Jou JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
there is another charge for repairs to the south-east pinnacle, and 
placing the vane thereon, £2 12s, 6d, and in 1782 a new set of 
vanes were put up, costing £23 10s. 10d. 
It has been always stated that the clock in the tower was made 
and first put up in 1706; but I find there was a clock there long 
before. In 1640, 2s. 6d. is charged for amending the clock, and 
in 1695 the churchwardens called in one Mr. Harvey, who gave 
his advice about the old clock, and they charge 2s. as having been 
spent on him. The clock, the present one, made by Thomas Mudge, 
was very probably the gift of Colonel Jory, who did so much in 
other ways for the town. It must have been given by some one, 
for I find no reference whatever to it in the books of account. 
Passing from the tower to the bells, the first notice we have of 
them is in 1594, when the Black-book tells us that ‘the cage of 
bells were cast for Plymouth Church, consisting of five.” It is 
scarcely possible to suppose that Yogge’s “steeple” remained thus 
unfurnished for more than a century, and yet I believe such to 
have been the fact, for in the certificate of the commissioners of 
15538, to which I referred just now, there is no reference whatever 
to bells, while in the inventory of every other church in the 
Deanery and hundred, the bells are particularly mentioned and 
their number specified. In 1631 the peal was recast, and in 1709 
Colonel Jory presented the Church with a peal of six new bells. 
In 1733 there is a charge, ‘‘P4 Mr. John Pennington for casting the 
fifth bell, as per agreement, £41 16s.” Towards the cost of this 
bell, £54 18s. 6d. was collected from the parishioners.* I cannot 
explain this; re-casting a bell ought not to have cost this sum. 
Colonel Jory’s-peal was a heavy one, and in 1749, in consequence 
of the tenor having been cracked, it was cast into a peal of eight, 
the cost being defrayed by voluntary contributions. Of these bells 
the seventh and tenor fell while in full-swing in 1752, doing a 
great deal of damage to the belfry and Church, falling through all 
the floors of the tower. I do not find that any of the ringers were 
injured ; but the necessary repairs amounted to a considerable sum. 
With the exception of the tenor and the new first and second, 
the bells now in the tower are those cast in 1749 by Thomas 
Bilbie, and his name or initials are on all except the fifth. The 
sixth and seventh give us the information :— 
* Brindley. 
