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THE CHURCH BELLS OF DORSET. 



This was the motto of King Henry V. after Agincourt, and as 

 William Lyndewode, the Canonist, who was present at the battle, 

 became Bishop of S. David's, it seems that the bell belongs to 

 the days of his episcopate. 



We now turn to some of the ordinary black-letter class, in the 

 style of the fifteenth century. A few of these, which bear simply 

 matia, as Alton Pancras 3rd, Compton Abbas 2nd, and Winter- 

 borne Came 2nd (which last inserts a capital R), are presumably 

 turned out by a not too literate craftsman. The Winterborne 

 Came smaller bell, which prefixes ^^miKtlV, has a beautiful initial 



cross, with which I should be inclined to compare those on the 

 Compton Abbas bell just mentioned, and on the Tarrant 

 Hinton treble, which bear a remarkable inscription, theologi- 

 cally speaking : — 



■^ i&'«ttf wmx ^\)t^ lui tvc]&' x\)0 mw'ux J<jUc>. 



This inscription is on the tenor at Compton Paunccford, 

 Somerset. The same cross appears on Farnham tenor. Warm- 

 well 2nd, Fontmel 5th, Charlton Marshall 3rd, Cheselborne 

 3rd, Winterborne IMonkton, Stinsford treble, Winterborne 

 Whitchurch 3rd, Compton Abbas 4th, and other bells in the 

 county. 



