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A coloured drawing and a detailed description of this window 
is given in the late Rev. H. E. Ellacombe’s “ Bells of the 
Church,” which work may be consulted in the Minster Library. 
About the year 1355 Orders were made for the workmen 
engaged on the Minster, in which are mentioned the ringing 
of the bell of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the bell for vespers, the 
noon bell, and also the ringing of the bell of St. Mary’s Abbey, 
called “ le langebell.” 
A bell removed from the Minster with others in 1765 to the 
tower of St. Michael’s, Spurriergate, may have been the before- 
mentioned bell of St. Mary. It bears the following :— 
“ + Sum ilosa ^ulsata f¥luntil |¥lana Focata 19 
usually rendered in English, “ I being rung, am called Mary, 
the Rose of the World.” 
Each letter is from a separate stamp, and the capitals are 
surmounted by a crown. A device thrice repeated consists of 
three lions passant guardant looking to the sinister side, two 
and one below, in the form of the letter T ; the upper ones 
are crowned. Mr. J. Eyre Poppleton, of Pontefract, has 
communicated that the device of the three lions occurs 
on the third bell at Leathiey Church. 
In 1360 the great bell of the Minster fell and was broken. 
In 1371 The Fabric Rolls mention the names of 
JOHN DE STAFFORD AND JOHN DE KIRKHAM 
in connection with the casting of a great bell, also the 
making of new clappers to two bells called “John” and 
“ Chancellor” respectively, and re-hanging same, a large bell 
for the clock, and a bell for the Masons’ Lodge. 
The late Mr. Thomas North in his English Bells, writes :— 
“There are good reasons for thinking that John de Stafford, 
who is referred to before, was identical with a man of that 
name, who was Mayor of Leicester in 1366 and again in 1370, 
and that he was casting bells in that town in the middle of the 
14th century. His bells are found in Leicestershire and in the 
neighbouring counties. He used a rather handsome gothic 
