112 The Belfry formerly standing in the Close, Salisbury. 

 Again, in 1633 is the following: — 



" For new oylinge and cullaringe the dyall on the belfree 6s., and for setting 

 up and talcing down the scaffold 8rf." 



From very oarly times shops and other buildings stood very near 

 the Belfry, if some were not actually built against it. There is 

 reference to these in 1473, when " three shoppis subtus le belfray " 

 are mentioned. Also in 1558 the rent of " two Shoppes " in the 

 west part of the Belfry is credited. Some of them were used for 

 workshops or stores in connection with the Cathedral, while others 

 were let as shops or dwelling-houses, and one as an inn or " ale- 

 house," which so continued until 1790, when the whole of these 

 buildings were taken down with the Belfry. In 1627, by a decree 

 of the court of quarter sessions, all the alehouses in the Close were 

 suppressed, with the exception of the one kept by Hugh Maunds, 

 who was a labourer employed about the work of the Cathedral, and 

 one of the ringers, so that probably he kept the alehouse under the 

 belfry. In March, 1757, the Dean and Chapter ordered " that no 

 liquors be sold at the Belfry after Michaelmas next." 



The charges relating to the bells in the Clerk of the "Works' 

 accounts are innumerable, the bells, or the parts belonging to them, 

 seeming to be always getting out of order. One of the earliest 

 entries in 1473 is for 



" Blostryng le stokke magn. earn pan and torn in g le cloke bell p two dies in la 

 belfray." 



In the same year and subsequently the Sacrist, or Sexton, "was 

 paid a shilling per annum for oiling the bells. The following 

 payments in the accounts for 1480 refer to a new bell : — 



" Et in denar Solut Thome Grey and John Brente pro carriag uov cam pan dc 

 Domo eneator usque le belfray iij*. — iiij d . 

 " Rope for the new bell 36 ,bs . 1^. iij s .— ix d . 

 " Timba pro le belstocke." 



The first item proves that a bell-foundry existed in Salisbury at 

 least a century before the earliest date hitherto assigned to it, viz., 

 1581, when it was carried on by John Wallis, who in that year 

 cast a new bell for St. Martin's Church, in Salisbury The foundry 



