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potters, casting ewers, pots, &c., for domestic use, and took 
their surnames from their principal occupation as 
JOHN POTTER, 
who cast a bell at Holy Trinity, Micklegate, containing the 
inscription in gothic letters :— 
“ + Ihc + Campana : Beate : Marie : Johannes : 
Potter : me : fecit.” 
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The same inscription occurs on a bell at West Halton, in 
Lincolnshire. 
John, son of Nicholas the potter, was made a freeman of 
York in 1359. Thomas Potter, brazier, was made a freeman 
of Norwich in 1404; he cast the tenor bell of St. John 
Sepulchre in that city. 
Lombardic Inscriptions. 
A founder is met with at the end of the fourteenth century, 
whose inscriptions were in the mediaeval capitals which are 
generally termed “ Lombardic,” as on a bell at St. Mary's 
Bishophill Junior, inscribed :— 
“ x Lac tibi Baptista, Lit ut acceptabilis ista ” 
on a stamp 3J in. x if in. is a figure of St. John with cross 
and holding a book. At Church Lenton is a bell with the 
same inscription, but in black letter characters with no capitals, 
each letter being a single stamp. 
The earliest dated bell at York is at St. John’s, it bears 
an inscription to the Virgin Mary with date 1408. This hell, 
with two others in the same belfry, was saved from the fire 
which destroyed the Church of St. Nicholas, without Walm- 
gate Bar, during the siege of the city in 1644. 
THOMAS INNOCENT. 
Torre records “ On July nth, 1466, there was then delivered 
into the hands of Thomas Innocent, bellfounder, by John 
Knapton, under-treasurer, and John Saxton, for the founding 
of four bells for the Minster, certain metals all particularly 
named in the record, which also shows the weight of each 
bell,” 
