THE CHURCH BELLS OF DORSET. lOQ 



Another curious trait of ignorance is 



^h %\x ^ci* BtAt :Pia :jPxo MoU^ 'W'm^ XsElavia, 



which adorns the 4th bells at Stourpaine and Fontmel Magna, 

 while the tenor at Blandford St. Mary's has a new form for 

 Hcvc :— 



4* M-t Gam ^mnx BMt ... in Jxiom y^t jQElavie. 



At Burstock is one of the earliest instances of advertisements, 

 metrically condemnable : — 



*i< mc \m\'m' vm now t^t m\\\\nxM ^\\h acvc, 



with which may be cited an East Anglian puff of later date : — 



Thomas Gardiner have (sic J at last 

 Made as good as can be cast. 



A less obtrusive and more harmonious, though censurable, 

 hexameter appears at Whitchurch Canonicorum : — 



'i' \)\th^ oh \)hm\\i \\i mt tarn ^finu.o' mtdit. 



The composer, it is feared, would hardly have been able to justify 

 his use of adverbs, but this is a trifle to some solecisms. It is not 

 chargeable on the Canons of Whitchurch, for Mr. Ellacombe 

 found it on twenty-two bells in Devon ; and it may have 

 originated the incomplete line in which the bell-founder Thomas 

 Purdue alliteratively celebrated his recasting with additional 

 metal in 1676 the noble " Peter," given by Bishop Peter 

 Courtenay in 1484 : — 



PLEBS PATRI^ PLAUDIT DUM PETRUM 

 PLE[AY^^ AUDIT]. 



A beautiful line, though like the others culpable in scansion, is 

 on Broadvvinsor 4th : — 



