112 THE CHURCH BELLS OF DORSET. 



Fishmonger ; the bell and the laver, of the Founder ; while the 

 wheat-sheaf is a charge in the arms of Harleton, the maiden 

 name of Margaret Jordan, who lies with her husband Giles in 

 Loughborough Church. In Henry Jurden's will the description 

 of his house and shop, in the lane called Billiter (Bellezetter) 

 lane in the p'yshe of Seynt Katheryn Crechurche w^in Aldgate 

 of London, has led to its identification with the site at the north- 

 west corner of Billiter Street, fronting on Leadenhall Street, 

 while his foundry was on the west side of Billiter Street, on a 

 space partially occupied by the East and West India Dock- 

 house. 



At Steeple we find a bell marked with the rebus of William 

 Culverden (7), a later mediagval citizen and founder, educated, 



7. — STEEPLE. 



as his will tells us, at Westminster. The Culver, or dove, 

 with ttCW above it, gives his name, and there are the usual 

 insignia of his craft. 



Lastly among medisevals there is the bell at Ford Abbey in 

 Thorncombe parish, found by Mr. L. B. Clarence and myself on 

 July 5th, i860, a very beautiful specimen from the Norwich 

 foundry, far separated from all its fellows, the only Norwich bell 



