his wife. Sing praises to God A.D. 1734. 

 Recast 1843 R Tucker and E. S. Knight CW and 

 recast by John Warner & Sons London 1887. 



Broadwindwr. 4th : Cros^~ Ellacombe's Somerset No. i. By 

 R. Norton or I. T., of Exeter. 5th : By Robert Norton, of 

 Exeter, i5th century. 



Buckhorn Weston.6i\\ bell: After "Shroton" read "Esq 

 1727. WKBF" 



Cattistock. The list of inscriptions is inverted, the description 

 of the treble being last, instead of first. 



Charminster. Tenor (see Fig, 15). It seems to the writer 

 that the inscription on this bell is not a bell founder's jumble, 

 but an inscription by a founder engaged after the Reformation 

 to cast the bell for the church, and who used this cryptic means 

 of recording his own or his employer's adherence to the 

 unreformed faith at a time when such an inscription, if plainly 

 worded, would not have been allowed. He possessed a fount of 

 mediaeval black letter type, as well as a more modern fount, and 

 he mingled both indiscriminately, and added a fleur-de-lis 

 emblem and a symbol which was used at the time in manu- 

 scripts to represent S. With this light, on turning to the 

 inscription (Fig. 15), it will be seen to read $ M. S M. (?) M. 



