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On Church Bells. 



First at Chute 1582 



First Bishopstone 1583 



Second Winterbourne Dantsey . . 1583 



Glasgow (Great bell, broken 



in 1790) 1583 



Third Netheravon 1585 



Second Combe Bisset . . . . 1586 



One St. Alkmond's, Derby . . 1586 



Second Bishopstone 1587 



Second Maddington 1587 



First and Second St. Nicholas', Great Kimble, 



Bucks 1587 



First St. Mary's, Watlington, Oxon 1587 



Fifth Netheravon 1588 



Third Combe Bisset .... 1589 



Tenor Cathedral, Oxford . . . 1589 



Second Manningford Bruce . . . 1592 



Fourth Winterslow 1593 



One Gay ton, Northants . . . 1594 



Tenor Burton Agnes, Yorks, now 



sold 1595 



Fourth Fotheringay, Northants . 1595 



One Limpley Stoke . . . . 1596 



First Cathedral, Gloucester . . 1598 



Third Wappenham, Northants . 1599 



I may mention here that bells were frequently the gifts of private 

 individuals, — clergy and others — in former days, as they are now; 

 and the record of the donation is generally inscribed upon them. 

 Bell-founders also generously presented them. At Watlington, 

 Oxon, on the first bell is " Jerem. Ewstes gave this bell in 1587." 

 And this gift seems to have been thought worthy of a second record. 

 For on his brass in the same church is : "Here lyeth buried the 

 body of Jerem. Ewstes, eldest sonne of Robert Ewstes, late of this 

 Town of Watlyngton, who gave the trebble bell that hangs in this 

 steppill. He deceased the fyrst day of May." We find a similar 

 record on a brass in Wyke church, Hants : " Here lieth Willm. 

 Complyn and Agnes his wife, y e wiche Willm. decessid y e xxj day 

 of May in y e yere of oure Lord M x ccccLXXxxviij. Also this be 



