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y e dedis y L y e said Willm. hath down to this Church of Wyke y*- 

 is to say frest dedycacion of y e Church xl s -' and to make newe bellis 

 to y e sam Church x 1L also gave to y e hallowyng of y e grettest bell 

 vj s - viij d -" On the tenor of Heyford, Northants, is: 



' ' Thomas Morgan Esquier gave me 

 To the Church of Heford frank and free 1601." 



On a disused bell in Tonge church, Salop, is: "Henricus Vernon 

 miles hanc campanam fieri fecit 1518 ad laudem Dei Omnipotentis 

 Beatae Marise et Bartholomei Sancti. Quam per duellionum rabiem 

 fractam sumptibus parochise refudit Abr. Rudhall Gloucest. anno 

 1720." At Dewsbury, Yorks, one bell is known by the name of 

 " Black Tom of Sothill," and it is said that it was given as an 

 expiatory gift for a murder. At St. Mary's, Marlborough, on the 

 treble bell, is: " Wallington Clark gave mee, J. Bliset R. Ednee 

 c. w. — R. C. 1654." At Hornby, Yorks, the third bell was given 

 by Lord Conyers, temp. Henry VII., but being broken was recast 

 by William Lord D'Arcy and Conyers, in 1656. William Freman, 

 Esq., of Magdalen College, Oxford, presented two bells to the 

 college, in 1740, besides defraying the expenses of recasting the 

 fifth bell, in 1748. In 1743, the Right Hon. Thomas Lord Vis- 

 count Weymouth gave the treble bell to Horningsham church. On 

 the fifth at Wolstanton, Staffordshire, " Richard Ashburie of this 

 town Blacksmith gave me in 1623." In 1803, two bells were 

 added to the peal of six in St. Ebbe's, Oxford, the gift of Mr. 

 Baker, Plumber ; and Mr. Scarsbrook, Collar-maker. On the second 

 bell at Aldbourne, is: "The gift of Robert Wells Bellfounder 1787." 



A bell is a not inappropriate memorial to a departed relation or 

 friend ; and in Broadhinton church, we find on the treble : " Glory 

 to God x In memory of Uliana Margaret Tufnell C. & Gf. Mears 

 fecerunt 1849." 



8. Epigraphs or legends. When speaking of bell- founders I 

 mentioned some of their characteristic epigraphs. There are some 

 other curious ones which I shall here introduce. On the fourth 

 bell at Aldbourne we read : — 



" Humphry Symsin gave xx pound to buy this bell, 

 And the Parish gave xx more to make this ring go well." 



