122 THE CHURCH BELLS OF L)OkSEt. 



quarter. His trade name was William ffoundor, and the identity 

 of the two was established by the industry of Mr. Stahlschmidt. 

 Mr. Walter Rye allowed him to look through a batch of East 

 London deeds belonging to the Cornwallis family. Among 

 them were two title-deeds belonging to the same property, one 

 in 1393 witnessed by " William Dawe Found?','' the other, 

 two years later, by " William Foundor." His works were in 

 many parts of England. In 1385 he was casting guns for 

 Dover Castle, at the time of the great scare, and if we may judge 

 from nearness to the London and Dover road his bells at 

 Dovvne, Upper Hardres, and Otham belong to the same visit. 

 Devonshire knows his well-known marks, the three lavers, the 

 roundlet with ►t' '^^tZ'iniam . ffOUUrtOV . mt . fCSM, and two birds, 

 probably intended for daws, at Brent Tor, Brushford, and else- 

 where ; and indeed it was my discovery of them in Suffolk some 

 fifty odd years ago that brought me into correspondence M'ith 

 Mr. Ellacombe. As yet we cannot report him in Dorset, quod 

 sciam ; but if we have not the master Dawe we have the man 

 Walgrave. The latter was evidently a man of good repute, for 

 in the will of John Plot, proved in 1408, there is a legacy for 

 him : — 



" Also my wyll ys that John Walgraue seruaunt of 

 Wyllyam Fondour haue of my gode iijs iiijd." "^' 



I have found Walgrave's mark at Ightham in Kent, and this is 

 not the only instance in that county. Mr. Tyssen reports him 

 from Balcombe and Pulborough, Sussex ; Mr. North from 

 Tansor and Twywell, Northamptonshire ; INIr. Cocks from 

 Astwood, Tingcwick, and Old Bradwell, Bucks ; ]\Ir. Owen from 

 Ellington, Chesterton, and Overton Longueville, Hunts ; and 

 Mr. Walters, whose Church Bells of Shropshire we most earnestly 

 hope will some day be completed, from Oldbury. This is of 

 course a very sketchy list of Walgrave's bells ; but it is enough 



Will of Johu riot (or Eouweuhole or Eouwenhale). Fijtij Earliest Eivjlish 

 Wills (E.E.T.S.), p. 15. 



