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The last of this group which I will mention is the 5th at 

 Broadwinsor, with 



s^ncsse g^bi^igii oi^b i?r^o noBis. 



On this we happily get a founder's mark, No. 5 in Ellacombe's 

 Devon, the initials X. U. being those of Robert Norton of Exeter. 

 He flourished in the west in the early part of the fifteenth 

 century, and I\Ir. Ellacombe, in his Church Bells of Somerset, 

 records a petition presented in 143 1 against him by the parish- 

 ioners of Plymtree before John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and 

 Lord Chancellor. The result is not recorded. As a rule his 

 bells are good. 



Some of these may come from the hands of a founder whose 

 initials were t 0, or from some predecessor of his. An initial 

 cross is used. No. 18 in Ellacombe's C.B. of Devon, and No. 30 

 in his C.B. of Somerset, by this man, with ordinary black letter 



1. 



inscriptions, but we find it also on Longobards, and notablv on 

 the bell which stands or stood on the floor of S. David's 

 Cathedral inscribed : — 



^ SO lii DC o r?o noi^ e© glio i^ifi. 



