INDUSTRIES 



been the second of a contemporaneous ring 

 of four. Carter used a great variety of 

 letterings and ornaments (such as Figs. 9 and 

 10), but as he always added his name or 

 initials (at least from 1581) his bells need no 

 further descriptions for their identification. 



On the death of Joseph Carter, his son 

 William having his hands full with the White- 

 chapel business, the Reading foundry was 

 taken over by Joseph's son-in-law, William 

 Yare. By him there are eight bells in Berk- 

 shire j three in Oxfordshire, besides the sixth 



FIGS. 9 AND 10. ORNAMENTS USED BY JOSEPH CARTER. 



His will (given at length in Church Bells of 

 Bucks) is dated 14 Feb. 1609, and was proved 

 2 April, 1610. He was buried at St. Law- 

 rence's, Reading, 21 May, 1609. 



In 1606 Robert Mot, bellfounder of 

 Whitechapel, London, sold his business to 

 Carter, who put his son William in charge of 

 that foundry. It is not clear whether Mot 

 (in or before 1570) started a new foundry in 

 Whitechapel, or whether he succeeded to the 

 business of Thomas Kempe, of Aldgate ; nor 

 yet whether the latter set up a new foundry, 

 or followed the very old line of London 

 founders, of which the names of some of the 

 best-known owners have already been men- 



of the Christ Church, Oxford, Cathedral 

 ring, recently melted, and one in Buckingham- 

 shire ornamented with the running pattern 

 (Fig. Ii). There may be a very few others 

 by him yet awaiting discovery in the first 

 two of these counties. Yare's will, dated 

 22 January, 1615-16, was proved 19 April, 

 1616, by Edith his widow ; she was probably 

 his second wife, Carter's daughter being 

 apparently Anna Yaare, who was buried at 

 St. Lawrence, Reading, in February, 1609-10. 

 At Yare's death this ancient and important 

 foundry was closed. Some of the stamps 

 belonging thereto came into the possession of 

 a founder whose initials were I.H. Probably 



Fie. II. BORDER USED BY YARE. 



tioned (p. 417). At any rate, the pedigree of 

 the present Whitechapel foundry, known as 

 ' Mears and Stainbank,' is perfectly clear 

 from Mot's time to the present day ; and in 

 the Berkshire line, it certainly goes back 

 well into the fourteenth century. 



this was John Higden, who had been ' ser- 

 vant,' i.e. journeyman, to Joseph Carter. 

 He evidently set up a business in Hampshire, 

 probably at Winchester. His foundry con- 

 tinued until 1651, with a re-appearance in 

 1681, and even possibly later. It is probable 



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