INDUSTRIES 



(neither pair arc the rector's) : I B , G V , R B. 

 It certainly seems probable that the first and last 

 pair belong to Jonathan and another Bolter. 

 The initials N B appear on four bells at Salis- 



foundry at Drayton Parslow, his native village, 

 only a dozen miles from Buckingham, where we 

 may conjecture he learnt the art. Richard was 

 baptized in 1601 -2 ; and there is a bell at 



FIG. 5 



bury, in conjunction with W P (William 

 Purdue II, of Salisbury), in 1656, and on two 

 bells at Great Durnford, Wiltshire, dated the 

 following year.** 



The arabesque (fig. 5) is on a bell at Tinge- 

 wick by Robert Alton in 1627. 



In 1630, the Buckingham Register records 

 the burial of Bartholomew Alton on 29 May, 

 and it is most probable thai ihis was the bell- 

 founder from Leicester. 



No bell is known to have been cast at this 

 foundry between 1628 and 1631, in which 

 year the treble at Loughton announces that 

 ROBERT ATTON MADE ME, and the fourth 

 at OIney, for the first and only time, gives his 

 address: ROBERT ATTON OF BVCKING- 

 HAM MADE ME, and with other ornaments 

 already used has a new shield charged with three 

 bells (fig. 6). 



1633 saw the founding of the last two bells 

 at Buckingham, the treble at Ashendon bearing 

 Robert's initials, and the tenor at Beachampton, 

 inscribed like the Loughton bell of two years 

 previously. 



It is extremely likely that Henry Bagley I, 

 who opened his foundry at Chalcombe in North- 

 amptonshire, in or before 1632, learnt his 

 business at the Buckingham foundry, and ob- 

 tained thence the running pattern (fig. 4) 

 noticed on the bell at Grandborough dated 

 1628, bearing Nathaniel Bolter's name. Mr. 

 H. B. Walters has found a copy of the shield 

 first used at Loughton in 1631 (fig. 6), having 

 the initials I M added in the field on either 

 side of the upper bell, used by a Worcester 

 founder, John Martin (or possibly two of the 

 same name), between the years i644-93. w 



By 1636, Richard Chandler, son of Anthony 

 Chandler a blacksmith, had established a bell- 



" Lukis, Ch. Bells. 



" 'The Ch. Bells of Worc.' Worci. Dioc. Arcblt. 

 and Arch. Sr. Rep. 1901 (Reprint, p. 36), and 'Some 

 Note* on Worcs. Bell-founders,' Arch. Journ. btiii, 

 '93 



Thornton, with nothing but the date 1635, 

 which may be by him, although none of the 

 figures certainly correspond with his known set. 

 RICHARD CHAMDELER 1636 together with 

 four little ornaments, was on bells at Grand- 

 borough (now melted), and Stcwkley (Bucks), 

 Nettleden (Herts, formerly Bucks.), and Milton 

 Bryant (Beds.), the last only bearing two out of 

 the four little ornaments. The Nettleden bell in 

 addition has an interesting survival in the shape 

 of the later of the two lion-head stamps which 

 belonged to the Wokingham-Reading foundry, 

 and was apparently last used not later than 

 1540. Only one other bell by Richard is 

 known the tenor at Cheddington dated 1638, 

 where the name is inscribed twice over, and 

 only two of the four little ornaments were 

 used. 



Richard Chandler died in June of that year, 



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