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On Church Bells. 



bells of Malmsbury Abbey, which have long since disappeared, was 



the following epigraph: 



" Elysiam cseli nunquam conscendit ad aulam 

 Q,ui furat hanc nolam Aldelmi sede beati." 



Anglice, 



In heaven's blest mansion lie ne'er sets Ms feet 

 Who steals this bell from Aidelm's sacred seat.' 



11. But I must hasten to a conclusion, and now come to the last 

 division of the subject, viz., a comparison of the respective sizes 

 and weights of tenor bells, of Wiltshire and other peals; from 

 twenty-six inches to sixty inches diameter. 



N.B. The figure after the locality denotes the number of bells 

 in the peal. 



Weight. Diameter 

 Cwt. in inches. 



c. 4 26 Wootton Rivers, 5. 



27J Stratford Sub-Castle, 2. 



29 Ebbesborne Wake, 3. 



29J Charlton, 3. 



29f Winterbourne Dantsey, 3. 



301 Week, Hants, 3. 



c. 5 30J Allington, 3; Orcheston St. George, 2. 



31 St. Ebbe's, Oxford, 8. 



31J Ham, 4. 



c. 6 311 Easton Royal, 3. 



33 Nunton, 3; Toney Stratford, 3; Winterbourne 



Earls, 3; Idmiston, 4; Chute, 2. 



c. 7 33J Tilshead, 3 ; Orcheston St. Mary, 3. 



33f Tidcombe, 3; Odstock, 3. 



341 Rushall, 3. 



34 J Bishopstone, 3 ; Newton Toney, 4; Ludger shall, 5; 



Laugharne, Carmarthen, 6. 



35 St. Thomas', Oxford, 6. 

 c. 8 35 \ Preshute, 5. 



36 Chilton Foliott, 5 ; Devizes, St. James, 4 ; Stock- 



ton, 4 ; Winterslow, 4. 



c. 9 361 Maddington, 3. 



36 J Poulshot, 3; St. Lawrence, Winchester, 5. 



37 Britford, 5. 



371 St. Peter's in the East, Oxford, 6. 



