106 THE CHURCH BELLS OF DORSET, 



Alton Pancras 3rd is inscribed flUG Gl^fl^Ifl ©liGn^ 

 in Lombardic, but I am not sure of the lettering. A bell at 

 Cranborne with the same inscription is in handsome style, with 

 a saltire cross. The second at Charlton Marshall only takes the 

 first and second words, with a considerably floriated cross. One 

 of the bells at Milton Abbas, evidently not the work of one of 

 the monks, is marked S^R© Sfl IP^Of^fll^neS ►t FJ. The 

 tenor at Fontmell, flUG fflf^I^Ifl, and the bell at Tarrant 

 Keynston bears good crowned capitals, the latter with a rather 

 elegant cross and with a fleur-de-lis between the second and 

 third letters of the name tQfll^Ifl, the only word on it. The 

 Charlton Marshall tenor, with a plain cross, has endured the 

 ineptitude of some wiseacre, who has marked it — 



^ SI© no (Hen do m ne bg ne di© sua). 



I should be inclilied to class Haselbury Bryan 3rd with the bell 

 at Tarrant Keynston, the lettering being fine, and there being 

 a fleur-de-lis stop between the two only words, S^HCSSG 



Two of these " Longobards " bear unusual legends, the 3rd 

 bells at Iwerne IMinster and Shapwick. After the words 

 >^ Y)Ul<3 (uQ^LlGSie DGDI© on the former, which appears 

 to have emanated from one who would not let his left hand 

 know what his right hand did, there follows a hexameter hard to 

 scan as to interpret : — 



©ei^@i^ SI© Bon^ SUB lesu nominp sonp. 



At Shapwick are two hexameters, adapted to metrical destruc- 

 tion, from a well-known hymn to St. Christopher : — 



iliIjo neffiee dig nuniiO iijqnGOi^e Gi^fiuefeui^ 

 ©r^iSfeOHOi^i sfin©"©! ©ficQi^finfiffl guiciufflQUG 



Specicm is the third word in the second line of the original, and 

 Ncmpe is an alteration from iiamquc, and perhaps in this instance 

 an improvement on it. 



