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CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE
A CHRONICLE OF
THE PRINCIPAL CAMPANALOGICAL EVENTS
THAT HAVK OCCURRED WITHIN THE COUNTY.
TO "WHICH IS APPENDED
A LIST OE THE IISCRIPTIOIS QIS THE BELLS.
J. J. EAYEN, B.D.,
OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, HEAD MASTER OF YARMOUTH
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
" <imttis soitos lanbct ^omnium."
JiiscrijHlon on the Zrd bell at Stctchworth.
" Nee manet in terroc fossoris mersa latebris
Mens, sed fert domino vota precesque Deo."
Geo. Fabrieius.
LOWESTOFT:
SAMUEL TYMMS, 60, HIGH STREET.
1869.
" Nee minimum meruere decus, vestigia Graeca
Ausi deserere, et celebrare domestica facta,
Vel qui praetextas, vel qui docuere togatas."
Hor. Ep. ad Pisones.
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P REFAC E .
In sending forth at last this contribution to the Campan-
alogy of England, I must not forget to render thanks to
the many kind friends through whose exertions the book is
enabled to appear. J. E. Daniel-Tyssen, Esq., of Brighton,
and W. F. Stephenson, Esq., of Eipon, have furnished me
with wood-blocks ; and among my principal contributors
of matter gleaned from church towers and documents, are
L. B. Clarence, Esq., B.A,, late of Trinity College ; Mr.
John L'Estrange, of Norwich ; the Eev. W. C.Lukis, M.A.,
author oiAn Account of Church Bells, to whom I am especially
obligedforthe extracts from the Tintinnalogia ; T. M. N. Owen,
Esq., B.A., F.G.H.S. ; the Eev. Hugh Pigot, M.A. ; the
Eev. J. H. Sperling, M.A. ; and Mr. Samuel Tymms, F.S.A.,
F.G.H.S. I am indebted to the Dean and Chapter of Ely
for leave to examine the Sacrists' Eolls, and to the Master
and Fellows of Downing College for access to Bowtell's MS.
I do not at all suppose that I have completed the Cam-
panalogical History of Cambridgeshire ; but had I waited
till the work was more complete, it probably would never
have come forth.
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THE CHURCn BELLS OF CAMBEIDGESHIRE.
Mt object is to give a short account of the Church Bells,
past and present, of the University, Town, and County of
Cambridge.
It does not fall within the scope of my subject to investi-
gate very particularly the early history of bells, and their
introduction into the christian church. This species of
"musical furniture" may have been in use in England
before the coming of Augustine, in 596 ; but it is not likely
that the bells of so remote a period were cast in a mould.
By the kindness of the present Archbishop of Armagh, I
was enabled, some years ago, to examine two very ancient
Irish bells, in his collection of archaeological objects, which
may give some hint as to the construction
of such specimens as may have existed in
the district at a time previous to the en-
trance of the craft of the bell-founder into
England.
They seem to have been thus made : —
I two shovel-like sheets of ii'on, with the
edges well turned up and made to lap
Fig. 1. one over the other, were united with cop-
per rivets and dipped into molten copper, so as to form a
wedge-like figure about nine inches high. In the longer
diameter of the crown are two holes through which a stout
iron wire passed, forming outside a kind of handle or cannon,
and terminating within in two hooks to hang the tongue
upon.
In the collection of the Archbishop of Armagh there is
also what is probably one of the earliest attempts at casting
— a bell called Barre Garreagh. It is somewhat smaller
2 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
tlian its more ancient sisters, but their shape is scrupulously
followed. The metal is latten, or something of the kind;
hut the bell was never good for anything, from the number
of Haws in the casting.
And such, probably, if any, were the contemporaneous
bells of Cambridge ; nor is it possible now to trace the
various gradations from these cymbals of early use to those
wliich loudly sounded on solemn days during the Saxon
period. That peals of bells, more or less in tune, were at
this time tolerably abundant in England is rendered more
than probable, as well by the size of the bell-chamber in
the Saxon towers of Northamptonshire, as by direct testimony.
The words, for instance, in which Ingulphus describes the
Crowland peal of seven : " nee erat tunc tanta consonantia
campanarum in tota Anglia," seem to indicate the existence
of many peals in England. Whatever may be the date of
the tower of St. Benedict, Cambridge, it is evidently meant
to contain a peal of bells, and was the mother-church of the
town in that respect, as we shall see. When we come to the
Norman period we find several other instances of this adapta-
tion of towers to peals of bells — as Downham-in-the-Isle,
Babraham, Duxford St. Peter, Ickleton, and, above all, the
western tower of Ely Cathedral. To these may perhaps be
added the ruined tower of Swaffham St. Cyriac. Eound
towers are of course ill-suited for bell frames ; but I believe
that the county of Cambridge now contains a solitary round
tower — Snail well. The tower of Westley \Yaterless, which
was round, has disappeared.
The Crowland peal above mentioned, wliich boomed over
the fens of the north part of the Isle of Ely, was destroyed
by the great fire at that abbey in 1091. Ingulphus him-
self had a narrow escape from the streams of molten metal —
the remains of the late Pcga^ Bcga^ Taiwin^ Turketfjl^ Bet-
telin, Bartholomew and Guthlac. The monks of Crowland
(according to Peter de Blois) visited Cambridge in 1110,
but it does not appear that they gave any impetus to the
mystery of bell-founding. Perhaps the lapse of something
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 3
more tliau a century had dissipated the love of bells fostered
by old Abbot Egelric, the founder of the first peal — for the
Crowland Abbey was served, till the end of the 14th cen-
tury, by two small bells ("duo JSkillettse ") which were
given by one Fergus, a brazier of Boston.
In 1112 arose Pain Peverell's Priory at Barnwell, which
appears to have possessed a fine tower, though we hear
nothing of its bells. In fact, there is very little to be
gleaned concerning the bells of this county for three cen-
turies after the Norman Conquest. We have, in this county,
to the best of my knowledge, but few bells which may be
safely referred to the 12th century. I may mention the
2nd at Kennett and the 1st at All Saints' Cambridge.
Neither of them bears any inscription, but their cylindrical
shape indicates considerable antiquity. Had these bells
been the handiwork of ecclesiastical founders, we should have
expected some invocation or dedication-hexameter upon
them. I suppose them to have been made by some itiner-
ant practitioner of the craft of bell casting, but this is mere
supposition. We must be content to emerge gradually
from the slough of hypothesis and conjecture to the terra
firma of fact.
In 1273, we hear of the bell of the church of S. Bcnedictj
Cambridge, and its use in convening clerks to extraordinary
lectures. We ought not, I think, to infer from this that
the chiu'ch possessed but one bell. Probably Bene't pos-
sessed a peal of four or five, and the tenor was the best bell
in the town. Be this as it may, there was a quarrel be-
tween Alan the Eector and the Chancellor, as to the right
of the University to the use of the bell. Hugh de Balsham,
Bishop of Ely, was called in to arbitrate between the
parties, and a composition was effected, by which the bell
was suffered "to be rung in a civil and honest manner, "with
the condition, however, that the clerk of the church should
be satisfied for such ringing in the usual manner.*
Cooper's Annals of Cambrid(/i; i, 54.
4 THE cnuRcii bells of Cambridgeshire.
By what means, or in what way, the University removed
its l)oll-p:itron:if^(^ from the church of S. Benc't to that of S.
Mary-th(!-Greiit, it docs not now appear; but it is clear that
tlio arrangcmout at the former church did not last two cen-
turies. In the Proctor's book for 1457, there is an item,
" pro corda* ct le Baldrickj" pro magna campana in Ecclesia
S. Marie.'' "By this," says Bowtell, "it seemeth the
University had the use of the old church.":]:
We now turn to Ely in the days of Alan de Walsingham,
who was Sacrist in the year 1322, when the square tower
which formed the centre of the cathedral fell down. It
appears that in this year there were two bells in the western
tower, for the Sacrist's roll contains a charge for the clapper
of the great bell called Bounce, and of another called Peter.
A little more than twenty years after this we find great
works in bell-casting going on in the cathedral, under the
superintendence of Alan de Walsingham, now Prior, and
" Eobarte Aylesh'm," Sacrist. It is instructive to note the
exact time of these works. A great struggle at Ely had
ended disastrously for the band of those noble East Anglian
monks, to whose genius and energy we owe so mighty an
architectui'al debt. Alan de Walsingham, the great repre-
sentative man of this body, had been unanimously chosen
bishop by the convent, thi-ough license granted. But Pope
Clement VI refused to confirm the appointment, and nomi-
nated the unpopular and tyrannical Thomas de I'Isle in
Walsingham' s place. The vast influence in wealth and
position which the Bishopric would have conferred was
gone, but the Prior and Convent pressed on with their work,
and the roll of "Eobarte Aylsh'm," Sacrist, Anno 19 and
20 Edward III, bears witness to their perseverance. The
account for the bells is the last in the roll, and is noted in
the margin Ctist'^ magn'' campan^ de nov^ Sacr^ cu' me jam
expens'm. Though beautifully written the roll is not easy
* Tho bell ropo.
t A strap for fastening the tongue to the staple of tho bell.
X MS. VI, 2090.
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to read, from the faded ink and discoloured parchment. I
have enclosed the parts which are more or less doubtful in
brackets. It runs as follows : —
In argill. emp. ap'd Lenn. ijs. ijt/. In cxp'ns mag'ri Johan. de Glous-
cestr' cunt' v'sus Lenn [v. s.] Inaquag' eiusdcm p aq'm v'sEly, x^. In
argill. erap. ap'd Erythe cu aquag' v's Ely p. v. p'dict .... [jxs. xd.~\
[In rodis] emp. p. fomac. faci'd. p. vie. xyd. Lib. Cok v'sus Lenn p. ij
vie. p. copro et stagn' [e'Uig'^] vij.?. vj^. In exp's p'dicti mag'ri Juhls p
ips. querond' ap'd North^mton ct alibi p d'vrs vie' iijs. In pakkeycrde
vie. xjd. In dcccxliv libr. stagn' emp. p. diet' earapan' vj/».
xixs. p. eent' xvi'. min' m}° iiijs. ob st'm. In ccxx libr' stag' erap. p.
eisd'm xxxjs. riiid. p. eenten. xiiijs. In [irv° ] eopr. emp. p. diet' cam-
pan' xjli. vs. p' eent. xvs. In dcxxi libr. eopr. emp. p. eisdem iiij/?. vjs.
\ijd. p. cent, xiiijs. In ccccxu lib' eopr' emp. p. eisd'm ij//. xvijs. x]d.
p. c. xiiijs. In v'^lxv libr' eopr' alb' emp. p. eisd'm iiij7«. viijs. p. cent.
xvj.5. vnde anaiug' ex pondcre jx libr In [c'rv'] emp. die [qua]
fuud't'r metall' magne campane p't'r staur' iiijs. vijr/. In flbrm' p iiij
camp'ns faci'' et fusione iiij camp'm de [ore] p'dict' pondcre hoc. vidclt.
X X
camp'm voc't'mlhcMMJiDcc iiij xij libr. camp'm voc't'mloh.MMDCC iiij libr.
camp'm voc't'm Mariam mmc iiij libr.xviij/i. xviijs. p qua'lib't lib. ob. min.
m*" iijs [In] p. fusion' iiij'" camp, voc'te Walsyngh'm
ponderant' videlt. vjmcciiij libr In pol. p. [pendic' diet' camp'] et
trendel. p. eisd' de pondere et al. rebs. g'nibs ponderant cccLxvlibr.
xvs. ijd. In faciend. p. fornac. et mols fac** in p'^ ijs. iijd. In
carbon' emp. p. fusione ear'd'm vijs. viijV/. In et aq° vs Ely iijs.
In emp. p. eisd'm iiijs. In faci'nd' ferrament' p. vj campan'. . . .
.... campanii de ferro dd. de st° Enpi' emp, xxxiijs. iijd. In vj
claperys de novo fact' ex fro dd. de st° . . . . enpi' cu d'm cu vij
h'n'bsp. iiij Sept. iiij /i. xvs, iijd. scil* p. qua'libt lib.lib. exigne,vs. [In
exp's llog'ri carpent'] p'dict' vj campan' pendent' Ixs. ip'e cl'me' cu Garc'
et cquo In vj cord' emp. p. [camp', p'dict] xvjs. Yiijd. Dat' Gar-
coi'bs p'dct'r Mag'r' Joli'is ct Rog'i in rcccssu cor' jxs. vj(/. In c lib [ferri]
.... In stapcl. ct haspis de cod'm faci'' iijs. vjd. In ij cor' cquin' emp.
p. bauderrikes unde fact' In facci' eor'd'm xd. In fil. emp. iiij of.
In [soles] emp. p. diet, baudcrykk iiij<^. In di. cent, rcdis emp. ap.
Thorncye p. focali ijs. In aquag' cord'm vs. Ely, ijs.
And the roll ends with the words
S'm o'm cxp'ns et lib. nov. oper.'
To some of my readers a translation of this account will
be acceptable. That which follows must be taken at its
worth : —
£. s. d.
For clay bought at Lynn 2 2
For the expenses of Master John of Gloucester going to
Lynn 5
s.
d.
10
9
10
13
7
6
11 5
4 6 7
2 17 6
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For the water ciirriago of tho same by water to Ely
For clay bought at Eritli, with the water-carriage to
Ely at tho Bamc time
For rods bouglit once for making the furnace
Tlu' account of Cok to Lynn twice, for collecting cop-
per and fin
For the expenses of the aforesaid ^faster John for seek-
ing the same at Northampton and elsewhere on several
occasions ^ ^
For packthread [bought on several] occasions 1 1
For 8 cwt. 44 lbs. of tin bought for the said bells, at
1.5s. per cwt. [with a deduction of 4s. on account of what
was had from the store] 6 1 9
For 2 cwt. 20 lbs. of tin bought for the same, at 14s.
per cwt. '^'- "
For 15 cwt. of copper bought for the said beUs, at 15s.
per cwt.
For 6 cwt. 2 1 lbs. of copper bought for the same, at
14s. per cwt.
For 4 cwt. 12 lbs. of copper bought for the same, at
1 4s. per cwt.
For 5 cwt. 65 lbs. of white copper bought for the same,
at 16s. per cwt., whence there is a tret of 9 lbs from the
weight 4 8
For beer bought on the day on which the metal of the
great bell is melted, beside what was had from the store 4 6
For moulds for making four bells, and the casting of
four bells from the aforesaid ore, of the following weight,
that is to say : —
The bell called JESUS, 37 cwt. 52 lbs.
The bell called John, 27 cwt. 4 lbs.
The beU caUed Mary, 21 cwt. 4 lbs. 18 18
For [a mould] for the casting of the 4lh bell, called
"Walsynghara, weighing [18 cwt. 4 lbs.]
For poles for the hanging of the said bells, and wheels
for the same according to weight, and divers other things
weighing 3 cwt. 65 lbs. 15 2
For making for the furnace, and making moulds
in part 2 3
For charcoal bought for the casting of the same 7 8
For and water-carriage to Ely 3
For , . . bought for the same 4
For making ironwork for the six bells [hanging in the
great] belfry, of iron, half bought from the Bishop's store 33 3
For six clappers new made from iron, half from the
[said] Bishop's store, with
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£. .1. d.
For the expenses of seven mon for four weeks 4 16 3
For the expenses of Roger the carpenter hanging the
aforesaid six bells 60
[Clement himself] with his boy and horse
For six cords bought for tlie aforesaid bells 1 6 8
Given to the boys of the aforesaid Masters John and
Roger, at their departure 9 6
For 1 cwt. of iron ....
For making staples and hasps from it . 3 6
For two horse-hides bought for making baldricks
thereof
For making the same 10
For thread bought 3
For soles bought for the said baldricks 4
For half a hundred reeds bought at Thorney for fuel 2
For water-carriage of the same to Ely 2
It might have been hoped that through this record of
operations we should have been able to arrive at the pro-
portion of metals adopted by Master John of Gloucester in
bell-casting. Unfortunately, there are no data through
which this may be obtained, for it is evident that there must
have been a considerable store \_staurum'] of metal, which
does not enter into the Sacrist's account. The amount of
copper — 25 cwt. 33 lbs., of tin — 10 cwt. 64 lbs., of white
copper (probably zinc) — 5 cwt. 65 lbs., gives a total of 2 tons
1 cwt. 50 lbs., which falls short of half the registered weight
of the four bells, Manj^ John^ Jesu^ and WaUungliam^ viz.,
5 tons 3 cwt. 64 lbs.
It appears strange that copper and tin should have been
weighed on a different system : yet, whereas the items for
copper will all be found correct at 112 lbs. the cwt., the
items for tin seem to indicate a rate of 80 lbs. to the cwt.
for that metal.
" Staples '' are for hanging the tongue upon: ''hasps''
probably belonged to the tackling of the bell itself The
process of boring the crown of a bell from the inside for the
insertion of the staple is represented in the fii'st scene in
the " Bell Window " in York minster.
I have interpreted the weights of the bells called Jesn
and Walsyngham to the best of my power ; but the notation
8 THE ciiuRcn bells of cambridgeshiiie.
imiy have deceived me. In the case of the former, I take
every i in the row of four which is surmounted by x at the
b(\<^innini^ and end of it to indicate 10, and thus I obtain
tlie weigiit 37 cwt. 52 lbs. In the case of the latter I sup-
pose VJ to be placed before m by way of subtraction, and the
result (18 cwt. 4 lbs.) renders it probable that this is right,
for the four bells seem to be arranged in the account in
descending order of magnitude
Perhaps at some future time the investigation of the cast-
ing of the bells Bounce and Peter may throw some light on
these items. The Ely rolls deserve the attention of a ripe
antiquary. I earnestly hope that the publication of this
account, which throws so much light upon the unassisted
labours of these gallant East Anglian monks, may lead to
a thorough examination of all the rolls. And here, with
feelings of the greatest respect, I take my leave of Alan de
Walsyngham and Eobarte Aylesham.
When we come to the examination of inscribed bells, it
is only with the greatest caution that dates can be assigned
even by way of comparison. To what cause the absence of
dates on our mediaeval bells is due is a great mystery ; but
the fact remains. There is not a dated Ante-Eeformation
bell in the county, which runs very short in mediaeval
specimens. The Isle of Ely is swept all but clear of them,
and in the rest of the county they are under the Sussex
average, which is ten per cent. Out of seven hundi-ed and
ten bells, there are but fifty-five to which can be assigned
a date earlier than the middle of the sixteenth century, and
of that nearly half (twenty-six) are in the two Deaneries of
Bourne and Fordham, the former of which contains fourteen
out of seventy-nine, and the latter, twelve out of seventy-
two. Perhaps, of all the inscribed bells, the most ancient
is the 3rd at Stetchworth, which bears only the words
mil's S'n's (omnis sonus) \u\l\ \\\\ nm's S'n's \n\l\ h'ni. There
is not a single stop, stamp, or initial cross, from which to
draw any conclusion as to the date of this bell, or its rela-
tion to other bells in the district. The rudeness of the letter-
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
9
Fig. 2.
ing seems to suggest an early date ; but this is not a sure
criterion.
The treble at Impington bears a
shield (fig. 2), which is noted by Mr.
Daniel-Tyssen as occurring on many
bells in Kent, and on two in Sussex.
The lettering used in connexion with
this stamp is said by the same authority
to have fallen into the hands of a
founder, whose initials were I. S.
These initials we also find at Long
Stow, in this county, and at Watling-
ton, in Norfolk, in both cases in con-
junction with the royal arms surmounted by a lozenge.
The fleur-de-lis in the first and fourth quarters are three in
number.
In the group of some ten bells inscribed in the uncial
media3val lettering, commonly called Longobardic, there is
one to which we may assign a date ranging from 1250 to
1320. This is the 3rd at Conington, inscribed, assympta
EST MARIA IN CELVM GAVDENT ANGELI, LAVDANTES BXEDICVNT
(sic) DOMINVM. The lettering on this bell is identified by
Mr. L'Estrange with that placed by one Wilelmus de Norwijco
on several bells in the county of Norfolk, and in particular
on one at Heilesdon. Now, it has been discovered by the
same unwearied investigator, that in 1376, William Brasiere
de Notijngham was admitted to the freedom of the city of
Norwich. It seems only natural that this man, after exer-
cising his craft some few years in Norwich, should call
himself by the name of his adopted home. lie is therefore,
probably, the Wilelmus de Norwijco found at Heilesdon.
From the position of Conington, which is equidistant from
Nottingham and Norwich, we may conjecture this bell to
have been cast during the founder's migration from the
former place to the latter.
The following Nottinghamshire bells deserve more com-
plete investigation with reference to the history of this
10 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDOESUIRE.
foimtlcr : — Kirklington, treble ; Edingley, treble ; Eolles-
ton, 3rd.
Of other '' Longobards," — the treble at Madingley, which
bears the hitherto iaexplicablc legend, + dicor ego. thomas.
L.vvs. EST. xpi. SONUS. 0MA8. ; thc treble at Little Gransdon,
of which Ave can make nothing at all ; and three which bear
the salutation ave mart a, viz., Kingston, 2nd ; Caldecot,
3rd; and Cherry Hinton, 2nd ; — not much can be said. The
last had another inscription, of which a few letters only are
now legible. To these, before the year 1860, might have
been added the tenor at West Wratting, as to which I was
misinformed at the time of collecting the inscriptions.
A more intelligible little company is made up of a few
bells bearing a shield, three mullets inverted in chiefs a chevron,
and a crescent in base inverted, (fig. 3.) These are the 2nd
at Impington, the 4th at Eltisley, and the 3rd at Wood
Ditton. The Impington 2nd bears on the shoulder the
Apocalyptic emblems of the evangelists in the f.)llowing
order : — The bull of S. Luke, the angel of c. Matthew, the
eagle of S. John, and the lion of S. Mark. (figs. 4, 5, 6, 7.)
The conception of these mystical figures is very grand, and
the execution admirable. No tower in the county will re-
pay the young campanalogist S3 well as Impington. The
bell is inscribed Inuctn IntPriEa (Dra ^.^rn JOnlliS. There is a
cross in a lozenge before the sliield and a crowned fleiu'-de-lis
after it. The capitals in the inscription are also crowned.
The Wood Ditton 3rd has the inscription §\\ jljnnifll Umnifli
liCIICllittnni, with the crowned fleur-de-lis before the shield,
and a cross flore in a square after it. There are two very
fine specimens from this foundry at Mumby, in Lin-
colushire, and I cannot help thinking that the shield on the
sixth at iJeytcsbury, engraved in Mr. Lukis' book (plate
X, No. 1), is really identical with my figure 2. I take the
moon and stars in the shield to indicate " worker in silver
and otlier metals."
We have as yet no clue as to the locality of this foundry ;
but hitherto only the Wiltshire and Sussex bells have been
Fig. 4.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 5.
Fig. 6.
SHIELD AND EVANGELISTS' STMBOLS-IMriNGTON 2nd.
Fig. 8.
Fig. 9.
Fig. 10.
Fig. 11.
Fig. i:
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 11
"worked up. As other counties fall under investigation, we
may hope for some light to be thrown upon the founder,
whose skill in producing clean casts was of the highest order.
The tenor at Newton next clains our attention. The
initial cross (fig. 8) is similar in form to those on many bells,
e. g.^ the treble and second at Ilketshall S. Margaret, Suffolk,
and the second at Ninfield, Sussex, which are stamped with
the shield : a chevron hetiueen three lave-pots (fig. 9.)
This is the well-known mark of one William jjoundor^ whose
handiworks are to be found in almost every part of England,
and whose name was discovered from another of his trade-
marks (fig. 10). Through Mr. Daniel-Tyssen's Church Bells
of Sussex, we are able to connect William foundor with
another group of bells. Wo cannot say that they were
made by him, but there is a link connecting his foundry
with that from which the bells in question come. That link
is the first bell at Clayton, in Sussex, which bears the shields
(figs. 11, 12) and a certain medallion with six fleur-de-lis
(fig. 13). Now this medallion has been found by me at
Pebmarsh, in Essex, in conjunction with William foundofs
initial cross as given from Newton. Some facts with re-
gard to lettering [Church Bells of Sussex^ P- 1^) lead to the
same conclusion.
With the Newton tenor we thus connect the 4th bell
at West Wickham ; the treble at Guilden Morden ; the three
bells at Bartlow ; and the four at S. Botolph, Cambridge ;
and, beyond the limits of this county, the 4th at Frieston,
Lincolnshire ; the 5th and the late 4th at Mildenhall,
Suffolk; the 2nd and 3rd at Lakcnheath, Suffolk; the
5th at Mere, Wiltshire ; the 4th, 5th, and tenor at the
church of the Iloly Trinity, Colliergate, York ; a bell for-
merly standing in the north aisle of S. James' church, Bury
S. Edmund's ; the treble at Chardstock, Dorset; and a large
family of Sussex bells, rehearsed by the indefatigable cam-
panalogist of that county, p. 15. That there is some con-
nection between William ffoundor and the maker of tliesc
bells ought to be evident, but that they were not made by
12 THE CilURElI BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
liiin would seom proLaLlc from the absence of liis better-
known stamps (figs. 8, 9, 10, 13). The following stamps,
shields, &c., arc found on the Cambridgeshire bells above
mentioned.
On the West Wickham 4th are another octagonal medallion
(fig. 14), and the arms of France and England quarterly,
crowned (fig. 15.)
On each of the bells at Bartlow are the octagonal medal-
lion (fig. 14), the shield with the emblems of the Passion
(fig. 12), and the shield bearing the dolphin, wheatsheaf,
bell, and lave-pot, between cross-keys (fig. 11).
On the treble at S. Botolph are a stop (fig. 16), found
also at West Wickham, and a plain cross flore in an octagon,
not engraved.
The second places the Eoyal Arms between the stop and
the cross; the third and foui'th omit the cross. The
treble bears initials, probably those of the founder, which
Blomefield considers to be §, D. ; but Mr. Lukis writes
them '$, (D. To me they seemed to be S. d). The peals at
Bartlow and S. Botolph are both in excellent tune. The
latter bells are said to be remarkably thin at the sound-bow.
I should like to know, by the way, who S. Apolinus is, who
is invoked on the treble at S. Botolph. The date of this
foundry must be subsequent to 1413, when Henry Y sub-
stituted thi'ee fleur-de-lis in the first and fourth quarters of
his coat, instead of a semee of fleur-de-lis. I shall have
to revert again to this foundry in reference to the mightiest
work in bell-metal that has ever appeared in the county.
The medieeval foundry at Lynn, which is near our borders,
appears to have been one of some importance. Bells bearing
the name of Thomas de Lome are found at several places in
Norfolk, and at a Suff'olk church bordering on Cambridge-
shire (Worlington), the tenor is by Johannes Godynge de
Lennc, whose type initial (Calvary) cross, &c., mark him, in
the opinion of Mr. L'Estrange, as identical with Johannes
Guddiue, and possibly, with Johannes de liiston, the former
of whom was found at Wendling, and the latter at Bexwell,
Fig. 15.
Fig. 13.
Fig. U.
Fig. 16.
w'
Fig. 18.
Fig. 19.
Tig. 21.
Fig. 17.
Fig. 20.
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in jSTorfolk ; but I am not able to speak with any confidence
as to the Lynn origin of any mediEeval bell in Cambridge-
shire. No connection, as far as lettering goes, can be proved
between Thomas de Lenne and another Thomas^ found at
Chippenham, of whom anon.
Of all foundries in East Anglia, none was greater than
that of Norwich. The name of Brasyer, to which we liave
been already introduced, was well kno\\'n in that city to
the middle of the 16th century. The Brasycrs were
followed by the Brends, the last of whom cast bells
up to the time of the Eestoration. During nearly the
whole of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the bells
issuing fi-om this foundry bore thrice on the crown
three bells with a ducal coronet in fess, the field being some-
times ermine and sometimes sprigged (fig. 17) In Blome-
field's time there seems hardly to have been a tower in
Norfolk without one or more of these beautiful bells — for
beautiful they are alike in tone, in shape, and in lettering.
Even now there remain many of them in Norfolk and
Suff'olk, but I only know of five beyond those limits — one
at Chrishjdl, Essex ; one which I was astonished to find at
Ford Abbey, Dorsetshire, some years ago ; one at Stone-
leigh, Warwickshire ; and two in Cambridgeshire. These
are Landwade 2nd, and Kennett 3rd. They are both
of the sprigged kind, the former inscribed : l^irginis ^nrPniB
ITnror Cnmjinna 3J!nrit : and the latter : %n\\\s £ilinnniii
linms n CrilllillC 3HnuM. They both bear an initial cross
formed by four leaves, with a face in the centre (fig. 18),
and at the rhyming word in the line a lion's head (fig. 19).
From these marks, the two bells may be set down as the
woi'k of one of the two founders who bore the name of
liichard Brasyer.
Another important local foundry was that existing at
Bury S. Edmund's in tlie latter half of the fifteentli century.
The shield (fig. 20) contains in cliief a coronet with cross-
arrows on each side of it (the symbol of S. Edmund), a bell in
the centre, and cross-keys saltii'eways, the vacant spaces
14 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMURIDGESHIEE.
bcin^- o('f*ui)i(!d l)y tlio letters \\ g^ and in base a cannon,
Avitli a ball coming out of its mouth. This cannon
appears to mark tlic foundry as one for guns as well
as bells. Bells thus stamped are found only in the eastern
counties. In Cambridgeshire they are principally inscribed
witli ' ora pro nobis,' Cheveley, 2nd, and Cambridge S.
Jidward's, 5th, being dedicated to S. Anna ; Snailwell, 3rd,
to S. Peter; Wicken, 3rd, and Conington, treble, to the
Virgin ; Stctchworth, 4th, to S. Margaret ; Toft, 2nd,
to kS. Catherine; and Islcham clock bell, to S. Andrew. The
alarm-bell of Trinity Parish, Ely, is from this foundry, in-
scribed ; nnc grnrin pltna, ^dso, Trumpington 4th with its
curious motto, ci>ni. llfgnnt. it ^iins. Crli- M. 3^,um;
Conington tenor, inscribed, |iirgn Cnrnnntn_ Inr Mm ^]i
llriJIIJI *J3rilllI ; and the third at Isleham, which is stamped
with the arms of Bernard and Peyton, and bears a long
intercessory prayer addressed to the angel Gabriel, for the
souls of John Bernard, Thomas Peyton, and their wives.
The fact that John Bernard died in 1451, and Thomas
Peyton in 1484, gives an approximate date for this foundry.
From the initial cross, stops, and lettering of the Coton
tenor, which bears the same inscription as that at Conington,
I am inclined to think that is from this foundry. The letters
are all capitals, of the Bury type, and the cross and stops
are identical with those on the tenor at Eisby, Suffolk, which
bears the Bury stamp.
The small stop (fig. 21) is often found on bells from this
foundry : it occurs on the 3rd at Wicken, the treble at
Conington, &c.
It seems that this foundry was carried on at Bury success-
fully by two men named Chyrch — ftither and son — Reignold
Chyrch and Thomas Chyrch. The former, who is described
as a burgess of Bury S. Edmund's, died in the year 1498,
and the following extracts from his will, dated 16th Febru-
ary in that year, have been supplied to me by Mr.
Tymms : —
" My body to be buryed in Scynt Mary chirche, in the Ele of Scynt
Pet,' vnder the marble ston ther be me leid. To the parysshe preest of
THE CnURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 15
the same chirche to p'y for my soule, and to relicrse my name in tlie beclc-
rollc eu'y Sunday be an hooll yeer, xjs. viij</, M5-n execut /s shall visite
all the psones that lye sike & bedred, gevy'g eu'y psou iiijrf., or more, as
they thynke nede. My execute's to ktpe a saagrede & an erthtyde yeerly
for my soule, &c., in the chirche of our laiy. To the new werke win the
Monast'y of Seynt Edui'nd x m'rc. To the gilde of the holy name of
Jhu' x«. To the gilde of Corpus Xpi, xijfi?. To the gilde of Seynt Petyr,
x'ljd. To the gilde of tlie Puiificac'on of our lady callyd Candelmesse
gilde, xxs. To the gilde of Seynt Margcrete, iijs. iiijrf. To the gilde of
the Decollac'on of Seynt John Baptist, xxd. A cuppe of silu' called a peace.
My iij smale teu'ntries set in Reyngatestrete shall remayu to almesis housis
for eu.' Itm. I will Avery foppys have hir dwellyng in on of the same
almesse housis duryng hir lyve. It'm, I will the seid Avery foppe haue
of ray goods quarterly, xx</. as longe as she levyth, after the discresson of
myu executo"'s, It'm, I will that Alls Power haue hir dwellyng in the
hous that I bought of hir durying hir lyffe, and aft' hir discease 1 will the
seid hous shalbe leten eu' aft' to thentent that the seid almesse housis may
be rcpared & susteyned vp w' the tferme of the same hous for eu'. I will
that Thoms Chirche my sone do make clene the grete lectorn that I gave
to Seynt Mary chirche quart'ly as longe as he levyth."
The latter was employed by the authorities of Cambridge
S. Mary- the- Great, in 1514, the parish book for that year
mentioniug " an oblii^-acyon for Tho. Church, bell-founder of
liery." The will of Thomas Chyrch, dated 12th July, 1 527,
has been examined by Mr. Tymms, who has kindly supplied
me with these extracts : —
" My body to be buried in Seynt Mary chirch in the Ele of Seynt Petyr',
vnd' the ston ther by me layd. A. priest to synge for my soule at the
Awtcr of Seynt Thorn's, &c., for 5 yrs. To the seid chirche of o'' lady
0011 food of led. To eu'y of the iiij priests that shall here my body to
chirche, xij^. To Margaret my wyfe, my ten't ioynyng to tho capit ill tcn't
late my fiUdres in the Southgate strcte, su'tymc called Cobbolds. To Seynt
iS'icholas Gylde hoMyn in the College w' thyn the seid Town of Bury, a
lilil stondyngmascr."
After the death of Thomas Chyrch, the Bury foundiy
appears to have slumbered awhile ; but Ave shall come across
it again in the latter part of the sixteenth century.
AVe now come to three bells marked with a shield, bearing
a bell between the letters ^. ii. (tig. 22). These are Little
Gransden 2nd, and the 2nd and tenor at Hampton.
Bells bearing this stamp are found in many parts of l^ng-
land. I have found one (Cudham second) in Kent, and I
am told that there are several in London. The tower
IG THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
of LlandewcHluack, in Cornwall, contains three of them. Mr.
])aiiiol-Tysson notes three in Sussex. His argument as to the
locality of the foundry being London, and its age about the
middle of the sixteenth century [Church Bells of Smsex^ p.
16) seems to me satisfactory ; but I do not see why the
founder's name should not be Dullisdon, a name which occurs
as that of a London founder in 1510.
Perhaps the most elaborate shield is one (fig. 23) which
only occurs once to my knowledge in the county, on the
Landbeach tenor. In the notes on Landbeach will be found
a list of churches beyond the county, in which the same
stamp has been found. From the figure of the bird (which,
though really more like one out of a child's '' IS'oah's Ark "
than anything else, is supposed to resemble a peacock) added
to the P below the tongue of the bell, the founder's name
is conjectured by some to be William Pecocke. Another
theory, that of tbe name William Bijrd^ or William Sparrow^
is suggested by the words 3n ^'nn ro'llk ; there being, per-
haps, an allusion to the continuation of the verse of the
Psalm (xi, 1) — " quomodo dicitis animse meae : Transmigra
in montem sicut passer .^" " How say ye then to my soul
that she should flee as a bird to her hill?" The date of this
foundry is probably about the same as that of T. B., and
from the places in which these bells are found, the locality
may be conjectured to be London.
Through Mr. Clay's* notes on the Landbeach tenor, we
can give an approximate date, not only to this bell, but
also to the Caldecot 2nd, for two of the stops on the former
bell and one on the latter are identical with the reverse of
our silver coinage in the 15th century. Indeed, some pre-
sumption for the identity of the origin of the two bells is
afibrded by a W crowned on the latter, which also bears a
head of so abnormal a type, that I have caused it to be
engraved (fig. 24).
Mr. Clay appears to have been misinformed as to the
* History of Landbeach, p. 63.
Fig. 22.
Fig. 23.
Fig. 24 A. (See p. 16.)
Fig. 24 B. (Seep. 17.)
Fi<-. 25.
INITIAL CROSS OF AWSTEN BRACTER.
FROM HARSTON AND NEWTON.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 17
founder of the Landbcach belL There is no evidence to
connect this stamp with William Ffoundor.
It is strange how few of the Cambridgeshire bells were
made in the county. One may be found at Great Shelford,
the treble, apparently a mediaeval bell, on which only the
words \m\i flt iCflllllin^gE ai'c now legible. Mr.
Lukis (p. 16) note:i oiiQ Kir lin(/ (1-321) as a founder at
Cambridge, but he gives us no information about him.
Whoever he was, his business does not appear to have been
very extensive, as we have found the authorities of S. Mary-
the-Great employing Chyrch of Bury about that time. The
Shelford treble may be Kirling's, or it may have been the
work of Richard Nicholson, whose name occurs on the 4th
bell at Bottisham, and nowhere else, to the best of my belief.
This is rendered probable by the fact that the Bottisham
fourth bears the heads of a king and queen — perhaps Kenry
VII and Elizabeth, or Philip and Mary — which appear to
occur again on the fourth at Shelford. The moulding on
the 2nd at Shelford is again identical with that of the
4th, so that it does not seem unlikely that the three bells at
Shelford are all of the same casting.
Two bells of uncial type bear the name of Atvsteji for
AsienJ Bracyer, who writes his inscription backwards.
These are Harston 4th and Newton 2nd. His locality is
thought to be London. Neither these bells nor the 3rd and
4th at Chippenham probably date beyond the reign of Henry
YII. One of the Chippenham pair (the 4th) bears on
the shoulder a crowned head thrice, and the long hair and
severe cast of countenance seem to indicate the first monarch
of the Tudor line. Both bear an initial cross (fig. 24), and
a stop (fig. 25), the former of which has also been found
by me at West Lynn and Wimborsham, Norfolk, and at
Amptou, Sufi'olk. The stop is sometimes superseded by
two or three dots in a vertical line.
The word "derby," which occurs on the Chippenham
4th, is found also on the tenor at Ampton, while the 2nd
at that church, bears the words " thojias fecit" at the end
18 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
of tho inscription. As wc have before said, there is no
evidence to connect this Thomas with Thomas de Lenne.
Some day porliaps ^ve shall get at the truth about him, and
discover what he meant by putting " Derby " on his bells.
While speaking of the mediaeval bells yet existing in
Cambridgeshire, I must not forget to touch upon a few that
have passed away. The rood-screen in Abbey-churches,
and indeed in many others, frequently possessed a tiny ring
of bells about the size of common house-bells. Thus Jocelin
of Brakelond describes the reception of Abbot Sampson de
Tottington, at Bury St. Edmund's, to have been with ring-
ing of bells within and without the choir. In some cases
such bells may have supplied the place of a Sanctus bell.
Only one Sanctus bell that I know of remains in this county,
at Over, though there are cots (or traces of cots) for them
on the clerestory gables of the churches of Papworth
S. Everard, March, Wisbech S. Peter and Wisbech S.
Mary.
Of the bells of most of our ruined churches I have no
record. All Saints in the Castle, S. John, the chapel of S.
Edmund, the church of S. Peter without Trumpington gate,
Clopton, and Childerley, have left us only their names. I
know not whether Silverley had a tower ; the few grey
masses of masonry that remain do not seem to indicate any-
thing beyond a single chapel, most likely with a bell-cot in
the western gable. But Blomefield has preserved us some-
thing from " Swaffham St. Ciric" : — "It hath a large
tower,'' says he, " square below and octogonal (sic) at top,
with three bells in it. on one of which is the name maria.''
From the same authority we find that Fulbourn S. Vigor's
had " two large Bells and a Saint's bell, on which, jesus
NAZARENTJS REX JUDEORVM. CAMPANA SANCTI VIGORIS I'milta
^nte 5l|instnh nrn |irn iinliiH."
Cambridge S. Giles formerly possessed five bells, of
which I subjoin Bowtell's account : — " A clochard shed, or
tower of timber, was detached in the yard a little distance
from the south-west end of the chui'ch, a long time supplied
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 19
the place of a totver^ and contained two bells. This was
taken down in March, 1796, together with y two bells,
which bare the following inscriptions : —
I. Omnia fiant ad gloriam Dei, 1629.
II. Cvni Cano bvsta mori cvm pvlpita Yivere desi, 1629.
"Formerly there were three others. On the smallest was
Cum voce venite. On the next, Sonitus Egidii accendit ad
Culmina Celi. On the largest, o. virgo. virginum. ora.
PRO. nobis, ad. DoiiiNUii. Ou the skirt of this bell was
represented a woman's head surrounded by scintillations or
radiant halos^ characteristic of the Virgin Mary. To-
wards the crown of the bell were shown five tvouncls^
Heading hearts^ iwmegranates and lillies in a pot ; the usual
accompanyment of the Virgin at her salutation."* Bowtell's
information as to these three bells is derived from a MS. by
Charles Mason, D.D., formerly Fellow of Trinity and
Woodwardian Professor, a great ringer and bell-hunter.
He adds, "When the old frame was taken do\\Ti in 1796,
I observed that it consisted of five compartments, for the
reception of so many bells." Only the second of the two
bells existing in Bowtell's time remains. It hangs in that
elevated kind of hot-house over S. Giles, where it has baked
for some sixty summers. The inscription is very illegible;
but Bowtell, who is as accurate as Blomefield is inaccurate,
is right in everything, but the date, which is 1622, and the
word " vivere,'' which is " vevere " on the bell. The
same inscription occurs on the Trumpington tenor. I think
the true reading must be Cum cano busia mori, cum piilpita^
vivere disce. Or, in plain English, " When I ring for death
learn to die, when I ring for service learn to live.'' The
same thing is more neatly expressed in a pentameter on a
bell at Diddington, Hunts.
Disce mori nostro vivere disce sono.
Such " clocliards," as Bowtell calls them, were not un-
* Bowtell's MS., Ill, 775.
20 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
common. lie tells us that the S. Clement's bell used to
stand in a shed, and yet there was another, of the contents
of whicli I must now say a little. Ilad the design of Kenry
VI been carried out there would undoubtedly have been a
rival peal to S. Mary's in the Great Tower of King's. It
appears that Pope Calixtus the third sent five large bells
(the tenor weighing by common report 57 cwt.) to the pious
king, about the year 1456, as his holiness' present to the
new foundation. They stood for a great time in '' a small
clocher, or house erected for that purpose, near the east end
of the chapel.''* When this building was decayed they
were taken down and placed on the floor of the chapel, and
at last sold by the society to Mr. Phelps, of Whitechapel.
Blomefield's account is as follows. " On the first is this: —
Sii innltis um xnni\ Cnrnpnn Sojinniiis. And the arms of
France and England quarterly, with §. '§. for John Dogget,
who was Provost here in 1500, when it was new run'd."
I am inclined to doubt Blomefield. He reports one of the
S. Botolph bells to be inscribed 3. D. , whereas it is 3. (D, I
think, moreover, that the national arms seem to point out
the founder of the S. Botolph peal as the founder of this
bell. He proceeds : — " The second hath nothing. The
third hath, ave maria gracia plena. The fourth hath,
ISTomen tuum Sanctum per atria cantabo
Laudes tuas Domino, Laudibus celebrabo.
F. D.
" The fifth weighs, according to common report, 57
hundred weight, and hath the arms of France and
England quarter' d, and the impressions of a coin or
two, on one is a cross flore, on another, a person
standing by a crucifix, and this, cTrEnrtatr Hxn M jlPt
Cnnijiaua lirntn. I take it, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th,
have been run'd since they were first made, though the 3rd
* Blomefield, Collectanea Cantabrigiensia, p. 126. "East" is clearly a mistake of
Blomefield'a for " west."
THE CHUECH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIEE. 21
is, and perhaps the 6th may be, the same that were first
run'd. The 1st, 4th, and 5th, are cracked."* The town
of Cambridge must often have heard the tone of these grand
bells. Perhaps it was their sound that John ]Major, the
Scottish historian, found so soothing, as he lay sick in his
chamber at Christ's College.
If Blomefield's account be correct, England has only once
seen a peal-bell to exceed the tenor of these five at King's.
The tenor at Sherborne, the gift of Cardinal Wolsey (recast
in 1670), has been variously estimated at from 53 to 56 cwt.
The tenors of Bow church and of the late peal at York min-
ster, both from Lester and Pack's foundry, at Whitechapel,
weighed each 53 cwt. The one supreme peal-bell is that
at Exeter, calculated to weigh 67 cwt., or 10 cwt. more
than Pope Calixt's largest.^
No other college but King's can be conjectured to have
possessed a ring of bells.
liowtell records also a bell in the north-east pinnacle of
the chapel, used as a clock-bell, and inscribed with the
salutation.
Among other departed bells, Bowtell has preserved the
inscriptions of three fi-om the Holy Sepulchre (the present
bell being the old fourth): — " 1. robard gvrney mad me.
1663. 2 and 3. de bvri santi edmondi stefanvs tonxi me
fecit, w. l. 1576.":{: And Blomcficld, two of the old three
at Teversham : — l^nttctu IntcriEa arn prn nnlii5-§ Inutta jihxk
nrnpro nallis, and one at Cherry Ilinton (4th), lately recast
by Messrs. Taylor, of Loughborough : — ium ^BnMs thmU
n5 Duniiunra.il
How Sturbridge chapel was off for bells before 1546 I
know not, but in that year the town paid
" To George llaye for taking downc the bell at the hermitage, ijr/.
* Collectanea Cantabrigicnsia, p. 127.
t Lukis, on Church Bells, p. 66.
+ MS., V. 1033.
\ Collect. Cant., p. 184.
II Id., p. 2.
22 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CA-MBRIDGESHIRE.
Itom, to Jcnings tlu; carpenter for making a new yocke to the belle that
was at the Annitagc, and lor his paynes, ij«.
Item, for hanging up the bell at the chapell & for fetching a ladder, ijd.
Item, for a rope for the same bell, ij <?.."*
This too, has gone the way of the King's bells. There
were two hermitages in Cambridge. The one alluded to is
most likely that at the Small Bridges, where there was a
chapel licensed for divine worship by Bishop Fordham, in
1396.f These items occur in the town rentals concerning
Sturbridge fair ; and the necessity of a bell for the chapel
might arise from the town disbursing " to a prieste for
saying Masse in the ChappoU the faier tyme, iiiJ5."+
However, let us not linger among ghosts of defunct bells,
but bond our steps by degrees to things that are.
A few usages of the middle ages must delay us a while.
That the curfew, probably the Bene't bell, was regularly
rung in Cambridge appears from a proclamation (preserved
in the Corporation Crown-Book), which was made annually
about the middle of the 15th century : —
" AYc comaunden that no maner of mann or woman hold
his doer open after curfew belle be rongen, for drede of Aspyers stondyng
therin, waytyng man for to betyn or to slen, or for other peryl that myght
faUe thcreof:"§
Mr. Cooper has recorded the obiits that were commemor-
ated in Cambridge, viz : —
1475. John Erlych's, " in the chiu-ch of the Blessed
Virgin, near the Market."
1496. Katherine Cooke's, in the same church.
1502. Alderman Keynsham's. '' Berne well."
William Kentte's, jun., Clerk. S. Benedict.
1504. Eichard King's, of Wisbech. Barnwell.
1511. John Ilesse well's, sometime Mayor, and Agnes
his wife. S. Mary, near the Market.
1558. Alderman Francke's. Trinity Chui'ch. ||
The fii'st two employ a bellman to go round the town to
* Cooper's Annals of Ca»ibridt/c, i, 440, 441. t i, HS. j i, 440. ^'^ i, 196.
II Annals of Cambridge, i, 222, 246, 259, 272, 293; ii, 143.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIliE. 23
call upon the faithful "to pray for the souls before recited."
The remuneration for this " labour" was iiyl. The others
are content with ordinary " knolliug " of the bells. Cam-
panarian luxuries in obiits were but sparingly indulged in
at Cambridge. At Bury St. Edmund's, the "Sexteyn"
was instructed to '' do the chymes smythe Eequiem Eter-
nam," and other elaborate orders are given, of which a fine
specimen may be seen in the will of John Baret, who died
in 1463.* Let us picture to ourselves Cambridge as it was
three or four centuries ago — some of its noble buildings
unfinished, and most of the others smothered in its close
streets and courts — market day perhaps — manciples and
country folk squabbling over chickens and butter — Bilney
and Latimer discoursing in the " heretics' walk," and pre-
paring for the ' greatest Ecclesiastical Eevolution which
England has seen — "Clerks" wrangling in pairs whilst
whetting theii- appetite for their " sorry supper at five of
the clock," when round comes the bellman, and after the
preliminary ringing, we hear " Of your charity pray for the
souls of John Cooke and William Colles, and Katherine,
Joan and Lucy their wives."f
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, we come to a period
which gives far fuller detail of the history of our foundries.
And first, of the Bury foundry, which we have already
found patronized by the parish authorities of S. Mary-the-
Great. I fear the obligation, by which Chyrcli of Bury
was bound in 1514, no longer exists : but I can supply its
place with one probably similar, though of later date, from
Lakenheath, Suffolk. To some of my readers it may be
interesting : —
** Noverint univ'si p' p'scntes me Joh'cra Draper, dc Thctford, in com.
Norff., Bcll-foundor, tcn'i ct fiiinitcr obligari Thomie Smyth et Joh'ni
Cooper, Gardiaa' Ecc-rie de Lakinghcth, in Com. Suff., Yomcn, in viginti
libris bonaB et legalis monete Anglie solvcnd. cisdem Thomao et Joh'ni
Coop, eor' certis attorn' vel executoribus suis. Ad quaquid : soluto'cm
* Tymms's Wills and Inventories from the Eegistcrs of the Commissary of Bury St.
Edmtoid's and the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, p. 28.
t Cooper's Annals of Cavibridge, p. 246.
24 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
bene et fidclitor faoionci : ol)lif!:o me : hcred : cxccut : ct administrat: moos
p' p'litcs sifrillo mco sigillafo dat : dccirao nono die ffebruarii an'o licgni
J)'iio n're Elizal)etho dei gratia Anglic f{ranci(! ct hib'uic Itcginc fidei
dcl'nfs &c., (|uadragcsiino tcrtio, 1600.
" The coridicion of this obligation is first that whereas the above boun-
dcn John Drap. hath ncwc cast and made the greate Bell of Lakingheth
above written. If therefore the said Bell doe continewe good sounde
whole and p'frct by the space of one yeare and a day next ensewiage after
the said bell .slial be hanged in the frame readie and ffytt to Hinge Tun-
able and aurccinge in sound w''h the residue of the Bells in Lakingheth
aforsaid, then this obligaton to be void and of none effect or els to abide
and rcmayne in his full force effect power and vii'tue.
" Sealed and dcliv'd in the p'sence of us, bernard Minett, Thomas
Draper, Wyllam Saunders, witnesses.
By me .John Draper."'
The Bury foundry received a successor from a foreign
source. In Thomas Chyrch's later days there was one John
Tonne engaged in casting bells in Sussex. He appears to
have wandered northward, as I find him at Stanstead
Mountfichet, Essex, in 1540.
'' Stefanvs Tonui,'' whom I take to be his son, cast several
bells in the county. Two have disappeared from the round
church. Among those that remain are Landbeach tenor
(1577), Wicken 4th (1582), Stetchworth tenor (1564),
Little Wilbraham 1st and 2nd, and Cambridge S. Edward's
4th (1576), and particularly the 4th and tenor at Wood
Ditton (1588), which are ornamented with the royal arms
and elaborate crosses (fig. 26), and inscribed in mediaeval
type, the only exception I know to Stephen Tonni's usual
Eomau. The cross is well known as John Tonne's. It is en-
graved from his Sussex bells by Mr. Daniel-Tyssen, and the
4th at Stanstead Mountfichet is stamped with it.
The inscriptions on the Wood-Di(ton pair are : h f nni ^
rnsa ^ plsata '^ iiiiinlii i- mnriu i^ iiDrntn. And + iurgiiiiii ^
nssniiiptf -^ nnmni ^ gtrn ^ Wi -^ innric. The latter line is
nearly the same as that found on one of John Tonne's Sussex
bells (Keymer 2nd). I fear the rhyme is better than the
sense in the former verse.
It is not usual to find bells thus inscribed and dedicated
so late as 1588. A well-known mark of Stephen Touui's
Fig. 26.
CROSS FROM 4tli AND TENOR AT WOOD DITTON.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
25
Fig. 27.
is the crown and arrows ; the em-
blems of S. Edmnnd (fig. 27). It
appears on the Landbeach tenor,
and elsewhere. The initials W. L.
occur on the 4th bells at Wicken
and Cambridge S. Edward. They
are, probably, those of William
Za«J(a foreman perhaps of Tonni's),
who, in 1624, cast the bell in the
principal gateway at S. John's Col-
lege. Sometimes, as at Wattisfield, Suffolk, and Halstead,
Essex, they occur in connection withT.D., for Thomas Draper.
Thomas Draper's foundry, which thus seems to have origi-
nated from Bury, was finally established at Thetford. He was,
apparently, a man of substance and character, and was chosen
Mayor of the toTVTi in 1592, on which occasion he presented
a treble to S. Cuthbert's church. The only bells of his in
Cambridgeshire are, Horningsey 2nd (1590), and Stretham
treble (1591); but his successor, John Draper^ has given the
county many good bells. Chippenham 2nd and tenor (1601
and 1621), Littleport treble, 2nd and 3rd (1640, 1622 and
1624), Wicken treble (1634), Dullingham 3rd and 4th
(1627 and 1621), Wood-Ditton treble (1608), which bears
a long inscription, now defaced, and originally belonged to
Weston Colville, from which parish AVood-Ditton bought
it, after the fall of Weston Colville tower, in 1825 ; Horn-
ingsey tenor (1608), Great Shelford tenor (1614), are all
by John Draper. In addition to these, I may mention
Bottisham 2nd, and the tenors at Stretham and S. Benet's,
Cambridge. There appears to have been at this time some
little jarring as to the merits of different foundi'ies, and as
newspaper ad\ ertisements were unknown, the bells had to
puff their makers. The third in the last-mentioned chui'ch
bears this "vain talk'' : —
OF ALL THE BELS IN BENNET I AM THE BEST ;
AND YET FOR MY CASTING THE PARISH PAIDE LEST.
" Cheap and nasty '' truly, for it is a wretched tinkler.
26 THE CHURCH bells of Cambridgeshire.
But Draper is uot to be beaten by this. lie coinea out
strong on the tenor : —
John Draper made me in 1618.
This bell was broake and cast againc,
As plainly doth apcarc
"Wich time Chvrchwardena -were
Edwarde Dixson for the one whoc stode close by his tacklin,
And he that was his partner then was Alexander Jacklin.
I very much suspect that Mr. Dixson's '' tacklin '' was
introduced as a rhyme to his partner's name. It reminds
one of Tom Hood's foxhunter, writing a sonnet and " beating
up the covers" for a rhyme to '' Eeynard," Beynard, Cey-
nard, Deynard, &c. The 5th bell at Bene't, which seems
to have been cast by Tobie Norris, of Stamford, bears the
more elegant or less inelegant motto : non nomex fero ficti
SED NOMEN BENEDiCTi. The initials of William Land occur
in connection with those of John Draper on the 3rd and
4th bells at Stapleford.
No foundry of the time stood against Draper's in this
district ; it disappeared at his death, but some ten years
afterwards it revived for a little while, apparently at Bury,
under " Eobard Gvrney,'' son (I presume) of one Andrew
Gvi'ncy, or " Gii'ne," who seems to have been for a short
time in partnership with John Draper. This " Eobard "
cast the treble at Bene't, in 1663, but being a practical
rough kind of hand, he does not indulge in f usorial waggery.
The 7th at S. Andrew's-the-Great, which has been correctly
described to me as a '' mucky, yawling thing, without a
bit o' music in it," was the work of the same hand, in 1667.
When his bells are good, they are, in my opinion, very good,
but many of them are below mediocrity. The bell at the
Eound Church is his (1663), also the tenor at Impington
(1652 ?). The London foundry, under the Bartlcts, seems
not to have touched this county, but John Iloclson^ of the
metropolis, during the Commonwealth cast several of our
bells, viz.. Fen Ditton 3rd, Ilorningsey treble, Stapleford
treble, and the chapel bell at S. Catharine's College.
But it is time to speak of oui* Cambridge founders,
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBEIDGESHIEE. 27
though of no great eminence. There is one William
Hausleij, whose name I have found at Fen Ditton, and no-
where else. He is afflicted, like Draper and Tobie Norris,
with cacoethes tinniendi^ e.g., Fen Ditton 2nd : —
Eing and fear not,
But swear not.
and Fen Ditton 4th : —
Fcare the Lord and on him cavl,
William Eavslcy made vs all. 1623.
There is also one Richard Holdfeld, who cast Little
Shelford 3rd, Chesterton 2nd, and Trinity College clock-
bell. I cannot help thinking that Hausley and Holdfeld
were Cambridge amateurs, like John Warren the Smith,
who lies in the chancel of S. Mary-the- Great, and whose
only essay was the little alarm-bell in the tower of that
church, which he made in 1607, being at that time Church-
warden. The object of the boll appears from the entry in
the parish book : —
" Item, paid for the casting of the sayiVs hell, which wayed
55 lb., which cost 3rd the pound in mouye xiijs. vs.d.
And more we adcd 15 lb. and a hallo of metle, at Y\\]d. the
pownd, in monye xs. iiij<^-, and soe the whole charge of the
casting of the bell is xxiijs.
Item, paid for a roppe for the bell X(/."
It' for a yoakc and hanging the saints bell iijs. iiijc?.
The restitution of sance-bells, which seems to have been
carried on vigorously under Laud, gave rise to great heats.
When Dr. Warren, Rector of Long Mclford, Suffolk, was
returning home after his ejectment from that benefice, he
was met by a great mob, and " one of the party beat a fry-
ing-pan before him, crying, ' this is your saint's bell.'"*
But greater works than sance-bells began to occupy the
attention of the parishioners of S. Mary-the-Groat. The
original "forbell, myddell bell, and great bell," which,
with Thomas Chirche's tenor, made a peal of four, were
to receive company. It seems, from Bowtell's accoimt,
that the tenor was recast in 1595, and the parish book
for the following year notes, " this yere all our bells are
* Hollingawoith's Ristonj of 8(ou-ina>-J;c(, j). 170.
28 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIEE.
rung out and was never before." On wliich Bowtell
remarks that the occasion was probably the Queen's
accession, November 17th, " as it seemeth by the following
entry : —
" Item, payed for Ireon worke about hainging the bells
against the Quean's daye x«. vrf.''
The following items show that the work was only just
finished in time : —
" It,' Nov. 16, paid John Dowsey for iij dayes &half & his
Sonne for iiij daycs abowght yoking of the greate bell with
the old yoke, and drawing of the three greatest bells into their
frames from the nethermost flore vijs. vjr/.''
Fifteen years after this we find the following : —
" Mem.' That rpon this vj"" day of October, 1611, the parishoners of
Greete St. Maries parishe, in Cambridg, assembling together did with en
assent and consent, condicend and agree that the bell-frame should be re-
payred, and that the fowre belles then hanging in the said frame should
be cast into five tunable belles with expedition, and for the fitt and per-
feckting heereof the said parishoners did then and theire chouse and au-
thorise Henrie Kinge, John Yorke, Henrie Cotton, and Walter Bettson, to
be assistant to the churchwardens according as their several skills in that
buisines requireth ; and allso then and theire assented that theire should be
a Icauie made vpon the said parishoners as the vse hath been heeretofore
in other buisincses for the said church for the perfectinge of the said workes.
Provid : all waics that this chargeie concerning the bells and the frame
shall not be chargable to the parish above the some of xlv/., which some
of xlv/. is to be leuied of the parishoners.
Philippe Scaelette, j churchwardens.
James Kobson. )
Heneie Mowtlowe,
Beniamin HiNTOjr,
Mtchael Woolfe,
Nathanael Cradocke,
Edward Djdson."
From a memorandum in the parish book it appears that
the whole expense amounted to £53. l^s. 7d., of which £14.
195. lOd. was to be paid to S. Michael's parish for one of
theii' bells, weighing 4 cwt. 1 qr. 10 lbs. Such borrowing
of metal was not uncommon in those times, but the system
led to many inconveniencies here as elsewhere, the S.
Michael's authorities in the end acknowledging the receipt
of £16. 10^. id., " in full discharge of all reckonings about
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIEE. 29
our bell, and the suit toucliinge the same.'' The bell foun-
der (John Yorke^ of Cambridge, as it appears from Bowtell's
account of the inscriptions on the old peal) received <£18.
In 1620 and 1621 there appears to have been fui-ther im-
provement, two of the old peal being recast and another
added. From the mention of St. Ives as the place of meet-
ing, I suppose the founder to have been Tobias, or Tobie
N orris, of iStamford, many of whose bells are to be found in
the town and neighbourhood. The items are as follows : —
A. D., 1620.
It' paid for the bell founder's two bonds ijs.
It' paid for helping downe the bell ia. vjrf.
It' paid for a baldrikk ibr the now bell iijs. iiijrf,
A. D., 1621.
Item, p"^ for timber to repair the frame, & for new wheel es
to the bells yli. xix«. rjrf.
It' to helpers in taking downc & hanging vp the bells xijs. yi\]d.
It' p** for writing the indentures for the bells to be
new cast, and a bond vppon them iiij*-
It' pd. to one for going to St. Ives to take bond of the
bell founder with tAvo suertyes ij«-"
The money was better managed this time, the collection
for the bells being £48. 195. 4^?., and the expenses £42.
145. 10c/. In 1667 two more bells were added, probably
by Robard Gurney, who, in that year, made the 7 th at S.
Andrew's before mentioned. The 3rd and 4th also were
recast. Mr. King (can this be the ''Henrie Kinge" of
1611?) is paid his "charges goeing to Bury to give direction
for casting the two bells, 125. OJ.," £2. 55. 0^. is paid for
carriage, £9. 85. 8^. to the founder for casting the 3rd and
4th, and in 1668, 95. for mending the 7th bell and the
tenor, but I can find no items as to the two new bells.
Dr. Mason has recorded the weight of the old peal of eight.
cwt. qr. lb. cwt. qr. lb.
First 3 2 24
Second 4 1 25
Third 4 3 26
Fourth 6 0 7
Fifth 7 0 10
Sixth 9 3 3
Seventh 14 0 1
Ei-hth 18 2 0
I give the inscriptions literatim from Bowtell's MS.,
30 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
though I must confess myself utterly at a loss to reconcile
them with his history of the peal.
'' I. Cum Sono, si non vis venire, nunquam ad preces
cupies ire.
II. 0 mater Dei, memento mei. (Besides this inscription
there was a shield containing a semee of Fleur-de-lis for
France, which shows it must have been cast before the year
1407, when the semee was reduced to the number three.)
III. Celorum Christe placeat tibi Eex sonus iste.
IV. Johannes Yorke me fecit in honorem beate Marie.
Y. Intactum Sileo, percute dulce cano.
YI. Soli Deo Gloria Pax hominibus.
YII. Musica medicina est molestice illius quee per labores
suscipitur.
YIII. Or soul bell. Sum voce pulsata mundi Maria
vocata, 1595.''*
The third must have been Norris's. " Celorum Christi,
&c.," is a favourite inscription of his, and occurs on the 4th
at Tydd S. Giles in this county, made by him in 1603.
It has been neatly translated : —
" 0 Christ, Heaven's King,
Be pleased with this lliug ! "
In Alderman Metcalfe's Diary appears the following note
on the expenses of this peal : —
" 1611. Awdctors for the Acountc of Jeames Robsonn and Phillip Scar-
lett Churchwardens goeing forth of ther office in Ester tuesdaye 1612.
Dockter Mowltellowe, Mr. Edward Pottoe, Mr. Wicksted, Henrie Gibbs,
Antonie Tomson, Edmond Jeffrie and Walter Metcalfe, these being mett
together at S' Maires abowte the laste of Aprill 1612 to take ther Acownts
for the parrish goods and ther receats w'' ther disbursements did find that
theye had in ther hands xii/. xixs. id. ob. the w'' the did Refuse to deliuer
nntell theye had maid ther acounte for the frayme w"" the Casting of the
bells whear uppon it stayed unto Co'mcnsemcnte sonndaye."
Several curious facts relating to the old peal may be found
in Mr. Yenables's Paper on S. Mary's church, published by
the Cambridge Camden Society.
We have already touched upon Tobie !N'orris, of Stamford.
* Bowtell's MS., VI, 2256, kc.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 31
He was not a very first-rate founder, but his orthodoxy is
beyond all question, non sono animabvs mortvorvm sed
AVRiBVS viVENTiVM is a favoiu'ite inscription of his, and may
be seen on the bell at S. Mary's-the-Less (1608), and the
tenor at All Saints (1606), Cambridge.
I suppose him to be the founder who cast three bells for
S. Michael's in 1625, probably at St. Ives. The parish
book gives the items : —
Now laying out.
Layd out vppon composition to the bell founder
Item, to Mr. Short for drawing the covenant with the
bell founder
It' for earnest for the Bell wheel
It' for charges att St. Ives about the bells
It' for divers charges at severall times to the bell-foun-
der com'ing to towne
It' for new hanging the bells
It' for 2 labourers helping to pull up the bells
It' for three keyes for the bells
It' for bell ropes
The following extracts relating to the Norris family, from
the Eegister of the parish of S. George, Stamford, have been
kindly supplied to me by Mr. Justin Simpson, of that town.
1G06. Antony Xorris, ye sonne of Tobias JS'urris, was baptised y^ 11th
daye of January, 1606.
1609. Toby JSTorris, ye sonne of Toby IS'orris, was hurried ye 26th day
of Marche, 1609.
1612. William Norris, the sonne of Tobye l^orris, was baptised ye 24
of August, 1612.
1612. Anthonie IS'oriis, the sonne of Tobias Xorris, was hurried the
3rd day of January.
1614. Marye Norris, the daughter of Tobye ^S^'orris, was baptised the
24th day of September.
1617. Abortiua, ye daughter of Tobye Norris, was hurried ye 4th of Julye.
1618. John, the sonne of Tobye Norris, wasbaptised the 1 4th day of June.
1620. Frances Norris, the daughter of Tobie Norris, was baptised
the 21 daye of September.
1625. Samuell, the sonne of Tobias Norris, was hurried the xvth
day of September.
1628. John Norris, the sonne of Toby Norris, was burned the
eleventh of January.
1634. Aprilis 25. Tobias Norris, the son of Thomas Norris, Bel-
fouuder, was baptized.
£. s.
d.
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1638. May 29. John, the sonnc of Thomas Norris, baptized.
1()55. Tliomas, son ot' Thomas Norris, gent., bur. Oct. 3.
1()73. July 28. Edith, wife of Thomas Norris, bur.
1075. Eliz., dau. of Tobias & Susan Norris, christened Decemb. 21.
1677. Mary, dau. of Tobias & Anna Norris, christened Aug. 13.
1679. Martha, daught. of Tobias Norris, christened Feb. 25.
1680. Mary, dau. of Tobias Norris, bur. June 5.
1681. Edw., Sonne of Tobias Norris, gent., bap. Apl. 21.
1682. Ann, dau. of Tobias Norris, bap. Nov. 4, died Nov. 23.
1683. A son of Tobias Norris, bap. Apl. 24.
1687. Mary, dau. of Tobias & Ann Norris, bap. Feb. 25.
1690. Mary, daughter of Mr. Tobias & Ann Norris, bur. June 28.
1699, Tobias Norris, Bell founder, bur. Jan. 19.
The register contains no date of the burial of Tobie Ts'orris
the elder. A bell-metal plate to his memory exists in the
church of S. George, bearing the following inscription,
in high relief : —
" Here lieth the body of Tobie Norris, Belfovn. who decea. the 3 of
No., 1626 (?)"
He was succeeded by his son Thomas Norris^ some of
whose bells deserve high commendation. There is a good
bell of his (1648) belonging to Ely Trinity, and he cast the
second at All JSaints, Cambridge, in 1632. The parish
book for that year brings the whole scene before us.
It., paid for a presentment for the broken bell 0 01 05
For our charges in going for a bell founder 0 6 0
It , for a diner to the bell founder when he tooke mesure
of y* belles
For taking downe the bell by Mr. Mane
For carryedge to the bridge and waying
For the carryedg of it by water
It., for bringing it bake from Stamford to the bridge
It., for the waying it & bringing from the water home
It., for a new Balricke
for beere at the hanging of it
It., for a supp'' to the bell founder, y« workmen, &
som p'ishinors being then there present
It,, for making a bond for warrant of the said bell
And after various smaller items : —
It , for hanging the newe bell & mending the rest of them
It., Paide to thomas Noris the bell founder
There appears to have been generally a jollification on
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such occasions. In Bungay Trinity parish book, besides a
" dyner at Hid. heade,'' there is an item of xij^. to the bell
founder's wife (Mistress Alice Brend), and the same sum
" to his manservants and his mayde."
In connection with the parish of S. George, Stamford,
are two charities in which the name of Norris is frequently
mentioned. The' first is John Chirme's donation to the
poor, 10th Charles I. In a deed of feoJffment connected
therewith, and dated 16th Sept., 7th James I (1G09), we
find Tobie Norris, of Stamford, bell-founder ; in another,
dated April 12th, 1658, Thomas Norris, of Stanford, gent.,
also his son Toby ; in 1666, Thomas Norris ; in 1693, Tobias
Norris. The second is a conduit for supplying the parish
with water, managed by two conduit-masters. In the list
of masters names of various members of the ITorris family
occur in the following connection : —
1632. Henry Grumball, Tho. Norris.
1633. Tho. Norris, Edm. Browne, gent.
1636. "William Aslack, Tho. Norris.
1637. Tho. Norris, Robert Ball.
1640. "William Waters, Thomas Norris.
1641. Thomas Norris, John Goodlad.
1687. Nicholas Love, Mr. Norris.
In a deed dated March 29th, 1646, we find the signature
of Tho. Norris in company with those of "H. Cooke,
Min., Thos. Sherwood, Eobert Ball, and Eo. White," as
letting some land belonging to the estate to Anthony Write
(Wright), after the rate of sixteen groats an acre, and also,
to John Steele, for one shilling an acre. In documents
relating to the church estate, dated 1638, we find the name
of Toby Norris, of Staunford, bell-founder ; and in 1659,
that of Thomas Norris, gent.
From October 20th, 1613, to March 12th, 1614, the
parish register is signed by Tobie Norris, as one of the
Churchwardens.
From 1630 to 1632, Thomas Norys was Churchwarden,
and spells his name as Norys and Norris.
In 1656-7, Thomas Norris was raised to the highest
municipal office in his native borough, serving as " Alder-
84 THE CHURCH BELLS OP CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
man." llie title of " Mayor '* was not adopted at Stamford
till some years afterwards. We do not seem to have any
bells in Cambridgeshire from the foundry of Tohie Norris
the younger ; but I am inclined to change my mind about
the chapel bells at Emmanuel College and Christ's College
(1672 and 1675), and attribute them to a Stamford man,
Alexander Righy^ instead of Abraham Eudhall, of Gloucester.
I was not aware of Rigby's name at the time when I wrote
my notes on the Emmanuel bell. Eigby seems to have left
no record of himself at Stamford, except in the register of
S. Martin's parish. '- 1708. Oct. 29. Alexander Eigby,
bell-founder, bur." These two bells bear as a foundry-
stamp three bells in a icreath^ and the Emmanuel bell has
also the initials A. E. It was made the year before the
cupola in which it hangs was finished. At this time Dr.
Holbeche was Master of the College, whose name — "Thomas
Holbeche " — may yet be seen, scratched on the stone-work
inside the cupola. The bell at Christ's College bears the
name of " John Childe, Esqvier," perhaps a liberal Fellow-
Commoner. Mr. Justin Simpson, to whose kindness
I am indebted for these notes on the Norris family, tells me
that the Stamford foundry is supposed to have been in the
vicinity of the Gas Works, or of Mr. Blashfield's Terra-
Cotta Works.
The originof the"owl"(fig.28)on some of the bells cast by
Tobie Norris the elder and Thomas Norris, may be that this
bird is the crest of the family of Norris, of Basing Park, in
Hampshire — On a mount Vertj an owl holding in the dexter
claw an arrow^ from the leak an eseroll. We do not, how-
ever, find all this detail on the beUs.
One bell from the foundry of the Eldridge family, at
Chertsey, is found in our county. It is that at Little Abing-
ton, recognized by Mr. Sperling as the work of Bryan Eld-
ridge by its stops. The date is 1620. An account of this
foundry is given in the Church Bells of Sussex, p. 32.
Another solitary specimen is the Arrington bell, cast by
John Dier^ in 1583. The name of this founder only occurs
to my knowledge on one other bell, the 3rd at Maulden,
Fig. 28.
THE OWL OF THE NORRIS FAMILY.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 35
Bedfordshire, which is inscribed, SllljnnErs ^ifr jjnilt rnmpiiani
fptit 1593. Perhaps there may be some link connecting
him with George Clarke^ who cast a peal for Duxford S.
Peter, in 1564. Dier may have intervened between this
man and one John Clarke^ who is not found in Cambridge-
shire, but whom Mr. Daniel- Tyssen has turned up, without
date, at Eumboldswyke, in Sussex. From a bell (the 2nd)
at Flit wick, in Bedfordshire, we recover his date — SnjjailllBS
Clnrkt Ijanr ftrit rnm|innam, 1608. ^ The similarity of the let-
tering and the form of the inscription, have led me to con-
jecture this connection. 'J wo bells probably, one bell
certainly, from Leicester, are found at Eltisley. The 3rd
is by William Neivcomhe (1608), and the 2nd, an alphabet-
bell, most likely by Hugh Watts, a little later. The Leicester
foundry did an extensive business in the South-^lidland
counties, its range to the north being curtailed by that at
Nottingham, from which we have one bell in the county,
the Haddenham tenor, bearing a small stamp, which con-
tains a moon, a star, and the letters g. n., for G. Oldfield^
whose father, Henry Oldfield, cast old "Tom o'Lincoln."
One foreigner, a Belgian, must be noticed. This is the
Hall-bell at Peterhouse, inscribed " Pee /^r Vanden Gliemheft
mi ghegoten." The foundry of the Vanden Ghein family was
at Louvain. We do not possess many of their bells, but
there seem to be several bell-metal mortars of theirs in the
country. The only little things I know from their foundry
are: — 1, a mortar, in the possession of Mr. Fitch, of Norwich
(Ian Yandcn Ghein), 1558 ; 2, the Iland-bell of the Corpora-
tion of Eye (Petrvs Gheinevs), 1565; and 3, a mortar, in the
possession of Mr. Graystone B. Baker, at Bungay (Petrus
Yanden Ghein), 1580. The Peterhouse bell probably is
the handiwork of this Peter.
In 1867, the Louvain foundry, now under the manage-
ment of M. Yanaerschodt, who calls himself *' successor
A. L. Yanden gheyn,'' had the honour of sending forth
the first " carillons " that have found their way to
England, which now (36 in number) hang in the grand old
tower of S. Botolph, Boston. And would that Mr. Gilbert
36 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIEE.
Scott's new tower, which now overlooks Cambridge from the
precints of S. John's College, might receive tenants of the
same kind !
But no founder of this period was equal to "Colchester
Graye." His clief d' ceuvre is the tenor at Lavenham,
Suffolk, the beauties of which, I leave to be more fully
descanted upon by some Suffolk campanalogist, remark-
ing, by the way, that it would be well, perhaps, when
a national work like the Westminster bell is in hand, that
the dimensions of masterpieces, such as the Lavenham tenor,
should be studied. Cambridgeshire contains a large num-
ber (more than 50) of his bells. Among the best of them,
perhaps, is the Fordham peal, four of which he cast in 1638,
and the tenor in 1659. Miles Graye appears, from the
testimony of the bells at Barrington, to have been assisted
by one William Harhert I think that Richard Bowler^
whose bells are to be found at Barton and in S. Peter's
church, Cambridge, was Miles Graye's predecessor at Col-
chester : the similarity of lettering, and the locality of
Bowler's bells, lead me to this conclusion.
There is a nameless make in the county, without even
initials, specimens of which may be seen at Melbourne
(1616), Stetchworth (1608), and Barton (1608). From
similarity of lettering and inscriptions I am inclined to
attribute these bells to James Keene^ two of whose bells
(the treble and 3rd) are at Flitwick, in Bedfordshire.
Here, however, I must leave the founders of this period,
and occupy my readers with a few miscellaneous notes
belonging to their time. And, firstly, I cannot forbear
inserting an extract from the parish book of S. Michael's,
Cambridge, for the year 1569. The spelling alone ought
to ensure for it a favourable reception : —
** It' payd for a ball deryke for a bell vijt?.
It' payde to good man Ewyns off horynger for a bell wbell vij<.
It' payd to the sayd good man Ewyns for raysynge of
the sayd bell for to make sur the goynge off the sayd bell X(f.
It' payd to good man Eaye the smythe for maykyne of a
new boullte of eyem and viij wegges for the sayde bell yjrf.
It' payd for nallea id.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 87
It' for a new rope for the same bell xd.
It' for brede and drynke ijd.
It' for a Hoop and a pys of tymber for the sayde bell ij^."
The S. Michael's peal never could have been anything
very remarkable, and yet it seems to have held a high place
in the embryo condition of the peal at Great S. Mary's.
Of course when bell-loving Elizabeth paid her great visit to
Cambridge there was a grand jangling. On Friday the 4th
of August, 1564, she made her entry amidst the clanging
of all the church and college bells in the to^^Ti. Consider-
ing that there was not a decent peal in the place, the noise
must have been intolerable. There could have been no
merry ring of eight to divert the ear — nought but the Babel
of the various representatives, chiefly of C, B, B flat, A,
and intermediate demi-semitones. It would have driven an
Elizabethan glee-composer mad. " Such churches as were
negligent herein were afterwards called upon, and were
fined, some 85. 4J., some more, some less.'' S. Mary's
escaped the higher penalty, the Churchwardens paying only
''iJ5. ijc?., to the Quens Almoners servant for not ringing
at the Quens coming."* There was ringing at S. Mary's
in 1587, ''at the triumph," for which the sum of xi]d. was
given to the ringers f — quite as much as their performance
was worth. The allusions to the " University Bell " are
frequent on this and other occasions. I suppose this to
have been one of the peal (if peal it might be called) then
in S. Mary's tower.
And now, having reached a period at which Change-
ringing begins to make its appearance, let us see a
little of the rise and progress of this healthy and in-
genious amusement. The fii^st to reduce the art to a
system was Fabian Stedman, a printer, resident in Cambridge,
who is said to have printed his changes on slips of paper in
his leisure hours, and taught them to his company in the
tower of S. Benedict. "Within these fifty or sixty years,"
says he, writing about 1667, " Changes were not known, or
• Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, 11, 187.
t Cooper's Annals of Ca^nbridge, 11, 437.
88 THE CHURCH BELLS OP CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
thought possible to be Eang : Then were invented the
Sixes ^ being the very ground of a Six-score : Then the
Twenty^ and Twenty-four^ with several other Chan'jes.''^*
We may mark the rise of Change-ringing in Cambridgeshire,
then, by the improvements in the Bene't peal from 1607 to
1615, by the making of Great S. Mary's four into five in
1611, by the addition or recasting of the two trebles in the
Stetchworth peal in 1608, &c., &c., but more conclusively
from the general fact that 18 per cent, of the bells now
existing in the county were cast in the early half of the 17th
century. Among the benefactors of this age we may
reckon Sir Thomas Sutton, the founder of the Charterhouse,
who gave
" To the Parson and Churcliwardens of Balsham, for the time being,
towards the buying a Bell, to be hanged in the Steeple, to amend the
Eing there, 2QliV]
i^ow, eveiy one knows the fact that the number
of changes that can be rung on a peal of bells is the factorial
of the number of the bells : — 2 for two, 6 for three, 24 for
four, 120 C the six score ") for five, 720 for six, 5,040 for
seven, 40,320 for eight, kc. But it is not so generally
known that it is necessary for a definite order to be observed
in arranging the changes, and that for more reasons than
one. It is clear, firstly, that no man could go through
5,040 or 5,120 changes from unassisted memoiy. There
must be some kind of memoria technica. And, secondly,
fr'om the nature of bell machinery, a certain time must
elapse between two strokes of the same bell, because the bell
has to swing round, sweeping out a complete circle while it
turns from its position mouth-upwards round to mouth-
upwards again. When the bell is mouth-upwards an expert
ringer will hold it in balance any time you like, or an
ordinaiy ringer may let it a little over balance, to be sus-
tained by the " stay and slide,'' or some similar contrivance,
so that there is no difficulty in a bell waithig, though there
is every difficulty, or rather an utter impossibility, in its
* Tintinnalogia, 1668.
t Stowe's Survey (ed. 1618), p. 812.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 39
coming round before its round is finished. Thus, if you be-
gan writing a five-bell peal,
12345
54321,
the treble and second would have no difficulty in waiting,
nor the third in keeping its place, but it would be very
sharp work for the foui-th to make two places, and as to the
tenor, there would be an ominous silence between its strokes
at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second.
In six-bell peals, eight-bell peals, &c., where the bells strike
more quickly, a bell may, sometimes, where necessity
requires, change two places at a time, slip fi'om the fourth's
place into the sixth's, or the second's, and so on, but in
five-bell work a bell should never change more places than
one — for instance, supposing a bell to be in the third's place,
in the next change it must either stay there or go into the
second's or fourth's, according to circumstances, but it must
not go into the treble's or tenor's. My ringing friends
must pardon my stating thiugs that are quite obvious to
them but not equally clear to those who may have a curios-
ity on the subject, but who, like Dr. Gatty, the author
of the pleasant little book. The Bell^ its Origin^ His-
tory ^ and Uses, are frightened by the portentous array of
technical terms that encounter them at the outset. This
being premised, let us see the best arrangement of the six
changes in order to form a peal on three bells : —
123
213
231
Here are the first three changes, in which we see the
treble acting as " the Hunt," or moving uniformly amongst
the others ; we see also, that no bell is moved more than
one place at each change. A bell is said " to be hunted ''
up or dow7i, according as it moves towards the tenor's place
or the treble's place. Now, if " the Hunt '' were to be
"hunted down," we should get no more changes — only
213 and 123 again. This is obviated, however, by mak-
40
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
ing an " Extream Change,'' or change between the second
and tenor, allowing *'the Hunt'' to rest in its place one
change, thus : —
321.
And now, " hunting down," we get the remaining two
changes, viz. : — •
312
132.
This calling the treble '^ the Hunt " in a peal on three is,
however, a matter of no real consequence, for if a few series
of these changes were being rung, one bell would be
" hunted up " and " hunted down " as much as another.
The second bell at the third change, and the tenor at the
fifth change begin to do the very thing that the treble has
done, and go through with it like the treble. This peal
might be rung backwards, by hunting the tenor down. And
so much for the peal on three or " sixes." Next in order
comes the " four-and-twenty," or peal on four bells. This
admits of considerable variety of treatment. I give speci-
mens of two methods — Stedman's, which, though a most
clumsy affair, was doubtless a great thing in his days, and
the "Plain Bob " method, from the modem " Campanalogia."
Stedman's first method (Art of Ringing, p. 8.)
1234
4321
2134
4312
2314
4132
2341
1432
3241
1423
3214
4123
3124
4213
1324
4231
1342
2431
3142
2413
3412
2143
3421
1243
In this peal the treble is hunted up and down, just as in
the " sixes/' while the other three bells have all the same
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBEIDGESHIRE. 41
curious movement, staying twice in each of the middle
places, and thrice in the treble's and tenor's places. Every
change is what is called a " single," i.e. a change of place
between two bells only, it appearing to be the composer's
object to produce as little variety as possible. In the im-
proved method the treble moves exactly as in Stedman's
method, and the other bells come in for their share of the
" hunting," and half the changes are '' double," viz., those
marked with an asterisk : —
4321
1234
*2143
2413
*4231
*3412
3142
*1324
Hitherto our '^ singles " have been made between the
bells in the middle places. Such a ''single" would now
bring the bells round again after eight changes only. A
" single " is therefore made with the two hind bells, which,
taking the two last changes above-given, produces the
following effect : —
3142
*1324
1342
*3124
This movement of the second and fourth is called a
" dodge." It will be seen that the name is not without its
meaning, for the second makes a feint as though it were
going to be "hunted down,'' but stops directly and returns
to its former place, and the fourth imitates it the next
change. This gives us another 8 changes by plain "hunt-
ing " : starting from the last but one we have written.
1342
2431
*3124
*4213
3214
4123
*234l
*1432
The second and third now " dodge," and thus we get the
remaining eight changes.
G
42 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGBSHIEE.
1423
3241
*4132
*2314
4312
2134
*3421
*1243
A " single " between the two hind bells now brings the
bells round — 1234.
And thus we part from the '' four-and- twenty." '' I will
here insert," says Stedman, " two or three old Peals on five
Bells, w^hich (though rejected in these days, yet) in former
times were much in use, which, for Antiquity^ s sake, I here
set down. And, first.
The Twenty all over."
This is a most curious old peal, highly interesting from
its extreme simplicity. First the treble hunts up, while
the others change no more than to make room for it.
12345
21345
23145
23415
23451
Now the second does the same thing.
32451
34251
34521
34512
The third now hunts.
43512
45312
45132
45123
Now the fourth.
THE CHUECH BELLS OF CAMBEIDGESHIEE. 43
64123
51423
51243
51234
And lastly, the tenor, which brings the bells round again.
15234
12534
12354
12345
Here eveiy change is a " single.'' The twenty changes
arise, of course, from there heingfour in each of the/ye hunts.
Stedman's next peal is more to our local purpose, being
entitled " Cambridge Eight and Forty," probably from its
being first rung in tt. Benedict's tower. Let me first notice
how it is " Eight and Forty," instead of being '' !Six-score."
The restriction is that the treble and second can never com©
behind, nor the foui'th and tenor before. So that whereas,
in the "Six-score,'' 24 changes can be made on 1, 2, 3, 4,
with the tenor always behind; 24 on 1, 2, 3, 5, with the
fourth always behind ; 24 on 1, 2, 4, 5, with the thii'd
always behind ; 24 on 1, 3, 4, 5, with the second always
behind ; and 24 on 2, 3, 4, 5, with the treble always behind ;
in '' Cambridge Eight and Forty," the last two of the above-
mentioned sets are entirely excluded, only 18 of each of the
first two sets can be admitted because the foui'th would
lead in 6 changes of the first set, and the tenor in 6 changes
of the second set, and only 12 of the third set, for the
other twelve will be foui-th and fifth leads. Thus we get
18 from the first set,
18 from the second set,
12 from the third set,
0 from the foui'th set,
0 from the fifth set.
48
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THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
With these observations, I give the peal complete, in
which it will be seen that the motion of the bells is very
complex, there being no " hunting.'' Every change is a
"single."
12345
31254
21453
12435
21345
31245
24153
14235
21354
31425
24513
14325
21534
34125
25413
13425
25134
34215
25143
13245
25314
32415
21543
13254
23514
32145
12543
13524
23154
23145
15243
15324
32154
23415
15423
15234
32514
24315
14523
12534
35214
24135
14253
12354
35124
21435
12453
12345
31524
Such was the condition of Five-beU work in the earlier
part of the 1 7th century, and nothing had been attempted,
it seems, on higher numbers. The ice had been broken
before Stedman's time by the removal of the absurd restric-
tions of " Cambridge Eight and Forty,'' but no change be-
yond a " single " seems to have occurred to the first invent-
ors of the '' six-score." Everything is sacrificed for the
sake of the treble, which is " hunted " regularly up and
down all through the peal. The second is called the " half-
hunt," though it comes in for a very limited share of the
sport.
I am induced to give the Plain- change peal entire
from the Tintinnalogia^ not only from Stedman's connection
with Cambridge, but also because the work is very rare,
and " Stedman-ringers " are becoming rarer every day. It
is desirable to save from oblivion the early specimens of
peal-making.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIIIE.
45
The Plain-changes on five bells.
12345
41235
51432
51324
21345
42135
64132
63124
23145
42315
54312
53214
23415
42351
54321
53241
23451
24351
54231
53421
32451
24315
54213
53412
32415
24135
54123
53142
32145
21435
51423
51342
31245
12435
15423
15342
13245
12453
15243
13542
13425
21453
51243
31542
31425
24153
52143
35142
34125
24513
52413
35412
34215
24531
52431
45421
34251
42531
25431
35241
34521
42513
25413
35214
34512
42153
25143
35124
34152
41253
21543
31524
31452
14253
12543
13524
13452
14523
12534
13254
14352
41523
21534
31254
41352
45123
25134
32154
43152
45213
25314
32514
43512
45231
25341
32541
43521
45321
52341
23541
43251
45312
52314
23514
43215
45132
52134
23154
43125
41532
51234
21354
41325
14532
15234
12354
14325
15423
15324
12345
14235
If Dr. Burney could highly eulogize this work, half of
which contains systems of " singles," and assure his readers
that the Tintinnalogia is not beneath the notice of mu-
sicians who wish to explore all the regions of natural
melody, as the arrangement of diatonic sounds therein would
H
46 THE cnuRCii bells of cambridgeshiiie.
point out innumerable passages that would be new in melody
and musical composition, — I may venture to claim at least
as liigli a regard for the modern peals, in which the bells
are more freely moved about amongst each other. This
method of plain-changes is easily applicable to any number
of bells, and, therefore, I shall treat of it no further, except
to remark that one of the six-bell methods (tenor and fifth
hunted down) shows by its name how fashionable an
amusement bell-ringing was tAvo centuries ago. It is called
the Esquire's Ttvelve-score. Stedman's great triumph was
in cross peals, or peals in which " singles " are rarely
admitted. " Old Doubles " (probably the first Cross-Peal
on Five), and " Grandsire,'' which, in some form or other,
is the standard " six-score " of the present day, are not equal
in symmetry to " New Doubles," which was Stedman's in-
vention. Any one whose appetite may be keen on the
subject may find substantial satisfaction in the pages of the
modern " Campanalogia,'' or in a little work by Mr. Hubbard,
of -N^orwich, on the subject.* The subject of change-ringing
is inexhaustible, and I do not wish to occupy these pages
with more of it than is necessary for the explanation of the
few old peals I have endeavoured to preserve.
The amount of bell-founding in England during the
Commonwealth was very small. Miles Graye^ the Bol-
ters ^ at Salisbury, John Br end the younger^ at ^Norwich,
and John Ilodson, in the metropolis, were the chief
artificers, but business was slow. The Bassingboume and
Foxton peals, by Miles Graye,in 1650 and 1654 respectively,
are the chief works of the time in this county. It is note-
worthy, however, that the Parliamentary party, though they
condemned the " superstitious '' use of bells, could turn
them to a devout purpose when necessary. Bell-ringing
for the King's return from Scotland in 1641, seems to have
been a very perfunctory matter, if we may judge from the
parish book of Cambridge S. Edward : —
♦ Elements of Campanalogia, by Henry Hubbard. LoddoE : S, Nobbs, 1868.
THE CHTJECH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 47
" For ringing and a boncfire at the Kings retm-ne out of
the North u-e being commanded therio by the justices 0 1 5."
If we compare this with the entry at S. Mary's-the-
Great : —
" 1 650. Paid to Persyvall Sckolo the clarke for the ringers,
ly an oider from, the Maior, on 30 Jan., being a day of thanks-
giving 0 2 0,"'
we shall not fail to pay a tribute of respect to the wary
carriage of the parish authorities, who shelter themselves
behind the " civil power and executive '' on both occasions.
The S. Edward's people, perfunctory as their bearing may
seem, could nevertheless spend a little money on making
their sorry peal go as well as in it lay on that occasion.
They laid out : —
" For 3 rowles, a peece of boarde and nayles, adogg of Iron
and brads and spiles 0 7 9
For a peece of timber to make a stay for the bell ropes and
workmanshipp 0 3 6
For a Eope to the first bell 0 2 4."
There was another ringing at S. Mary's, on July 26th,
1650, for the success of the Parliamentary Army in Ulster,
under Sir Charles Coot. For this the ringers received 2s.
6d., and it was done "by Mr. Maior's appointment.'' And
then we hear of no more meiTy peals till the Eestoration,
when, like the rest of the country, Cambridge seems to have
gone wild with joy, and the little shed near King's chapel,
sent forth, no doubt, a glorious sound. " After the Musick
had done. King's bell and all the bells in the Towne rang
till 'twas night."* Things were a little better now than at
Elizabeth's visit, especially at S. Benedict and Great IS.
Mary's, but no doubt the King's peal, in spite of their dis-
advantageous position, still " bore the bell." The Duke of
Monmouth and the Earl of Clarendon were greeted also with
peals at Great S. Mary's, in 1662 and 1664 respectively.
All these were probably on the plain-change method, if in-
deed they were anything more than " rounds." Stcdman
says that 1680 was the greatest number of changes that had
* Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, vol. iii, p. 478.
48 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
been accomplished in his time. In 1667 comes the casting
of two trebles for S. Mary's-the-Great, according to Bowtell's
account. Rohard Gurney seems to have been the founder.
Andrciv '' Gvrnij,''' or " Girne " (probably his father), was a
half-foreman half-partner at the Thetford foundry in John
Draper's time. His name occurs on a bell, just over the
border (the 4 th at Lidgate, Suffolk), " John Draper and
Andrew Gvrny made me 1625." Eobard Gurney seems to
have taken up the Thetford business and worked it at least
partly at Bury S. Edmund's, as appears from the parish
books of S. Mary-the-Great. In 1669 there is improve-
ment at S. Edward's, Cambridge. "We find two small bells
re-cast and a treble added, so as to make a little peal of six.
Christopher Graije was the founder, a degenerate son of
"Colchester Graye,'' old Miles. He seems to have wandered
once into Staffordshire, but the old district had some charm
or other for him, as we find him now for some fourteen or
fifteen years at Haddenham. The parish book of S. Ed-
ward's gives us all the detail : —
*'It., p'' to Gray for casting of two bells eight pounds and
for another he added 43 pounds
It., p'* for more bell metle to M'. Rose and for pewter
It., p'' for carying y* Bells to Hadnam and y^ recarying of
them
It., for 5 new roups
It., for helps and scayls borrowing to way y^ bells back
& forward
It., for horse hyer 5 times to hadnam and Ely & expense
their
It., to Haynes for hanging y^ bells & altering y* frames
It., p'^ to y^ Smith for Iron worke
It., p"* to Bridger Attersly and for nayles and a staple
The other founders of this time were the Darbies f^Jjichael
and JohiiJ, who seem to have been brothers. I am told
that they originally came from Kelsale, near Saxmundham,
Suffolk, but they were both '' founders-errant," though of
very distinct characters. Michael was a rolling stone that
gathered no moss, while John's travels were confined to East
Anglia. Michael's wretched bells are to be found in many
districts, for one specimen of his casting appears to have
10
10
8
06
03
3
01
14
4
00
14
0
00
08
6
04
14
4
10
16
8
05
14
6
00
02
5'
THE CHUECH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 49
been enough for a neigliboui^hood. His only Cambridge-
shire performance is the little peal at Whaddon, in 1671, in
which year he also cast the treble at Stanstead Mountfitchet,
Essex. I find him at Eynesford, Kent., in 1 65 1 ; at Boxley,
Kent, in 1652 ; at Mileham and Feltwell, Norfolk, in 1661 ;
and Anthony a Wood's testimony as to his Oxford knaveries
in 1657 is recorded in Mr. Lukis's work.* John Darbie
began casting about the Eestoration, and the latest date I
have of him is that on the Isleham tenor, a magnificent bell,
said to weigh 25 cwt., cast in 1680. There are only seven
other bells of his in the county, a good peal at Quy, cast in
1670, and the treble at Trumpington, and second at Grant-
chester, cast in 1 677. Christopher Graye's foundry outlasted
the Darbies, his last work being the S. Michael's peal, Cam-
bridge. The authorities of this parish had three bells cast in
1625, as we have seen, and in 1682 they paid "for 3 bell-
ropes, 00 07 06," besides a crown-piece, " Given Joh :
Eedgrave for ringing y' nine a clock bell," but when the
parish meets on the 4th of July, 1683, they resolve to have
four, casting two (with additional metal) into three, and
keeping the old tenor. And having got a legacy of more
than £l6 fi'om one John Pindar, they decree as follows : —
" It is agreed by the officers & p'^ishioners of the parish of St. Michaell
in Cambridge that the two bells be taken down & carried forthwith to be
new founded & with some addition to make another bell, & the parish con-
tenting to be at such charge as shall appear from the Churchwardens above
the money in hand by the gift of John Pindar deceased.
Michaell PoasoK, j Churchwardens.
John Disbrow, Overseer.
Jon. Stage,
"Will. LiNcoLif,
William Grat,
"Will. + Grissell, his marke.
MATTHEW weight."
Clouds of trial, however, gathered round S. Michael's, for
it seems that an old garment had been pieced with new
cloth — the old tenor would not do. And so, on the 14th of
* Lukis, on Church Bells, p. 40.
50 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
August, they met again and decreed another decree, which
affects, or ought to affect tlie parish to the present day : —
" It is agreed at a mectinge by y^ Clmrchwardcns & p'ishioners that
there be a fourth bell bought & such a rate made as shall defray the
charges & it (is) agreed y' y" su'mc of ten pounds given by Dr. Duport
deceased to y* poor of this parish shall be called in & the Churchwardens
every year at their discretion shall give to the poor of the parish the summe
of twelve shillings which is the interest of the said money, and the said
ten pounds to be laid out towards the buying the said bell.
Henry Pyke, ) ni, t, i
-ivr -D \^^ -r t Churchwardens.
MlCHAELL rOQSON, )
John Stage,
Joshua Barton,
John Walker,
Will. Lincolne,
KoBEET DaLTON,
Henry Compton,
Francis Hicks,
Edw. Wittes,
Charles Morden."
In the receipts for 1683 and 1684 we find : —
" Eeceived of the p'rsh John Pindar's gift 16
Eeceived of Samll. Haggais Dr. Duport's money 10
Received one years Interest 00
Eec*^ one y* account of wast mettall 03
The '' Disburstments,'' as the parish book ominously hath
it, give us a picture of the usual scarcity of metal in foun-
ders' hands : it has to be gathered of divers sources, though
not as at Bungay a little time before, by collecting pewter
from house to house : —
" p'' Christopher Gray for running 3 bells
p'^ Mr. Rose for bell mettall
p'^ Mr. Spackman for bell mettall
p*^ Mr. "Westropp for makinge writings
p** for Carridge for y° bells and mettall
spent when we bargained with the founder and at tak-
ing down the bells
p** Henry Jennings for goinge to Hadenham four times
p"" the carpenter's bill
fibr o' Expenses at Hadenham
p** to Siraon fFordham
p"* for three bell-ropes
p'' Grubb for boardes
ffor the carters charges for themselves & Horses
7
0
0
0
12
0
08
0."
17
0
0
7
15
4
32
16
0
00
9
0
2
5
0
0
6
6
0
19
6
8
4
7
0
15
0
2
1
8
0
7
0
0
13
6
0
2
6
0
2
6
0
0
5
0
4
2
0
4
2.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 51
given the ringers on the thanksgiving day and the fift
of November
p*^ for oyle & a bottle
p'' Simon fordham for Keys & staples, &c.
p'' the carpenter for staycs & nayles & works
So much for the work relating to the three smaller bells.
By the time the tenor was to be recast, the Haddenham
foundry had moved on to Lynn, and Christopher Graye is
no longer founder, but merely acting formally to introduce
his successor, Charles Newman. Had it not been for the
entries in S. Michael's book we should not have known the
origin of the two Neimnans^ Charles and Thomas.
The items are as follows : —
<< pd ye earter for carringo y^ 4"' bell to y* boate 0 0 8
p'' for porters & a barrel! & carringe y" beJl to Lyn 0 8 0
p'^ for bringinge back y^ bell from Lyn 0 8 0
p"^ for bringinge it from the water & coals & porters & oyle 0 6 2
p"^ to Christopher Gray 8 12 0
p'' the founder for mettall 5 4 0
p'' the carpenter 4 2 6"
Here we may see Christopher Graye and ^'the founder "
to be no longer one and the same, for Charles Newman's
name, with the date 1684, is on the bell, as may be seen in
the collection of inscriptions.
Foui' more items of good auspice follow : —
" Given halfe a year's Interest to y^ poor due in May 83
for Dr. Duport's ten pounds 0 6 0
Given in Novcmb"' 83 for halfe a year more 0 6 0
Given in May 84 for halfe a year more 0 6 0
Nov. 84 for another half year 0 6 0"
Charles Newman does not shew up as a "literate person,''
except so far as he may deserve that designation for stick-
ing into a name all the letters he could, perhaps on the princi-
ple of a Norfolkfarmer — '•Hfone ivoiddnH do another would''' I
think his foundry must have continued at Lynn, as we lose
sight of his bells as we approach Norwich, at which city
Thomas Newman commenced business before Charles New-
man's work was over. Besides the S. Michael's tenor, he
cast the bell at S. Clement's, in 1691, the Fen Ditton tenor,
a good bell, if I remember rightly, in 1692, the Orwell
52 THE CIIXJRCn BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIEE.
treble in 1694, the Girton 2ii(i in 1699, the Sutton 3rd and
4th in 1700, and the Kennett treble in 1707, which is far
the latest bell of his I have ever found. About this time,
Richard Chandler's foundry flourished at Drayton Parslow,
Bucks. There is only one bell of his, I believe, in the
county — the tenor at Melbourne, dated 1688, and weighing
18 cwt. Mr. Sperling describes it as one of the grandest
sounding bells for its weight that he ever heard, an opinion
which, I am sorry to say, I have had no opportunity of en-
dorsing, but to which, no doubt, every Melbourne man will
readily assent.
Shortly after this time came Richard Keene^ formerly of
"Woodstock, and established himself, like Christopher Graye,
on the green sand, having his foundry near Eoyston.
None of his Cambridgeshii-e bells bear his name, and they
are only to be identified by the rough make, and by bearing
nothing more than the date by way of inscription. The towers
of Little Shelford, Shepreth, Lol worth, Shudy Camps, Little
Eversden, Burwell, Duxford S. John, and West Wratting, con-
tain his handiworks. He is said to have been "Xeene by
name and Keen by nature," making a considerable profit out
of old metal in his recastings, but how far the love of the joke
led to the scandal it is not easy to say.
Hen7'y Pleasant^ of Sudbury, was a contemporary of
Keene's, but, so far as I am aware, the county contains only
one bell of his, the treble at West Wickham, dated 1700.
Had it been a year later, our list of inscriptions would
probably have been graced with a lively couplet of his : —
** Henry Pleasant did me run
In the year 1701."
He seems to have been followed by John Waylett, who cast
the Whittlesford 4th in 1708, and the Comberton treble in
1711. In 1712, John Waylett and John Thornton were in
partnership, as we find fi'om a bell at Great Thurlow, Suf-
folk, cast in that j^ear, after which Waylett left the Sud-
bury business to 'J hornton and migrated into Sussex, where
I have found several of his beUs. Thornton was a superior
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 53
founder, as the tenors at Cheveley and "West Wickham
(1714 and 1718) will testify. There is also a neat little
peal of his at Newmarket All Saints, made in 1720.
The last Sudbury founder is Thomas Gardiner^^\ioiR I have
found as early as 1711, and as late as 1755. Some of his
bells were made at Norwich, and one (the tenor at New-
market S. Mary) bears Thomas Newman's name as well as
Gardiner's. In Cambridgeshire his bells are to be found at
Brinkley (tenor, 1727), Cheveley (treble and 3rd, 1730),
Whittlesford(3rd, 1736), Doddington (peal of five, 1736-7),
and Elm (tenor, 1738). Those at Whittlesford, Dodding-
ton and Cheveley are marked '* Sudbury."
Thomas Neivman^ of Norwich, certainly paid a business
visit to Cambridge, as he did to Buiy S. Edmund's. A
bell at Berden, Essex, testifies that it was made by Thomas
Newman, at Cambridge, and the accompanying receipted
bill seems to refer to work done in the town : —
*' The Church wardens of S* Beanits bill for casting of
Brassces
first for Casting of two Brassces for the Greate bell waying
23 pound and a half at &d. per pound Oil 9
for b pound and a haK of new metle aded at 3s. 2d. p'
pound 0 6 5
for Casting of a pare of brasces for the fift and one brass
for the forth bell waying in all 15 pound and a half at 6i.
p' pound 0 7 9
for 3 pound and a half of new mettle aded to the b^ brasces 0 4 1
in all 1 10 0
■Rec"^ June 1 0"" 1 725 of M' Nun churchwarden the full contents of this
bill by me
Tho. Newman."
The county contains more than thirty of his bells — none
of them in my opinion worth mention, except, perhaps, two
little peals of five, one at the Holy Trinity, Cambridge, in
1705, and the other at Foulmire, in 1704.
A person of greater importance is Ilenrjj Penn, of Peter-
borough. He did but little in the county except casting a
small peal of five for Ely Cathedral, the treble of which is
now used for a clock-bell. There are two good bells of his
54 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
at Sutton (1722), a treble at Tydd S. Giles (1710), and a
tenor (172G'). The Tydd treble bears on its waist a large
figure of a rustic with a flail. He was fond of putting
quaint things on his bells, as, for instance, when he cast the
peal at S. Ives, he put on the bell that was rung early in
the morning, ''Arise and go to your business," and on
the 7th :—
" When backward rung we tell of fire,
Think how the world shall thus expire."
His end was one of painful interest. The S. Ives people
were dissatisfied with their peal, and as it should seem by
the peal itself, unreasonably dissatisfied, and a tedious law-
suit commenced between the Churchwardens and Penn.
At last it was decided in favour of the latter, who had ridden
from Peterborough to S. Ives, in order to be present at the
Huntingdon Assizes. He fell down dead from over-excite-
ment as he was mounting his horse in the inn-yard at S.
Ives, to return to Peterborough.
By this time the London foundry, which had been under
the indifferent management of the Wightmans^ attained to
great celebrity under Richard Phelps, a native of Avebury,
Wiltshire, the founder of the great bell at S. Paul's Cathe-
dral. His name brings us round again to the church of S.
Mary-the -Great, for " Novr. 16, 1721, it was agreed that
certain of the parishioners should contract with a bell-foun-
der for new casting all or such of the bells as they should
think proper. This order was confirmed 25 April following,
and further ratified 15 June, 1722, when it was concluded
to increase the weight of the eight bells, so that the tenor
should not exceed 28 hundred weight : at the same time it
was ordered that a new frame, wheels, and all other things
necessary for fixing and hanging them should be done.
May 11, 1722, it was agreed to employ in this business
Mr. Eichard Phelps, bell-founder, in Whitechapel, who was
strongly recommended by Dr. Croft, in a letter to Mr.
Bo^vman, the organist of the parish. Augt. 2, 1722,
it was finally concluded that two more bells should be
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 55
added to the eight, to make it a peal of ten ; for which
two bells the founder was to be paid £71. 12^. Of/.,
and they were cast accordingly, and delivered to the parish
on the 25th of the same month."* These two bells, however,
have been since recast, as we shall see. Of the eight now
remaining of this fine peal, the first four (now 3, 4, 5, 6, on
account of the subsequent addition of two trebles) and the old
8th, now the 10th, bear the date 1722, while the other tlu'ee
are marked 1723. I subjoin the weight of this peal from a
MS. of Dr. Mason's, quoted by Bowtell.
cwt.
qr.
lb.
cwt.
qr.
lb.
First
6
0
8
Sixth
11
0
5
Second
6
2
6
Seventh
14
0
17
Third
7
1
22
Eighth
15
2
2
Fourth
7
3
22
Ninth
21
0
27
Fifth
9
0
5
Tenth
26
0
19
Total 125 0 21
Phelps's charge was at the rate of £5 12-5. per cwt.,
which made the cost of the bells £701. Is. OJ., reduced, of
course, by the value of the 69 cwt. of old metal, but other
incidental expenses ran the sum up to between £500 and
£600, of which £419 25. 2d. was raised by church rates.
*' Further sums," says Bowtell, ''were raised voluntarily
among the principal inhabitants of the parish. Contribu-
tions were likewise received from several inhabitants of
other parishes, besides two guineas each from the head of
every college." The new bells did not remain long with-
out a peal being rung worthy of them, for the present
society of " Cambridge Youths " was established in 1 724,
and in 1725, on the 5th of November, 5040 " Grandsire
Tripples '' (a complete peal on seven, always rung on eight
with the tenor behind) were rung, and this performance was
repeated on the 22nd of October, 1734. There was also
ringing at the proclamation of the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle
(Feb. 9th, 1748), but the method is not mentioned. The
* Bowtell MS., VI.
5(j THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
Ecgistcr of the Society contains amongst its names some
that may surprise my readers : —
17'^ 5. Charles Mason, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College,
and Woodwardian Professor.
1726. Eobert Hesketh, of Christ's College.
1728. John Eoper, Apothecary, afterwards a Major in
the Army. Killed at Val, 1747.
1731. Eichard Dawes, M.A., Fellow of Emmanuel Col-
lege, the celebrated critic*
1733. Samuel Eoe, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College,
Yicar of Stotfold, Bedfordshire, and author of works against
enthusiasm, &c.
1738. James Gifford, Mayor of Cambridge, 1757-8.
1749. Symon Kerrich, of Corpus Christi College.
1767. John Incarsole, a gentleman totally blind, but an
excellent ringer and musician.
1767. William Langley, of Jesus College, and last(l 773)
not least of his contemporaries, our excellent, painstaking,
benevolent old friend John Bowtell, the bookbinder. Dr.
Mason was a very enthusiast on bells, and his zeal would, no
doubt, have called forth the rebukes of his friend Eoe, had
bell-enthusiasm been the particular kind of enthusiasm to
which that divine objected. The learned Doctor, however,
got thoroughly snubbed once by the leader of the Norwich
company of ringers. The letter is too rich not to be pre-
served in its integrity. Dr. Mason, it appears, wrote to the
Norwich men to ask them to subscribe to a book of John
Holt's, containing certain improvements on Mr. Benjamin
* The preface to Da-wes's Miscellanea Cn'tica, by Kidd, contains the folio-wing notice
of the great critic's feats iu bell ringing: — " Ut otio abunda-rit, et aures ejus semper
fuerunt teretes et religiosoe, Dawesius cum sodalitate etiam honesta et non prorsus
ccfAoiiira gratiam iniit, qui dictis diebus oeneas machinas fastigio Templi Beatae Mariae
suspensas, et ad divini numrnis cultum Christi professores plerumque advocantes, ex-
ercent atque in numerum pulsant. Illis sese ductorem libentissime prajbuit ; et, quod
multi impugnarint, exercitatione defatigatus dono, quod testamento legaverat Domina
Marqareta, cum toto choro sese recreare ac reficere non nolebat ; accedebat eodem sal
quoddam facetitcque libcro ac remisso homine digna.
Hanc qualcmcunque de Dawesio notitiam acceptam refero auctori in hac re certe
gravissimo, Reverendo Guliekuo Palty, qui multa narrare de Dawesio memoriter et
jucunde solebat,"
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 57
Anable's Grandsire Triples. The reply follows : —
" Rever"* Sir,
I desire you'l excuse my not Subscribing to a work which I have
some Reason to fear will not answer to Expectation. I must Confess our
Company seem Intirely to Slight it though I must own it is not a generous
way of treating Mr. Holt's performance, but I believe they are Induc'd to
this by that Ingenious Ringer, Mr. Anable's not Encouraging of it, had he
approv'd of it, his Influence on the CoUedge Youths I presume would have
been sufficient to have sent it to the Press without any further Subscrip-
tions. Rev"* Sir, Give me Leave to Observe to you that 'tis almost twenty
years since I sent to the Rev*^ Mr Windbell a Whole poal of Ten, with
two Inferior Changes only, fully Explaining by an Int'aliable rule how to
make any proper peal on aU Numbers that go with a quick Hunt.
For Self and Co., I am, S',
With Due Respect,
Your most humble Ser*,
John Webstee."
In spite, however, of the prejudice of John Webster
and Co., Mr. Holt's work came forth and was fully appreci-
ated, and his name is as much honoured as that of Anable
himself. Indeed, Ship way's Campanalogia affirms that
'' Mr. Holt's peals are still admired by the best judges of
the art, while the Norwich, not being demonstrable, are
entirely discredited." I am, however, unfortunately not
qualified at present to decide the question. Bowtell's MS.
contains a notice of Anable's death.
" This worthy man dying Feb., 1, 1756, a mourning peal was rung for
him in Great-St.-Mary's Tower, Cambridge, and the undermentioned
character given of him in the newspapers at that time.
" A few nights ago was buried under the Tower of St. Bride's, Mr.
Benjamin Annabel, the best Ringer that was ever known in the world.
Till his Time Ringing was only call'd an Art, but from the Strength of
his Great Genius he married it to the Mathematics, and 'tis now a science.
This Man in Figures and Ringing was like a Newton in Philosophy, a
Ratcliffe in Physic, a Hardwicke in Wisdom and Law, a Handel in Music,
a Shakespear in Writing, and a Garrick in Acting. 0 rare Ben !"
This inflated eulogy is followed by " Eeflections on Death,
occasioned by hearing the Dumb Peal in Cambridge on
Tuesday night last ; —
"The grave, the wise, the youthful and the gay,
Outbrav'd by Death, resume their native clay j
Monarch and Plobcans undistinguish'd fall,
Yielding submissive to the Tyrant's call."
58 THE CnURCn bells of CAMBRIDOESniEE.
Next to Phelps in our list of founders come the two
Eayrcs — Thomas and Joseph. They were in partnership in
1717, when they casta bell at Yclden, Bedfordshire. Sub-
sequently Thomas Eayre established himself in Kettering,
and Joseph at S. Neot's and Leicester, at the former of
which places he erected a lofty brick building in the shape
of a bell, in the Priory. Thomas Eayre cast no bells that I
can find in the county, but there are a considerable number
of very fair specimens by Joseph, amongst which I
may mention four complete peals of five — Chatteris (1735),
Iriplow (1743), Dry Drayton (1746), and Willingham
(1755). The Eayres are very highly spoken of by Mr.
Ludlam* in his correspondence (1779-80) with Mr. Holmes,
of London, clockmaker, on the subject of the clock for
Greenwich Hospital. Holmes was puzzled about the bell
for his clock. He had the choice between a bell of 12| cwt.
and a bell of 15 cwt., and he found the heavier bell required
a less blow than the lighter bell. He therefore concluded,
on being informed that the larger bell was more " spread-
out," that a bell as commonly made for a peal, is not the
fittest for a clock to strike on, being a '"' tight-bound " bell.
There may be something in this ; but Ludlam pointed out
a far more important element — the difference in thickness
of sound-bole. Ludlam was no admirer of " spread-out ''
bells. He says, " I saw a great deal of bell-founding in the
time of the late Mr. Thomas Eayre, of Kettering, a man
who had a true taste for it, and spared no expense to make
improvements ; much of the tone depends upon minute cir-
cumstances in the shape ; and Mr. Eayre had crooks or
forms cut on thin boards, carefully taken from the inside
and outside of all the good bells he could find. This county
(Leicester ?) and Northampton abound with the best bells I
ever heard, cast by Hugh Watts, of Leicester, between
1630 and 1640. Eingers in general, who are commonly
constituted the judges of bells (and as such are fee'd by
* Mr. Ludlam fJoh.J graduated as 11th Wrangler in 1748-9.
THE CHUECH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 59
the bell-founder) regard neither tunc nor tone. The hang-
ing of a bell is all they regard, that they may show their
dexterity in change-ringing. That shape of a hell that is
best for tone fa long onej is not the best for hanging or ring-
ing; so tone is utterly disregarded — to please the ringers
and get money is all." Here, I think, Mr. Ludlam is as
wrong as he was right about the sound-bole. He was dis-
gusted with the London founders for their failure at S.
Mary's-the-Great (of which more anon), and so he condemned
them in toto. His remarks would certainly not hold good
of the almost perfect peal of 12 at S. Peter Mancroft, Nor-
wich (tenor 41 cwt.), or of the grand ten in 8. Mary-le-
Bow (tenor 53 cwt.), and both these peals were from
"Whitechapel. It is very true that there are some extremely
fine bells of the old long form, but there are also some very
bad ones. A friend of mine, who is a first-rate ringer, and
has a good ear for music, speaks of the " tankard shape '' of
certain fine old bells, a specimen of which may be seen
in plate v of Mr. Lukis's book. I cannot help think-
ing that there is a great deal more in this than in
length as compared with diameter. There are two remark-
ably fine bells (the 7th and tenor) at Eye, Snffolk — the
former from the old Norwich foundry, the latter by Miles
Graye. I give full dimensions of both : —
Inches.
7th. Height from rim to top of cannon 36*5
to shoulder 30-5
Circumference at shoulder 76
Diameter at lip - 42-25
Tenor. Height from rim to top of cannon 34-5
' to shoulder 30
Circumference at shoulder 83-25
Diameter at lip - 48
I have taken these two bells as instances, because they
are both fine specimens. The tenor, though far the more
" spread out" bell of the two, is certainly not inferior, and
possibly superior, to the seventh. It is not well to draw
conclusions from a small number of instances, but this one
60 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDaESHIRE.
instance is enough to show that want of comparative length
is no bar to high excellence of tone. Ludlam speaks of
Joseph Eayrc as a first-rate founder of '' dish-bells,'' some
of which I have had the fortune to see. In passing from
these men, I may add that Joseph Eayre was a considerable
benefactor to the parish of S. Neot's. After his death,
Thomas Osbo?vi and Edward Arnoli held the foundry jointly
forashort time, andthenOsborn set up for himself atDownham
Market, where he died in 1806, and Arnold (who knew noth-
ing about his business but had a capital foreman, one Islip
Edmonds), continued the S. Neot's and Leicester business.
He (or rather Edmonds, I suppose), cast seven of the Ely
S. Mary's peal of eight in 1781, and the Fulbourn peal of
six in 1776. Both peals are well spoken of. After Arnold
came Robert Taylor, who cast, in 1816, a nice peal for
Haslingfield, to which Earl Delawarr was a benefactor.
Then he took his son William into partnership, and they
cast the six at Swaffham Bulbeck (a pretty little peal, tenor
1 1 cwt., in G sharp.) The Taylors of the second generation
removed to Oxford, where Mr. William Taylor died in 1854.
John Taylor^ after living at Buckland Brewer, Devonshire,
for several years, and casting many peals in that county,
has now carried on for some time a thriving business at
Loughborough, from which place he has sent several bells
into Cambridgeshire, amongst which I may mention the
treble and 2nd at Meldreth, and the second and tenor at
Wilburton. It is but due to Messrs. Taylor to mention the
fact that at the great Exhibition of 1851, they obtained not
only the prize medal for bells, but likewise a record of
special approbation from the jurors.
The Do wnham Market branch under Osborn, and afterwards
under his grandson William Dohson^ was not unworthy of
its ancient stock. The fine-toned peal of ten in the tower
of Wisbech S. Peter, the peal of six at Newton-in-the-Isle,
the peals of five at Parson Drove, Emneth, Wisbech S.
Mary, will long tell of the foundry in the hundred of Clack-
close. After Arnold's death, Islip Edmonds became fore-
THE CHTTRCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 61
man to John Briant, of Hertford, a man of the Arnold stamp.
From the Hertford foundi'y we have the peals of six at
Cottenham and Swaffham Prior, and the four smaller bells
at Soham, making a peal of ten in that noble tower. Osbom
cast a peal of eight for JSoham in 1788, and Briant recast
the trebles and added two still smaller in 1808.
But we must return to the Whitechapel foundry, which
we left in the hands of Mr. Phelps. It sunk rather under
his successor, Thomas Lester^ but rose again when Thomas Pack
became Lester's partner, and perhaps was in its most flour-
ishing condition under PackoinA Chapman^ William)^ to whom
we are nowintroduced in connection with S.Mary's-the-Great,
where there are three of their bells, the present treble,
second, and tenor. The latter, which is a " maiden bell,"
i,e. one that was in tune as it came from the mould, was cast
on Valentine's day, 1770, and it is not necessary, I appre-
hend, to sing its praises in its own county. It may speak
for itself. ]t weighs 29 cwt. 0 qrs. 26 lbs., or 3 cwt. 0 qrs.
7 lb. more than Phelps' tenor, and its diameter at lip is 55*5
in. The ringers say that its note is C sharp, but Mr. Lud-
lam calls it D "in the modern opera pitch.'' !So satisfied
was Cambridge with its new tenor that Charles Day and
John Paris, two of the ringers, managed further to raise
money for " two Tribbles to make them a compleat Peal of
Twelve,'' and the work was done accordingly by Pack and
Chapman, who, perhaps, from fear lest the new trebles should
not have sufficient power, made them so thick and heavy
that they are imiversally acknowledged to be a blot on the
fair fame of the peal. Ludlam condemns them with his
accustomed redundant vigour. " The best bell, the best
peal of bells in the world, are in this very town, and yet
they never regarded them. They undertook (what is im-
possible) to cast two bells, one of which should be 8ve and
4th, the other an 8ve and 5th, or 12th, to the tenor at S.
Mary's, Cambridge, which is D in the modern opera pitch.
They did send two things they called bells ; but neither
ringers, singers, nor the professor of music at Cambridge,
62 THE CIIURCn BELLS OF CAMBRIDOESniEE.
have been able to determine what note they speak; the
general sentiment is, that they speak no note at all (30
Aug., 1779)." It is strange that Ludlam should not have
known that " they " (Puck and Chapman) were the very
men who cast " the best bell in the world" — it is equally
strange tliut he should charge them with disregarding their
own handiwork. It does not appear that the tenor is the
best bell, and the peal of ten the best peal in the world, nor
that it is impossible to do what Pack and Chapman certainly
did not carry out with any very brilliant success. However,
there are the "two tribbles," and there they are Kkely to
be till Cambridge has courage enough to face Ludlam' s
impossibility. To finish up the history of the peal, the
eleventh was recast at Downham Market, by William Dob-
son, in 1825, and a very beautiful bell it is esteemed to be.
We must digress from the bells to the chimes. Chime-
barrels are of very considerable antiquity, and before the
Reformation were pricked with " Requiem Eternam " and
other trental music, of which a very remarkable instance
(A.D. 1463) is to be found in Tymms's Wills and Inventories
from the Registers of the Commissary of Bury St. Edmund^
and ike Archdeaconry of Sudbury^ p. 28. In 1673, S. Maiy's
parish book has a heavy item. " Collected and disbursed
this year towards the chyme, £69. 19^. 1.'' In 1722, when
the old eight bells were recast, the chimes were discontinued,
and nothing was done till March, 1793, when the clock was
taken down, and the University agreed to put up another,
upon an improved construction, having a barrel to strike
the quarters changeable on four bells, which was completed
in the following February, at the charge of about .£300.
The history of these beautiful chimes, the melody of
which has been copied over and over again, is well worth
preserving. I am indebted for it to Mr. Amps, the organist
of King's College, who had it from his predecessor, Mr.
Pratt. About the time of these improvements Dr. Jowett
was Regius Professor of Laws, and Dr. Randall Regius
Professor of Music, and Crotch and Pratt, then mere lads.
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were his pupils. Dr. Jowett was expert at practical me-
chanics, modelling, &c., as will be remembered by many
from the well-known epigram on one of his handiworks : —
** A little garden little Jowett made,
And fenced it with a little palisade ;
If you would know the taste of little Jowett,
This little garden won't a little show it."
He appears to have been consulted by the authorities of the
University, and to have taken Crotch into his counsels.*
The latter may be credited with the idea of taking a move-
ment in the 5th bar of the opening symphony of that most
sublime air of Handel's "I know that my Eedeemer liveth,"
and, by a system of variations, not unworthy of Fabian
Stedman, expanding it into the annexed musical chime.
It was said by Mr. Pratt, that when the chimes were fii'st
heard they were thought so strange that they were nick-
named " Jowett's Hornpipe." Very few, except those who
had known Crotch, were aware that he had anything to do
with their composition, and till they were copied for the
Eoyal Exchange their merits were but little appreciated.
But now they sound from many towers, and are dear to
many ears, and Crotch and Jowett may say, in the words
of ^neas : —
" Quod regie in terris nostri non plena laboris? "
One notice more about S. Michael's. The great bell lay
useless for many years, and was finally set in order in 1806,
by Thomm Safford^ a smith and bell-hanger, who lived near
the Corn Exchange, and ventured twice in his lifetime
to cast church bells, which we must not omit to mention,
as they help to swell the very scanty number cast in the
county. They are the bell belonging to Trinity Hall (1804)
and that at Fen-Drayton (1828).
The Whitechapel foundry, under various members of the
Mears family, has contributed several fair bells to the county
in the present century. A tiny peal at Weston Colville
* " I think Dr. Jowett could hardly have accomplished the task." Mr. Amps to
me, 20th April, 1868.
64 THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
(1825), and the tenors ut Shudy Camps (1840), and West
Wratting (1860), are the most to be noted. The peal at S.
Andrew's-the-Great, Cambridge, contains six of their bells,
the two trebles having been added by the late worthy vicar,
the present Ai'chdeacon of Westmoreland, on the conclusion
of the Crimean War. The effect of the peal is anything
but pleasant, from their excessive lightness, and from the
fact that the six Whitechapel bells are joined to two of the
most clattering old pans that were ever dignified with the
name of bells. I am sorry that the county contains so few
of the later works of this celebrated foundry.
The list of the " Cambridge Youths " since the admission
of Bowtell contains, amongst others, the following names* : —
1777. Humphrey Argent, Organ Builder.
1778. John Swan, Upholsterer, son of Sir "William Swan, Bart., of
Southfleet.
1809. Thomas Safford, Whitesmith.
1835. Leonard Proctor, Esq., B.A., Trinity College, of Bennington
Park, near Hitchin, a great patron of ringing.
1838. William Mortlock, Esq. (H.M.), sometime an Alderman of Cam-
bridge.
1839. Maurice Eocket, Bootmaker.
1843. John Carr, Innkeeper, a native of Waltham Cross, well known
in East Anglia as a ringer.
1850. John B. Kearney, Esq. (H.M.), of S. John's CoUege.
Hazlewood, Esq. (H.M.), of S. John's College.
1854. Eichard Eowe (H.E.M.), Member of the Town Council,
1856. Gervas Holmes, Esq., of Emmanuel CoUege.
1857. William Henry M. ElHs, Esq (H.M.), Student of S. John's
College.
The Eev. W. W. Hutt, M. A. (H.E.M.), Fellow of Caius College,
now Eector of Hockwold-cum- Wilton, Norfolk.
1858. The Eev. F. G. Vesev, M.A. (H.M.), Trinity CoUege.
1859. K. H. Smith, Esq., of S. John's College.
W. J. Eees, Esq., of S. John's College.
1862. The Eev. W. Emery (H.M.), Senior FeUow of Corpus Christi
College, now Archdeacon of Ely.
T. Mayo, Esq. (H.M.), Student of Trinity CoUege.
The Eev. H. E. Luard (H.M.), FeUoW of Trinity CoUege,
Incumbent of St. Mary the Great, and University Eegistrar.
The Eev. J. Martin (H.M.), Vicar of S. Andrew-the-Great.
* The letters H. M. signify Honorary Member; II. R. M. Honorary Ringing Member.
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 65
This chronicle may appropriately be closed with a list of
the most remarkable peals rung in the district. Though
the village of Fen Stanton is just beyond the bounds of the
county, I must head the series with the following character-
istic record from a steeple-board in that church : —
"January y' 31, 1757.
Hear was tea defran* Peals Rungen in 50 minutes which is 1200 changes
by thouse names who are under : —
1. Jn° AUin ) 3. Jn° Cade
2. Jm' Brown | 4. Rob' Cole.
5. WiU" How.
All you young Men y' lam y* Ringen Art
Be sure you see, & well perform your parts ;
no Mvsick with it can Excell
nor be Compard to y' Melodeous bells."*
On Christmas Eve, 1770, the peal of twelve in the tower
of S. Mary- the- Great was honoured by 5610 Grandsire
Cinques (a method on eleven bells with tenor behind). Then
follow : —
Jan. 29th, 1773. 5220 Bob Royal (on the ten.)
Nov. 10th, 1774. 5120 Grandsire Caters (on nine, with tenor behind.)
March 14th, 1779, & May 15th, 1781. 5040 Bob Major (on theeight.)
May 20th, 1782. A dumb peal for Lord Robert Manners, M.P. for
the county, who died of the wounds he received in the engagement with
the French fleet, near Dominica. This peal was rung before the rejoic-
ings for Rodney's victory.
Jan. 2l8t, 1788. 6600 Bob Maximus (on the twelve.)
fFeb. 16th, 1790. 6000 Treble Bob Royal.
fOct. 31st, 1791. 7002 Grandsire Caters.
Jan. 25th, 1793. A dumb peal for Louis XVI, King of France.
Fob. 14th, 1793. 5039 Grandsire Caters.
June 2nd, 1797. 5040 Holt's Original Peal.
1847. 1847 Grandsire Tripples — a dumb peal for the Duke
of Northumberland.
March 1 1th, 1 850. 5040 Grandsire Tripples.
Feb. 16th, 1852. 5039 Grandsire Caters.
At Soham we have the following : —
Oct. 25th, 1790. 5120 Oxford Treble Bob.
Jan. 1st, 1795. 5040 Norwich Court Bob.
Feb. 17th, 1800. 5152 Imperial the Third.
• For this I am indebted to the Rev. J. Tillard, Rector of Coniugton.
t In these peals Bow tell rang the tenor.
GG THE cnuECH bells of ca^mbridgeshiee.
The improved peal (1808) was duly honoured in the fol-
lowing year (Nov. 20th, 1809), when 5280 changes of
Oxford Treble Bob were rung in 3 hours 35 minutes by
three brothers and their sons : —
Thomas Tebbit, Treble
Robert Tebbit (son of Robert) 2
Benjamin Tebbit (15 years of
age, son of Thomas) 3
John Tebbit (son of Thomas) 4
The next peal (5040 Oxford Treble Bob Eoyal) was rung
on the Ten, in honour of Queen Caroline's Acquittal, on
November 16th, 1820. These Soham ringers, be it noted
for the sake of the political bearing of the fact, were men of
substance for the most part — sturdy Cambridgeshire yeo-
men. Their names follow: —
Robert Tebbit 6
Edward Tebbit 6
Thomas Tebbit (son of Thomas) 7
William Tebbit (son of Thomas)
Tenor.
Thomas Tebbit Treble.
William Tebbit 2
Robert Tebbit 3
Robert Staples 4
Thomas Tebbit, Jun. 5
Robert Talbot 6
James Seaber 7
Benjamin Tebbit 8
Thomas Talbot 9
John West Tenor.
Nov. 3rd, 1821. New Treble Bob Royal.
Feb. 22nd, 1850. "5003 Changes of that Melodious Composition, Grand-
sire Tittum Caters. This Peal was rung the first attempt, and without a
false change, in 3 hours and 35 minutes."
Since that time, from the death of several of the old mem-
bers of the society and the lack of new blood, ringing has
been on the decline at Soham.
The peal of six at S. Andre w's-the- Great was opened in
1843, by 720 Bob Minor, rung by the Cambridge Youths,
who were followed in their performance by the Swavesey
ringers. Since the addition of the trebles two long peals-
have been rung : —
March 18th, 1864. 5040 Grandsire Tripples in 2 hours 59 minutes.
March 24th, 1865. 5040 Bob Major in 2 hours 58 minutes.
THE CHUECH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 67
Postscript.
Mr. T. M. N. Owen informs me that I am mistaken about
the ruins of Silverley (p. 18). There are still the remains
of a fine square tower, from which the bells have long since
disappeared.
My conjectures about Eobard Gumey (p. 26) have
turned out to be correct, as may be seen from the following
extract from the will of Andrew Gumy (dated oOth Decem-
ber, 1643) :
" And whereas I am indebted to my sonne Robert two hundred weyght
of that mettell, I will and my mynde is that he shall haue three hundred
weyght for the two with all my tooles and moidds for to worke with all
as to my trade bclongcth."*
* Bury Registry, Lib. Meadotces, p. 389 b.
ERRATUM.
r^ige 9, lines 19 and 20, fur "from 1250 to 1320," read "from 1350 to 1380."
INSCRIPTIONS
ON THK
CHUECH BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY IN PARISHES.
I. Deaneky of Barton.
1. ^rrington—\. Note C.
1. |obn ^«r mabc me 1583.
Here are pits for two more bells, -wliicli were taken away about 40 years ago. The
present bell is the treble of the old three.
2. Barrington — 5, Tenor F. c. 16 cwt. diamr 46 in.
1. Eichard Phelps of London fecit 17 . .
Mynett Titmarsh and Thos. Jepps c. w.
2, 3, 4, 5. Miles Graye et William Harbcrt me fecit 1627.
These bells are sadly out of order. The treble and tenor are lying on their sides tin-
der the frame. — J. H. S.
3. Barton — 4.
1, 2, 3. 1608.
4. Ricardvs Bowler me fecit 1601.
4. Comber ton — 4.
1. John Waylet made me 1711.
2, 3. Milonem Graye me fecit 1633.
4. Christopher Graye made me 1655.
5. Colon — 3.
1. 1580, and six fleur-de-lis.
2. J. Angicr, W. Lindscll, Churchwardens, Edwd. Arnold fecit 1786.
3. + VIRGO. CORONATA. DUC. NOS. AD. EEGNA. BEATA. Lougohardic
characters.
6. Foxton — 5, Tenor F sharp, c. 12 cwt., diam. 39 J in.
1, 2, 4, 5. Miles Graye made itc 1654.
2 TUK cnuEcn bells of cAMBarDGESirrBE.
3. Thnmns K(-wiTinn of "N'orwich made mc 1729.
,T. Kuyncr aivl W. Battison. c. w. — J. H. S.
7. Foulmi)e—5, Tenor G. c. 10 cwt., 37^ in. diara.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Thomas Newman made me 1704.
Tbo tenor is cracked. — J. TI. S.
8. Grantcheder — 3,
1. God save thy chvrch. 1610.
2. John Darbic made me 1677.
3. No mscription. (An old cylindrical bell, to the best of my recol-
lection.)
9. Harlton—S
1 . Cracked.
2. 1622.
3. 1636.— J. H. S.
10. Harston — 4.
1. Miloncm Graye me fecit 1634.
2. Thomas Newman made me 1717.
3. John Adams William Sharpe c. w., 1684.
4. EM DAM KEKC (qU ? KEYS, or KETC) + AIIB + NET + SWA. LongO-
lardic characters. Awsten Bracker (q^ ? Brasyer, or Bracyer)
mad me.
11. HasUngfield — 5. Tenor, 14 cwt.
1. Old first and second, cast 1668. Thomas Wendye, K.B.
2. Omnia fiant ad gloriam Dei. J. Arnold and T. Scruby c. w., 1816.
3. Old third cast 1615. William Wendye Armiger, R. Taylor, St.
Neots, 1816.
4. This peal was recast by llobt. Taylor, St. Foots, 1816.
5. George John, Earl Delawarr. J. Arnold, and T. Scruby, c. w.,
1816, the 57th year of the reign of George the Third.
On Thomas "Wendye's monument is this epitaph : —
Quo Luctu ? Qua laude tuum quo marmore nomen
Perpctuem nisi stem marmor et ipsa tibi
Ars, Amor, Ingenium, Sumptus te reddere vultu
Certant, te possit reddere mente nihil.
12. Hauxton — 3.
1, 2, 3. Miles Graye made mc 1666.
13. Newton— S. Tenor, G. Diamr 37 in., Wt. c. 10 cwt.
1. + llichardus Bowler me fecit 1603.
2. + + EM DAM. EEKc ARB. ifET. sA. (Astcn Brackcr mad me.)
Longohardie characters.
3. + gum -Jlosa ^Uilsata gTunbr JJaterina ^otata.
The capital letters on the tenor are very beautiful, and surmounted with crow-ns.
THE CHTJECH BELLS OF CAMBEIDGESHIRE. 3
14. Orwell — 5. Tenor, F sharp, c. 13 cwt., diam. 40 in.
1. Charles Newman, made me 1G91. James Swann and John
Merry, c. w.
2. + IS'oD : Clamor: sod: amor: cantat: in : avre : Dei: 1616.
3. Miles Graye made me 1663.
4. + Non Clamor sod amor cuntat in aure Dei. 1629.
5. Toby N orris cast me 1629.
-f God s ive the King. W. Holder, W. Fairchild, c. w. — J. H, S.
15. Great Shelford — 5.
1 mabe at ^ambribg«
2. No inscription.
3. Christopher Graye made me 168 — .
4. No inscription.
5. John Draper made me 1618.
The second and fourth are apparently of the same age. The latter has on it the heads
of Henry VII and his Queen.
16. Little Shelford — 5. Tenor G, c. 15 cwt.
Henrie ^tVryssle, Earl of Sonthamp-
1.
1703.
2.
1701.
3.
Ricardvs Holdfeld me fecit. He
tvnn, 1612.
4.
Cristofor Woodgate, c. w., 1701.
5.
1701.
The first, second, fourth and fifth are hy Richard Keenc, of the "Woodstock foundry,
who cast bells for some time on the green sand, near Royston.
17. Shepreth—3.
1. 1700.
2. 1623. The God of mcrcic heareth us all.
3. 1623. When upon him that we doe call.
These inscriptions were taken by Mr. Sperling ten years ago. The treble, one of
Richard Kccno's bells, only remains in the tower, the other two bolls having been cither
sold or taken into the Churchwarden's house, when the upper stor}' of the tower was
taken down to save repairs. There Mrere frames for five in the tower.
18. Stapleford—5.
1. John Hodson made me 1654, b. k n. b. Yemen
2. Mcars 1845.
3. William Kemp, James liankes. Church Wardens, 1622, w l. j d.
4. John Anscll, John Banckcs, I6'22, w. l.
5. C. and G. Mears, Founders, London, 1845.
The third and fourth are hy William Land.
19. Thriplow — 5. Tenor G., c. 10 cwt., Diam. 36 in.
1 . Grata sit arguta 1 743.
4 THE ClIURCn BELLS OF CAMBRIDOESIITBE.
2. J, H. S. Nazarenus Rex Judeorum Anno Domini 1743.
3. Omnia fiant ad gloriam Doi, J. e., 1743.
4. Labor ipse voluptas. J, Eayrc fecit 1743.
5. Joseph Eayre, St. Ncots, fecit 1743. Gray Purdue, Gent., John
Till, William Dunedge, Churchwardens. — J. H. S.
20. Trumpinqton—5. Tenor, G sharp.
1. John Darbie made me 1677.
Thomas Allen gave me
A Treabell for to be.
2. Tho. Newman made mo 1723. John Hailes and James Brand, c. w
3. M. G.
4. ^ui. Iltgnat. 61. '2lnus. Ctli. ^tt. P«nus. Three stamps of the
old Bury St. Edmund's foundry.
5. J. Eayrc, 1749. Cvm cano bvsta mori cvm pulpeta vivere desi.*
Omnia fiant ad gloriam Dei, John Hailes, Tho. Spencer C.
"Wardens.
21. Wimpole — 1.
The bell, which hangs in a cupola at the west end, is said to be inscribed
Miles Graye made me 1653.
II. Deajteet of Botjen oe Knapwell.
1. Bourn — 6. Tenor, 14 cwt,
A peal from the St. Neot's foundry, cast before 1825.
2. Boxworth — 2.
1. Christopher Graye made me 1669.
2, Rqbarte Kente, Samewel Pvrcas, Churchwardens, 1615.
Only one of these bells is used.
3. Caldeeote — 3.
1. No inscription.
2. On this bell are six devices, for which see engraving.
3. + AVE MAEiA. Between the words is a king's head. Longolar-
dic characters.
4. Caxton — 5. Tenor G, c. 12 cwt. or perhaps less.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Christopher Graye made mee 1672. — J. H. S.
5. Cliilderley — Ecclesia destructa.
6. Coninffton—4.
1 . Modern.
2. 4- Sanda ^aria ora pro nobis.
* Desi is clearlv a mistake for disce.
THE CHimCH BELLS OF CAMBEIDOESHIEE. 5
3. 4- gissumpta zst Paria in tszhm gaubcnt aitgeli, Imibcnt«$ hint-
Vitnnt.
4. + gonthw WiQt ttos. — J. H. S,
7. Croxton — 6.
1, 2, 3, 4. Modem.
5. Cvm Cano bvsta mori cum pvlpita vivere disce 1613.
6. + ^it nonwir ir'ni bn^linxtum. — J. H. S.
8. Fen Drayton — 1.
Thos. Safford, Cambridge. Raised 1828.
Tho clerk says that there were two hells here, which were broken by some people
ringing for a wedding, and that this one was cast from them.
9. EUworth — 4.
1, 2. Modern.
3, 4. Each 1613, \yith a Latin legend. — J. H. S.
10. EUisley—A.
1. Thos. Barnet, Vicar, Wm. Day, Churchward., Jos, Eayrc, St.
Neot's fecit.
2. ABCDEFG. nijKLMNOPQBS. Longolardic characters.
3. Be yt knowne to all that doth mc see
That Newcome of Leicester made mco. 1608.
4. + %ii nomeit ^omini: binjebixtmn.
The second bears the shield of the Leicester foundry, a crown between thrco bells.
It is probably one of Watts.' The tenor bears the shield with three mullets, &c., for
which see engraving.
11. Great Eversden — 3.
1. John Butcher, Churchwarden, 1767.
2. No inscription.
3. Miles Graic fecit 1639.
The treble and second appear to bo from the Whitechapel foundry, from the border
at tho end of tho inscription.
12. Little Eversden — 4.
1. JS'o inscription.
2. Robert Leet, Churchwarden, J. Eayrc^ St. JS'eot's fecit 1756.
3. MUes Graye made mc 1629.
4. Christopher Graye made mo 1666.
1 3 . Gamlingay — 5 .
1. MUes Graye made me 1653. Nicholas Meade.
2. Miles Graye made me 1653. E. A.
3. Miles Graye made mo 1653. I. P. I. A.
4. Eichard Chandler made me 1699.
5. Miles Graye made me 1653. George Bvry, Sto' Apthorpc,
Chvrch "Wardens.
14. Little Qransden — 3.
1 GL ,,. E . . w I A. Longohardic characters..
6 THE Cmmcn bells of CAMBEIDOESniEE.
2. ^mutt '^ttolnxxt ©ra |jro |)[obis.
3. + Non . . Clamor, scd. amor, cantut. in. aurc. Dei. 1616.
Inscription on troblo defaced, but there ore divora curious devices. The tenor pro-
bably by Tobie Norris.
15. Graveley — 4.
1. God of his marci hoarcth vs all. 1624.
2. Wherevpon that we dov call 1624.
3. 0 priese the Lord theareforc I say, 1624.
4. I sovnd vnto the living when the sovlo doth part away, 1624.
16. HardwicJc — 3.
1. Peter Whittet, Churchwarden, Eobt. Taylor, Founder, 1797.
2, 3. Peter Whittet, Churchwarden, Robt. Taylor, St. Neot's
Founder, 1797.
17. Kingston — 3.
1. Tho. Newman made me 1722.
2. + AVE MAEiA. Longohardic characters.
3. Joseph Eayre fecit 1787, John Lee Eector, Henry Eoyston,
Churchwarden.
A large piece broken out of the treble sound-bow, showing the metal much honey-
combed.
18. Knapwell — 1.
One modern bell cast out of three old ones, probably by Mears. — J. H. S.
19. Lolworth — 3.
One of them has only the date 1703. The other two are plain. All three were pro-
bably cast by Richard Keene.
20. Papworth S. Agnes — 2.
Each 1637.— J. H. S.
21. Papworth S. Ecerard — 1.
One modern bell in a turret. — J. H. S.
22. Long Stow — 3.
1. + Santlc latilc ®rs |1ro f obis. J. S.
2. John Cook. Christopher Graye made me 1683.
3. Christopher Graye made me. 1682.
The second and third are cracked, the latter being also chipped at the sound-bow.
23. Swavesey — 6. Tenor F, 12 cwt.
Cast at the St. Neot's Foundry, between 1770 & 1825.
24. Toft—Z.
1. Christopher Graye made me 1666.
2. -f ^anttn. flatmita. (Qxu. ^ro- ^obis-
3. Wo inscription.
The second bears the Buiy stamp, and the tenor a gridiron and fleura-de-UB, and coins
like those at Landbeach and Caldecote.
THE CHUECn BELLS OF CAMBBIDOESHIEE. 7
III. Deanery op Cambbidqe.
(A) Churches in the town.
1. All Saints — 3, Tenor c. 6 cwt. Diamr. 32f in.
1. No inscription.
2. Robart Browne, Henry Frost, Chvrch "Wardens.
Thomas Norris made mee. 1632.
3. + Non sono animabus mortvorvm sed avribvs viventivm. 1606.
Here Blomefield reports " 3 bells and a Saints bell," CO., p. 70. The treble is an old
beU of cylindrical tendency. The tenor is Toby Norris,' being marked with his owl,
for which see engraving. The figure is reproduced from that in BowteU's MS., vol. v,
fol. 1659.
2. S. Andrew the Great — 8, Tenor c. 9 cwt., Diamr. 38 in.
1. Ob pacem feliciter inter gentes compositam dicavit Johannes
Cooper, hujusce Ecclesiae vicarius, A. D. 1 856. Custodientibus
T. Bradwell, G. Johnson, C. et G. Mears, Londini fecenint.
2. Gloria in Altissimis Deo et in teiTa pax hominibus bonce volun-
tatis. A.D. 1856. Dicavit Johannes Cooper. Custodientibus. T.
Bradwell, G. Johnson. C. et G. Mears, Londini fecerunt.
3. 4, 5, 6. Thomas Mears, founder, London. The first four bells
recast A. D. 1843. St. Andrew's the Great.
7. Nathaniel Crabe, C. W. E. G., 1667.
8. Tho. Newman made me. 1722. John Edwards and "William
PaskvU. C. W.
Here Blomefield reports 5 bells. The 7th and tenor were well described to mo aa
"mucky, yawUng things, without a bit o' music in 'em."
3. S. Andrew the Less — 1.
1 . Taylor St. Neot's Founder.
There was only one small beU in Blomefield'a time. The date of tho present bcU is
c. 1800.
4. Christ Church — 1. Modern.
5. St. Paul — 1. Modem.
6. 8. Benedict — 6.
1. Robard Gvmcy made me 1663. Thomas Graves, Tho. Fox,
Churchwardens.
2. 1588.
3. OF. ALL. THE, BELS. IN. BENNET. I. AM. THE. BEST.
AND. XET. FOR. MY. CASTING. THE. PAEISU. PAIDE. LEST. 1607.
T W. W B. 0 B. N S. T W. R S. M. C.
T. N.
4. Henry Marshall, Junr., & William W. Hayward, Churchwar-
dens, 1825.
5. -V NON. NOMEN. FEEO. FICTI. SED. NOMEN. BENEDICTI. 1610. E. 8.
6. John Draper made me in 1618.
8 THE lOHUECII BF,I,I,8 OF CAMBillBGESniEE.
Tljis bcU was Tjroako and cast againo,
As plainly doth apoare
Wich time Chvrchwardcns were
Edwardo Dixson for tho one whoo stodo close by his tacklin,
And he that was his partner then was Alexander Jacklin.
Tho inscriptions on this peal are not correctly given by Blomefield, nor by Mr. Lukis.
Tho 4th boll is from Dobson's fonndry at Downham. The 3rd and 5th are by Tobie
Norris, of St:imford, whoso initials appear on the 3rd. A flcur-dc-lis on the 3rd is also
found on the 3rd at Chesterton, and the initial crosses on the .5th and on the 3rd at
Chesterton are identical. I took full dimensions of the 3rd (a very poor bell), which I
•may as well give hero : — Perpendicular height from lip to crown, 26^ inches. Per-
pendicular height from lip to shoulder, 22| inches. Diameter, 33f inches. Circumfer-
ence round inscription, 66^ inches.
7. S. Botolph—A, Tenor, w* c. 9 cwt. Diam. 36| in.
1. + Smrctc ^poIiitB ora pro nobis. |. ®r
2. + ^xxmit giiibrc!! ora pro nobis.
3. Sanda Pargartta ora pro nobis.
4. ^tomtn PagbaUne Campaua (Btxii ^dobie.
These bellfl are very thin in the soundbo-w, but are an excellent little ring.
8p S. Clement — 1 and a Priest's bell.
Bell. Nichlos Apthorpe, JSTatlianell Wilshe, C W. C. N., 1691.
(By Charles Newman.)
Priest's beU. T. Osborn fecit 1780.
9. S. Edward the Confessor — 6, Tenor, c. 9 cwt. Diam. 36f in.
1. Christopher Graye made me 1669.
2, 3. In Timphanis laudate Dominum, C. G., 1669.
4. Stefanvs Tonni me fecit, W. L,, 1576, Do Bvri Santi Edmondi.
5. + ^amta ^nna ora pro nobis.
6. Non Clamor Sed Amor cantat in avre Dei, 1622.
The 6th bears the old Bury Stamp. The tenor is by Tobie Norris.
10. S. Giles—l.
Cvni cano bvsta mori cvm pvlpita vevere dise, 1 622.
This is another of Tobie Norris'. The inscription should have been Cum cano busta
mori cum pulpita vivere disce.
11. S. Mary the Great — 12 and Priest's bell, Tenor, C sharp. Diam'
55| in., w* 30 cwt.
1 . These two Tribbles to make them a compleat peal of Twelve
was raised by Subscription at the interest of Chas. Day &
Jno. Paris ringers of this Society, in the year 1770. Alder-
man Weales & Jno. Haselum, C' Wardens. Pack & Chapman
of London fecit 1773.
2. Baised by subsci-iption at the interest of Chas. Day & Jno. Paris,
Bingcrs of this Society, in the year 1770. Aldennan Weales
& Jno. Haselum, C Wardens. Pack & Chapman, of London.
THE CmJECH BELLS OF CASTBEEDGESHIKE. 9
3. R. Phelps made me 1722. Mess. Tho. Fowle, Edw. Phipps,
Churchwardens.
4, 5. R. P. fecit 1722. Messieurs Tho. Fowle, Edw. Phipps,
Churchwardens.
6. R. Phelps fecit 1722 Messieurs Tho. Fowle, Edw. Phipps,
Churchwardens.
7, 8, 9. R. Phelps fecit 1723. Messieurs Edward Phipps, Thomas
Fowle, Churchwardens.
IG. Richard Phelps, Londini, fecit 1722. Messieurs Samuel Her-
ring, Edward Phipps, Churchwardens,
11. James Parron & John Gifford, Churchwardens, "W^illm. Dob-
son, Founder, Downham, Norfolk, 1825.
12. This bell cast in the year of our Lord, 1770. Alderman
Weales & Jno. Haselum, C Wardens. Pack & Chapman, of
London, fecit.
Priest's bell. This bell was made by John "Warren, 1607.
The history of this fine peal is to be gathered from Bowtell's MS.
12. S. Mary the Less — 1.
-f NGN SONO ANIMABVS MOETVOEYM SED AVBIBT7S VIVENTIVM:, 1608.
(By Tobie Xorris, of Stamford.)
13. S. Michael — 4. Tenor, c. 8 cwt. Diam' 35| in.
1, 2, 3. Christopher Grayc made me 1683.
4. Charles Newman made mee 1684. Michel Pugson, Henry Pyke,
Wardens,
The history of this peal is to be found at great length in the Parish Book.
14. S. Peter— \.
Ricardvs Bowler me fecit. 1603.
15. Holy Sepulchre — 1 and a Priest's bell.
Bell, Robard Gvrney made me 1663.
The Priest's bell has no inscription.
16. Holy Trinity — 5.
1, 2, 3, 4. Thomas Newman made mee 1705.
5. John Scwstcr and Edward Waring C. Wardens, 1705.
A poor light peal.
(B) CoUeges.
1. S Peter's College.
Chapel bell. Cvm moveo admonio 1622.
This is one of Tobie Norris' bells.
Hall bell. Peeter Vanden Ghein heft mi ghegoten.
2. Clare College.
Chapel bell. 1727.
Hall bell. No inscription.
10 THE CnXTECn BELLS OP CAMBHrDOEBHIBE.
3. PemlroTce College.
Chapel bell. By Robert Taylor of St. Neot's, c. 1790.
Hall bell. No inscription.
4. Oonville and Cains College — 1.
1736. Diameter, 14 inches, note C.
5. Trinity Rail— I.
T. Safford, 1804.
Diameter, 16^ inches, note A.
Safford carried on the business of a WMtesmith, near the present Com Exchange.
6. Corpus Christi College — 1.
1697.
7. King's College.
Cum moveo admoneo, 1616.
From the motto it seems that this is one of Tohie Norria'. Bowtell gives the date
1622, incorrectly. The clock hell I have not seen.
8. Queens' College.
Chapel bell. Miles Graie fecit. 1637.
9. 8. Catharine's College.
Chapel bell. J. H., 1654. ( John Hodson. )
Hall bell. No inscription.
10. Jesus College. Two Chapel bells and Hall bell.
1. C. G, 1659. (Christopher Graye.)
2. + ^omen Sandc |£su nos ser&H mortis ab tm.
Hall bell. 1709. (This is, perhaps, one of Richard Keene's.)
The 2nd beU is by Taylor, of I^oughborough, and weighs 6 cwt.
11. Christ's College.
Chapel bell. John Childe, Esqvier, 1675, and Abraham Rudhall's
I- I stamp, as found on Emmanuel chapel bell. Diam' 16| inches.
'-''**^:/ Note A.
HaU bell. Collegium + Christi + 1 628 + Janeuary + 22.
12. St. John's College.
The " Silver Bell " in the principal gateway.
Quod faoio pulsata volens tu perfice, claro
Scilicet ut possit tenipus abire sono. "W. L., 1 624. By "William Land.
13. Magdalene College — 1.
A small modem bell. No inscription.
14. Trinity College.
Bell in the Great Court, 1811.
THE CHtTRCn BELLS OP CAMBEIDGESHIEE. 11
Clock Tower. Two quarter bells, one of wMch bears only tbe date
1726, and the other, " Cum voco yenite. Tho" Osborn, Downham,
Norfolk, 1795."
The Clock bell.
Eicardus Holdfeld me fecit. 1610.
Eesonat Trinitas in Unitate.
Blomefield's account is hard to be reconciled with this : — " On the large bell, put up
with a new clock. ' These three bells and clock were made A.D. 1726. Ric. Bently,
{sic) D. D. Master,' " CoU. Cant., p. 114.
15. Emmanuel College.
Chapel bell. A. R., 1672, and a stamp. — Three hells in a circle.
The date of the cupola is 1673. The initials are those of Abraham
"^ Rudhall, an eminent beU founder, of Gloucester. In the inside of
^^ .( 4 the cupola is rudely cut, " Thomas Holbeche, 1680." He was
Master of the CoUege, and died in that year.
The Hall bell I have not seen.
16. Sidney Sussex Colleg'e.
Chapel bell. Sidney Sussex College. Anno Dom., 1739. J. E. St.
Neot's fecit.
The initials are Joseph Eayre's. It is the earliest bell of his that I have seen or
heard of.
17. Downing College — Modem, I suppose.
(C) Adjoining Parishes.
1. Fen Bitton — 5. Tenor G, c. 12 cwt. Diam' 39^ inches.
1. Eobert Malton, William Pettet, Chrrch Wardens. 1623.
2. Eing and fear not,
But swear not. 1623.
3. John Hodson made me. 1654.
4. Feare the Lord and on him cavl,
William Havsley made vs all. 1623.
5. Edward Wrangall, John Curtice.
Charles I^ewman made mee. 1692.
2. Fulboiirn All Saints — 6 Tenor, w' 1 1 cwt.
Cast at the St. Ncot's foundry, by Edward Arnold, 1776.
This place is noted for ha\'ing produced a peal of six, known as " Fulbourn Surprise."
The author of the method was a schoolmaster in the village. Some account of St.
Vigor's will be given hereafter.
3. Cherry Hinton — 5.
1. Walter Scrocold, Esq'., Era. Ellard. C. W. 1727.
2. MAGXA ....
AVE MAEiA + Lo7igohardic characters.
3. jubilate Jeo omnis |.lo|)uUis lerrc-
4. |olj« ®agIor iinb ^ott, ^ounbcrs, ^cragbborougb, 1853.
5. T. Mears, London fecit, 1828. Eevl Stephen Davis, Curate.
12 THE CnXTHCH BELLS OF CAMBErDQESHIEE,
Tho- Sumpt; Hcadley | church Wardens.
George Bullin )
Ihis peal is incorrectly reported by BJomefield, and no better in the " Churches of
Cambridgeshire."
The former inscribes the second bell (which he calls the third.) — Ave Maria Magda-
lena — a salutation certainly unknown till his discovery. There is a head between the
words Ave and Maria.
4. Horningsey — 4.
1. J. H. made me. 1654. John Chrisp C. W.
2. iljomas ^raper mabe lite 1590.
3. Christopher Graye made me. 1680.
4. Johanes Draper me fecit. 1608.
Only the Tenor remains perfect, the others being split. There is a kind of pine-apple
between each word on the second, and something like a star with wavy rays at the end.
5 . Teversham — 1 .
Taylor St. Neot's Founder, 1799.-
Some account of the old peal will be given hereafter.
lY. Deaiteet op Camps.
1 . Great Ahington — 1 .
Tho' Mears, London, fecit. 1817.
Priest's bell. 1789.
(Frames for five.) J. H. S.
2. Little Ahington — 1. G sharp. Diam. 37 in., V c. 10 cwt.
-|- Disce mori nostro vivere disce sono. 1620.
Between the words are a rose, a heartsease, and a pink alternately. I have seen
these stops on a peal bearing date 1658, by Bryan Eldridge, in a church in Middlesex.
There are frames for thi-ee beUs, of which only the largest remains. J. H. S.
3. Balraham — 2, " The two heaviest of a peal of five, the three trebles
being gone, and the fourth broken. The largest is G. cj 14 cwt.,
at diam'' 42 inches. Both have black-letter inscriptions terribly
difficult to read from imperfect casting. Both are alike, and I
believe the following version to be correct : —
1614 \ Sir lOcnrn ^alabixmi bib «s hhig _ I J H S
■ ( 6ob's \xm\t anb fam£ abroab to sing." ) ' ' '
4. Balsham — 5. Tenor, c. 16 cwt.
1. By Pack and Chapman, 1774.
2, 3, 4, 5. 1609.
The second is inscribed " God save our King," and one of the others, " God save the
Church," round the shoulder, and on the rim, William Tailor, Georg "Wolard, Joitn-
Lense, in Longobardic characters.
5. Bartlow — 3. Peal in A, in excellent tune.
1. + lUox ^ugusliiii Sonet in giurc gti-
THE CIITJRCn BELLS OF CAMBEIDGESHIEE. 13
2. + Sit "^omm glomini ,§cntbktum.
3. + ®:empora J^ulgura gum i^ulso ^tsta (Senesco) Paria.
The dimensions are as follows : —
1. 2. 3.
Diam'- at sound-bow . . 29i in. 35 37
Circumference at inscription . . 52 in. 61 64
All these bear the same stamps.' 1, a shield bearing Dolphin, wheatsheaf, bell and
lave-pot, separated by cross-kej-s. 2, a circle containing an elaborate cross flore, with
the words ihu meuci ladi help round the border. 3, a shield containing the sj-mbol3
of the Passion. These stamps are excellently engraved in Mr. Amherst Daniel Tyssen's
Church Bells of Sussex, and the fii'st is imperfectly given in Lukis' Church Bells, plate
2, from Mere, Wiltshii-e, though stated by mistake to be from Heyteabury.
6. Bottisham — 5.
1. Tho' Newman & Hen'' King, Churcliwardens. "Wm. Dobson,
Founder, 1829.
2. JOHN DKAJEE MADE ME 1606. (Thc figuics of the datc arc re-
versed.) Longolardic characters.
3. 5. John Draper made me 1626. H. C.
4. I^itarirns ptolsou mc fecit.
On the foui-th are the heads of a King and Queen, perhaps Philip and Mary.
7. Borough Green — 5. Tenor B, c. 6 cwt. Diam. 3U in.
1, 2, 3. Sam. Knight, Rector, Burgh, 1710.
4. John Briant, Hertford, fecit. 1807.
5. Sam. Knight, Eector, Burgh, me donavit, 1710.
The third is cracked. J. H. S.
8. BrmkIeg—6. Tenor F., 15 cwt. Diam. 43^ in.
1. William Dobson, Downhara, Norfolk, fecit 1820.
2 and 3. Johancs Draper me fecit 1609.
4. Tho. Newman made me 1723. W. Lawscll andE. Frost, C. "W.
5. W. H.
6. Tho. Gardiner, Sudbury, fecit 1727. T. Yale, F. Frost, C. W
The tenor has a very pretty moulding of the rose, shamrock and thistle. J. II. S.
9. Castle Camps — 5. Tenor, 11 cwt. Note G.
1, 2, 4, 5. By Dobson, of Downham, 1817.
3. By Taylor, of Loughborough, 1856.
The third was broken when the tower fell, in 1854. J. 11. S.
•
10. Shudy Camps — 5.
1, 2, 3. 1700.
4. 1621. Non Clamor Sed amor Sonat in aure Dei.
5. By Thcmas Mears, 1840.
The old Tenor bore the Bury stamp, and was inscribed : -\- Virgo Coronata Due No
Ad Rcgna Beata. J. 11. S. Tho first three by Richard Kccuc, and the fourth by
Tobic Norris. J. J. R.
11. Catlelon — 1.
14 THE cntJRon hklls or CAMnEiDOKsniiiE.
12. IhiUingham—5 and Clock bell. Tenor, G. c. 11 cwt. Diam. 39 in.
1. John Briant, Hartford, fecit, 1784. J. Haylock and W. Frost,
C.W.
2. T. Mears of London fecit. 1828.
3. John Draper made mc. 1627.
4. John Draper made mc. 1626.
6. Miles Grayc made mc. 1660.
Clock bell. T. Mears of London fecit. 1828.
13. Dux for (I St. John— Q. Tenor, G. Diam' 36 in. W* c. 9 cwt.
1, 2, 3. Edward Arnold St. Neot's fecit, 1777. llichard Hitch,
C. W.
4. Miles Grayc made me. 1632.
5. ^ubilcmus ^jeo snlutari nostra.
e3corjgi«s Clarke me ti mtos sobales fctit an^ 1564.
6. 1699. Geo. Barker, Henry Wallis, C. W.
Tho fifth came from Duxford St. Peter. The tenor ia by Richard Keene. — J. n. S.
14. Duxford St. Peter— \. Note A. Diam' 33 in., c. 8 cwt.
Edward Arnold, St. Neot's, fecit, 1777. Richard Hitch, C. W.
Here are pits for five. The old tenor is now the fifth at Duxford St. John. J. H. S.
1 5 . HildersTiam — 1 .
Frames for five. The bell is said to be dated 1581 or 1584. J. H. S.
16. Rinxton, The two trebles of a peal of five only remain.
1 . Miles Graye made me. 1667.
2. Miles Graye made me. 1665. J. H. S.
The Rev. A. J. Deck, in hi» contiibution to the Ecclesiology of the county, published
by Parker, has noted a small bell suspended on the exterior of the tower.
17. HorseJieaih — 4.
1. 1700.
2. S' Giles Alington gave the Tenor, 1606.— 1700.
3. Tho. Pvi-kis, Tho. Rvle, C. W. 1699.
4. T. SafFord, Cambridge, mdcccxxv. W. Sangster, J. Lawrence,
C.W.
From this it appears that the tenor, before Saflford recast it, was of the same make as
the others, i.e., Richard Keene's.
18. Mlefon—6. Tenor, F. W* 18 cwt. Diam' 47 in.
1. Lester and Pack of London fecit. 1761.
2. Thomas Newman of Norwich made me. 1729.
3. "William Chapman London fecit. 1781
4. Lester and Pack fecit. 1755.
5. I tell all that doth me see.
That Newman of Norwich new cast mc. 1729.
6. Thomas Lester of London fecit. 1751. J, H. S.
THE CHimCH BELLS OF CAMBBIDGESniEE. 15
19. Linton — 5 and a Clock bell. Tenor, F, 16 cwt. Diam' 44 in.
1. John Draper made me. 1617.
2. Miles Graye made me. 1664.
3. John Draper made me. 1630.
4. Miles Graye made me 1665.
5. Lester and Pack of London fecit. 1754. Christopher Lonsdale.
Yicar, Henry Winn and Tho\ Hammond Church Wardens.
Laudo DeumVerum. J. H. S.
Clock bell inaccessible.
20. Pam2nsford—4. Tenor, G shai-p.
1, 2. Thomas Mears London fecit 1841.
3. C. & G. Mears founders London. 1848.
4. J. Eayre fecit. 1743. I. H. S. Nazarenus Rex Judeorum.
The old third was by John Draper, 1615. J. 11. S.
21. Quy, alias Stow - cum- Quy. — 5.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. John Darbie made me. 1670.
4 and 5 also bear the initials T. A., and 5 bears the inscription
^a«ba p£um ^wmx
^ogahim boto tongugo tUrum.
Hero is a modem Sancte-hell cot, made of red brick.
22. Sawston—6. Tenor G. Diam' 41 in., c. 13 cwt.
1. Edward Arnold St. Neot's fecit. 1775. li''. Robinson and
Richard Farbank. C. AV.
2, 3. Edward Arnold St. Xeot's fecit. 1774. W". Taylor and R'
Robinson C AV.
4. Edward Arnold St. Neot's fecit. 1774. Do justly, love mercy,
and walk humbly with thy Goil.
5. John and Christopher Hodson made mc. 1678. James Swann,
John Corby C. W.
6. John Howell, W. Taylor, C. W. 1755. I. H. S, Nazarenus
Rex Judeorum.
This is one of Joseph Eayre's. J. n. S.
23. Stetchworth—5.
1, 2. 1608 God save thy Chvrch.
3. om's su's (aub«t bit'm om's sn's Ini^bct bit'm.
4. + ^ancta l^argareta <Dra ;|,1ro ^Tobis.
Stamped with the Bury mark.
5. I)e Bvri Sancti Edmondi Stcfanvs Tonni mc fecit. 1564.
24. Swafham £ulbeck—6. Tenor, G sharp. W. 1 1 cwt. Weight of
the whole peal 43 cwt.
1. I mean to make it understood
That tho' I'm little yet I'm good. 1820.
16 THE cnuRcn bet,ls of cambkidoeshibe.
2. If you have a judicious car
You'll own our voices sweet and clear. 1820.
3. The old four were recast into a peal of six by Rob' Taylor & Son
S*. Neot's. July S^M 820.
4. Whilst thus we join in chearful sound
Let Love & Loyalty abound. R. Taylor & Son Found'..lB2C.
5. Ye people all that hear us ring
Be faithful to your God & King. M'. Bowyer & W. Ingle. C.
W. 1820.
6. I to the church the living call
& to the grave I summon all.
M'. Bowyer & W. Ingle Church Ward^ 1 820.
R. Taylor & Son ^ound^ S*. Neot's H:unt^
25. Swaffham Prior. St. Mary^s — 6 & clock bell.
1. John Briant of Hartford fecit. 1791. Samuel Hart & John
Nunn Church Wardens.
2. John Briant of Hartford fecit. 1791.
3. 4, 5. John Briant Hartford fecit. 1791.
6. John Briant Hartford fecit 1791. Samuel Hart & John Nunn.
Church Wardens.
Clock bell. John Briant Hartford fecit. W. Killingbeck. C. W.
1793.
For S*. Cyiiac see Dissertation.
26. Westley Waterless.
The tower has fallen clown, and there is no bell at all. This is the only place in
England I have found thus destitute.
27. Weston Colville —5. Tenor, A sharp, 7 cwt. Diam. 33 in,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. T. Mears London fecit 1825.
The Tenor also bears the names of the Churchwardens. The tower of this church
fell down in 1825, and all the bells were broken but one, which is now the treble at
Wood Ditton.
28. Whittles ford— 5. Tenor, F. Diam^ 43^ in. W*. 14 cwt.
1. R. G. made me. 1672.
2. Miles Graye made me. 1631. I. L.
3. Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit. 1736.
4. John Waylett made me. 1708.
5. John Briant Hartford fecit. 1793.
R. Whiskin. S. Bafnes. C. AVardcns. J. H. S.
The treble is by Robard Gumey, and bears a crown and arrows, which seems to de-
note some connection with Buiy St. Edmund's.
29. West Wiekham — 5.
1. By Henry Pleasant. 1700.
2, 3. 1606.
4.
5 . By John Thornton, Sudbury. 1714.
IHE CHTJECH BELLS OF CAJIBEIBGESItmE. 17
30. Great Wilbraham — 5. Tenor, Cr. Diam''. 37 in. c. 9 cwt.
1. John Waylctt made this ring 1709.
2. John Strand Chui'chwardcn 1709.
3. John Ward Agent 1709.
4. John Waylett made these five bells 1079 (for 1709).
5. Thomas Mears founder London and Gloucester 1857.
John Teversham ) p -rn-
W-. Poole. J ^. VY.
A bad peal. J. H. S.
31. Little Wilbraham — 3. Tenor, Ij. Diam'. 38 in., c. 11 cwt.
1. + De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 1575.
2. + De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 1576,
3. Ricardvs Bowler me fecit. 1606.
The tenor ia a very good bell. J. H. S.
32. Willingham — Ecclesia destructa.
33. West Wra^iing—5. Tenor, A. c. 8 cwt.
1. By Joseph Eayre St. Neot's. 1750.
2. 4. 1702.
3. By Thomas Mears.
5. George Mears founder London, 1860.
The second and foui-th by Richard Keene. The old tenor is said to have borne the
Bury St. Edmund's stamp.
V. Deanekt of Chesxeeton,
1. Chesferton^5. Tenor, E. 20 cwt. Diam% 47-^- in.
1. soxoKo soNO MEo soxo DEO 1612. Eicardvs Holdfeld me fecit.
Longohardic characters.
GOD SAVE THV cnvEcn. 1612. Ricardvs Holdfeld me fecit. Lon-
gohardic characters.
3. + CAXTABO LAUDES TIT AS DOinNE, 1606. EICABDVS COVIXGTOy.
Longohardic characters.
4. Christopher Graye made me 166 — .
5. Will-" & John Taylor, Oxford. Founders. FcV^ 9*'' 1825. John
Brigham Wiles & Will™ Johnson Chiu'chwardens.
The third is by Tobie Norris, of Stamford. See notes on the peal at St. Benedict,
Cambridge.
2. Cottenham — 6.
All by John Briant of Hertford. 1806. J. H. S.
3. Dry Drayton — 5.
1 . I. H. S. Nazarenus Rex Judeorum. Fili Dei miserere mei ....
1746.
2. I. H, S. Nazarenus Rex Judeorum. Fili Dei miserere mei. Hie
labor hoc opus. 1746.
18 THK OntJEC'J HKLLS OF CAMBEIBGESHIEE.
3. Omnia fiant iul gioriam Dei. Utile Dulci. 1746.
4 Ilethrington, Eector. Hen. Markham, Mich. Cifford.
Churchwardens
5. Discc raori nostro vivere disce sono. Omnia fiant ad gioriam
Dei, J. Eayre Si. Neot's, 1746.
4. 6irton—4 & Clock Bell.
1. Christopher Graye made me 167 — .
2. Charles Newman made me. 1699.
3. + Non Clamor Sed Amor cantat in avre Dei. 1619.
4. + JESTS . . . SPEDE . . . VS . . . OMJfIA . , . FIANT , , . AD . . GLOEIAM
... DEI . . 1617.
Clock Bell. No inscription.
The third and fourth by Tobie Norris. Initial cross as on Chesterton 3rd.
• 5. IJiston—5 & Clock Bell. Tenor, F sharp. Diam. 43| in.. "W*. c.
15 cwt
1. Tho. Newman made me. 1723.
2. Cantabo laudes Tuas Domine per atria.
3. 4, Eicardvs Bowler me fecit. 1604.
5. William Peck and Eobart Read Chvrch Wardens. 1683, W. B.
Clock BeU. T. Osborn Downham fecit. 1781.
This is a fine specimen of Cambridgeshire preservation. The fii'st, third and fifth,
are cracked. The third and fourth have a stop something like cross bones.
6. Impington — 3. Tenor, G sharp. Diam. 37 in, W^ 10 cwt.
1. + Sancte |,Utu (9ra ^ro ^oMs. ^
2. -j- ^aittta llaierina (iBra IJro l^'oliis.
3. E. G. made me. 1652. (Eobard Gurney.)
The second bell bears emblems of the evangelists, beautifully executed, and a shield —
Ihree mullets in chief, and beloiv a chevron a crescent inverted.
7. Landleach — 4. Tenor, G. Diam'. 38 in.
1, 2. John Draper made me. 1619.
5. Favet lova populo suo.
Stefanvs Tonni de Bvri Santi Edmondi me fecit. 1577.
4- + f 'ps |l£rp£tuic. '§ti. IJoliis. 6aubia. Wiit.
The first and second are cracked. The tenor is stamped vnih a very curious shield,
which is also found on bells in the following churches : — Boughton Aluph, Kent; Brent-
ford, Middlesex ; Elsenham, Takely, and Wicken Breaux, Essex ; Furneaux Pelham,
Hertfordshire. In the centre of the shield is a bell bearing the word foun. In chief
is the opening of Ps. xi. ^In !)'iio Co' fibo. On the right of the bell's mouth is a sham-
rock, and on the left the word bf'. On the right of the tongue of the bell is the letter
W, and on the left a peacock. Below the tongue of the bell is the letter P.
8. Madingley — 3.
1. + DICOEEGO. THOMAS. LAYS. EST. XPI. SO»TIS. OMAS. LongO-
bardic characters.
2, 3 . T. Tymbs and E. Stephens C. W. Tho. Newman made me 1 723.
THE CEJTRCK BEIIS OF CAMBEIDGESHrEE. 19
9, Milton — 3. Tenor, G sharp. Diam' 35 inclies.
1. Miles Graye made me. 1665.
2. Thomas Kewman made mc. 1717.
3. -\- Non Clamor sed Amor cantat in aure Dei. 1601.
The tenor has Tobie Norris's initial cross.
10. Oahington — 4:. Tenor, A. Diam' 39 inches. "W 7 cwt.
1, 3. Miles Graye made me. 1655.
2. Omnia fiant ad gloriam Dei. W. Hemington, C. W., 1748. f 4-
4. Miles Graie made me. 1656.
The second has a very high sloping cro\sTi, and is, I think, the workmanship of
Joseph Eayre. The fourth is lettered -with Miles Graye' s large type, and the first and
third with his small type, the figures of the date being reversed.
11. Over — 6. Tenor 14 cwt.
A peal from the St. Neot's foundry, before 1825.
12. Rampton — 3. Tenor, B. Diam. 30 inches.
1. Thomas Newman made mee. J. Eule. J. Marshall. C. "W. 1713.
2. + ^anctt ©staalbi ora pro nobis.
3. + Sanck Iflaria ora pro nobis-
There is a bell dedicated to St. Oswald, at Luddington, Lincolnshire. (See Lukis,
p. 83.) Here once was a fourth larger than any of these. The second and thii-d are
marked with a shield engraved (fig. 25), in Mr. Daniel-Tyssen's Church Bells of
Sussex.
13. Long Stanton All Saints — 3. Tenor, A, 35 inches, c. 8 cwt.
1, 2, 3. Miles Graye me fecit. 1637. J. H. S-
14. Long Stanton St. Michael.
Here is a bell-cot containing two bells, reported as "inaccessible, but evidently blank,"
by Mr. G. H. WoUaston.
15. Waterheach — 5. Tenor, G sharp. Diam^ 35 inches. W. 7 cwt.
1. Thos Osborn fecit. 1791.
2, 3, 4. T. Osborn fecit 1791.
5. W. Mason Church Warden. T. Osborn, Downham, fecit. 1791.
Here Masters, in 1795, noted four bells, evidently a mistake, though not a very par-
donable one, seeing he was Picctor of the parish.
16. Willingham — 5. All cast at St. Neot's, by Joseph Eayre, Oct. 17,
1755. On the Tenor, I. H. S. Nazarenus Rex Judeorum.
J. H. S.
YI. Deaneky op Ely.
1 . Benwick.
One small bell in a bell-cot, probably modem. Chapel rebuilt 1 851.
20 THE cnuRcn bells of cambhidoeshibe.
2. Chatteris— 5. Tenor, G. W*. c. 9 cwt. Diameters: — 1. 26^
inches. 2. 27^ inches. 3. 28^- inches. 4. 32f inches.
5. 35 J inches.
1. Utile Dulci. Vixatur ingenio. Grata sit arguta resonans cam-
panula voce. 1735.
2. Labor ipso voluptas. 1735. Grata sit arguta resonans cam-
panula voce.
3. Labor ipse voluptas. Anno Dom. 1735.
4. Labor ipse voluptas. Anno Dom. 1735. J. Eayre, St. Neot's,
founder.
5. Labor ipse voluptas. Eichard Clark and John Marictt, Church-
wardens.
The tenor is broken.
3. Cheitisham.
One small bell in a bell-cot.
4. Coates Chapel — One small bell, probably modem, in a bell-cot.
5. Coveney — One bell in B.
Mr. Sperling and I found this hell inaccessible, in October, 1860.
6. Doddington — 5. Tenor, A.. Diam'. 36 inches. "W*. c. 8 cwt.
1. Thomas Gardiner Sudbury Suffolk, 1737.
2. Thomas Gardiner. 1736. John Howard C. W.
3. 4, 5. Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit, 1736.
7. Downham — 4.
1. By Thomas ]S"ewman. c. 1730.
2. By Edward Arnold of St. Neot's. c. 1780.
3. 4. By Eobard Gurney c. 1660.
8. Ely Cathedral— 5.
All by Ilenry Penn, of Peterborough. The tenor only is inscribed "Henry Penn
made me. 1723." The treble is now used as a clock bell.
9. Ely S. Mary —9, and Priest's Bell. Tenor, F, 18 cwt.
1. 5 Bells recast and 2 added by Subscription and Rate. 1781.
2. Trinity Parish gave. me. E. Arnold St. IS'eot's fecit 1781.
3. Ecclesiae Maria; donavit Mathias Episcopus Eliensis ilDCCLXVI.
Joseph Eayre St. Xeot's fecit.
4. Edw''. Arnold. St. Neot's Huntingdonshire fecit. 1781.
God bless the King and Queen.
5. I to the poor and needy am a friend
For whose relief I call you to attend.
6. May our rich good and happy be
And our poor peace and plenty see.
7. Tho'. Pell, Esq. gave me. 1670. Recast by Edw"^. Arnold.
April 6"' 1781.
THE CHTTRCn BELLS OF CAMBRIDGESniRE. 21
8. Edw''. Arnold fecit. 1781. Caesar Morgan, A. M. Alinister, W".
Cropley, J"" Flanders, Churchwardens.
I to the church the living call
And to the grave do summon all.
Priest's bell. — St. iSTeot's. 1778.
10. Ely Holy Trinity— \ and Priest's bell.
Bell. John Taylor. John Hayward. Chvrch Wardens.
Thomas Norris made me. 16-18.
Priest's bell. + x&t gratia gleua.
This is stamped with the Bury mark.
11. naddenham—Q. Tenor, F, 16 cwt. Diam'. 42^ inches.
1. Thomas Newman made mee 17G6. Robert Key C. W.
2. Thomas Newman made mee 1706. Thomas Hvckle. C. W.
3. Thomas Newman made me 1706.
4. Labor Ipse Voluptas. J. Eayre St. Neot's fecit 1741. Matt.
Scarborough, Minister. J. Moms, J. Reed, Church Wardens.
5. Silvester Cole and John Porter, C. W. The. Newman made
me. 1725.
6. gtU glorg bfc ia (§a)i an bigb. (Ebfaarb glarcall, Ba«iiU (Soolb
gJHarbtn.?, 1657.
This bell bears on the waist the stamp of G. Oldfield, of Nottingham. Below this
are the initials, W. G. W. M.
12. Littleport—A. Tenor, G. W*. c. 9 cwt. Diam'. 38^- inches.
1. John Draper made me, 1640.
2. John Draper made me. 1622.
3. John Draper made me. 1624.
4. Henry Tansley, John Crabb, Churchwardens.
T. Osborn fecit, 1 790.
13. Mama — Churchjrebuilt 1791. Only one bell.
14. March — 6. Tenor, E, 16 cwt. Diam'. 47 inches.
On each bell — "Thomas Osbom, Downham, Norfolk, fecit,
1802," and the following mottos: —
1. In wedlock's bands all ye who join
"With hands your hearts unite
So shall our tuneful tongues combine
To laud the nuptial rite.
2. Let us lift up our voice with joy.
3. Long live King George III.
4. Give no offence to the church.
5. Our voices shall with cheerful sound
Make hills and valleys echo round.
6. I to the church the living call
And to the grave I summon all.
22 THE CHTTBCn IIKI.LS OK CAMBEIDOESHIKE.
Rob*. Hutchinson | churchwardens.
Lcwin jN . Groodman )
J. H. S.
N.B. Thomas Osborn died December 6th, 1800, hut the business was for a little
while continued under his name, sometimes joined with that of his grandson Dobson.
15. Mepal — Only one bell in a bell-cot. The church was rebuilt in 1849.
16. Siretham—4. Tenor, G, c. 10 cwt. Diam'. 38| inches.
1. Thomas Draper. 1591.
2. Joseph Eayre St. Neot's fecit. 1766. Thos. Thompson, John
Sennitt C. W.
3. 'William Walker Gent, and Edward Morden Wardens. 1727.
4. John Draper made me. 1615.
The 3rd by Thomas Newman, of Norwich. The tenor is cracked.
17. Stuntney —\.
"W. Dobson, Downham, Founder. 1807.
18. Sutton — 6. Tenor, E. Diam^ 46 inches. 18 cwt.
1. W". Dobson, Downham Norfolk fecit. 1819.
2. Miles Graye made me. 1654.
3. Charles Newman made me. 1691.
4. Charles Newman made me. 1700.
5. Henry Penn, fandator, 1722. Plebem voco Congrego clerum.
6. Defunctos Plango Vivos Moneo 1722. D. A. Peacock, Tho'.
Eaux, C. W.
The tenor by Penn. The fourth has a rery pretty border, with a shield Ermine,
three lozenges in f ess.
19. Thetford—1.
Modem brick bell-cot.
20. WentiDorth — 1.
C. and G. Mears founders London, 1845.
21. Whittlesea S. Andrew— 6. Tenor, E flat. W*. 22 cwt.
1. 4, 5. Thomas Mears founder London. 1843.
Kev. J. T. Cook, Yicai-.
Thomas Johnson
William Head
2. These five bells was cast July the 12. 1759.
3. Joseph Eayre St. Neot's fecit. 1759.
6. William Beale Rector, John Loomes Churchwarden.
Eayre fecit. 1760.
The weights of five of the peal as cast by Eayre, are noted in the tower : —
cwt. qrs. lbs.
" 1st bell .. .. .. 6 3 18
2nd „ .. .. .. .. 7 1 23
3rd „ .. .. .. 8 2 8
4th „ .. .. .. .. 9 1 23
6th „ .. .. .. 13 1 24 1759."
Churchwardens.
THE CnUBCH BELLS OF CAMBfilDQESIirEtE. 23
22. Whittlesea St. Mary—%, Tenor E, 20 cwt.
i, Thomas Moore Vicar. Edward Ground and "Will" Davy Ground
Churchwardens of S*. Mary's 1803.
2. Prosperity to the Establish"*. Chm-ch of England and no encour-
agement to enthusiasm. 1758.
3. The Lord to praise
My voice I'll raise— 1803.
4. Osborn and Dobson. founders, Downham, Norfolk. 1803.
5. Joseph Eayre fecit.
Peace and good
Neighbourhood.
6. Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God. 1758.
7. John Sudbury and John Johnson Churchwardens of St. Andrew's,
1803.
8. The five old bells into six was run
With additional metal near a tun. 1758.
23. Wilburton—5. Tenor, G. 7 cwt.
1. Miles Graye made me 1651. R. T. T. B.
2. Charles Newman made me 1695. John Taylor & Sou founders
Loughborough. This bell was recast at the expense of the
Hon. Margaret Letitia Matilda, Dame Pell, 1850.
3. No inscription.
4. 166 1.
5. I mean to tell that this bell was the free gift of Thomas Tower,
Esq. to the town of Wilburton in the year 1661. Eecast at
the expense of the Hon. Margaret Letitia Matilda, Dame PcU.
18.J0. John Taylor & Son founders Loughborough.
On the -waist are the arms of Tower : — Az., a tower Or. The fourth and the old
tenor Miles Graye's.
24. Witcham—1.
C. & G. Mears founders London, 1849.
W*. c. 11 cwt. Diam. 38 in. Note G sharp. J. H. S;
25. Witchford—3.
All by Chiistopher Graye. 1671.
VII. Deaneey of Foedham.
1 . Ashley — 1 . Modem.
2. Barway —2. In the west gable.
They can be seen distinctly from the ground. There is no inscription on cither bell
on the western side, and probably there is none on the other side.
3. Burwell — 5, and a Priest's bell in the leaden spire.
1, 2, 3, 4. 1703.
24 THE cnuucn dells of cambeidgeshike.
5. Tho. Newman fecit. 1723. Robert Bridgman and William
Pachey. C. W.
The first four are by Richard Keene.
Priest's Bell — Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1776.
4. Cheveley — 5.
1, 3. Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit. 1730.
2. + S^Htttta. ^ima. ora. pra- nobis.
4. Rev". Ja'. Tho'. Hand. Rector. Joseph Collins Tho». Martin Ch.
Ward". Tho^ Osborn founder, Downham, Norfolk. 1800.
5. John Thornton, Sudbury fecit. 1718. Tho^ Revel, Tho^ Peck
Ch. Wd'.
The Becond is marked vdth the Bury Stamp.
6. Chippenham — 5.
1. T. Newman made me. 1703. J. Jarrold, S. Tetsall. C. W.
2. John Draper made me. 1601.
3. -j- AVE. MAEIA. GEATLA. PLENA. DOMINVS. TECVM. Longolttrdio
characters.
4. <+• SAJiTCTA. MAEGAEETA. OBA. PEO. NOBIS. DEEBT, ZoJlffolat dlC
characters.
5. John Draper made me. 1621.
6. Wood Bit ton — 5.
1. John Draper made me. 1608.
2. William Dobson founder, Downham, Norfolk 1825.
3. + ^tt ilomjeit gomini ^fiuirtctum.
4. + ^om "f- rosa i^ pisata -ir nranbi ^ paria y fiocala.
1588
I
O ^ I i^ O (Royal arms.)
Btfp^anus tonni nte fait.
5. + l^irginis i^ assomptc i^ women ^ gero ^ b'lju -jr mntit.
1588
O ^
i^ O (Royal arms.)
slfp^anns Zamxx mt itnt + lo^aimes : prat-
The treble was brought from Weston Colville after the fall of that to-wer. A long
inscription upon it, relating probably to the Weston Colville parochial authorities, has
been erased.
7. Fordham — 6.
1. Fecit. 1759.
THE CHXTECH BELLS OP CAMBKIDOESHIBE. 25
2. 3. 4. Miles Graye made me. 1638.
5. Rob*. Hayward & John Minctt Churchwardens.
R. D. Fyson & James Seaber Contractors.
Prosperity to the vUlage of Fordham. William Dobson Foun-
der. A. D. 1825.
6. Miles Grayo made me. 1659.
A fine peal. The tenor is from Lester and Pack's foundry in "WTiitechapel.
8. Isleham — 5 & Clock Bell. Tenor said to be 25 cwt.
1,2. 1516.
3. S'ce : gabriel : ora p. ai'ab |ob'is bfritarb
milit. t thxxt xn'is sue: t tbonu. pjjitoir'.
arinrg'i : t margarete nv'is sue : filtc t
Ijercb. p'bkto' |ob'rs t : dtwt,
4. The Rev''. John Braham Isaacson, Rector.
John Knight and John Sheldrick C". Ward''^ 1819.
5. John Darbie made me. W. W. 1680. William Adams C. W.
J. G. Joseph Shai-pe.
Clock Bell + ^aitttc ^nbria or a pro.
A remarkably fine peal. The third and Clock Bell are from the old Bury foundry,
and I have been told that the old fourth was verj' much like the third. The third
bears two shields, one Bernard, the other Bernard and Peyton in pale. Of these bene-
factors John Bernard died in U''l, and Thomas Teyton, in 1484. The fourth is from
Dobson's foundry, at Downham. The clock bell bears the royal arms (France and
England quarterly) in a circle between each word.
It is worthy of note that when the tnwer of this church fell doMTi, a few years ago,
n»t one of the bells was broken. The peal hanging in the new tower is identical with
hat of which I took notes about twenty years ago.
9. Kennett—^.
1. Charles JSTewman made mee. 1707.
2. No inscription.
3. 4- Ifleritis ^biitunbx ^inms a Crimine Punbr.
The second is an old bell of cylindrical tendency. The tenor is stainped with the
Norwich mark. The capitals are very beautil'ul, especially the C, which contains a
spread eagle.
10, Kirlling — 5.
1, 2, 4, 5. Miles Graie fecit. 1638.
3. George Dobito Churchwarden. William Dobson Founder, 1819.
The executors of " Richard Pytchye of Kertlyng " (ob. 1521) " Icide out to Eob'.
■Warren for y"-' bell, xxs." (See Tymms's Wills and Inventories of the Sudbuiy Arch-
deaconry.)
11. Landwade — 2.
1. Hoc Tvba Cottoni est Landwadi diditafano. 1602.
2. -f llirginis (L'gregic Doto Campana Parie.
The former, I think, is by Tobie Xorris. The latter bears the Norwich stamp.
' Voco ' is a mistake of the founder for < Vocor.' Between Egre<jie and Voco there is a
lion's head, and the capital T'a- contain each a lion rampant. G has the spread eagle
as at Kennett.
26 THE CUUUOU BELL8 OF 0AMBEIDGE8HIBE.
12. Newmarket All Saints — 5.
1, 2, 3, 4. John Thornton Sudbury fecit. 1720.
5. Ja". Shade, Ch. Norman, Ch. W^ John Thornton fecit. 1720.
13. Silverley — Ecclesia destructa. Probably a small chapel, with one
bell in a gable.
14. Snailwell — 3.
1, 2. No inscription.
3, + S ancle. |)£tre. (Dra. |.)rcr. |tobts.
The smallest lies in the window. It used to hang in one of the embrasures of the tower,
directly over the nave, where the gudgeons yet remain. The third has the Bury
stamp.
15. Soham — 10 and Clock Bell. Tenor, E, 21 cwt. 48 in. diam.
1. New by subscript". 1808. Eev"''. H. Fisher Vicar, J. Dobede &
E. Tebbet C. W. J. Eriant. Hartford fecit.
2. New by subscription. 1808 Eev""*. H. Fisher Vicar. J. Dobede.
E. Tebbet. C. W. J. Briant. Hartford fecit.
8, 4. Eecast by Subscription 1808. H. Fisher. Vicar. J. Dobede
& K. Tebbet C. W. John Briant Hartford fecit.
5. Cum Voco venite. T. Osborn fecit 1788,
6. T. Osborn fecit 1788. Laudate Nomen.
7. ^'^. Pechy, W™. Sizer. Church "Wardens. T. Osborn Downham,
Norfolk fecit. 1788.
8. W™. Pechy, W". Sizer Church Wardens. T. Osborn fecit. 1788.
9. In "Wedlock's bands all ye who join
With hands yonr hearts unite
So shall our tunefull tongues combine
To laud the nuptial rite. Tho^ Osborn fecit. 1788.
10. The feoffees of Bond's Charity paid 120 Pounds towards recast-
ing these bells. T. Osborn fecit. 1788.
Clock Bell. T. Mears of London fecit. 1826.
Before 1788 there was a peal of six in this tower.
16. Wichen — 5.
1. 1634. J. D. (John Draper.)
2. Thomas Ne^vman made mee 1703. T. E. W. 0. C. W.
3. + Sancta. ^aria. ^ra. Dro. gobis
4. De Bvri Santi Edmondi. Stefanvs Tonni me fee. W. L. 1582.
5. Miles Graye made me. 1660.
The third bears the Bury Stamp. "W. L. are probably the initials of "William Laud,
a foreman of Tonni's.
VIII. Deaneex of Shixgat.
1 . A hington PigoWs — 2.
Both by Joseph Eayre, St, Neot's. 1745.
1. Tempora labuntur; venite, toco.
2. Jesu Nazarene, Eex Judseornm, miserere mei,
THE CHURCH BELLS OF CAMBBEDQESHrRE. 27
2. Bassinglourne — 5. Tenor, F, c. 15 cwt. Diam. 42^ in.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Miles Graye made me 1650. J. H. S.
3. Croydon — 1. Note F.
J. Briant, Hartford, fecit. 1786.
4. Clopton — Ecclesia destructa.
5. Hatley East — Here Mr. Norris Deck mentions " two buttresses at
the west end, whicli formerly carried a bell-cot, now destroyed."
Parker's Churches of Cambridgeshire.
6. LitUngton — 5.
1. John Waylett made me. 1710.
2. John Bonnett C. W. 1710. J. W.
3. 4. Sit Nomen Domini benodictum. 1710.
5. Per multis annis {sic) rcsonet campana Johannis.
A bad casting, all bj' Waylett. Two great pieces are knocked out of the rim of tbe
tenor, showing the metal all honey-combed. One of the others is in no better case.
7. Melhourne -5. Tenor, F, 18 cwt., 47 in. Diam.
1. + Jesus be our speedc. 1615.
2. 4- God save the King. 1615.
3. + Praise the Lordc. 1616.
4. John Briant Hertford fecit. 1789. John Hitch, Esq, C. "W.
5. Bichard Chandler made me. 1688.
The tenor is one of the grandest sounding bells for its weight that I ever heard. The
first three are marked with a shield bearing an aiTOw in pale between a cross and a
fleur-de-lis in chief, and the letters R. 0. in fess. — J. H. S.
8. Meldreth—4. Tenor G, c. 10 cwt., 39 in. Diam'.
1, 2. John Taylor & Son Founders Loughboro' 1855,
3. 1662.
4. + NON SONO ANIMABVS MOKTVOEVM SED AYEIBVS VIVENTIVM. 1617.
Longolardic characters.
The third is one of Miles Graye's. — J. 11. S. The tenor from its inscription must
be Tobie Norris's.
9. Guilden Morden — 6.
1. + Sit i^lomcn pomini bciubirtum. (Bound the cross are the words
ilju mcrti Inbi bclj?-)
2, 3. Eichard Chandler made mc. 1687.
4. John Waylett made mc. 1708.
5. Johannes Waylett me fecit. 1708.
6. Cvm cano bvsta mori cvm pvlpita viverc disco sono. 1621.
The tenor must be Tobie Norris's.
28 THE CHTTECH BELLS OF CAMBEIDOESHIEE.
10. Steeple Morden — 1.
The fine old tower that gave the distinctive name to this church fell
in the reign of J amies II, and has never been rebuilt. The bell
hangs in a lower tower above the porch.
11. Shingay — Ecclesia destructa.
12. Tadlow—l.
§inmtt ^nbrta ^ra gro nohb.
13. Wend^—1. Date of the church— 1735-
Bell iuaeces&ible, in a cupola.
14. TFTiaddon—^. Tenor, A. Diam^ 3o^ in. "W*. c. 8 cwt.
1, 2, 3. Michael Darbie made me. 1671.
Here there was a peal of five, but the old second and fourth have been sold. — J. H. S.
IX. Deaneet of Wisbech.
1. Mm— 5.
1. Alexander Balam Esq : gave part of this bell. 1673. (? 1637.)
2. Thomas Norris made me 1637.
Prseseutrix arguta chori resonabilis aure.
3. No inscription.
4. "W. Gyles Clericus.
Spiritibus tuba Igeta Ixmis odiosa malignis. 1637.
6. Tho. Jenkinson Esq : Newson Yic : J. H. W. H., C. W.
Tho: Gardiner fecit 1738,
2. Guyhirn — 1 •
Chapel erected in the seventeenth century.
3. Leverington — 6. Tenor, 17 cwt.
1. Let yoiu' notes from earth rebound
That Heaven may hear the joyful sound.
Thomas Lester & T. Pack of London made us all. 1752.
2. Thomas Lester k T. Pack fecit 1752.
3. Osbom & Dobson Makers. 1808.
J. Johnson. Churchwarden.
4. Thomas Lester & T. Pack fecit. 1752.
5. Thomas Lester & T. Pack fecit. 1752.
Mr. Simon Hardy and Mr. Daniel Wilson Ch. Wardens.
6. Lester and Pack of London fecit. 1752
J. Johnson & W". Osborn Church Wardens.
4. Newton — 6. Tenor, 12 cwt.
1, 2, 3, 4. T. Osborn fecit. 1786.-
THE CHTTECn BELLS OP CAMBKIDGESHIBE, 29
5, Our voices shall in concert ring
In honour to our God & King.
6. Tho'. Sharpe & Sam'. Taylor Churchwardeas,
T. Osborn Founder, Downham, 1786.
Weight of the peal, 38 cwt. 3 qrs. 2 lbs. "Weight of the old peal
of five, 37 cwt. 18 lbs. MS. Cole.
5. Parson Drove — 5. Tenor, 12 cwt,
1. No ingcription.
2. T. Osborn fecit.
3. T. Osborn fecit 1787. The recasting the gift of the Eev. J.
Dickinson, Rector of Parson Drove.
4. T. Osborn, 1787.
Percute Dulce Cano.
5. T. Osborn, Downham, Norfolk.
Edm**. Johnson )
W.Holmes j Churchwardens.
Thorney — 1 .
A small bell in a turret.
7. Tydd S. Giles— 5.
1 . The gift of Sigisraund Trafford of Dunion Hall in Tidd St. Maries.
1790. Henry Pcnn Fvsor.
2. Omnia fiant ad gloriam Dei. TobieNorria cast me. 1625. Abell
Hodges, Rector.
3. Non clamor sed amor cantat in aure Dei. Tobie Norris cast me.
1625.
W. W. B C. H. W. A.
4. -\- -\- Celorum Christi placeat Tybe Rex Sonus Iste Jesus Spede
vs. JOHAJfNES ^ WELBE i^ GENEBOSIS -f^ ET "4^ CLEMENTS ^
MAETiN S^ BECTOR ^ 1603 v|^ ^. Longohavdic characters.
5. James Scribo, Adam Cook, Churchwardens, 1726.
The treble bears on the waist the figure of an husbandman with a flail. The royal
arras are divided ; the lion being on the second bell, and the unicorn on the third. The
fourth I take to be one of Tobie Norris's, from the fleur-de-lis and crossea. The tenor
is by Henry Penn.
8. Wisbech S. Mary — 5. Tenor, 11 cwt.
1. Give no offence to the Church.
2. Osborn & Dobson found. 1803.
3. Long live King George the third.
4. Osborn & Dobson, Founders, Downham, Norfolk.
Anno Domini 1803.
5. Gyles Marriott and Tho. Williamson, Churchwardens, 1803.
9. JFisleeh 8. Peter— 10. Tenor, E flat, 21 cwt. Opened Dec. 19th,
1823.
80
TUP, CnUECH BELLS OF CAMBEIDGESHIKE.
A finc-toned peal, from the Downham foundry. The chimes, I am told, are very good.
Bells
1
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4
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6
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8
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9
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10
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cwts.
qrs.
lbs
6
3
18
6
3
26
6
I
26
7
0
1
7
0
22
8
2
18
9
2
7
12
1
3
16
3
10
21
2
15
5t.
The old peal was in F.
1, 2. W™. Dobson, Downham, Norfolk, fecit.
1823.
3. Fear God and Honor the King.
4. Long live King George the Fourth.
5. 6. Abrahamus Jobson, S. T. P. , Viearius, me done dedit. A. D. 1 823.
7. Prosperity to the town of Wisbech St. Peter. 1823.
8. Laudo Deum verum; Plebem voco, Congrego Clerum : Defunctos
Ploro: Pestumfugo; Festa decoro. 1823.
I praise the LORD ; the People call ;
Convoke the Priests ; the Dead deplore ;
Plagues drive away ; and gladden feasts.
9. In Wedlock's bands all ye who join
With hands your hearts unite ;
So shall our tuneful tongues combine
To laud the nuptial rite.
10. Abraham Jobson, Vicar. W". Swansborough and Tho^ Moore
Churchwardens.
William Dobson founder. 1823.
I to the church the living call
And to the grave do summon aU,
10. Wishech Chapel of Ease.
Modern.
INDEX I.— NOMINUM.
NoTK. — Arabic figures refer to the Dissertation, and Koman numerals to the
List of Inscriptions.
Adams, ii, xxv
Alington, xiv
Alien, Allin, 65, Iv
Amps, 62
Anable, 57
Angicr, i
Ansell, iii
Apthorpe, v, viii
Argent, 64
Arnold, 60, i, ii, xi, xv, xx,
xxi
Aslack, 33
Attersly, 48
Aylesham, Rob., 4
Baker, 35
Balam, xxviii
Ball, 33
Balsham, Hugh de, 3
Bankcs, iii
Baret, 23
Barker, xiv
Barnes, xvi
Barnet, v
Bartlet, 26
Barton, 50
Batteson, ii
Bealo, xxii
Bentley, xi
Bernard, 14, xxv
Bettson, 28
Blashfield, 34
Blois, Peter de, 2
Blomefield, 12, 13, 18-21,
vii, viii, xi, xii
Bolter, 46
Bonnett, xxvii
Bowler, 36, i, ii, ix, xvLi,
xviii
Bowman, 54
BowteU, 4, 18, 19, 21, 27-
29, 48, 55, 56, 65, vii,
ix, X
Bowyer, 16
Bradwcll, •sdi
Brakelond, Jocelin de, 18
Brand, iv
Brasier, Brasyer, Braeyer,
9, 13, 17, ii
Brend, 13, 33, 46
Briant, 61, xiii, xiv, xvi,
xvii, xxvi, xxvii.
Bridgman, xxiv
Brown, Browne, 33, 65,
vii
Bullin, xii
Bullisdon, 16
Burney, 45
Bury, v
Butcher, v
Byrd, 16
Cade, 65
Calixtus III, Pope, 20, 21
Caroline,^Queen, 66
Carr, 64 ■*
Chandler, 52, v, xxvii
Chapman, 61, viii, ix, xii,
xiv, xxiv
Childe, 34, x
Chirmc, 33
Chrisp, xii
Chyrch, Church, 14, 16, 17,
24, 27
Clarendon, Earl of, 47
Clark, Clarke, 35, xiv, xx
Clay, 16
Clement VI, Pope, 4
Cok, 5, 6
Cole, 65, xxi
Colles, 23
Collins, xxiv
Compton, 50
Cook, Cooko, 22, 23, 33,
vi, xxii, xxix
Cooper, 22, 23, vii
Cooto, 47
Cotton, 28
Covington, xvii
Crabb, Crabe, vii, xxi, xxv
Cradocke, 28
Croft, 64
Croplcy, xxi
Crotch, 62
Curtice, xi
Dalton, 60
Darbie, 48, 49, ii, iv, xv,
xxviii
Davis, xi
Dawes, 56
Day, 61, V, viii
Deck, xiv
Delawarr, Earl, 60, ii
De L'Isle, Bishop, 4
Dickinson, xxix
Dier, 34, i
Disbrow, 49
DLxson, 26, viii
Dobedo, xxvi
Dobito, xxv
Dobson, 60, 62, viii, ix,
xiii, xxii-xxv, xxviii-xxx
Dodson, 28
Dogget, 20
Dowsoy, 28
Draper, 23-27, 48, iii, vii,
xii-xv, xviii, xxi, xxii,
xxiv, xxvi
Du Port, 50, 61
32
INDEX I. — NOMINUM.
Duncdge, iv
Ea3'rc, 68, 60, iv-vi, xv,
xvii-xxiii, xxvii
Edmonds, GO
Egelric, Ab])ot, 3
Eldridge, 34, xii
Elizabeth, Queen, 37
Ellard, xi
Ellis, 64
Emery, 64
Erlych, 22
Ewyns, 36
Fairchild, iii
Farbank, xv
Faux, xxii
Fergus, 3
ffordham, 50, 51
ffoundor, 11, 17
Fisher, xxvi
Fitch, 35
Flanders, xxi
Foppys, Foppe, 15
Fordham, Bishop, 22
Fowle, ix
Fox, vii
Franke, 22
Frost, TO, xiii, xiv
Fyson, xxiv
Gardiner, 53, xiii, xvi, xx,
xxiv, xxviii
Ghein, 35
Gibbs, 30
Gifford, 66, ix, xviii
Gloucestre, Job. de, 5-7
Godynge, Guddine, 12
Goodlad, 33
Goold, xxi
Goodman, xxii
Graves, vii
Gray, 49
Graye, 36, 46, 48-62, 59, i-
vi, viii-x, xii, xiv-xix,
xxii, xxiii, xxv-xxvii
Grissell, 49
Ground, yxiii
Grubb, 50
GrumbaU, 33
Gumey, Gumy, Gime, 26,
29, 48, 67, vii, ix, x\-i,
xviii, XX
Gyles, xxviii
Haggais, 50
Hailes, iv
Hammond, xv
Hand, xxiv
Ilandel, 63
Harbert, 36, i
Hardy, xxviii
Hart, xvi
Haselum, viii, ix
Hauslcy, 27, xi
Haylock, xiv
Haynes, 48
Hayward, vii, xxi, xxv
Hazlewood, 64
Headley, xii
Herring, ix
Hemington, xix
Hesketh, 56
Hessewell, 22
Hethrington, xviii
Hicks, 50
Hinton, 28
Hitch, xiv, xxvii
Hodges, xxix
Hodson, 26, 46, iii, x, xi,
XV
Holbeche, 34, xi
Holder, iii
Holdfeld, 27, iii, xi, xvii
Holmes, 58, 64, xxix
Holt, 56, 57, 65
How, 65
Howard, xx
Howell, XV
Hubbard, 46
Huckle, xxi
Hutchinson, xxii
Hutt, 64
Incarsole, 56
Ingle, xvi
Ingulphus, 2
Isaacson, xxv
Jacklin, 26, viii
Jarrold, xxiv
Jenkinson, xxviii
Jennings, 22, 50
Jepps, i
Job son, XXX
Johnson, vii, xvii, xxii,
xxiii, xxix
Jowett, 62
Kearney, 64
Keene, 36, 52, iii, vi, x, xiii,
xiv, xvii, xxiv
Kemp, iii
Kente, Kentte, 24, iv
Kerrich, 56
Key, xxi
Keynsham, 22
Kidd, 56
Killingbeck, xvi
King, 22, 28, 29, xiii
Kirling, 17
Knight, xiii, xxv
Laud, 25, 26, iii, x, xxvi
Langley, 56
Laud, 27
Lawrence, xiv
Lawsell, xiii
Lee, vi
Leet, v
Lenne, Thomas de, 12, 13
Lense, xii
Lester, 21,61, xiv, xv, xxv
xxviii
L' Estrange, 9, 12
Lincoln, 49, 50
Lindsell, i
Lonsdale, xv
Loomes, xxii
Louis XVI, of France, 6,
Love, 33
Luard, 64
Ludlam, 68-Cl
Lukis, 10, 12, 17, 49, 69,
viii, xiii, xix
Major, 21
Malton, xi
Mane, 32
Manners, 65
Marcall, xxi
Mariett, xx
Markham, xviii
Marriott, xixx
Marshall, vii, xix
Martin, 64, xxiv
Mason, 19, 29, 56, 66, xix
Masters, xix
Mayo, 64
Meade, v
Mears, 63, iii, vi, vii, xi-
xvii, xxii, xxiii, xxvi
Merry, ui
Metcalfe, 30
Minett, 24, xxv
Monmouth, Duke of, 47
Moore, xxiii, xxx
Morden, 50, xxii
Morgan, xxi
Morris, xxi
Mortlock, 64
Mowtlowe, 28, 30
Newcombe, 35, v, vi
INDEX I. NOMINUM.
33
Newman, 51, 63, ii-iv, vi-
ix, xi, xiii, xiv, xviii-
XX vi
Nicolson, 17, xiii
Norman, xxvi
Norris, 26, 27, 29-34, iii,
vii-x, xiii, xvii-xix, xxi,
XXV, xxvii-xxix
Norwyco, Will's de, 9
Nun, Nunn, 53, xvi
Oldfield, 35, xxi
Osbom, 60, 61, xi, xviii,
xix, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi,
xxviii, xxix
Pachey, xxiv
Pack, 21, 61, viii, ix, xii,
xiv, XV, xxiv, XXV, xxviii
Palavicini, xii
Paley, 56
Paris, 61, viii
Parron, ix
Paskull, vii
Peacock, Pecocke, 16, xxii
Pechy, xxvi
Peck, xviii, xxiv
Pell, XX, xxiii
Penn, 63, xx, xxii, xxix
Pettet, xi
Peverell, Pain, 3
Peyton, 14, xxv
Phelps, 20, 54, 56, 58, i, ix
Phipps, ix
Pindar, 49, 50
Pleasant, 52, xvi
Pogson, Pugson, 49, 50, ix
Poole, xvii
Porter, xii
Pottoe, 30
Power, 15
Prat, Pratt, 62, xxiv
Proctor, 64
Purcas, Piirkis, iv, xiv
Purdue, iv
Pyke, 49, 50, ix
Pytchye, xxv
Eandall, 62
Eaye, 21, 36
Eaj-nor, ii
Eead, xviii, xxii
Kedgrave, 49
Reed, xxi
Rees, 64
Revel, xxiv
Rigby, 34
Riston, Job. de, 12
Robson, 28, 30
Robinson, xv
Rocket, 64
Rodney, 68
Roe, 56
Roper, 56
Rose, 48, 50
Rowe, 64
Royston, vi
Rudhall, 34
Rule, xix
Rylo, xiv
Safford, 63, 04, v, x, xiv
Sangster, xiv
Saunders, 24
Scai borough, xxi
Scarlett, 28, 30
Scribo, xxix
Scruby, ii
Seaber, 66, xxv
Sekole, 47
Sennitt, xxii
Seracold, xi
Sewster, ix
Shade, xxvi
Sharpe, ii, xxv, xxix
Sheldrick, xxv
Sherwood, 33
Short, 31
Simpson, 31, 34
Sizer, xxvi
Smith, 04
Smyth, 23
Southampton, Earl of, iii
Spackman, 50
Sparrow, 16'
Spencer, iv
Sperling, 34, 52
Stage, 49, 50
Staples, 66
Stedman, 37, 40, 44, 46, 47
Steel, 33
Stephens, xviii
Strand, xvii
Sudbury, xxiii
Sutton, 38
Swan, Swann, 64, iii, xv
Tailor, xii
Talbot, 66
Tansley, xxi
Taylor, 21, 60, ii, vi, vii, x,
xi, xii, xiii, xv, xvi, xvii,
xxi, xxiii, xxvii, xxix
Tebbit, 66, xxvi
Totsall, xxiv
Tcversham, xvii
Thompson, Tomson, 30, xxii
Thornton, 52, xvi, xxiv, xxvi
Till, iv
Tillard, 65
Titmarsh, i
Tonne, Tonni, 24, viii, xv,
xvii, xviii
Tottington, Sampson de, 18
Tower, xxiii
Trafford, xxix
Tymbs, xviii
Tymms, 14, 15, 62, xxv
Tyssen, 9, 11, 16, 24, 35,
xiii, xix
Vanaerschodt, 35
Vanden Ghein, 35, ix
Venables, 30
Vesey, 64
Walker, 50, xxii
Wallis, xiv
Walsingham, Alan de, 4
Ward, xvii
Waring, ix
Warren, 27, ix, xxv
Waters, 33
Watts, 35, 58, v
Waylett, 52, i, xvi, xvii,
xxvii
Wcales, viii, ix
Webster, 57
Wendye, ii
West, 66
Westropp, 50
Whisken, xvi
White, 33
Whittet, vi
Wicksted, 30
Wightman, 54
Wiles, xvii
Williamson, xxix
Willshe(r). viii
Wilson, xx%dii
Windbell, 57
Winn, XV
Witts, 50
Wolard, xii
Wollaston, xix
Wolsey, Cardinal, 21
Wood, Anthony i, 49
Woodgatc, iii
Woolle, 28
Wrangall, xi
Write, Wright, 33
Wrj-ssle, iii
Yorkc, 28, 30
INDEX II.— LOCORUM.
Note. Arabic figures refer to the Dissertation, and Boman numerals to the
List of Inscriptions. The Inscriptions on the Bells in any parish may be found by
looking for them in the proper Rural Deanery.
Abington, Little, 34
Ampton, 17
Arrington, 34
Avebury, 54
Babraham, 2
Balsham, 38
Barnwell, 3, 22
Bartlow, 11, 12
Barton, 36
Basing, 34
Bassingboume, 46
Bennington, 64
Berden, 53
Bexwell, 12
Boston, 3, 35
Bottisham, 17, 25
Boughton Aluph, xviii
Boxley, 49
Brentford, xviii
Brinkley, 53
Buckland Brewer, 60
Bungay, 33, 35, 50
Burwell, 52
Bury S. Edmund's, 11, 13-15, 18, 23, 25,
29, 48, 53, iv, viii, xiii, xv-xviii, xxi,
xxiv
Caldecot, 10, 16, vi
Cambridge All Saints, 3, 32
S. Andrew-the-Great, 26, 63,
66
S. Benedict, 2-4, 22, 25, 26,
37, 43, 53
S. Botolph, 11, 12, 20
S. Clement. 20, 51
S. Edward, 14, 24, 25, 46-
Cambridge S. Giles, 18, 19
S. Mary-the-Great, 4, 16, 17,
20, 22, 23, 27, 28. 47, 54, 61, 65
■ S. Michael, 28, 36, 49, 63
S. Peter, 36
Holy Sepulchre, 21, 26
Holy Trinity, 22, 53
(Colleges), S. Pet., 35
Trin. H., 63
48
Camps, Shudy, 52, 63
Chardstock, 11
Chatteris, 58
Chertsey, 34
Chesterton, 27, viii, xviii
Cheveley, 14, 52, 53
Chippeniam, 13, 17, 25
Chrishall,13
Clayton, 11
Colchester, 36
Comberton, 52
Conington, 9, 14
Coton, 14
Cottenham, 61
Crowland, 2, 3
Cudham, 15
Diddington, 19
Ditton, Fen, 26, 27, 51
Wood. 10, 24, 25, xvi
Doddington, 53
C. C, 56
King's 20-22, 47
S. Cath., 26
Jesus, 56
Christ's, 21, 34
S. John's, 25
Trin., 27, 56
Emman, 34, 56
INDEX II. — LOCOEUM.
35
Downham Market, 60, 61, ix, xi, xiii,
xviii, xix, xxi-xxv
Downham-in-thc-Isle, 2
Drayton, Dry, 58
Fen, 63
Parslow, 62
Dullingham, 25
Duxford, S. John, 52
S. Peter, 2, 35
Earith, 5
Edingley, 10
Elsenham, xviii
Eltisley. 10, 35
Ely Cathedral, 2, 4, 5, 53
Holy Trinity, 14, 32
S. Mary, 60
Emneth, 60
Eversden, Little, 52
Eye, 59
Eynesford, 49
Exeter, 21
Feltwell, 49
Flitwick, 34, 36
Ford Abbey, 13
Fordham, 36
Foulmiro, 53
Foxton, 46
Frieston, 11
Fulboum, All Saints, 60
S. Vigor's, 18
Girton, 52
Gloucester, xvii
Gransden, Little, 10, 15
Grantchester, 49
Greenwich, 58
Haddenham, 35, 48, 49
Halstead, 25
Harston, 17
Haslingfield, 60
Hellesdon, 9
Hertford, 61, xiv, xvi, xvii
Heytesbury, 10
Hinton, Cherry, 10, 21
Honiingscy, 25, 26
Horringor, 36
Huntingdon, 54
Ickleton, 2
Ilketshall, S. Margaret, 11
Impington, 9, 10, 26
Isleham, 14, 49
Ives, S., 29, 31, 54
Kelsale, 48
Kennett, 3, 13, 52
Kettering, 68
Keymer, 24
Kingston, 10
Kirklington, 10
Lakenheath, 11, 23
Landbeach, 16, 17, 25, vi
Landwade, 13
Lavenham, 36
Leicester, 35, 58, 60, v
Lidgate, 48
Lincoln, 35
Littleport, 25
Llandewednack, 16
Lolworth, 62
London, 15, 17, 20, 21, 54, vii-ix, xiv,
XV, xvii, xxii-xxiv
Loughborough, 21, 60, x, xi, xiii
Louvain, 35
Luddington, xix
Lynn, 5, 12, 13. 49
West, 17
Madingley, 10
March, 18
Maulden, 34
Melbourne, 36, 52
Meldreth, 60
Melford, Long, 27
Mere, 11, xiii
Mildenhall, 11
Mileham, 49
Morden, Guilden, 11
Mumby, 10
Neot's, S., 68, 60, ii, iv-vii, x-xii, xiv-
xxii
Newmarket, 63
Newton, 11, 17
in-the-lsle, 60
Ninfield, 11
Northampton, 5
Norwich, 9, 13, 35, 51, 63, 56, 59, ii
xiv, xxii '
Nottingham, 9, 35, xxi
Orwell, 52
Over, 18
Oxford, 49, 60, xvii
Papworth, S. Everard, 18
Parson Drove, 60
I'obmarsh, 11
Pelham, Furneaux, xviii
Peterborough, 63, 51
Quy, 19
36
INDEX II. — LOCORUM.
Rampton, 16
Risby, 14
Rolleston, 10
Royston, 62, iii
Rumboldewyke, 36
Rye, 36
Shelford, Great, 17, 26
Little, 27, 62
Shepreth, 62
Sherborne, 21
Silvcrley, 18, 67
Snailwell, 2
Soham, 61, 65
Southficet, 64
Stamford, 31-34, ix, xvii
Stanstead Mountfitchet, 2t, 49
Stanton, Fen, 65
Stapleford, 26
Stetchworth, 8, 14, 24, 36
Stoneleigh, 13
Stourbridge, 21
Slow, Long, 9
Stretham, 25
Sudbury, 52, 63, xvi, xix, xx, xxiv
Sutton, 52, 54
Swaffham Bulbeck, 60
Prior, 2, 18, 61
Swavesey, 66
Takely, xviii
Teversham, 21
Thetford, 23, 25, 48
Thomey, 5
Thtiriow, Great, 62
Toft, 14
Triplow, 68
Trumpington, 14, 19, 49
Tydd, S. Giles, 30, 54
Val, 56
■Waltham Cross, 64
Watlington, 9
"Wattislield, 26
Wendling, 12
Westley "Waterless, 2
"Weston Colville, 25, 62, xxiv
"Whaddon, 49
"Whittlesford, 62, 53
"Wicken, 14, 24, 25
Breaux, xviii
"Wickham, "West, 11, 12, 62, 63
"Wilbraham, Little, 24
Wilburton, 60
"Wimbotsham, 17
Wisbech, 22, 18, 60
"Worlington, 12
"Wratting, "West, 10, 62
Yelden, 58
York Minster, 7, 21
Holy Trinity, Colliergate, 11
ERRATUM IN THE DISSERTATION.
Page 10, line 27, for nonua read nonun.
ERRATA IN THE LIST OF INSCRIPTIONS.
Page 6, line 17, for 1787 read 1727 ; page 22, line 4, for ISOO read 1806.
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