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 PREFACE. 
 
 As this, the latest contribution to English Campanology, is in one 
 sense the earliest, a few words seem necessary to explain the history 
 of a book which has been forty-two years in hand, and to account for 
 its mipertections. 
 
 In the days of my boyhood at Mildenhall, where my father was 
 curate, I took great delight in the sound of the bells, and raised a 
 five-pound note for the repair of the gear of the fine old tenor. The 
 bell-hanger, one Flanders Green, an enthusiastic ringer, asked me to 
 read for him two of the inscriptions, of which I made a transcript in a 
 copy-book on August 28th, 1848, and proceeded to the investigation 
 of other bells in the neighbourhood. In the course of two years I had 
 made a considerable collection from Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, 
 and South Lincolnshire. Wherever I went I carried on the work ; 
 but undergraduate life and residence in Dorset and Kent prevented 
 the county of Suffolk receiving very much attention till my college 
 presented me to the Mastership of Bungay Grammar School in 1859, 
 when I attacked at once the north-east of the county. During these 
 eleven years I had become acquainted with Messrs. Ellacombe, Tyssen, 
 Sperling, Lukis, and L'Estrange; and our comparison of discoveries 
 was throwing much light on the history and interpretation of bell- 
 marks. I was enabled to finish and publish the Church Bells of 
 Cambridgeshire, after my removal to Yarmouth in 1866, and by the 
 kindness of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society to put forth a second
 
 Vlll THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 and improved edition in 1885. Other counties seemed to pass by me 
 at a gallop while poor Suffolk was slowly hobbling on. Mr. Tyssen's 
 Sussex, Mr. Ellacombe's Devon, and Mr. L'Estrange's Norfolk were 
 things of the far past. Mr. Ellacombe added Somerset and Gloucester, 
 Mr. Dunkin Cornwall, Mr. North swept clear the wide area embraced 
 by Leicester, Northampton, Rutland, Lincoln, and Bedford, leaving at 
 his lamented death Hertford to be completed by Mr. Stahlschmidt, 
 who by himself gave us Surrey and Kent, and, in his turn summoned 
 to rest, has placed Essex within the reach of a third hand. 
 
 When my college presented me to the Vicarage of Fressingfield in 
 1885, the end of my labours seemed not far distant; but it receded, 
 and had it not been for the energy of my good friends in other corners 
 of the County, I should have made but little progress. 
 
 Mr. Sperling's collection, chiefly from North-west Suffolk, communi- 
 cated to the East Anglian some thirty years ago, has supplied the 
 inscriptions from many towers ; and his letters to me about the same 
 time added many useful notes. Messrs. J. L. Biddell, Herbert W. 
 Birch, Charles Candler, E. M. Dewing, R. S. Dewing, C. H. Hawkins, 
 W. C. Pearson, Percy Scott, Shaw, E. J. Wells, Freeman Wright, F. 
 D. Young, and many others among the clergy and laity have been 
 helpers in various parts of the county; among whom the name of Cecil 
 Deedes, late Rector of Wickham S. Paul's, Essex, demands especial 
 mention. To him we are indebted for the bulk of the south-west 
 corner of our county. 
 
 Mr. Amherst D. Tyssen has kindly allowed me the use of the wood 
 blocks cut for his lamented father ; and a like favour has been granted 
 to me by the representatives of our departed friends, North and 
 Stahlschmidt. The Cambridge Antiquarian Society, too, has per- 
 mitted me to illustrate the Bury lettering, and other marks, with the 
 cuts made for my Church Bells of Cambridgeshire. 
 
 To Messrs. Wertheimer I am greatly obliged for the cut of the 
 effigy of Robert Brasyer, fig. 53.
 
 PREFACE. IX 
 
 Mr. Tyssen has supplied the translation of the Year Book record of 
 the great bell Lawsuit, on pp. 40, etc. 
 
 The music of Requiem Etcrnain has been sent to me by the courtesy 
 of Mr. W. J. Birkbeck. 
 
 The weights and notes of the bells are to be regarded only as 
 approximations, in many cases. The former are generally determined 
 by tradition, with a tendency to magnification. The latter vary with 
 notions of pitch, and the actual note is frequently between two received 
 semitones. When I began my work I had no ambition beyond a 
 registration of inscriptions, and took little account of anything else. 
 
 During the period that the work has been preparing for the press 
 many changes have come about through recasting. Some of these 
 have not been noticed ; and in other instances, additions to rings have 
 swelled up the list of errata. 
 
 The lists of bells cast by the various founders are not exhaustive ; 
 and at the last moment information keeps coming in. I may take 
 occasion in the East Anglian to give additional short notes from time 
 to time ; and perhaps to write at greater length in the Journal of the 
 Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History. 
 
 Had not the work possessed for me special attractions, it could not 
 have come forth in any form. As it now stands before me I recognize, 
 more fully perhaps than any one else, its errors and shortcomings. I 
 ask the indulgent judgment of those of my subscribers who have not 
 undergone a labour of the kind. From my fellow-labourers I expect 
 it. Those who know what the toil is will say that, with all its faults, 
 it is better that this contribution to the Campanology of England 
 should have come forth than that the heap of material collected should 
 remain without an attempt to reduce it to order. 
 
 J. J. RAVEN. 
 
 Fressingfidd Vicarage, Harleston, 
 August 28M, 1S90.
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Past 
 
 Introduction — The origin of large bells probably Oriental — 
 General absence of bells of the Saxon and Norman periods — 
 Mediaeval instructions for bell-founding- — Walter of Odyngton's 
 —Those appended to the treatise of Gerbertus Scholasticus on 
 Music — Castings from wax models very rare — Existing Ante- 
 Conquestal towers — Scanty notices of the Norman and Early 
 English periods — iV solitary bell from the Lynn foundry c. 
 1300, in Suffolk— Early Aldgate founders, from Robert Rider 
 to Henry Derby, and their works in Suffolk ... ... i — i: 
 
 CHAPTER n. 
 
 Transition from Longobardic to black-letter — "William 
 ffoundor," shown to be William Dawe — His Suffolk bells — His 
 gun-founding for Dover Castle in 1385 — His will — John Dan- 
 yell's bells — Richard Hille's — Henry Jordan, Fishmonger and 
 Founder — His works at King's College, Cambridge, and at 
 East Bergholt — His will — Bequest remaining to this day — 
 His obit — His son, Dan Henry ... ... ... 13 — 3: 
 
 CHAPTER HI. 
 
 Two bells probably by Thomas Bullisdon — The "moon and 
 stars " shield — Two bells by William Culverden — His rebus — 
 History of the use of the word Emmanuel — Culverden's rebus 
 interpreted — His will — Westminster Schools-Boston Merchant 
 Guild — The Norwich Foundry — A nameless group — Fressing- 
 field tenor — The Brasyers — A Mediaeval Law-suit — Richard 
 Brasyer in the Court of Common Pleas — Ingenious argument of 
 Serjeant Genney — -The large group of the Brasyers' bells — The 
 Burlingham group ... ... ... ... ■•• ZZ — 6^ 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Suffolk founders — BuryS. Edmund's — A joke on S. Barbara's 
 name — H. S. — The Chirches — Reginald Chirche at Bishop's 
 Stortford — His will — Redenhall tenor the greatest remaining 
 work from Bury— Thomas Chirche — Roger Reve — The Seventh 
 at All Saints', Sudbury — Gun-founding at Bury — Waifs — A 
 Venlo bell at Whitton — A Mechlin bell at Bromeswell — Some 
 account of the Mechlin foundry — Gregory Pascal of Capel — • 
 The Tonne family — Sproughton tenor ... ... ... 64 — 8c
 
 xil TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 CHx\PTER V. 
 
 Page 
 
 Sance and Sacring bells — Funeral uses — Angelus bell — 
 Curfew — Chime-barrels — Jack o' th' Clock ... ... 8i — 89. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The Reformation — Number of Church bells then in Suffolk 
 Spoliation — Restoration — Stephen Tonni of Bury, and his man 
 William Land — Their work at Long Melford — Death of Julian 
 Tonney the weaver — Bury foundry goes to Thetford — Founders 
 dining at Wattisfield — Thomas Draper, ALayor of Thetford — - 
 The Brends of Norwich — -Dier's bell at Clare — Topsel's at 
 Cratfield — Richard Bowler — The Thorington bell and a remi- 
 niscence of Rett's rebellion — Aldgate gun-founding again 90 — 107. 
 
 CHAPTER VH. 
 
 John Clarke, an itinerant, in Suffolk — Joseph Carter — Peter 
 Hawkes — The Bury founders in the days of the Stuarts — John 
 Draper of Thetford — The later Brends of Norwich— " Col- 
 chester Graye " and his works, including the Lavenham tenor 
 — The siege of Colchester — Miles Graye's foundry burnt — The 
 Puritan regime — Bunyan — Milton — Compulsory ringing — John 
 Darbie of Ipswich ... ... ... ... 108 — 125. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Dick Whittington— Call changes— Early peals— The "Twenty 
 all over," or "Christmas Eve" — 7,360 Oxford Treble Bob at 
 Bungay, in i860 ... ... ... ... 126 — 130. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Later bells — Robard Gurney of Bury — Christopher Hodson 
 of S. Mary Cray — Miles Graye the younger — A solitary bell of 
 Christopher Graye's at Thrandeston — His difficulties in Cam- 
 bridgeshire — Is succeeded by Charles Newman, and the 
 foundry taken to Lynn — Thomas Newman at Bracondale and 
 Bury — John Stephens — Sudbury and its founders — Henry 
 Pleasant — Thomas Gardiner — His critic at Edwardstone — 
 John Goldsmith of Redgrave — Ransomes and Sims — London 
 founders^Newton and Peele — Catlin — The Whitechapel men 
 — Phelps and his record of Dr. Sacheverell at Charsfield — His 
 eight at Bury S. Mary's — Lester — Pack — A failure at Heccles 
 — Chapman — The Mears family — Benefactions of the Suffolk 
 nobility and others — The Warners of Cripplegate — A ship's 
 bell from Stockholm at Lavenheath — John Briant of Exning 
 — The St. Neot's men and their successors — Joseph Eayre — 
 Arnold — The Taylors of Loughborough — Osborn and Dobson 
 of Downham Market — Birmingham founders — Blews at Lowe- 
 stoft — Carr at Newbourne — The Redenhall foundry — Recom- 
 mendation to Southwold — Jubilee bells at Mildenhall— 
 Conclusion ... ... ... ... ... 131 — 155. 
 
 Inscriptions ... ... ... ... 156^259.
 
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 I.— PLATES. 
 
 II. 
 III. 
 IV. 
 
 V. 
 VI. 
 
 VII, 
 
 Lettering and Cross used by Richard Wymbish on Bell 
 
 at Great Bradley ... ... ... Opposite p. lo 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Cross and Capitals on Bell at Sudbury S. Peter 
 
 London Marks 
 
 Norwich Lettering 
 
 Lettering, Cross, and Stop of the Burlingham Type 
 
 The Flight into Egypt, The Annunciation, and a 
 
 Piece of Border from a Mechlin Bell at 
 
 Bromeswell 
 (z) Trefoil from Whitton. (b) The Presentation 
 
 in the Temple, from a Mechlin Bell at 
 
 Bromeswell. Border and Medallion of S. 
 
 Michael and the Dragon, from a Mechlin 
 
 Bell at Bromeswell 
 " Requiem .Eternam " 
 
 35 
 37 
 45 
 6o 
 
 75 
 
 76 
 86 
 
 II. Curs INSERTED IN THE LeTTER-PrESS. 
 
 Figuf 
 
 1. Cross of John Godynge of Lynn, from Worlington 
 
 2. Early London Cross, from Barnardiston 
 
 3. Stop, from Barnardiston 
 
 4. Capital A, from Barnardiston 
 
 5. Capital G „ 
 
 6. Head of King Edward III., from Ampton 
 
 7. Initial Cross, from Ampton 
 
 8. The larger Laver Shield 
 Q. The smaller Laver Shield ... 
 
 Page 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 9 
 9 
 12 
 12 
 13 
 13
 
 XIV THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Figure Page 
 
 10. Seal of Sandre de Gloucetre, with laver ... ... 14 
 
 11. The Trefoils Shield ... ... ... ... 15 
 
 12. Larger Initial Cross, in Octagon, used by William Dawe 
 
 and others ... ... ... ... ... 15 
 
 13. Smaller ditto, ditto ... ... ... ... 16 
 
 14. 15. Smaller Crosses in Lozenges, used by William Dawe 
 
 and others ... ... ... ... ... 16 
 
 16. Rebus of William Dawe ... ... ... ... 16 
 
 17. Medallion from Clare ... ... ... ... 17 
 
 18. Octagon with six fleur-de-lys ... ... ... 18 
 
 19. Arms of France and England, crowned ... ... 21 
 
 20. • ,, „ J, uncrowned ... ... 21 
 
 21. Mark, of a somewhat French type, used by London Founders 2 1 
 
 22. tJ)u . mcrd . laDt . [)clp ... ... ... ... 22 
 
 23. Cross and ring shield ... ... ... ... 23 
 
 24. Cross on Bell formerly at Wangford S. Denis ... ... 23 
 
 25,26. Henry Jordan's Shields ... ... ... 24 
 
 27. Clochard formerly at King's College, Cambridge ... 27 
 
 28. ,, at East Bergholt ... ... ... 28 
 
 29. Shield of T. B., from Kesgrave and Iken ... ... ■t^'^ 
 
 30. Cross sometimes used by T. B. ... ... ... 34 
 
 31. Moon and Stars Shield ... ... ... ... 35 
 
 32 — 35. Emblems of the Evangelists, from Bradfield Com- 
 bust and Saxmundham ... ... 35, 36 
 
 36,37. Crosses sometimes found with them ... ... 36 
 
 (38 — 44. London Marks, on Plate IIL) 
 
 45. Culverden's Rebus, from Stratford S. Mary and Ubbeston 37 
 
 46. Pot of Thomas Potter of Norwich, from Market Weston 42 
 
 47. Cross from Cratfield Clock-bell, in the early part of the 
 
 fifteenth century ... ... ... ... 42 
 
 48. The earlier Norwich Lion's Head ... ... ... 42 
 
 49. Fine Initial Cross, Norwich, from Fressingfield ... 43 
 
 50. Brasyer's larger Ermine Shield ,, ... ... 44 
 
 51- ,, Sprigged Shield „ ... •••44 
 
 52. ,, smaller Ermine Shield „ ... ... 44 
 
 53. Effigy of Robert Brasyer, from S. Stephen's, Norwich ... 45 
 (54—60. The letters D, H, A, L, C, M, and N, used by the 
 
 Brasyers, on Plate IV.)
 
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. XV 
 
 Figure ra^e 
 
 6i. Brasyer's Later Initial Cross ... ... ... 46 
 
 62. ,, „ Lion's Head ... ... ... 46 
 
 63. Shield used in Kent, with letters of the Burlingham type, 
 
 see Plate V. ... ... ... ... 61 
 
 64. Shield of Abbot of St. Edmundsbury ... ... 62 
 
 65. Larger Bury Shield, with Cannon ... ... ... 64 
 
 66. Smaller „ „ ... ... ... 64 
 
 67. Cross used at the Bury Foundry, about two-thirds real size 65 
 
 68. Stop „ „ „ „ 65 
 69 — 71, Bury Lettering ... ... ... 65,66 
 
 72. Venlo Trefoil, from Whitton ... ... ... 74 
 
 73. Large Cross of John Tonne, from Stanstead ... 
 74 — 76. Stops ,, ,, 
 
 77. Small Cross ,, from Stoke-by-Clare 
 
 78. Sance-bell on Hawstead Rood-screen, from the east 
 
 79. Sance-bell Cot, from Fressingfield 
 
 80. Jack o' th' Clock, from Southwold ... 
 
 78 
 
 79 
 80 
 82 
 83 
 89 
 
 81. Stephen Ton ni's Crown and Arnigi used at Bury, in the) 
 
 82. ,, Fleur-de-lys ] reign of Q.. Elizabeth > 
 
 83. Clipped Crown and Arrows, probably used at Thetford 98 
 
 84. Fleur-de-lys, probably used at Thetford ... . ... 99 
 
 85. Thomas Draper's Fleur-de-lys, from Ashbocking ... 100 
 
 86. Arms of Norwich City, used by William Brend ... 115 
 
 87. A Mark used by Miles Graye, sen., of Colchester, from 
 
 Stradbroke ... ... ... ... ...116 
 
 88. Mark of James Bartlett of London, from Somerleyton 147 
 
 89. Old London Initial Cross, from Hadleigh ... ... 197 
 
 90. Laxfield Tower ... ... ... ... ...213 
 
 91. Cross from All Saints, Sudbury ... ... ... 240
 
 E RR AT A 
 
 Read on page 24, last line but one, "third " for " treble." 
 ,, ,, 39, line II, "Noah's" for "Noah." 
 
 ,, ,, 54, ,, 2, "second " for "fjurlh." 
 
 ,, ,, 54, ,, 1 1, " Earl" for " East." 
 
 ,, ,, $6, last line but one, "second" for "tenor." 
 
 ,, ,, 57, line 25, omit " Eye second." 
 
 ,, ., 64, ,, 5, " Bromeswell " for " Bromenville. " 
 
 ,, ,, 69, ,, 9, " treble " for "third." 
 
 ,, „ 78, ,, 12, " possibly " for "probably." 
 
 ., ,, 86, ,, 10, add "and third " to " second." 
 
 ,, >. 109, ,, 23, " tenor " for "second." 
 
 ,, ,,109, ,, 31, "fifth" for "tenor." 
 
 ,, ,, III, ,, 26, " second " for " treble." 
 
 ,, ,,112, ,, 2, "Little" for "Great." 
 
 ,, ,, 1X2, four lines from bottom, "third" for "second." 
 
 ,, ,, 113, line 35, " Marlesford " for " Marlingford." 
 
 ,, M 114. )> 4, "third " for "treble." 
 
 ,, ,, 114, ,, 17, IlketsJmll S. Andrew should be under 1623. 
 
 ,, ,, 114, four lines from bottom, "second" for "fourth." 
 
 ,, ,, 117, last line but one, "second" for "third." 
 
 ,, ,, 119, line 6, " Barham " for " Parham. " 
 
 „ ,, 123, eight lines from bottom, Ipswich, S. Mary-at-EIms, should be 
 
 under 1660. 
 ,, ,, 124, -line 2, omit "second." 
 
 ,,124, ,, 4, "seventh" f>r "fifth." 
 ., M 124, ,, 22, "second " for "treble." 
 
 ,, ,, 124, ,, 25, "treble" for "second," "tenor" for "fourth." 
 
 ,, ,> 125, ,, 12, "tenor" for "fifih." 
 
 ,, ,,1^3. ,, 22, "fourth" for " third." 
 
 ,, ,, 134, ,, ir, "first, fourth, and fifth" for "first three." 
 
 ,, ,.138, ,, I, "treble" for " tenor." 
 
 >» >> I39> >> 25, " Hawkedon" for " Hawkendon." 
 
 ,, ». 139. ,, 3 (, "third" for "fourth." 
 
 ,, ,, 140, ,, 23, Westhorpe under 1702. 
 
 ,, 5,140, ,, 33, "Earl" for " East." 
 
 ,, ,,141, ,, 12, "Mr." for "Dr." 
 
 ,, ,, 143, ,, 27, Mickfield under 1716. 
 
 ,, 5,144, ,, 7, " treble and second ' for "third and fourth." 
 
 ,, ,, 144, ,, 17, "second" for " bell. ' 
 
 >' 5> 14S, », 8, "treble, second, and third " for "fourth." 
 
 ,, ,, 145, ,, 15, " tenor" for "second." 
 
 ,, ,, 146, after line 2, add Syleham second, Margaret. 
 
 ,, ,, 148, line 9, Bruisyard under 1732. 
 
 ,, ,, 148, ,, II, Little Stonham under 1729. 
 
 ,, ,, 148, ,, 20, the Helmingham bell went to Henley. 
 
 ,, J, I5I> II 7, omit "Norton and." 
 
 ,, .1 15I1 ,1 8, "work" for "works." 
 
 ,, ,, 166, ,, 8, " Grey se ' for " Greyfe." 
 
 ,,179, ,, CORN ARO, LITTLE, 4 "1591 "for "1597." 
 
 „ 183, DENNINGTON, i, "66" for "52." 
 
 „ 189, EYKE, 3, "65 "for "55." 
 
 „ 205, ICKLINGHAM ALL SAINTS, i, "51 "for "8." 
 
 „ 222, OFFTON, "2, 5 "for "2, 4." 
 
 „ 225, PETISTREE, 6, "50" for "8." 
 
 I^'g- 34j on p. 36, is on its side.
 
 ^^t Cljmlj i^IIs of ^nMk 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Introduction — The origin of large bells probably Oriental— General ab- 
 sence of bells of the Saxon and Norman periods — Mediaeval instructions for 
 bell-founding — Walter of Odyngton's — Those appended to the treatise of 
 Gerbertus Scholasticus on Music — Castings from wax models very rare — 
 Existing Ante-Conquestal towers — Scanty notices of the Norman and Early 
 English periods — A solitary bell from the Lynn foundry c. 1300, in Suffolk — 
 Early Aldgate founders, from Robert Rider to Henry Derby, and their works 
 in Suffolk. 
 
 The sweet voices of our Church Bells contribute to our lives 
 a certain inexpressible charm, yet few realize the fact that bells 
 have a history. They will be found to be no exception to the 
 general rule that on whatever n:iatter man has worked, traces 
 will be sure to remain of the times, places, and methods of 
 workmanship. Such traces often have an important bearing on 
 the general history of a people, and record names of individuals 
 gone long ago, and events of local, or even of national impor- 
 tance ; so that a history of the Church Bells of any County 
 might be expanded without difficulty into a County history. 
 In dealing with those of Suffolk, it will be my endeavour to 
 keep Campanology and Topography abreast of each other, as 
 far as possible. Yet, first of all, a few words must be said about 
 the origin of the kind of bell which we now use, as distinguished 
 from those of more remote days, whether Etruscan, Roman, 
 Greek, Keltic, or any other. 
 
 A
 
 2 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 There can be little doubt that the idea of casting bells of the 
 size whicli now hang in our towers came from the East, and 
 possibly reached England about the sixth century. The absence 
 of any traces of such things in the Roman period precludes a 
 much earlier date. The Roman ess thermaritm, which sounded 
 to announce the hour for admission to the public baths, seems 
 to have been of a smaller size, and fabricated rather than cast. 
 And the mention of large bells during the Saxon period* leads 
 us to infer that the date of their introduction is not much later 
 than that which I have ventured to assign to it. But there are 
 no bells which may be reasonably supposed to be of this high 
 antiquity. 
 
 We may be sure that such bells existed. The regulation by 
 which the estate of a Thane was reached, necessitated the erec- 
 tion of a bell-tower ;-f- and it could not have remained inopera- 
 tive in a well-settled district. 
 
 It may be remarked in passing from this period, that at the 
 venerable " Old Minster," in the Rural Deanery of Southelm- 
 ham, assigned by tradition to S. Felix the Burgundian, there 
 are no signs of a tower, that there was once a round church at 
 Bury S. Edmund's, the foundations of which were discovered in 
 1274, J that the church of Flixton S. Mary had a Saxon tower, 
 pulled down within the memory of man, and that the round 
 towers of Southelmham All Saints, Bungay Holy Trinity, and 
 others, which were apparently adapted for the reception of a 
 bell or bells, are Ante-Conquestal in their character. 
 
 The wildness of note in early bells led to free use of the hard 
 chisel and file, always fatal to quality of tone, and sometimes 
 even to existence. This may help to account for the absence of 
 any which may be safely ascribed to the Saxon and Norman 
 times. 
 
 Such a specimen as that at Wordwell may possibly be the 
 
 * E. g. The direction in Wulfred's Canons (a.d. 816) for the sounding of the 
 Signum in every church upon the death of a Bishop. See Johnson's English Canons, 
 part I., p. 306, 
 
 t Churton's Early English Church, p. 230. 
 
 t Chronicle of John of Oxenedes (Rolls Series), p. 2^6.
 
 BURY ABBEY — WALTER OF ODYNGTON. 3 
 
 original bell of the little Norman church, and scattered up and 
 down the county are a few of narrow make and sloping crown, 
 which seem old, but may have come from a local hand later on. 
 
 The county of Suffolk is sparsely supplied with specimens of 
 Norman work, mostly doorways, but at Bury S. Edmund's is a 
 grand tower, built in 1095, as a gateway to the Abbey, and 
 admirably adapted for a campanile, though according to Mr. 
 Gage Rokewode, it did not serve that purpose till 1630. 
 
 One of the towers of the Abbey fell in 12 10, and another, 
 certainly a campanile, in 1430. In one of the two, we may 
 suppose hung some of those bells of which Jocelin de Brakelond 
 tells us as greeting the newly-appointed Abbot, Sampson de 
 Tottington,* which also were among the Suffolk bells, which 
 rang without human help, at the great earthquake in Ely, 
 Norfolk and Suffolk, on the six and twentieth day of January, 
 in the eleventh year of King Henry II. f 
 
 The earliest instructions for making bells, known to me, are 
 found in a treatise by Walter of Odyngton, a monk of Evesham, 
 in the time of Henry lll.l 
 
 This manuscript, which through Archbishop Parker's care 
 escaped the destruction attending on the Dissolution of the 
 Monasteries, is No. 410 in his collection at Corpus Christi 
 College, Cambridge. Mr. Lewis considers the copy to have 
 been made in the tiTteenth century. The chapter on bells, 
 headed in red ink, De symhalis faciejidis, contains only eleven 
 lines of text, and is to the following effect (recto of f 17) : 
 
 "Ad simbola facienda tota vis et difficultas extat in appensione certe ex 
 qua formantur et primo sciendi quod quanto densius est tintinnabulum tanto 
 acutius sonat tenuius vero gravius. Unam appensam cerani quantamlibet 
 ex qua formandum primum cimbaluni divides in octo partes et octavam 
 partem addes tant^e certe sicut integra fuit, et fiet tibi cera secundi simbali. 
 Et cetera facies ad eundem modum a gravioribus inchoando. Sed cave ne 
 
 * " Sonantibus campanis in choro et extra." Cron. Joe. de Brakelonda, p. 18. 
 
 t " Eodenique anno terrsemotus factus est septimo Kalendas Februarii in Ely et 
 Nortfolc et Sufoc, ila quod stantes prostravit, et campanas pulsavit." — Matth. Paris, 
 Chronica Majora, A.D. 1 165. 
 
 * Si(mmi4S fratris ll'a'/eri 7nonachi Eveskamie t?i!tsici de specidatione musica.
 
 4 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 forma interior argilla; cui aptanda est cera alio mutetur, ne etiam aliquid de 
 cera appensa addat ad spiramina, proinde et ut quinta vel sexta pars 
 metalli sit stannum purificatum a plumbo, reliquum de cupro similiter mun- 
 dato propter sonoritatem. Si autem in aliquo defeceris, cum cote vel lima 
 potest rectificari." 
 
 He begins by saying that for making bells, the whole difficulty 
 consists in estimating the models from which they are formed, 
 and first in understanding that the thicker a bell is, the higher 
 is its note, and the reverse. From the use of the word " cera " 
 for a model, some might be inclined to infer that the bells of 
 that time were cast in moulds formed by wax models, but no 
 such instances are known to exist in England. When a bell is 
 to be made, a core or central block is first formed, to which is 
 fitted a model, or "thickness" of the bell that is to be. Outside 
 the model comes the cope. These models seem to have been 
 made at one time from wax. When complete, the outer earth, 
 forming a cope, was rammed tightly round them. A fire was 
 lighted, and the melted wax allowed to escape, the cavity being 
 afterwards filled by the metal from the furnace. There was an 
 easy way of ornamenting the outer earth, or cope, by laying on 
 the model extra strips of wax in the form of letters, &c., which 
 would leave their impression on the cope. We have lighted on 
 no instances of this kind in England, nor does there seem any 
 probability of such a discovery. Mr. Lynam, in his CJiurch 
 Bells of Staffordshire (plates 3a and 3b), gives an interesting 
 and well-executed drawing of what appears to be an inscription 
 thus formed, from a bell at Fontenailles in Normandy, dated 
 121 1, but he tells us nothing more about it. He also mentions 
 similar lettering at Moissac, with the date 1273, recorded by 
 Viollet le Due. Our earliest inscriptions are set in separate 
 letters, each in its own patera ; and this would be impracticable, 
 save by stamping the cope itself. In castings from wax models 
 the cope is inaccessible. Hence we conclude that loam models 
 were used in England while these instructions remained in the 
 letter. 
 
 Walter of Odyngton then proceeds to expound the estimation 
 of the wax models of a rinsf of bells.
 
 THE CIRE PERDU METHOD. 5 
 
 Starting with any givejt *^ model" for the first bell, yo7i take 
 nine-eighths of it as a " model" for the second bell, and so on. If 
 yon start from the heavier bells and work on to the lighter ones, 
 yon must use a like metJiod, i.e., let each " model " be eight-ninths 
 of the previous one. But take care lest the core to zvhich the 
 "•^ model" is to be fitted be changed in a dijferent proportion. Take 
 care also that none of your allotted ''model" get itself into the 
 breathing holes. Then he gives directions about the metal — a 
 fifth or sixth part of the metal to be tin, purified from lead, and 
 the rest copper similarly cleansed. Lastly, contemplating the 
 abominable noise which would be sure to arise from these handi- 
 works, he says that if you fail in any point it can be set right 
 with a whetstone or a file, of which the former would be used 
 for sharpening purposes, grinding away the rim of the bell, and 
 the latter for flattening, filing off the inner surface of the sound- 
 bow. 
 
 Let us then imagine Walter of Odyngton attending to his 
 own instructions. He starts by allotting a certain amount of 
 wax for his first bell, makes his core by rule of thumb answer- 
 able to it, and then weighs both. By weight he gets his wax 
 for the other bells, on the nine-eighths system. The whole 
 method is so obviously empiric that there is no ground for 
 wonder at the necessity for burine, whetstone, hard chisel, file, or 
 any other tuning apparatus. Indeed, the free use of these 
 instruments may account for the almost total disappearance of 
 bells of the Saxon and Norman periods. 
 
 We are next to consider an improved method. Unfortunately 
 no date can be assigned to it. It is a little prose tract (c. ii.), 
 appended to an early poem, called Ars Musica. The poem itself 
 is attributed to Gerbertus Scholasticus, afterwards Pope Syl- 
 vester II. ; and if this be right, we are carried, as far as the poem 
 is concerned, beyond the Norman Conquest. But the chapter 
 in which we are interested belongs to a much later time. It 
 seems as though the unknown writer had known of Walter of 
 Odyngton's method, had seen that his nine-eighths made no 
 difference between tones and semitones, and to have thus sup- 
 plied a more workable plan : —
 
 6 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Should anyone wish to regulate the sound of bells, like that of 
 organ pipes, he should knozv that thicker bells, like shorter pipes, 
 have a higher note. But one must be careful in the zveighing of 
 the wax from which they are formed. He then proceeds to 
 designate the various bells in a ring by letters : — 
 
 The first, A, 
 
 The second, B, 
 
 The third, C, 
 
 The fourth, D, 
 
 The fifth, E, 
 
 The sixth, F, and 
 
 The eighth, G. 
 
 It is needless to say that the absence of the mention of a 
 seventh is very perplexing, and not at all to be accounted for by 
 the first and eighth being in unison. Perhaps some master of 
 mediaeval music can solve the mystery. I am content to record 
 the instruction as I find it. 
 
 B is formed from A, and C from B on Walter of Odyngton's 
 nine-eighths system. But to get D, which is a " semitonium " 
 from C, you take four-thirds of A. Then E is formed from D, 
 and F from E on the nine-eighths system ; but G from D (there 
 being a " semitonium " between G and F), by taking four-thirds. 
 It may be that the text requires emendation, but I am not bold 
 enough to touch it. The MS. is Rawlinson, c. 720, in the 
 Bodleian Library, and the passage, as follows, occurs on f 13 
 recto and verso : — 
 
 *' Sonitum tintinnabulorum si quis rationabiliter juxta modum fistularum 
 organicarum facere voluerit scire debet quia sicut fistulee breviores altiorem 
 sonum habent quam longiores, ita et unumquodque tintinnabulum quantum' 
 superat densitate alterum tantum excellit et sono. Quod caute providendum 
 est in appensione ceras qua formantur. Ad primum autem quod est A littera 
 quali volueris pondere ceram appende, dividesque illam ipsam ceram reque 
 in octo partes, ac recipiat sequens, B, videlicet, ejusdem appensionis iterum 
 octo partes alias, addita insuper nona parte. lUasque novem partes in 
 unum coUige dividesque in octo, recipiat tercium quod est C, eadem appen- 
 sione octo alias partes, addita etiam parte nona ejusdem ponderis. Tunc 
 primi appensionem divide in tres partes, supereturque a quarto quod est D 
 quarta parte, hoc est semitonium. Item divides quartum in octo, supere-
 
 A BELL FROM LYNN FOUNDRY. 
 
 turque a quinto quod est E, nona parte, dividesque similiter quintum in octo 
 et recipiat sextum quod est F nonam partem amplius. Ouartum nichilo- 
 minus in tres partes ieque appensum ab octavo quod est G superetur quarta 
 parte, hoc est semitonium." 
 
 According to my calculation the models of the seven bells 
 would be in this ratio : — 
 A . 8 
 B . 9 
 C . io'i25 
 D . io6 
 
 E . 12 
 
 F . 13-5 
 
 G . 14-2 
 
 Early English remains are few comparatively. Mildenhall 
 seems to have had a tower in this style, to judge from the 
 dog-tooth work buried in the buttresses of the present tower, and 
 Rumburgh still has the lower stage of a large square structure 
 with three single lights ; but the record of the bells begins much 
 about the time to which most of the earlier bell-chambers may 
 be referred ; and first we break ground with. a solitary specimen 
 from the King's Lynn foundry. 
 
 This is the tenor at Worlington, inscribed -^ JOHADnGS i 
 GODYDGG : DG l DGHiaG ] mG : EGCIT, with a plain 
 initial cross on four steps given here (fig. i). The Tallage 
 Roll, Lynn Bishop, 2y Edward I., mentions a Master John, 
 founder of bells, as paying half a mark as his share to the 
 County Subsidy in 1299, and as the same sum was paid in 1333,
 
 8 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 by Thomas Bclleyettir, the business probably went on in the 
 same place. The former is thus mentioned, " Mag'r Joh'nes 
 fundator Campanar' solvit die ven'is p'x ante festum Ste 
 Margar' in subsidiu Co'itatis dj m'rc sterl."* The latter (or his 
 successor, Edmundus Billeyettir) may be the person from whom 
 Cok, the emissary of Alan de Walsingham, purchased copper 
 and tin in 1346.! The examination of lettering will, I think, 
 identify Magister Johannes Riston, at Bexwell, Norfolk, Jhoannes 
 de Guddine, at Wendling in the same county, and Johannes 
 Godynge de Lenne at Worlington, and the time points to the 
 Subsidy payer of 1299 as combining these designations. The 
 location of this one Lynn bell in Suffolk is not without signifi- 
 cance. The old hythe, or staithe, still exists at Worlington, and 
 the bell was no doubt brought by water, showing that the Lark 
 was navigable six hundred years ago. The neglect of the last 
 few years has blocked it, but I see that a company is just formed 
 to open the little river up again. 
 
 In preparing the Church Bells of Cambridgeshire I was picking 
 my way timidly under the uncertain light of lettering and marks 
 into the history of a little group of bells, bearing a cross (fig. 2) ; 
 
 Fig. 2. 
 
 " Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna 
 Est iter in silvis." 
 
 but in the last seven years the labours of Mr. Stahlschmidt have 
 shown that I was on the right lines. The cross is found in 
 Suffolk, on the tenor at Barnardiston, inscribed -^ OfiCtUGS 
 SAHGTI DGI OI\ATG PI\0 ItOBIS, with three roundlets in 
 
 * L'Estrange's Church Bells of Norfolk, p. 22. 
 t Church Bells of Cambridgeshire, p. 5.
 
 LONDON FOUNDERS FROM SUFFOLK, 
 
 a vertical line by way of stop (fig. 3), and lettering closely re- 
 sembling that used by Robert Rider, whose will, dealing with 
 his real estate only, is dated 1386. His third wife's name was 
 Cristina, and he left her, inter alia, his claim on John and 
 Walter, his apprentices, for their unfinished term of apprentice- 
 ship. His body was to be buried in the churchyard of S. 
 Andrew over Cornhill (Undershaft), and he had a son, Sir John 
 Rider, a chaplain ; but his business cannot be traced into other 
 hands, though the cross appears on bells after his date, e.g., the 
 
 Fig- 3- 
 
 fine tenor in Carlisle Cathedral, which belongs to the time of 
 Bishop Strickland, 1400 — 1419, and the fifth and sixth at 
 Christchurch, Hampshire. I place this Barnardiston bell at the 
 head of the Londoners, as being very possibly, from the character 
 of the lettering, earlier than Rider's time, going back perhaps to 
 one of the three Suffolk founders exhumed by Mr. Stahlschmidt, 
 from the City Records, William de Suffolck, potter, 1276, Philip 
 de Ufford,* potter, 1294 — 13 16, and Alan de Suffolk, potter, 
 1330 — 1 33 1. I would venture to suggest that John Aleyn, who 
 uses the same cross, was a son of this Alan, "Johannes filius 
 Alani." 
 
 The accompanying A (fig. 4) is a specimen of the lettering on 
 the Barnardiston tenor. The G (fig. 5), of a slightly smaller 
 
 Fig. 4. Fig. 5. 
 
 It seems probable that Ufford, near Woodbridge, is intended.
 
 10 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 size, occurs with the Barnardiston lettering on the second bell 
 at Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire. 
 
 In the same part of the county lie the third at Assington, and 
 the fifth at Monks Eleigh, bearing the cross and lettering, which 
 is shown to have been used by Peter de Weston, 1330 — 1348, 
 and William Revel, c. 1356. 
 
 An unquestionably early date may be assigned to the tenor 
 at Great Bradley, which bears the name of Richard de Wimbis. 
 This man's name first occurs in 1303, as one of a jury for 
 appraising the value of pledges for debt in the custody of 
 Nicholas Pycot, Chamberlain of the Guildhall. His delivery of 
 a bell, weighing 2,820 pounds, " every hundredweight thereof 
 containing 112 pounds," to the Priory of the Church of the 
 Holy Trinity in Aldgate, in 13 12, has been mentioned in the 
 Cambridgeshire book ; but an additional fact has now come out, 
 that one Richard de Wymbish was Prior of the Convent from 
 13 16 to 1325. Mr. Stahlschmidt suggests that relationship or 
 fellow-townmanship may account for the employment of one 
 Richard, when another was probably sub-prior. 
 
 Only five of his bells are known to remain, and Suffolk is 
 most fortunate in possessing one of them. Here and at Goring, 
 Oxon., he styles himself " Ricard " ; at Burham, Kent, and 
 Slapton, Northamptonshire, " Richard " ; at Rawreth, Essex, his 
 name is not given ; but at Berechurch (now re-cast), was the full 
 Latin " Ricardvs." The Goring third has the Norman-French 
 " fist," and asks prayers for Peter Quivil, Bishop of Exeter, with- 
 out mention of his soul, whence we may infer that the date is 
 earlier than 1291, when the Bishop died. Three other founders 
 bore the same surname, Michael de Wymbish, 1297 — 13 10, 
 Ralph Wymbish, 1303 — 13 15, and Walter Wymbish, in 1325. 
 
 This lettering is also now rare. It remains on the third at 
 Fairstead, Essex, and the third at S. Laurence, Norwich, both 
 inscribed 
 
 -J- YOCOI\ ; JOHAIineS, the first bearing also -i- PGTI^VS : 
 DG ; 1/VGSTOn ; mG : EGCIT, and the other -^ -WlDGDmvs 
 i I^GVGIJ ; mG i EGCIT, and on the third at Heckfield, 
 Hampshire, which bears a charming little piece of old English :
 
 PLATE I. 
 
 Leiterint; & Cross used r.v Richard Wvmbish ox Bell at Grf-at Bradle/.
 
 AN OLD BELL AT WISSETT. II 
 
 -J- now i GOD : HGIiP i ADD i HAVG [ AD. 
 
 The Assington bell is of a little literary importance, because 
 of an attempt at a pentameter, on which may our classical 
 friends have mercy ! : — 
 
 •i- HOG : SIGItYm i SGI\VA : XPG i mAI^IA i THOmA. 
 
 It is not enough to transgress metre. Syntax must suffer 
 too, as in the case of the later versifier, who after much agony 
 over Scott's 
 
 " Call it not vain ; they do not err, 
 Who say, that when the Poet dies, 
 Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, 
 And celebrates his obsequies," 
 
 produced " Figmentum cogita non." 
 
 Peter de Weston's will is given at length by Mr. Stahlschmidt. 
 It bears date, August, 1347. On the Monday before S. Luke's 
 Day in that year, it was proved by the widow Matilda, John de 
 Romeneye, also an ollarius, or potter, Sir Ralph of Cambridge, 
 priest, and Thomas, cousin of the deceased, who died in the 
 year of the Black Death, 1349. The municipal honours con- 
 ferred on Peter de Weston, prove that he must have been a 
 substantial citizen. The last year of his life coincided with the 
 first election to the Common Council by the Wards, and he 
 heads the list for Portsoken Ward, " dressed in a little brief 
 authority." I quite agree with the conclusion, that in absence 
 of further evidence, bells of this letter are rather to be ascribed 
 to him, than to William Revel, who does not seem to have been 
 a man of the same importance. 
 
 One bell in a secluded village, the fourth at Wissett, bears a 
 wheel-stop, engraved by Mr. Stahlschmidt,* who considers it 
 indicative of William Burford of London. The inscription is 
 simply -5- YII\GO mAI\IA, but the church is dedicated to S. 
 Andrew. William Burford's will, dated and proved in 1390, as 
 well as that of his son Robert, may be found transcribed in full 
 by Mr. Stahlschmidt, notable documents, but too long for us 
 
 * Church Bells of Hertfordshire, p. 13. The wheel-stop may denote the introduc- 
 tion of wheels in the place of simple levers, and prepare us for the frequent mention 
 of S. Katharine hereafter. 
 
 Surrey Bells and London Bell Founders, pp. 38, <xc.
 
 12 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK 
 
 here. The former mentions Mary, the wife of Henry Derby, 
 whom we shall next name, and as a matter of general historical 
 interest, refers to a tenement purchased by him of Alice Ferrers, 
 the favourite of Edward III. in his last years. This woman 
 seems to have had considerable possessions in the city. Twenty 
 shillings left for poor prisoners in Newgate, and ten for those in 
 Ludgate, bespeak the humanity of the testator, and there are 
 the usual religious and charitable bequests. 
 
 The last of the Londoners of this period who appears in 
 Suffolk is Derby, who made the tenor at Ampton. He is men- 
 tioned in the Cambridgeshire book,* as the founder of the third 
 and fourth bells at Chippenham. 
 
 My conjecture as to his being a resident in Derby seems to 
 vanish in face of Mr. Stahlschmidt's evidence connecting him 
 with Henry Derby, ironmonger ; and though the union of trades 
 may seem somewhat irregular, and against guild law, there is no 
 more reason in rcruvi natiira to object to a bell-founder being 
 called an ironmonger, if he did ironmonger's work, than to his 
 being called ollarius. Some of us have seen in this last quarter 
 of the nineteenth century an ironfounder's appliances utilised 
 for casting a ring of bells. Henry Derby's time seems to have 
 been from 1362 to 1390. The Ampton bell bears the heads of 
 King Edward HI. (fig. 6), and an initial cross well known in 
 other counties (fig. 7). 
 
 Fig. 6. 
 
 Fig. 7. 
 
 Of Norfolk bells, those at New Houghton and Burnham 
 Deepdale, record Derby's name, and the treble at Wimbotsham 
 and the bell at West Lynn are presumably his. 
 
 P. 16.
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Transition frqm Longobardic to black-letter — " William fToundor," shown 
 to be William Dawe — His Suffolk bells — His gun-founding for Dover Castle 
 in 1385 — His will — John Danyell's bells — Richard Hille's — Henry Jordan, 
 Fishmonger and Founder — His works at King's College, Cambridge, and at 
 East Bergholt — His will — Bequest remaining to this day — His obit — His 
 son, Dan Henry. 
 
 Suffolk is remarkably rich in bells bearing those London 
 marks which come next in order of time, and form a connecting 
 link between the Longobardic and black-letter periods. There 
 are twenty-two of them against ten in Kent, six in Norfolk and 
 Lincolnshire respectively, and five in Cornwall, which are the 
 only counties at present known to possess more than two or 
 three. The principal shields (figs. 8 and 9) bear a chevron 
 between three lavers, or ewers, and they show the importance 
 
 Fig 
 
 Fig. 9.
 
 14 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 of these common articles of domestic use. Sandre (Alexander) 
 of Gloucester, an ecclesiastic, before this time, used a laver in 
 his seal (fig. lo), and the word AYG on it has a double force, 
 being the part of the inscription, YGllGZt EtAYGZ, which the 
 
 Fig. lo. 
 
 seal-sinker chose to exhibit. Now, to what peculiar circum- 
 stance are we to attribute the pre-eminence of Suffolk in this 
 respect? It seems to me that there had been a succession of 
 Suffolk men engaged in the founder's craft in Aldgate. Close 
 following on William de Suffolck, already mentioned, come 
 John le Rous, potter, 1281, and William le Rous, potter, 1286, a 
 name strongly suggestive of the county. After a short interval 
 we have Roger le Rous, potter, 131 1, and Nicholas le Rous, 
 potter, 13 1 5. 
 
 A longer break intervenes, and then appear Robert Russe, 
 brazier, 1356 — 1397; Roger Rous, or Rose, de Bury, 1358 — 
 1392; and Alan Rous, potter, 136L Peter de Blithe, potter, 
 1335 — 1353, and Robert de Blithe, brazier, 1356, very likely hail 
 from Blythburgh,* and Philip de Ufford (who is called in his 
 will both Philip de Ufford and Philip de Rafford) is regarded by 
 Mr. Stahlschmidt as possibly the father of one W'illiam Rofiforde, 
 who made the fourth bell at West Mill, Hertfordshire, using the 
 same lettering and cross as Henry Derby, of whom we have 
 lately spoken. The connection is a little strengthened by the 
 mention of the soul of John Rufford, and of a legatee, Mary, 
 the wife of Henry Derby, in the will of William Burford, 
 citizen of London and Belzeter, proved 1 390. 
 
 * East Anglian, L, 203.
 
 THE COMPANIONS OF THE LAYER SHIELDS. 
 
 15 
 
 After the lapse of five centuries, it is out of all reason to 
 expect evidence to be clear and coherent. All that can be done 
 is to use care in putting the precious fragments together, and to 
 leave them to tell their tale as to the irrecoverable past. 
 
 These indications, at any rate, prepare our mind for a con- 
 nection between the county of Suffolk and that which was 
 pre-eminently the founder's parish, S. Botolph, Aldgate, and 
 may help to account for the large number of bells of the 
 " Laver " group, which we are discussing. 
 
 Besides the laver shields, larger and smaller, these bells bear 
 sometimes a shield with a chevron between three trefoils slipped, 
 the arms of Rufford, Underbill, Fitz-Lewes, and other families, 
 
 Fig. II. 
 
 (fig. 11), two crosses, larger and smaller (figs. 12, 13), which 
 generally go with the larger and smaller lavers, other crosses 
 
 Fijr. 12.
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Ii. 
 
 (figs. 14, 15), and most notable of all a certain medallion (fig. 16), 
 bearing two birds, and the words, MilUam ffountior me fecit. 
 
 Fig. 14. 
 
 Fig. 15. 
 
 Fig. 16. 
 
 I will not inflict on my readers the endless variety in which 
 these marks occur, being convinced from careful tabulation that 
 no theory can be based on their aberrations. The group of 
 bells on which they are found is : —
 
 WILLIAM DAWES SUFFOLK BELLS. 
 
 17 
 
 Barking, fourth and tenor, 
 
 Butley bell, 
 
 Clare, seventh, 
 
 Cornard, Great, fourth, 
 
 Elmham, South, S. Peter, the three bells, 
 
 Hawstead, treble, 
 
 Ilketshall, S. Margaret, treble and second (poor bells, the 
 former now split). 
 
 Ipswich, S. Stephen, treble and second, 
 
 Nedging, second, 
 
 Oakley, Great, fourth, 
 
 Peasenhall, tenor, 
 
 Petistree, fourth and fifth, 
 
 Sibton, third, 
 
 Ufford, fourth, 
 
 Westerfield, treble and second. 
 
 To these, before i860, might have been added the Ingham 
 bell. On every one of this group, with one exception, occur 
 figs. 8, 9, 1 1, or 16. That exception is the Clare seventh, marked 
 with a handsome medallion (fig. 17) ; but this must go with the 
 
 Fig. 17. 
 
 others, as on the South Lopham fifth this mark occurs with 
 fig. 9, and with an octagon (fig. 18) which we find in con- 
 
 C
 
 i8 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Fig. 1 8. 
 
 junction with fig, 12, on the Pebmarsh tenor. Mr. Stahlschmidt* 
 says that the trefoils never appear with the birds. The second 
 at South Elmham S. Peter upsets this, bearing the trefoils four 
 times on the shoulder, and the birds six times between the 
 words of the inscription. To add to our perplexity, the three 
 at South Elmham S. Peter, with all their variety, are nearly 
 certainly of one casting, and the treble, which has a band in the 
 place of an inscription, is nearly the counterpart of the treble 
 at Brent Tor, on Dartmoor, which has for its fellow another 
 (also almost certainly co-eval with it), bearing Longobardic 
 letters, and thus likely to date further back than the little 
 black-letter ring at South Elmham S. Peter. This is a specimen 
 of our difficulties in sorting out bells. On one point I am 
 disposed to agree with Mr. Stahlschmidt, in attributing all 
 that bear William Founder's name to one William Dawe, the 
 birds being presumably a rebus on his name. In addition 
 to the Southelmhamites, this mark is found at Nedging, 
 Great Oakley, and UfTord only. Certainly the mark survived 
 William Dawe, for it appears on the seventh at Magdalen 
 College, Oxford, the year of that foundation being 1456,! and on 
 a bell at Radcliff, Bucks, bearing indications of a still later date. 
 However, so far as Suffolk is concerned, I think we may stick 
 
 * Surrey Bells and London Bell-founders, p. 46. 
 
 f Bishop Waynflete may have placed a second-hand bell in Magdalen Tower.
 
 GUNS AT DOVER. I9 
 
 to William Dawe. He is worth the trouble taken about him, 
 bringing us for the first time into the stream of general history. 
 Mr. Stahlschmidt is justly proud of having solved the mystery. 
 Through the kindness of Mr, Walter Rye he was allowed to 
 examine some deeds about East-end property belonging to the 
 Cornwallis family. He found two, bearing date 1392 and 1395 
 respectively, relating to the same premises, executed in the 
 presence of the same four witnesses, of whom one stands de- 
 scribed in the earlier deed as " William Dawe Foundr," and in 
 the later one, as " William Found""." Subsequently it was 
 discovered that in the same ward, and at the same time, there 
 was another William Dawe, by trade a "white tawyer," or 
 dresser of white leather. This is a sufficient reason for William 
 Dawe persistently describing himself as William Founder. 
 Possibly the founder was a son of the *' white tawyer," who 
 appears on the Hustings Rolls for 1371.* 
 
 But how does this man, whose name has to be ferreted out 
 through musty parchments, and bells known to the birds, name- 
 sakes of William Dawe, in obscure village towers, belong to the 
 general history of the nation ? We must come to the year 
 1385, to see his services and the scanty trace of them yet 
 remaining. That year, though little noted in school books, was 
 a busy and anxious year in England. A short truce with the 
 French had terminated, and the advisers of the young King 
 Charles VI. were bent on executing a general assault on Eng- 
 lish territory. There was such a scare throughout the kingdom 
 that if the chroniclers are to be credited, Richard H. was soon 
 at the head of 300,000 men, the greater part of which he 
 reserved for the defence of the south coast. The ports must be 
 defended, and guns must be had for Dover. They had, as it 
 appears, already been mounted at Calais, under the governour. 
 Sir Hugh Calverley. " William the founder," doubtless this 
 William Dawe, is the man employed. In the issue rolls of the 
 year (ist May) is the following payment: — "To Sir Simon de 
 Burley, Knight, Constable of Dover Castle, for the price of 12 
 
 * Stahlschmidt's Church Bells of Kent, pp. 24, &c. ; Prefa:e, p. xii.
 
 20 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 guns, 2 iron 'patella,' 120 stones for the guns, lOO lbs. of 
 powder, and 4 stocks of wood purchased of William the founder, 
 of London and delivered to the said Simon by the hands of 
 William Hanney, Clerk, for fortifying and strengthening Dover 
 Castle, £<^'j los."* I would suggest for the consideration of 
 artillerists whether this does not point to an earlier date for 
 cast guns than that which is commonly received. Now I think 
 that the county of Kent contains some traces of the handiwork 
 of this same year. There are four bells only in that county 
 which bear the "birds" medallion (fig. 16), and of these two at 
 Downe are on the road from London to Dover ; one at Upper 
 Hardres is about four miles off the road, and one at Otham is 
 close by Maidstone. 
 
 Thus a group of Suffolk bells seems to be connected with the 
 foundry which caused the Frenchmen's ears to tingle with the 
 roar of Dover Castle ; and another group of Kent bells possibly 
 first sounded for service about the time when William Dawe 
 was completing his Dover job. 
 
 One more little glimpse, and we bid good-bye to William 
 Founder. Richard IL is now some years dead, poor hapless 
 man, and the first usurping Lancastrian is on the throne. The 
 business of the nation goes on much the same. There are 
 marryings and givings in marriage, births, deaths, probate of 
 wills in due course. In 1408, one John Plot, or Rouwenhale, 
 Citizen and Maltman, of London, dies, a widower and probably 
 childless. He leaves his money for divers purposes, charitable, 
 pious, beneficial. Among legacies for Mass of Requiem and 
 repair of " fowle weys," is this : — " Also my wyll ys that John 
 Walgrave, seruaunt of Wyllyam fondour haue of my gode iijs. 
 iiijd."-f- Although we know nothing of John Walgrave in 
 Suffolk, he has left his mark in other counties. 
 
 We turn to another group, dating plainly after 141 3, for in 
 that year Henry V., not to be behindhand in the fashion, 
 changed the semee of fleur-de-lis in the French shield to three, 
 following the example of his rival Charles VI. This shield 
 
 * Stahlschmidt's Surrey Bells and London Founders, p. 45. 
 t Fifty Earliest English Wills, p. 15.
 
 DANYELL'S SUFFOLK BELLS. 
 
 21 
 
 (figs. 19, 20), sometimes crowned and sometimes uncrowned,"* 
 is usual on bells of this group, which consists of 
 
 Bildeston, treble, 
 
 Brockley, three bells, 
 
 Lakenheath, second and third, 
 
 Mildenhall, sixth. 
 
 Stowmarket, fourth. 
 
 Fig. 19. Fig. 20. 
 
 Before i860 there was the old fourth at Mildenhall, from 
 which the present fifth was made, and the largest of the three 
 bells which used to stand in the north aisle of S. James's 
 Church, Bury St. Edmund's, formerly the clock bell there. 
 
 The readers of my -Church Bells of Cambridgeshire will re- 
 member a mark (fig. 21) used by this founder. It occurs on 
 
 Fig. 21. 
 * No theorj' can be based on the absence of the crown.
 
 22 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 all of the group, except at Bildeston and Stowmarket. The 
 initials J D are plain enouf^h on the Bildeston treble. There 
 is some difficulty about the letters on the treble at S. Botolph's, 
 Cambridge ; but I think that Blomefield is right in taking them 
 also for J D, and the pencil sketch (still remaining in the 
 Muniment Room of Kmg's College) of the inscriptions on the 
 grand five bells which that Society unfortunately sold in 
 1754, records also J D on the treble, though the ink sketch 
 gives J G. These seem undoubtedly to be the initials of John 
 Danyell, bell-founder and vintner. We only know his surname, 
 but J at that time is pretty sure to stand for John.* Now we 
 have a certain date for him, for the Bursar at King's College 
 paid in 1460, ^3 13s. 4d. to one Coke for bringing a bell of 
 " Danyell fonder's " from London to Cambridge. Again, the 
 tenor in Crowland Abbey, which is mark for mark like the 
 Brockley second and the Mildenhall late fourth, and inscribed, 
 3n iitultis ^nnis llcsonct ©ampana Sabannis, is certainly later 
 than 1465, when it was cast in London, and apparently bore the 
 name of Michael, if we may give credence to the continuation 
 of Ingulph's chronicle. So much for his date. That he did not 
 confine himself to metallurgy we know from these same King's 
 College accounts, where it is recorded that he received 535. 4d. 
 
 Fig. 22. 
 
 * There were John Danyells in London in 1435. Stahlschmidt's Church Bells of 
 Kent, p. 54.
 
 RICHARD HILLE. 
 
 23 
 
 for half the cost of a tun (dolium) of wine. Among his marks, 
 though only once occurring with his royal shields in Suffolk, on 
 the Brockley second, is a beautiful cross bearing the words, 
 ilju mcrri latti Ijclp round it (fig. 22), which we know to have been 
 used largely by Henry Jordan, or Jurden, who overlapped 
 Danyell, and possibly had some trade connection with him. 
 
 To keep in order of time, however, we must first take another 
 group, assigned by Mr. Stahlschmidt to Richard Hille.* For 
 this the principal mark is a shield divided by a bend, with a 
 cross above and a ring below (fig. 23). 
 
 Fig. 23. 
 
 The number is very limited, viz., 
 Glemham, Great, fifth, 
 Higham, S. Mary, fifth, 
 Ipswich, S. Mary-at-Elms, second, 
 Ringshall, second, 
 Washbrook bell. 
 
 Fig. 24. 
 Stahl Schmidt's Surrey Bells and London Founders, p. 35.
 
 24 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 These all belong to South-east Suffolk, but there was another, 
 now recast, in the opposite corner of the county, the old second 
 at Wangford S. Denis, which bore also the cross (fig. 24), else- 
 where known in connection with the " ring and cross " shield. 
 
 That Richard Hille died in 1440, that his wife Joan 
 
 . "resigned to Heaven's will, 
 carried on the business still," 
 
 and in the end survived her second husband, Sturdy, and carried 
 on further business in 1459 with the town of Faversham, is to 
 be read in the annals of London bell-founders, to which we 
 have so often referred ; but the widow's works did not appar- 
 ently extend into our county. 
 
 We must now turn to the marks which generally accompany 
 the tlju mcvd latii Irelp cross, already mentioned as on the Brockley 
 second. These are an elaborate shield divided saltireways by 
 two keys, with a fish above, a laver below, a garb (wheatsheaf) 
 on the right, and a bell on the left (fig. 25), and a shield bearing 
 a merchant's mark (fig. 26), which are so united, the one with 
 
 Fig. 26. 
 
 the other, and with fig. 22, that they and they alone occur on 
 nine of the twelve bells of this group. These bells are of a 
 superior character, and the marks are known in almost every 
 county. They are 
 
 Barnardiston, treble, 
 
 Bergholt, East, second.
 
 MONGREL HERALDRY. 2$ 
 
 Boxford, second, 
 
 Bramfield, third, fourth, and fifth, 
 
 Groton, third, 
 
 Iken, treble and third, 
 
 Ipswich, S. Laurence, second, 
 
 Stradbroke, tenor, a fine bell, with a somewhat hard tone. 
 
 Wixoe bell. 
 
 North-west Suffolk, be it observed, is entirely unrepresented 
 in this group, and the Stradbroke tenor is the only bell in North 
 Suffolk. This, however, is a grand specimen, in E, weighing by 
 repute 21 cwt. All these are ascribed to Henry Jordan, or 
 Jurdeyn, already mentioned. His overlapping Danyell in time 
 has been referred to, and in one instance (Wixoe) the use of 
 his personal shield (fig. 25) with a certain elegant octagon (fig. 
 18), which I have mentioned as found at Pebmarsh, Essex, in 
 conjunction with an earlier one (fig. 12), shows some connection 
 even with Dawe. 
 
 But let us look at that same personal shield, which would be 
 a horror to heralds, past or present, and see if it will not tell us 
 its story. Certainly it does seem rather a strange jumble, not 
 quite so excruciating as the arms of the Oddfellows, but enough 
 to make Rouge Dragon and Portcullis stare and gasp. Heraldic 
 language seems thrown away upon it, and it shall be described 
 in unadorned prose. A dolphin above, and S. Peter's cross- 
 keys seem to speak of fishery, a bell and a laver of foundry, 
 and a wheatsheaf of farming. The last interpretation we must 
 abandon. The wheatsheaf (in heraldic language, garb), turns 
 out to be part of the arms of the family of Harleton, from 
 which Henry Jordan was descended. 
 
 Now in Henry Jordan (one spelling must suffice for his name) 
 we have this strange union of Fishmonger and Founder. But 
 after all what does the strangeness amount to? I remember 
 two shoemakers in Blandford, Dorset, who announced them- 
 selves as qualified to bleed, and to extract teeth, and many 
 tradesmen at the present day trench on other business than 
 their own. Besides, have we not seen " Danyell fonder " vend- 
 ing half a dolium of wine to King's College, Cambridge? Let 
 
 D
 
 26 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 US then fearlessly gaze on this hybrid tradesman of the Middle 
 Ages. 
 
 We have read of Richard Hille, and of his widow Joan. He 
 had also a daughter Joan, to whom he left the substantial sum 
 of two hundred marks. Far be it from me, after the lapse of 
 these ages, to deny to the young lady the possession of many 
 estimable qualities and personal charms, besides this " tocher " ; 
 but it did not make her the less desirable in the eyes of Henry 
 Jordan, himself a " citizen of credit and renown," and a member 
 of the Fishmongers' Company, if not actually engaged in that 
 avocation. 
 
 The Jordans appear to have come from Loughborough, where 
 in All Saints' Church a battered remnant of a monumental 
 brass records the burial of Giles Jordan and Margaret his wife, 
 apparently in 1455. Henry Jordan's father and mother, as we 
 read in his will, were named Giles and Margaret, but in that 
 document he speaks of them as buried in the Church of S, 
 Botolph, Aldgate, directing that " ij tapers of wex " should burn 
 beside his own tomb and his wife's, and one should " stand upon 
 the middes of the stone there as the bodies of my father and 
 mod"" there lien buried ", and in like manner another, for Richard 
 Hille and his wife Joan, the second husband, Sturdy, being left 
 in darkness. 
 
 Some clever man may arise to read the riddle of this seem- 
 ingly double burial. On the Loughborough stone were formerly 
 arms, Jordan and Harleton quarterly, rt:r. three mullets, ^za and 
 sa. a chevron between three garbs ar. A mullet, by the way, is 
 not a fish, but a five-pointed star, and v/e shall come across it 
 again before long. 
 
 We have a very important notice of Henry Jordan at Cam- 
 bridge, in 1465 — 6. The visitor to King's College Chapel may 
 notice in dry summer weather a peculiarly arid spot occupying 
 some space on the lawn to the west of that noble building. 
 This is the site of an ancient " Clochard," or bell-house (fig. 27), 
 dating from the time just named. The building at the back of 
 it in the engraving is Clare College. 
 
 In 1466 one " Cartare " was paid for the hanging of the bells,
 
 king's college, CAMBRIDGE, 
 
 27 
 
 the intention being, as it seems, that the bells should remain 
 there till a tower was ready for them. But King's College is an 
 uncompleted building, and the Clochard had to be propped up 
 before 1660. Eighty years more brought it to the last stage of 
 " calm decay," and the bells were removed to the ante-chapel, 
 whence in 1754 they went to another chapel, to wit, Whitechapel 
 bell-foundry, where Messrs. Lester and Pack boiled them down, 
 and none can say where the metal now gives forth its tuneful 
 sound. 
 
 Between the extracts made by Mr. J. Willis Clark from the 
 College " Mundum " book, and a drawing found among the 
 College archives, the largest bell of the five and possibly the 
 smallest (though this was more probably a remanent from older 
 work of our vintner friend " Danyell fonder ") may be traced 
 to Henry Jurden, whose heavy bill of forty pounds was paid by 
 the College in instalments of ten pounds. The former was a
 
 28 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 magnificent bell, weighing 2 tons 6 cwt. 2 qrs. 7 lbs. — about 5 
 cvvt. more than the noble tenor at S. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, 
 and thus the largest bell that East Anglia has ever seen. Alas ! 
 that it should have perished. I have said that the Stradbroke 
 tenor is the largest extant work of Henry Jordan's in Suffolk. 
 The East Bergholt second is remarkable in its way as being one 
 of the tenants of a mediaeval Clochard (fig. 28) co-eval with that 
 
 Fig. 28. 
 
 which used to exist at King's, but more tenacious of life. A 
 very picturesque object is this antique bell-house, well-known to 
 all that frequent the villages which touch on the Stour valley. 
 Here, as at King's, the structure was only intended as a stop- 
 gap, for the base of a western tower may yet be seen. I think 
 it quite possible that the foundations on the south side of 
 Mildenhall Church are those of a Campanile intended for the 
 reception of the bells, while the present tower was building. 
 The dimensions are 33 feet by 21. 
 
 To revert to Henry Jordan's shields, no one as yet has read 
 the meaning of the device on the " banner shield" (fig. 26).
 
 BILLITER LANE. 29 
 
 As is commonly the case, we know most of the man's history 
 from his will, dated October 15th, 1468, with a codicil annexed, 
 printed m extenso in the Surrey Bells and London Bell- founders* 
 It is a most curious and interesting document in many respects, 
 giving us derivations of present local names, and insight into 
 the life of our forefathers. After the usual pious commendation 
 of his soul to his Maker he directs that his body should be 
 buried in " the Chapell of our lady in the Northeside of the 
 p'yshe Churche of Seynt Botulphes w'oute Aldgate of London 
 that is to say in the place where as the body of Johanne my 
 Wiffe there resteth buried." He had a son and as it seems an 
 only one, who is not mentioned in the will, cut off with less 
 than a shilling ; for the " Wardeyns of the Comynaltie of the 
 mistery or crafte of ffyshemong''* of the said Citie of London," 
 to wit William Turke, Robert Derlyngton, Edmond Newman, 
 Lawrence Ffyncham, William Hayes and John Stanesby are 
 his universal legatees. The will is preserved by the Fish- 
 mongers' Company, who still pay annually to the Founders' 
 Company one of Jordan's bequests, " to twenty of the poverest 
 people of the Crafte of Ffounders of London to ev''yche of them 
 eight pence (s"me) thirtene shillyngs and foure pence." The 
 lands bequeathed, with gardens, &c., are described (i) as "lien 
 togeder" in the lane called Billiter Llane in the p'yshe of Seynt 
 Katheryn Crechurche w'in Aldgate of London, and (2) as "in 
 the p'yshe of Seynt Brigide in Fleete Street in the subberbes of 
 London as they be sett and lien betwene the Tenement belong- 
 ing unto the ffraternytie of our blessed lady Seynt Mary the 
 Virgyne in the said Church of Seynt Brigide on the p'tie of the 
 Este and the Water of the Fleete on the p'tie of the West 
 wherof th' one hed abutteth upon the gardeyn of the Gaile or 
 Pryson of the Ffleete towards the North, and th' other heed 
 abutteth upon the Kyngs way of Fflete Streete towards the 
 South." "Billiter Llane," now Billiter Street is spelt in the 
 Guildhall copy of the will " Bellezeterslane," and thus we have 
 the derivation of a well-known place of business at the present 
 day. The site of Jordan's shop and dwelling-house is supposed 
 
 • Pp. 60, &c.
 
 30- THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 to be at the north-west corner of Billiter Street, fronting on 
 Leadenhall Street, and the foundry on the west side of Billiter 
 Street, on a space partially occupied by the East and West 
 India Dock-house, 
 
 This property still belongs to the Fishmongers' Company. It 
 was confiscated in the " regular way of business " by Parliament 
 for the Crown, in the days of young Edward VI., as being 
 devoted to superstitious uses, but the Wardens of that mystical 
 " crafte " of Fishmongers repurchased it. 
 
 The second property, lying to the North of Fleet Street 
 recalls three very various pictures of the past, the Fleet Prison, 
 the Guild of S. Mary in S. Bride's Church, with its masses and 
 festivities, and the Fleet Ditch. But these are not in Suffolk, 
 and we must not linger over them. The trusts for which the 
 property is left are sundry and manifold. Among them of 
 course stands prominently the " Obite or anniv'sarye of Placebo 
 and Dirige," which terms require explanation. These are the 
 first words in Antiphons of the office " Placebo Domino in 
 regione vivorum," Ps. cxiv. (Vulg. our cxvi.) 9, " I will walk 
 before the Lord in the land of the living," and " Dirige in con- 
 spectu tuo viam meam " (Ps. v. 9). 
 
 This obite is to be "with ryngyng of Bells (S. Botolph, 
 Aldgate, being especially mentioned) for my soule and the 
 soules aboverehersed openly to be named." We shall give 
 instances of this custom from Suffolk before long. Works of 
 piety (including xiiji". and ivd. for brede, ale, chese, and spices) 
 being thus considered, those of charity follow, of which the 
 bequest to the poor people of the craft of Founders, already 
 mentioned, may serve as a specimen. Many shivering souls 
 dwelling around Temple Bar had occasion to bless the memory 
 of the good citizen Henry Jordan, from whose will flowed a long 
 black stream of quarters of coals. Even the "sea coal fire," 
 sitting by which Falstaff promised to make hostess Quickly a 
 lady, may have blazed at that moment from some bequest 
 analogous to Henry Jordan's. 
 
 But while all this magnificent array of works of piety and 
 charity was being committed to parchment, natural affection
 
 A "ne'er do well." 31 
 
 seemed to slumber. The son, a scholar in his way, able to 
 plead his " benefit of clergy," a Bachelor of Arts of Oxford or 
 Cambridge, " Dan* Henry Jordon," a monk professed in the 
 house of Horley in Barkeshire, receives no mention in the will. 
 He must be regarded, we fear, as a " ne'er do well," but his 
 father remembered him in a Codicil " annexed to the Testa- 
 mente in Ptechement undre Seale." The Wardens of the 
 " Comynaltie of the Mysterye of Ffyshemongers " were required 
 to help Dan Henry in time of his neede, at their discretion, as 
 often as such occasion might occur. There was reason to 
 anticipate that occasion might occur, and that the periods of 
 recurrence might not be separated by very long intervals. 
 To carry out this intention a brother fishmonger, Thomas 
 Wydm''pole, is appointed as a sub-almoner under the Wardens 
 of the Fishmongers' Company. Clearly Dan Henry is not to 
 be trusted with current coin of the realm. He is truly a monk 
 professed at Hurley, but all is not bliss within those sacred 
 walls. The Prior's discipline is likely to be too strict for Dan 
 Henry, or Dan Henry is likely to be too lax for the discipline. 
 " My coat is too short, or else I'm too tall," as the pauper said 
 when he found himself " decently habited " after the fashion of 
 the Union Workhouse. The need of Wydmrpole's appointment 
 is thus rehearsed in the codicil. " And for this cause that if the 
 Pryo"^ and Covent of the said house of Horley for the tyme 
 beyng kepe hym to streightly or otherwise entrete hym than he 
 ought of very right and duetie to be doone to or els that they 
 wolle putte awey from hym his abite and living of a Monke 
 there whiche he hath chosen to him." It may have been a case 
 of corody,t complicated by misconduct. It is a sad picture, but 
 if we would know the past, we must take it as it stands, the 
 bitter with the sweet. Here we see the intelligent, successful, 
 benevolent citizen, whose works in more senses than one survive 
 to this day, who has sent his son to the University, and might 
 
 * Dan is short for Dominus, the term still applied in the Universities to Bachelors 
 of Arts. 
 
 t Corody, coroJium, the right of nominating a person to be sustained in a 
 Religious House.
 
 32 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 have looked to see him an Archdeacon or even a Bishop, 
 obHged to make these humiliating arrangements for the young 
 man, and even by anticipation blaming the Prior and Convent 
 of Hurley for kicking the luckless scapegrace out of their doors. 
 Thus we part from the story of Henry Jordan.
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Two bells probably by Thomas Bullisdon.— The "moon and stars" 
 shield— Two bells by William Culverden— His rebus— History of the use of 
 the word Emtnanuel — Culverden's rebus interpreted — His will — Westmin- 
 ster School — Boston Merchant Guild — The Norwich Foundry — A nameless 
 group — Fressingfield tenor — The Brasyers — A Mediaeval Law-suit — Richard 
 Brasyer in the Court of Common Pleas — Ingenious argument of Serjeant 
 Genney— The large group of the Brasyers' bells— The Burlingham group. 
 
 A PAIR of bells now claim our attention, 
 Kesgrave bell, 
 I ken, fourth. 
 These bear a shield with the initials T. B. (fig. 29) well-known 
 
 Fig. 29. 
 
 in many counties, though rare in Suffolk. I found it on the 
 second at Cudham, Kent, in 1857. It is also known at Little 
 Gransden, and Rampton, Cambridgeshire, at Llandewednack, 
 the parish in which the Lizard is situated, at S. Mary's, Bedford, 
 Anstey, Hertfordshire, East Dean, Sussex, Paulerspury, North- 
 amptonshire, and other places — most notably of all at the 
 
 E
 
 34 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 grand old church of S. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, 
 where there is a complete and melodious little ring of five 
 of this make, which has happily survived the Great Fire of 
 London. 
 
 The best instance of all for our purpose is the fifth at Weeley 
 in Essex, with a prayer for the souls of William and Agnes 
 Brooke. There seems to be only one Agnes Brooke of this 
 district, to whose will a reference can be found at Somerset 
 House. The wills themselves are lost, but the indexes remain, 
 and from them it may be computed that Agnes Brooke died in 
 1506 or 1507. This tallies well with the Bullisdon, whom Mr. 
 Amherst Tyssen records as casting bells in London in 15 10.* 
 The arms of Robert Billesdon, who was Lord Mayor of London 
 in 1483, are no help to us. There was a Thomas Bullisdon, 
 who represented the city in Parliament in 1492. T. in the 
 middle ages is almost sure to stand for Thomas, and very 
 possibly the founder of the Kesgrave bell and the Iken fourth 
 was Thomas Bullisdon, son of this Thomas. But we know, 
 nothing more about him, and can tell no interesting stories as 
 in the case of Henry Jordan. Sometimes his bells bear the 
 fancy cross (fig. 30), which suggests connection with Danyell 
 and Jurden. 
 
 Fig. 30- 
 
 The following eleven bells : — 
 Boxford, seventh, 
 Bradfield Combust, second, 
 
 * Church Bells of Sussex, p. 1 5.
 
 PLATE II. 
 
 Cross and Capitals on Bell at Sudbury S. Peter.
 
 MOON AND STARS. 
 
 35 
 
 Groton, fourth, 
 
 Hadleigh, fourth, 
 
 Levington, treble, 
 
 Saxmundham, third, fourth, and fifth, 
 
 Sudbury, S. Peter, fifth, sixth, and tenor,* 
 present in their location a marked exclusion of the north of the 
 county. They are the handiwork of a man whose usual shield 
 (fig. 31) bearing three mullets in chief, and a crescent in base, 
 
 Fig. 31' 
 
 below a chevron, is found in all the named towers, save Bradfield 
 and Saxmundham. On the Bradfield bell and the Saxmund- 
 ham fifth appear the emblems of the four evangelists (figs. 32, 
 33. 34. 35), which appear at Impington, Cambridgeshire, and 
 
 Fig. 32. Fig. 33. 
 
 * This last is a good bell, weighing about 22 cwt.
 
 36 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Fig. 34- 
 
 Fig. 35- 
 
 elsewhere in conjunction with the shield just named. The 
 initial crosses, of which figs. 36, 37 are examples, vary, as does 
 the lettering, which at Sudbury is remarkably large and forcible. 
 The resemblance between the shield and the arms of Sir Henry 
 
 Fig. 36. 
 
 Fig. 37- 
 
 Kebyll, citizen and grocer. Lord Mayor in 15 10, leads Mr. 
 Stahlschmidt to assign the bells " provisionally " to one of the 
 Kebyll family, and he finds in the accounts of S. Stephen's, 
 Walbrook, for 1480, payments amounting to £^ 6s. Sd. for bell- 
 hanging to John Kebyll, wheelwright. The arms of the Lord 
 Mayor of 15 10 are given in Wright's Heylin without the cres- 
 cent, but variations in these points are very common in the 
 botirgeois heraldry of that time. It is more than likely that 
 evidence will turn up to confirm Mr. Stahlschmidt's conjecture. 
 
 These bells may be found in different parts of England, but 
 in no great abundance. Like North Suffolk, Norfolk is destitute 
 of them. I found two at Mumby, Lincolnshire, in 1855, and
 
 PLATE III. 
 
 \ 
 
 Fig. 42. 
 
 Ftg. 41. 
 
 Fig. 44. 
 LONDON MARKS. 
 
 Fig. 40. 
 
 FJg- 43-
 
 WILLIAM CULVERDEN. 
 
 37 
 
 Mr. North records also one at Edworth, Bedfordshire, and one 
 at Norton, Hertfordshire. Four are given in my Church Bells of 
 Cambridgeshire, and five in Mr. Stahlschmidt's Church Bells of 
 Kent, but so far as we know there are none in the western 
 counties, and certainly there are none in the Diocese of Peter- 
 borough. Suffolk is as far above the average with these bells 
 as it is with William Dawe's. We know as yet of no mediaeval 
 foundry in Essex, and the Londoners having there a " happy 
 hunting-ground," readily crossed the Stour and did business 
 against Norwich, penetrating, in the case of Henry Jordan, 
 on one occasion quite to the north of that city. Other London 
 marks are given opposite (figs. 38 — 44). 
 
 The most attractive of the London foundry-shields is that of 
 our last ante-Reformation craftsman, William Culverden (fig. 
 45), a rebus which I guessed wrong. Further investigation by 
 
 Fig. 45- 
 
 Mr. Tyssen set me right. His bells are very rare, so rare that 
 I give after the Suffolk pair, 
 
 Stratford, S. Mary, tenor, 
 
 Ubbeston, treble, 
 a complete list of towers containing those known to exist 
 
 Cambridgeshire, Landbeach. 
 
 Dorset, Steeple.
 
 38 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Essex, Elsenham, Takely, Wicken Breaux. 
 
 HertfordsJnre, Furneaux Pelham. 
 
 Kent, Boughton Aluph, Graveney. 
 
 Middlesex, Brent ford. 
 
 Staffordshire, Kingstone. 
 
 Surrey, Chobham, Wimbledon. 
 
 A few more may perhaps turn up in the home counties and 
 the Midlands. The Dorset bell is at present the sole contribu- 
 tion of the west. He was at work only from 1510 to 1523, 
 which probably accounts for the paucity of his specimens. The 
 shield is in many ways a great curiosity, and the ingenuity of 
 my readers may be put to a test, as the meanings of the trefoil 
 and monogram at the foot are not yet clear. Round the bell, 
 which bears the word JFon& (Founder), are the opening words of 
 Psalm xi., Jn trno (KofiiJo (In the Lord put I my trust), which 
 were often used by our forefathers as a motto, especially at the 
 outset of any business. Though I cannot recall the instance, I 
 feel sure that at the beginning of one of the MSS. of a mediaeval 
 Chronicle these words occur, coupled with 
 
 Now this very pentameter occurs on one of William Cul- 
 verden's bells, viz., that at Takely, Essex, which I therefore feel 
 justified in regarding as his earliest. When the Reformation 
 came in, this pentameter went out, but its place was taken by 
 the word Emnia7iuel, which used to be written at the head of 
 letters. I may be excused for enlarging on this, as it illustrates 
 a place otherwise obscure in Shakespeare's Henry VI. That 
 the fact is as I have stated is shown by a letter of Mr. William 
 Carnsewe to " Customer Smyth " (purchaser of metals to Queen 
 Elizabeth), dated 15 January, 1583, which is headed 
 
 " In te dne, in te drie 
 
 speram' nos Emanuell. In diio Confido."* 
 
 Now for the Shakespearian illustration. The "clerk" of 
 Chatham is brought before Jack Cade, charged with the crime 
 
 * The Smelting of Copper in South Wales, by Col. Grant-Francis. See also "In 
 the Old Muniment of Wollaton Hall," Part II., New Review, December, 1889.
 
 A REBUS GUESSED. 39 
 
 of being able to read and write and cast accompt. The enor- 
 mity of these charges was further enhanced by his name. 
 
 " Cade. What is thy name, sirrah ? 
 
 Clerk. Emanuel. 
 
 Cade (reflecting). They use to write it at the head of letters. 
 'Twill go hard with you." 
 
 Having thus treated of the use of Psalm xi. i., we turn to the 
 essence of the rebus, the bird with Jre (den) over it. Now those 
 versed in ornithology may scrutinize the feathered biped 
 diligently. It rather resembles the little birds in a child's 
 "Noah Ark," but it is meant for a culver, or pigeon, and thus 
 the riddle of the rebus was read. 
 
 A rebus is a picture-riddle, such as an Ash-tree on a Tun for 
 Ashton, a Mill on a Tun for Milton, &c. The difficulty of, 
 producing a " den " must be the composer's excuse for not 
 completing his rebus. 
 
 The word " culver " for a wood-pigeon or dove is no doubt a 
 corruption from colinnba, and was apparently not extinct in the 
 west of England at the end of the last century. I must linger 
 a little over this delicious old English word. We find it in the 
 Blickling Homilies* not later than A.D. 971, where our Lord 
 addresses the Virgin Mary as " min culufre." In a Bestiary of 
 the thirteenth centuryf we have a lesson drawn from the nature 
 of the bird. 
 
 *' Natura columbe et significacio 
 
 D« culuer haueth costes gode 
 
 alle we.s ogen to hauen in mode." 
 " The dove has habits good, 
 
 All we-them ought to have in manner." 
 
 Dan Michel in his Ayenbite of Inwyt% (Remorse of Cons- 
 cience) speaks of our Lord as " that coluerhous," wherein the 
 mild-hearted may rest, about a century afterwards. The rustic 
 glossaries know the word. They are referred to in my Church 
 Bells of CambridgeshireW, with the old Kentish word culverkeys 
 
 * E. E. T. S , p. 157. 
 ' t Old English Miscellany, by Dr. R. Morris, E. E. T. S., p. 25. 
 
 X Reprint (1S88), E. E. T. S., p. 162. 
 II P. 43.
 
 40 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 for cowslips, and that it is "quite classical " (as Andrews en- 
 couragingly backs up a seemingly dubious word in his Latin 
 dictionary) will be acknowledged by all who reverence Edmund 
 Spenser as the poets' poet." The word occurs in the Faerie 
 Queene, in Sonnet 38, and in Teares of the Muses, 1. 245. 
 William Culverden's will is given at length in my Clinrch Bells 
 of Cambridgeshire* He describes himself as " citezen and 
 brasier of London, and parishoner of the parishe of Sanct 
 Botulph without Algate of London," the old foundry parish. 
 He seems to have been a lone man, there being no mention of 
 father or mother, wife or children. The guild-brethren of the 
 brotherhood of Jesu within the church of S. Botolph, Aldgate, 
 and of the guild of our blessed lady of Boston are to be paid 
 up for the year, and if his assets suffice for the purpose, 33^'. %d. 
 is bequeathed to the Abbey of Westminster "where I was 
 brought upp in my youth." 
 
 From the special mention of the Boston guild it may be 
 conjectured that Culverden (like the author of this book) was 
 born " under the Stump." The Guild of the Blessed Mary was 
 the Gilda Mercatoria of Boston, and the earliest mention of it 
 is in 1393, when a Patent grant was issued to it. The present 
 Hall used by the Boston Corporation is the Hall of this Guild. 
 It was no small matter to belong to this Guild, considering the 
 "jolly pardons," which according to Foxe were renewed to it by 
 Pope Julius H. through Thomas Cromwell, in 15 10. 
 
 The strange story of Cromwell's " gelly junkets " and their 
 effect on Julius H. may be read in Foxe's Acts and Momiments, 
 or in Pishey Thompson's History of Bosto}i.-[ 
 
 Culverden's leasehold property in " Houndisdich," and his 
 " belmolds and implements w* all other stuffe w'in the said 
 house, grounde, and shedds necessarye and belonging to the 
 crafte or science of Belfounders or brasiers," were to be sold to 
 Thomas Lawrence, the lease for x marcs a year, the goods for 
 £120, but no arrangement could be come to, the executors 
 renounced the will, and letters of administration were granted 
 to two of them. Sir Roger Preston, clerk, and John Ryon, 
 
 * Pp. 44, &c. + Pp. 74, &c.
 
 LOCAL WORK. 4 1 
 
 fruiterer. Thomas Lawrence was one of the witnesses to the 
 will, and another was John Tynny. I wish we had a bell of 
 Lawrence's in Suffolk, but though he is known at Margaretting, 
 Essex, and at Kingston, Cambridgeshire, his gridiron does not 
 appear within our borders. He died in Norwich in 1545. It is 
 probable that John Tynny is identical with John Tonne, about 
 whom a good deal has to be said hereafter. 
 
 I have now brought the Metropolitan founders whose bells 
 occur in Suffolk down to the time of the Reformation, when 
 there comes such a vast break-up of ideas and general cleavage 
 in English life that I purpose to turn back and again follow the 
 stream of time. I took King's Lynn (Bishop's Lynn, it was 
 more commonly called at that time of day) first, because 
 Suffolk has only one Lynn bell, and that a very early one. 
 Now, having exhausted my London list, I will return to Norfolk, 
 and discuss the very large company of bells from the Norwich 
 mediaeval foundries. After that I will come to the solitary 
 Suffolk centre of that time, Bury S. Edmund's, and then having 
 picked up some very remarkable waifs in the county, our 
 threads will all be joined in one loop, and we can start fair for 
 our post-Reformation annals. 
 
 The lion's share in Suffolk mediaeval bells is taken by the 
 city of Norwich, from which we have more than a hundred bells, 
 about two-thirds of the number in Norfolk. Outside the two 
 counties they are very rare. I cannot trace anything in Suffolk 
 to the William " Brasiere de Notyngham," admitted to the 
 freedom of Norwich in 1376, and mentioned in the Cambridge- 
 shire book*, nor to John Sutton *' Belleyeter," admitted in 1404 ; 
 but Thomas Potter of the same year, or his successor, Richard 
 Baxter, may claim the Clock-bell, probably the Sance-bell, at 
 Cratfield,t the third at Somerleyton, the second at Ampton, and 
 the fifth at Market Weston. The latter cast two bells for 
 Mettingham College in 1416-17. The pot (fig. 46) on the 
 Market Weston bell seems appropriate to Potter, but the initial 
 
 * P. 13. 
 
 t This was discovered by my young friends, E. St. Lo Malet and W. W. Channell.
 
 42 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 cross (fig. 47), and lion's head (fig. 48), do not seem exclusively 
 his. 
 
 Fig. 46. 
 
 Fig- 47- 
 
 Fig. 48- 
 
 The Cratfield Clock-bell, with its dedication to the Virgin 
 "^ tttirgtnis OSgrcgie '^ Macat (Kampana iRaric, bears also the 
 words, ^rej for Wljt ^oh (Bi Milliam ^Icgs. No will under 
 this name appears in the Ipswich Registry, which begins in 
 1444 ; and we may safely assume this bell to be of an earlier 
 date. 
 
 There are certain points of union between these men and the 
 Brasyers, but before we can touch on the latter great family a 
 curious little group comes across our way, which from the 
 locality of the bells can hardly be assigned to any place but 
 Norwich. 
 
 It consists of the Frostenden and Ellough trebles, and the 
 third at Southelmham S. James, to which might have been 
 added the old second at Gorleston. The maker of these bells, 
 whoever he was, seems to have lived about the middle of the 
 fifteenth century. He is only found in North-east Suffolk and 
 East Norfolk (Caister by Norwich, Gillingham, Lessingham,
 
 FRESSINGP'IELD TENOR. 
 
 43 
 
 Mundham, Rockland All Saints, and VVramplingham), and gives 
 sometimes the name of the donor, as JOHAnnGS BI^OYH at 
 Southelmham S. James, and GDmYHDYS noi\mAn at Lessing- 
 ham. The latter seems identical with a certain Edmund Norman, 
 lord of Filby, who died in 1444, though his name is only con- 
 nected with the parish through one John Norman, a son of 
 Henry Norman, a villain of the manor of Lessingham, who had 
 a royal license to be presented to any ecclesiastical benefice, 
 notwithstanding his villanage, in 1435. On the Gorleston 
 second was a good piece of old English, 
 
 -J- I Am : mAD : lU i THG \YOI\DCHGPG i OB THG j 
 GI\OS 
 
 This bell was also naturally dedicated to S. Nicholas, hanging 
 as it did in so prominent a sea-mark as Gorleston tower. Now, 
 to revert to the connection between Potter and Baxter on the 
 one part, and the Brasyers on the other, we have a connecting 
 link in the Fressingfield tenor, the largest " Norwicher" in the 
 county, though hard pressed in size by the Eye seventh. This 
 fine old bell bears for initial cross fig. 49, and the lion's head, 
 
 Fig. 49. 
 
 fig. 48, which seem to belong to the earlier men, but withal 
 the shield, fig. 50, which has a later appearance, being more 
 strictly heraldic than fig. 51. When earlier and later signs are 
 combined the later of course wins the day, and thus I dare not
 
 44 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Fig. 50. 
 
 Fig. 51. 
 
 Fig. 52. 
 
 ascribe to my own tenor a date earlier than c. 1460, which makes 
 it somewhat earh'er than magnificent carving on the benches, one 
 of the bench-ends bearing the initials a p, apparently for Alicia 
 de la Pole, Countess of Suffolk, widow of the beheaded Duke 
 William, and grand-daughter of the poet Chaucer. It seems 
 certain, from the evidence of the Paston Letters, that she was in 
 residence at Wingfield Castle at this time. But whatever may be 
 the exact date of the Fressingfield tenor, the connection of the 
 marks is obvious. The inscription is unique : -5- Scorum i^mtii. 
 ^angamu* Cantica Uaul)ts{. 
 
 The bells of the Brasyers swarm all over the county, from 
 Bradwell to Stanningfield, from Icklingham to Wherstead, and 
 being as remarkable (dr beauty as for number, I am going 
 somewhat minutely into their history
 
 PLATE IV. 
 
 ^'ig- 55- 
 
 J-'g- 54- 
 
 F.g. 56. 
 
 F'5- 57- 
 
 Fig- 55^. 
 
 Fi^. 59. 
 
 Fi '. 60. 
 
 NORWICH LKTl KKINM;.
 
 A MAYOR OF NORWICH. 
 
 45 
 
 The brass of Robert Brasyer, the first known of the name, is 
 in St. Stephen's, Norwich, and the accompanying engraving 
 (fig. 53) gives his efifigy. The following is the inscription on 
 the brass, which is a double one : — 
 
 © bos omed pfctura* tftag intucnlcg Deuotas aiO Dfu ffutilte fxtcti p' (atabj) 
 Moberti 33ra$scr tftt ciuitatud quontia ^Itiermani et matons ct crUtiane bp 
 dug. ^uib3 requU cUrnam lionet licug. ^men. 
 
 fig- 53. 
 
 He combined the business of a mercer with that of a founder ; 
 and his son, Richard Brasyer, is entered as a goldsmith as well 
 as a founder. The will of the latter was proved in 1482, by his 
 son, also Richard Brasyer, who died childless in 15 13. Of these 
 men, Robert Brasyer was Mayor in 1410, Richard Brasyer the 
 elder in 1456 and 1463, and Richard Brasyer the younger in 
 1 5 10. No one can see the lettering of the Norwich bells, of 
 which I give examples (figs. 54 — 60), without being struck by 
 its great beauty. The inscriptions are generally in hexameters 
 with an initial cross (fig. 61) and a lion's head (fig. 62), for stop 
 at the place of the rhyming word.
 
 46 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Fig. 62. 
 
 A more unexpected quarter for light to arise from in the 
 history of a mediaeval foundry than an Appeal Case in the 
 House of Lords in 1881 can hardly be imagined. Yet so it has 
 come about, and the relations of Richard Brasyer the elder to 
 the town of Mildenhall in Suffolk have received illumination 
 from the case of Mackay v. Dick, through the black-letter lore 
 of Lord Blackburn. 
 
 Dick and Stevenson were engineers who invented a " steam 
 navvy." Mackay, a contractor, purchased it conditionally, and 
 alleged that it proved a failure. They for their part declared 
 that it had not been tried fairly according to agreement. After 
 divers appeals, the case came before the House of Lords, who 
 decided for the respondents, Dick and Stevenson. Lord Black- 
 burn, in delivering his opinion, quoted the case of the men of 
 Mildenhall against this Norwich founder, Richard Brasyer the 
 elder, in 1469. Let us look into the matter, as we have in 
 existence one Mildenhall bell, anterior to the time, and other 
 collateral matter. 
 
 The little town of Mildenhall had an abundant share in the 
 prosperity of East Anglia in the early part of the fifteenth 
 century, and the north-west corner parish of Suffolk was united 
 closely to London by the twofold Mayoralty of Sir Henry 
 Barton, citizen and skinner, the father of the public lighting of 
 the metropolis. Barton, a native of Mildenhall, or perhaps of 
 the adjoining village of Barton Mills, which yet contains a 
 beautiful specimen of domestic architecture of that time, was
 
 MILDENHALL IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, 47 
 
 Lord Mayor in 1416 and 1430. His tomb still remains in 
 Mildenhall Church, as well as a Font, bearing his arms and 
 those of the City of London. 
 
 Great improvements appear to have taken place in Mildenhall 
 in these days. A market-cross was erected, as well as the fine 
 tower of the parish church, which was surmounted by a leaden 
 spire, of somewhat the same character as those at Brandon and 
 East Harling, making it a grand land-mark for many miles in 
 the open heaths and fens of the district. The bell-frame, a 
 great portion of which still remains, with the windlass for getting 
 the bells into position, is rather earlier than the tower. This 
 may be a surprise to some, but the fact that these frames are 
 bolted together by wooden pins, so long that they could not 
 have been driven in after the walls were built, is conclusive. It 
 seems to have been the usual procedure. 
 
 There were five bells, if we may judge from the construction 
 of the frame. Of these one remains, the original second, I 
 believe, dedicated to S. John the Baptist, and another, the 
 original treble, dedicated to S. Mary Magdalene, was recast in 
 i860. They have been already mentioned in the list of John 
 Danyell's bells, though at one time, with less complete informa- 
 tion than that which we now have, we were inclined to attribute 
 them to Richard Hille. Though they must have been large, 
 heavy bells, I do not think that they were remarkable for good 
 tone. That recast in i860 had a very "panny" sound, and the 
 ringers forty or fifty years ago had such a hatred to their old 
 fifth (the original second, as I think, and now the sixth) that 
 they tried to split it by ringing it with a rope strained round the 
 sound-bow. It resisted their kindly intentions, but possibly 
 they would have succeeded with a chain instead of a rope. 
 
 Good or bad, by 1469 not only were their makers dead, but 
 also the successful Henry Jurden. Another Mildenhall Lord 
 Mayor, Sir Thomas Gregory (145 1), if living must have been 
 advanced in life, and the London connection was weakened. 
 Meanwhile the Norwichers are carrying matters with a high 
 hand in East Anglia, and in some way or other the great bell 
 of Mildenhall was broken as early as 1464, when William 
 Chapman of that parish bequeathed ten marks for its repair.
 
 48 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Who shall do the work ? Norwich influence prevails, and the 
 men of Mildenhall make an agreement with Richard Brasyer to 
 bring him '" le graund bell de Mildenhall," which was to be 
 weighed in their presence and recast " de ce faire un tenor pour 
 accorder in tono et sono a les auters belles de Mildenhall." 
 But somehow there was a failure, and they went to law. 
 
 The scene is worth dwelling upon. Danby, C. J.,* is presiding 
 in the Court of Common Pleas, his puisne brethren being 
 Choke, Lyttleton.f Moyle, and Needham. Two eminent Ser- 
 jeants are retained, Genney for the plaintiffs and Pigot for the 
 defendant. They are both well known in the Paston Letters, 
 where J there is a bill of costs in the case of Calle v. Huggan 
 with " wyne and perys," quite in the style of Solomon Pell ; and 
 Genney became a Judge of the King's Bench in 148 1, The 
 men of Mildenhall and Richard Brasyer must have found their 
 purses lighter at the end of the performance. 
 
 The defendant is sued on his obligation. He does not deny 
 that the bell was brought to his house, but he says that it was 
 not weighed nor put into the furnace according to the inden- 
 ture. Thereupon Serjeant Genney says that it is not a good 
 plea, because defendant ought to have weighed it and put it in 
 the furnace. The indenture certainly, he added, did not specify 
 who was to weigh it, but it was clear that this was part of the 
 occupation of the. founder, and it might be understood that he 
 was to carry it out. The learned Serjeant then drew a parallel 
 case of a tailor and his customer. Suppose a tailor is under 
 bond to me, on condition that if I bring to his shop three ells of 
 cloth it shall be cut out and he shall make me a gown, then it is 
 not for him to plead that the cloth was not cut out, for it is his 
 business to cut it out. To this Choke, Lyttleton, and Moile 
 agreed, Choke adding that the indenture expresses that it is to 
 be weighed and put in the furnace in the presence of the men of 
 Mildenhall, which showed that they were not to do it. Need- 
 ham, however, held that they could have as well weighed it as 
 
 * Appointed 1461. 
 
 t Appointed 1466. Author of the Treatise on Tenures. 
 
 i in., 25.
 
 LAWYERS IN COURT. 49 
 
 the defendant could have weighed it, that part of the affair 
 requiring no special skill, and he also called up an imaginary 
 tailor, the counterpart of Serjeant Genney's. 
 
 The truer parallel, said Justice Needham, would be the 
 measuring and making up the cloth, not the cutting it out and 
 making it up, and if the bond did not specify who was to 
 measure it, the party to whom the bond was given ought to do 
 so. However, as to the casting, he agreed with the other 
 judges. Then uprises Serjeant Pigot for the defendant, reason- 
 ing on the bond somewhat in the style of the proceedings in the 
 well-known case of SJiylock v. Antonio. A bond, says he, means 
 what it says. The weighing comes first, and the casting after- 
 wards. Brasyer could not recast the bell till it had been 
 weighed. The bond says that it is to be weighed in the presence 
 of the men of Mildenhall, and they might have made other 
 men weigh it. Chief Justice Danby's common sense puts all 
 this aside. The substance of the bond was the casting of the 
 tenor, the weighing being a mere accident. It is not in accor- 
 dance with our ideas to find the counsel for the plaintiffs 
 speaking after the Chief Justice, but Genney being a Serjeant 
 was a brother, and he adds another case in point. 
 
 Suppose, says he, that a bond said that my son should walk 
 to a certain church to marry your daughter, and that instead of 
 walking he rode {chavancha) or was carried in a litter {cii braces), 
 this accidental deviation would not forfeit the bond, the sub- 
 stance of it, the marriage, having been completed.* 
 
 * I regret that in my Supplemental paper on the Church Bells of Norfolk I was 
 misled by the published report of this case, which differs materially from that in the 
 Year Books, as here supplied to me through the kindness of Mr. Amherst D. Tyssen. 
 
 Year Book, Edw. IV. Anno. IX. E T case 13. 
 
 En det sur obligac le def. pled' un endenture, s. q le 
 
 In debt on a bond the defendant pleads an Indenture according to which 
 grand bell de Mildenhall S5ra cary al meason le defend' en Norwich, 
 
 the great bell of Mildenhall shall be carried to the house of the defendant in Norzuich 
 al costes des hommes de Mildenhall x la serra wey x mis en few 
 
 at the costs of the men of Mildenhall and there shall be weighed and put in the furnace 
 in prtEsentia hominum de Mildenl^al, x donq5 le def. de c doit faire un 
 in the presence of the men of Mildcnhal and then the defendant if it should make a 
 
 G
 
 50 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Thus the IMildenhall folk won the day, but the tower long 
 remained tenor-less. Henry Pope, whose family had for many 
 years possessed the manor of " Twamil," now Wamill, in 1 5 30 
 bequeathed £t, los. " towarde the makyng of the gret belle. ..to 
 be payde by the hands of. ..Thomas Larke whansoever the town 
 doo go abowght the making thereof." 
 
 tenor p accordef in tono iSt" sono a les auters belles de Mildenhal, &c., qiiod 
 tenor to agree in note and sound with the other bells of Mildenhall, etc., that then 
 tu7K obligatio, p nulla habeatur ^c. x dit q le dit bell' ne fuit pas weye 
 the obligation should be deemed void, etc. , and says that the said bell was not weighed 
 ni mise en few accordant al endenture, xc j"f'g? si 
 
 or put in the J u mace according to the indenture, etc. {prays) judgment if the 
 action. 
 action will lie, 
 
 ^ Cenney. Ceo n'est pice, car le def. duist 
 
 (Plaintiff's Counsel). That is not a {good) plea, because the defendant ought 
 
 aver wey c x mis en few, car il n'est pas mis en certein en 
 
 to have weighed it and put it in the furnace, because it is not mcuie certain by 
 
 I'endenture q doit weyer, donq, il S5ra entend' q cesty q ad le 
 the indenture who ought to weigh it, then it shall be understood that he who had the 
 conning5 de c faire, on a q occupation appent de c faire, doit c faire, xc. x icy 
 skill to do it, or whose business it is to do it ought to di> it, and here 
 
 appiert q le defend, est le Brasier q duist faire le bell' issint il 
 it appears that t/te defendant is the Brasier who ought to make the bell, therefore it 
 appertient a son occupation de c faire, xc. come si un Tailour soit oblige a moy sur 
 appertains to his business to do it as if a tailor is bound to me on 
 
 condic ~ jeo port a son shoppe iii. ulnes de cloth le quel sjra shape, x 
 condition that I bring to his shop 3 elks of cloth 7vhich shall be cut out, and 
 si le Tailour fait a moy un gown de c q adonqi oblig^i S5ra avoid, x sir ore 
 if the tailor fnakes me a go7un of it that then the bond shall be void, and 
 il n'est mis en certein q doit shape le cloth, x p c il S5ra 
 
 it is not rendered certain luho ought to cut out the cloth, and for this reason it shall be 
 entend' q le Tailour c doit faire car il ad le conning de c faire, issint icy, 
 held that the tailor shotdd do it, because he had tlie skill to do it, therefore here 
 quod Choke, Littleton, &' Moile concesser, df Choke dit auxi, I'endenture voiet, 
 which {three of the judges) agreed and Choke said also, the indenture expresses 
 in prcEsentia hominum de Mildenhal S3ra wey x mis en few, x 
 
 in the presence of the Men of M. it shall be weighed and put in the furnace, and 
 
 c S3ra entend p auters quant il voet q S3ra fait en lour presence, 
 
 that shall be held by others when it expresses that it shall be done in their presence, 
 
 X il ne poit esti'e entend p nul aut forsq5 p def. p que, xc. 
 
 and it cattitot be understood to mean by any others than the defendant, wherefore, etc. 
 
 IT Neddam. Le pi. poet auxbien weier le bell' come poit le def. 
 
 {One of the judges). The plaintiff can as well weigh the bell as can the defendant
 
 THE BRASYER SHIELDS. 5 1 
 
 It seems impossible to refer either to the elder Richard 
 Brasyer, or to his successors, Richard Brasyer the younger, and 
 Thomas Barker, any special bells, unless we have better evi- 
 dence than marks and lettering to support our classification. 
 No doubt the sprigged shield is less heraldic in its character 
 than that with an ermine feld, but the ermine shield is found 
 
 X auxi grand conning ad, donq3 qiit chose est reherse en le condition 
 and had as great skill then 2vhen a thing is stated in the condition {of the bond) 
 d'estre fait, le quel poet auxibii estre fait p Tun com p Tauter, Tun ad auxi 
 
 to be done 'which can as well be done by one as by the other, and the one has as 
 bon conning come I'aut x n'est pas mis en certein ~ duist ' faire, cesty a 
 good skill as the other, and it ts not rendered certain who ought to do it, he i o 
 
 q I'oblig^ est fait doit le faire. Come si un soit oblige a moy sur condic 
 whom the bond is made ought to do it. As if one is bound to fne on condition 
 
 4 si jeo port draps a luy, le q P3ra measure la, s'il fait a moy 
 
 that if I take cloth to him which shall be measured there, and if he makes me 
 un gowne dec q adonq5 1'oblig^ S5ra voide, xc. icy n'est mis en certein 
 
 a gown of it that then the bond shall be void, etc., here it is not rendered certain 
 
 q doit measure les draps, x p c q jeo say auxbien measurer come le 
 who ought to measure the cloth, and because I know as well how to measure as the 
 def. en c case il covient a moy de faire c, x issint icy, xc. mes a mett le 
 defendant, in that case it lies on me to do it, and therefore he7-e, etc. but to put the 
 beir en few c appertient al artificer per q come ad estre dit il 
 
 bell in the furnace that belongs to the xuorkman 7ohe-cfore as has been said he 
 duist faire c, 
 ought to do it. 
 
 ^ Pigot. Un fait S5ra pris p entendmt, eins p les parolx, 
 
 {Counsel for defendant). A deed shall be taken to mean what the words say 
 
 X icy p les parolx il n'est tend^ de faire le belT tanq5 que il soit wey, car 
 and here by the words he is not bound to make the bell imtil it is weighed because 
 
 les parolx sont ^f" tunc defend. fac, xc. Et auxi comt q le fait 
 
 the words are '■^ and then the defendant make,'' etc. And also in as much as the deed 
 
 voit in prcEsentia hominnm de M. issint puissent faire auters homes de 
 expresses in the presence of the men of M., therefore they may make other men 
 weier c en lour presence. 
 weigh it in their presence. 
 
 IT Dajiby. ' S'il mist tout le bell' en few 
 
 {Chief Justice of the Common Pleas). If he put the whole bell in the furnace 
 
 sans weier c x ad fait un bell' disaccord' a les auters, n'ad il 
 without weighing it, and had made a bell out of tune with the others, would he not 
 
 p forfeite I'oblig^ : il appiert " le cau^e del fesans de I'oblig^ fuist jj c 
 have forfeited the bond: it appears that the cause of the making of the bojid was in order 
 
 q il ferroit a eux un suffic belle, xc. x c covient il meint, x nemy 
 that he should make them a sufficient bell, etc., and that lies on him now, and it ts no
 
 52 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 on the Fressingficld tenor with earher stops, and portions of the 
 alphabet, which seem to belong to the infancy of inscriptions, 
 are found at Barsham with the sprigged shield, and at Bradwell 
 (tenor) with the ermine. False classification is far worse than 
 none. I will confine myself, therefore, to sorting out the in- 
 scriptions, and then deal with extraneous evidence which we 
 may have about special bells. 
 
 The Salutation to the Virgin occurs only on 
 
 Honington, second, 
 
 Saxham, Little, treble, and 
 
 Stanningfield, second. 
 
 Bells bearing the Salutation were used for the Angeiiis, as 
 also would be those thus inscribed : — •. 
 
 -5- ?^ac In Conclabf. (©abrifl f2unc ^ange <Suafac. 
 
 travers, adire q le belle fuist car? a luy a les costes d'un estrange home, x 
 traverse to say that the bell was brought to him at the cost of a stranger, and 
 
 nemy al costes des homes de M. xc. Car c n'est pas le substance de 
 
 ttot at the cost of the men of iM., etc. Because that is not the substance of the 
 
 bond'. 
 
 bond. 
 
 \ Genney. Si jeo soy oblige deamesner mon fits a tiel lieu, x 
 
 {Plaintiffs counsel.) If I am bound to take my son to a specified place, atd 
 
 4 il iIlonq5 alera a tiel Esglise p espous5 vre file, en eel case 
 that he thence shall walk to a specified church to ma>-?y your daughter, in such a case 
 
 s'il espousa \re file la, comt q il chavaucha al Esglise, ou fuit 
 
 if he m.arries your daughter there, although he rode to the chtirch, or was 
 
 port en braces, unc c ne forfeit mon oblig;^ x unc I'obligj^ voet 
 
 carried in braces,* yet that does not forfeit my bond, and yet the bond expresses 
 
 qu'il alera al Esglise, xc. mes i: n'est le substance del bond' eins q 
 
 that he shall walk to the church, etc., but that is not the substance of the bond as that 
 il espousera vie file, c est le substance, xc. (Case Fogassa, Com' 15 )t 
 he shall marry yout daughter that is the substatice. 
 
 ^ Choke, Lytlleton, ]\Ioyle, Needham, and Danby were the judges of the Common 
 Pleas in 1469, Danby being chief justice. There were no judges named Genney or 
 Pigott, so they must be counsel, and it is clear which was on which side. 
 
 * Braces, according to Johnson's Dictionary, may mean stout leathern bands put 
 under a carriage on wheels — evidently to answer the purpose of springs. It may also 
 mean arms, or armfuDs. 
 
 t The reference Case Fogassa, Com' 15, is to p. 15 of the Commentaries or reports 
 of Plowden, where the Mildenhall case is cited with approval, and very fully stated in 
 a case of Reniger v. Fogossa, argued on Feb. 8, 4 Edw. VI.
 
 NORWICH INSCRIPTIONS. 53 
 
 (In this chamber, Gabriel, now sound sweetly), viz. : — 
 
 Bradwell, treble, 
 
 Fornham, All Saints, third, 
 
 Homersfield, tenor, 
 
 Melton, second, 
 
 Ottley, fourth, 
 
 Playford, treble, 
 
 Reydon bell, 
 
 Somerleyton, fifth, 
 
 Uggeshall bell, to which might have been added 
 
 Brandon, treble, 
 
 Bruisyard, tenor, 
 
 Weston, Coney, an old bell, 
 
 Herringswell, tenor ; 
 
 Also two inscribed : — 
 
 -^ i^t£i5u5 lit Cclis. f^abro l^omcn ffiabriclig. (I have the name 
 of Gabriel sent from heaven. The proper form, as occurring in 
 the Midlands, is Missi, not Miss2is), viz. : — 
 
 Martlesham, treble, 
 
 Saxham, Little, second ; 
 and the old treble at Flixton, and second at Pettaugh, bearing 
 an inscription which belongs largely to the Western counties, 
 
 ^ iWi^SuS ITtro ^ie. ffiabrtel iFcrt ilfta i*larte.* (Now Gabriel, 
 being sent, bears joyful tidings to Holy Mary) where " vero " 
 corresponds to " autem " in the Vulgate, S. Luke ii. 26. 
 Perhaps an illiterate reference to the same text may have pro- 
 duced the error in the previous inscription. Stonemasons at 
 the present day do not always deal skilfully with the Authorised 
 Version. We will speak of the Angehis bell under mediseval 
 usages. 
 
 Other inscriptions relating to the Virgin Mary are -5* CelfSti 
 iWanna, ^ua i^tolcs flog Cibct 3nna. (May thy offspring, Anna, 
 feed us with celestial manna) which is found on 
 
 Blakenham, Great, treble. 
 
 Cotton, fourth, 
 
 * The sixth at S. Giles*, Norwich, bears this inscription.
 
 54 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Crctingham, fourth, 
 
 Rishangles, fourth. 
 
 -*• XKtrgims C?gcfgtc. 2Fofor ClTampana i^am. (I am called the 
 bell of the Glorious Virgin Mary) seems pretty well an exclu- 
 sively Norwich inscription, occurring on 
 
 Finningham, second, 
 
 Icklingham, All Saints, second, 
 
 Linstead, Great, bell, 
 
 Risby, treble, 
 
 Somerleyton, fourth, 
 
 Stonham, East, fourth, to which in former days might have 
 been added Saxstead tenor ; and finally, 
 
 + 5um liosa ^ulgata. itlunlii i«ada IcTocata. (I am, when rung, 
 called Mary, the Rose of the world), on the tenors at 
 
 Covehithe, 
 
 Dalham, 
 
 Ipswich S. Laurence. 
 
 This appears to have been an epigraph peculiarly applicable 
 to tenors, from the local pronunciation " Roose," but it is 
 recorded as on the old second at Brandon. 
 
 The whole company of the Faithful we find commemorated 
 in a somewhat common-place hexameter : — 
 
 ^ ?^fc ipit Sanctorum. (Campana HauOc ItJonorum. (This bell is 
 made in the praise of good saints), which is on 
 
 Charsfield, second, 
 
 Cransford, second, 
 
 Glemham, Great, treble, 
 
 Rishangles, treble, and was on 
 
 Herringswell, second. 
 
 A line of more force and more dubious theology is on the 
 Fressingfield tenor, 
 
 "*■ Sanctorum iHcdtis. i^angamug Cantica HauDls. (Let us sound 
 songs of praise by the merits of the saints. It may be " to the 
 merits." Bold is he who dogmatises on mediaeval Latinity). 
 
 The Archangel Michael we might expect to find on bells 
 used as " soul-bells," answering to our " death bell," rung, how- 
 ever, before the latest travail of man on earth. The hexameter,
 
 MORE NORWICH INSCRIPTIONS. 55 
 
 + Quids MiMo iWcHs. €ampana Vocot iWic&atlis is on 
 
 Brundish, second, 
 
 Charsfield, fourth, 
 
 H aches ton, third, 
 
 Kirkley bell, 
 
 Mendlesham, second, 
 
 Soham, Monk, third, 
 
 Spexhall bell, and formerly on 
 
 Campsey Ash, second, and 
 
 Herringfleet, third. 
 
 I am much exercised as to the true meaning of this line. 
 Sis^o is in some cases Cisto, perhaps a mistake for Cista, and 
 Melis, an utterly abnormal form, may have lost a letter. Thus 
 the line would read Diilcis Cista Mellis Campana Vocor Michaelis. 
 (Box of sweet honey, I am called Michael's bell), with an allu- 
 sion to the shape of a bell, and what Mr. Haweis calls a " com- 
 bination hum." I am bound to admit that I can find no such 
 mediaeval use of Cista, but in the Eighth-century Epinal Glossary 
 the word is explained by corbes grandes, a country term for a 
 large basket, and not inapplicable to a hive. 
 
 The favourite saint of the Norwich founders is that turbulent 
 patriot martyr, Thomas a Becket. The Apostle of the same 
 name shrinks into insignificance in comparison with S. Thomas 
 of Canterbury, as may be understood by any who will examine 
 the dedications of Churches to S. Thomas ; and the merits of 
 him of Canterbury are those referred to in 
 
 -5- jlog ^Ibome iWccttis. ijiilfuamur (©auliia SuctjJ. (May we merit 
 the joys of Light by the merits of Thomas !) Here follows a 
 round dozen of instances : — 
 
 Cotton, tenor, 
 
 Elmham, South, S. George, fourth, 
 
 Hinderclay, tenor, 
 
 Hoxne, fourth, 
 
 Ipswich, S. Laurence, fourth, 
 
 I x worth, fifth. 
 
 Melton, third, 
 
 Ottley, fifth,
 
 56 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Sapiston, fourth, 
 Syleham, tenor, 
 Thornham, Great, tenor, 
 Wherstead, tenor, and formerly 
 Bungay, S. Mary, fifth, and 
 VVissett, tenor. 
 
 No one can fail to notice that this is eminently (like Rose, 
 pronounced Roose), an inscription for tenors, on account of the 
 booming sound of large bells resembling the word " Tom." 
 Thus we have Tom of Oxford and Tom of Lincoln, and there 
 is an inscription somewhere on paper, which none of us have 
 ever found on metal, " In Thome Laude Resono Bim Bom sine 
 fraude," translated " In praise of Thomas I repeat. 
 
 My Dong Ding Dong without deceit." 
 S. Peter, with the line, 
 
 -J- ^fttus at) literne. JBucat 42o3 (©auDta Wite (May Peter lead 
 us to the joys of Eternal Life !) claims the following list : — 
 Bradwell, second, 
 Bredfield, tenor, 
 Cove, South, bell, 
 Covehithe, fourth, 
 Dallinghoo, third, 
 Hepworth, tenor, 
 Mendlesham, third, 
 Sibton, fourth, 
 Soham, Earl, fourth 
 Soham, Monk, fourth, 
 Wyverstone, third. 
 
 To S. Andrew (Petrus ante Petrum), with the line -5- ^urgumus 
 Snlirca. ipamulorum ^usttpe 2Fota, (We pray thee, Andrew, receive 
 the vows of thy servants,) belong 
 Barningham, treble, 
 Bedingfield bell, 
 Brundish, tenor, 
 Friston, second, 
 Icklingham, All Saints, tenor, 
 Peasenhall, third.
 
 DEDICATIONS TO FEMALE SAINTS. 57 
 
 Pettaugh bell, 
 
 Soham, Earl, second, 
 
 Stonham, Earl, third, 
 
 Wenhaston, tenor, and formerly 
 
 Flixton, second, and 
 
 Herringfleet, second. 
 
 S. Margaret, the mediseval Liicina, has the following, bearing 
 ^ dFat iWargareta. J2obtS |^ec i^uneta* Icta. (Make, Margaret, 
 these offices joyful to us). 
 
 Bungay, Holy Trinity, bell,-|- 
 
 Dennington, second, 
 
 Homersfield, second, 
 
 Hoxne, fifth, 
 
 Martlesham, second 
 
 Thrandeston, second, 
 
 Ufford, second, and formerly 
 
 Herringswell, treble. 
 
 The history of S. Katherine, and her torture on the wheel, 
 appears to have suggested the appropriateness of dedications of 
 bells to her. The line, 
 
 ^ SuSbemat Stgnn. Sonantibus ?^anc iSatcrtna, (May worthy 
 Katherine help the givers of this bell) may be read on 
 
 Bildeston, fourth, 
 
 Cretingham, tenor. 
 
 Eye, second, 
 
 Southwold, seventh, 
 
 Stowlangtoft, third, and formerly on 
 
 Troston, second. This inscription has a philological value, 
 as showing the pronunciation of digna, rhyming with Katerina, 
 which yet survives in our condign. 
 
 The name of S. Mary Magdalen was given with the same 
 reference to benefactors : — 
 
 -J- i9ona Jilrpenlic ^la. I^ogo iltttgDalcna i^larta. 
 
 It remains still on 
 
 Eye, seventh, a good bell, 
 
 * Nescio an hie versus rectius ad campanas an ad obstetrices referatur. J. J. R. 
 t Brought from some other church. 
 
 H
 
 58 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Kelsale, seventh, 
 
 Layham, bell, 
 
 Melton, tenor, and was on 
 
 Barningham, treble, 
 
 Felsham, fifth, 
 
 Fressingfield, fifth, 
 
 Troston, tenor. 
 
 S. Nicholas, as the patron Saint of sailors, we should have 
 expected to find near the sea. Such, however, was not the will 
 of the Norwich men. 
 
 -J- 3)ungcw J}os CI)rl0to. <Stul)eat iiicj^olaug In Sllto (May Nicholas 
 strive to join us with Christ on high !) is on 
 
 Petistree, tenor, and 
 
 Playford, second ; and a better-known line, 
 
 -5- l^os Mocitt Sanctis. Jcmpec fiicDolaus hx %hii, on two hang- 
 ing within earshot of each other : — 
 
 Barningham, second. 
 
 Market Weston, third. 
 
 S. Edmund, especially a Patron of East Anglia, is mentioned 
 on 
 
 Cretingham, third, 
 
 Rishangles, tenor, 
 
 Semer, second, with an inscription, 
 
 + iJHcdtis iatjmunbi. Jitmus ^ ©timtne i^unlit, which we know 
 as used also at the Bury foundry. 
 
 There are three inscriptions to S. John Baptist, 
 
 (a) + In iHultiiS ^nm^. Mesonct ©ampana 3)o]^anni^' 
 
 (May the bell of S. John resound for many years!) 
 
 (b) -J- itlunetc ^aptiitr. 93cuclitctu5 ^H Cfjoru* litt. 
 
 (May this ring be blessed, by the function of the Baptist!) 
 
 (c) .fios ^rece iSapttstc. 3aluf»t tZTua TcTvdntta ©Ijristf. 
 
 (May Thy wounds, O Christ, save us, by the prayer of 
 the Baptist !) 
 
 That the S. John mentioned in (a) is the Baptist is clear from 
 the addition of the word ^aptigtt at Buckhorn Weston, Dorset, 
 and its insertion at Beddingham and Twineham, Sussex. The 
 old London founder Dawe commenced his inscription with the
 
 THE LAST OF THE BRASYER INSCRIPTIONS. 59 
 
 word 1Eternt«(. Later, men weighed the transitory state of things 
 sublunary, and adopted the more modest In il^ultig. If we had 
 not (c) to compare with (b), we might think that there was only 
 a reference in (b) to the baptism of bells. There probably is 
 such a reference. The limits of space will prevent our entering 
 on the subject. 
 
 (a) is on 
 
 Barnby bell, 
 
 Marlesford, treble 
 
 Ufford, tenor, and formerly on 
 
 Cransford, tenor. 
 
 (b) is on Glemham, Great, third, and the tenors at 
 
 Ilketshall, St. Margaret, 
 
 Marlesford, 
 
 Metfield. 
 
 (c) is only found on the Combs second. 
 
 S. Giles is the patron Saint of Blacksmiths. His churches 
 are generally in the outskirts of the town, where the smiths 
 would be keeping a look-out for the wants of poor way-worn 
 jades. His only Norwich bell, however, is in the midst of 
 Ipswich town, the third at S. Laurence's, bearing -^ (^onitusl 6? gH)tt. 
 a*ccnt){t ilD Culmina ©cli. (The sound of Giles rises to the 
 vaults of heaven.) 
 
 Two fine sentiments remain, without reference to any saint. 
 -^ Jiobis ^olamcn. ©cU Bet ilcui. glmcn. Brampton tenor. 
 (May God give us the solace of Heaven !) and one mixed from 
 Latin and English. 
 
 -5- In 2^eglt^ ^nD In Wio. 3laut)c5 Bco. Southwold sixth, for- 
 merly, as it appears, the tenor at South Elmham All Saints, and 
 Rushmere S. Michael treble, where the second word is Wiikt. 
 
 The variety of inscriptions on the Norwich bells is thus seen 
 to be very large. And from its company we may suppose the 
 double dedication of the old tenor at Brandon, recorded In 
 ?^onorc Santti iWartc ct ^ancti ictntrrinc ITtrgines to have a Norwich 
 origin. The casting of all Syntax to the winds is here remark- 
 able. 
 
 Three bells from the mediaeval Norwich foundry bear the
 
 60 CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 names of benefactors, John Ripyng at Barnby, and John Samson 
 at Hinderclay, probably ahve at the time of casting, and 
 Richard Smith, of Hoxne, deceased. That the bells were dedi- 
 cated to the saint whose Christian name the benefactor bore is 
 disproved by the second instance. That bell-dedications do 
 not accord with Church-dedications will be plain to any one 
 who will study the catalogue of inscriptions at the end of the 
 book. 
 
 " The Brasyers lived," says Mr. L'Estrange,* " at the north- 
 east corner of S. Stephen's parish, where, says Mackerell, ' now 
 Mr. Nuthall's Brewing office is.' The triangular plot of ground 
 bounded by Red Lion Street on the east and Rampant Horse 
 Lane and Little Orford Street on the other two sides, in King's 
 Map of Norwich, dated 1766, is marked 'Foundry' ; in Blome- 
 field's plan, 1741, it is numbered 66 ; and at p. 605 he says, 'on 
 the triangular Peice at Wastelgate stands a Brewhouse, where 
 anciently stood (66) a Work House.' " 
 
 The well-known shield with the three bells and the ducal 
 coronet gave the name to this house in S. Stephen's, which 
 Barker in his will (1538) calls " The Three Bells." The name 
 was retained as late as 1670. 
 
 Further notices of the Norwich foundry, with extracts from 
 wills, &c., may be found in Mr. L'Estrange's well-known Church 
 Bells of Norfolk. 
 
 Before leaving Norwich we must treat of a group which seems 
 to gravitate towards this city. As in Geology, so in Campa- 
 nology, the circumstances of early observation determine names, 
 and the bells in question first receiving notice at Burlingham S. 
 Andrew, Norfolk, the " Burlingham " type, for want of a better, 
 has become the designation of a group of bells with Longobardic 
 or capital lettering, engraved in L'Estrange's Church Bells of 
 Norfolk, opposite p. 80. 
 
 There appear to be thirty-eight specimens yet remaining in 
 Norfolk, and fifteen in Suffolk. None are found in Cambridge- 
 shire, or further west and north ; and though Essex is nearly 
 
 * Church Bells of Norfolk ^ pp. 30, 31. He quotes from a MS. of B. Mackerell's 
 on S. Stephen's Parish, p. 35.
 
 PLATE V. 
 
 Lettering, Cross, and Stop of the Burlingham Type.
 
 THE "BURLINGHAM" GROUP. 
 
 6i 
 
 worked out none have been found there. But in Kent there is 
 a considerable group, traced by Mr. Stahlschmidt to a Canter- 
 bury founder, c. 1325. 
 
 Willelmus le Belyetere, of that city, however, always uses a 
 remarkable shield (fig. 6^,) which is unknown in East Anglia ; 
 
 and in his inscriptions he never ventures beyond the Salutation 
 or ora pro nobis, whereas nothing can be more remarkable than 
 the variety and comparative scholarship of the inscriptions in 
 Norfolk and Suffolk. 
 
 Not that the Salutation is absent from the East Anglian 
 group. We have it, more or less imperfectly, on five Norfolk 
 bells, and on the Athelington treble and Swilland bell in Suffolk, 
 but perfectly on the third at Southelmham S. George. Ora pro 
 nobis is supplanted by some equivalent in the Suffolk specimens. 
 Passages from the Vulgate appear, Psalm cl. 6, Ouinis Spiritus 
 Laudet Donwiimi at Sprowston in Norfolk, and Psalm xxvii. 7, 
 Dominus Sit Adjtitor Mens on the treble at Weston, Suffolk, 
 and on the treble at Frettenham, Norfolk, is an apparent allu- 
 sion to S. John xiv. 6. 
 
 Sit Cunctis A nnis Nobis Via Vita Johannis. 
 
 Knowledge of Scansion is also made manifest from the 
 caesural syllable on the second at Thorpe-next-Haddiscoe, 
 Norfolk.
 
 62 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Ora M elite Pia Pro Nobis Virgo Maria. 
 
 The lovers of metre probably know how rare it is to find 
 attention paid to quantity in this class of composition. 
 
 These considerations would lead us to assign a later date for 
 the East Anglian group than for that round Canterbury. The 
 late Mr. J. R. Daniel Tyssen assigned the middle of the fifteenth 
 century as their probable period, which is confirmed by docu- 
 mentary evidence giving the dates of some Norfolk towers 
 containing these bells, and by the style of the fine tower of 
 Laxfield, wherein is one inscribed, 
 
 Divinum Aunxilium (sic) Maneat Semper Nobisciim. 
 
 But there is one shield, fig. 64, which Kent and East Anglla 
 
 Fig. 64. 
 
 alike know. Mr. Stahlschmidt is puzzled by it, but it is ascribed 
 to "King Edmond" in Harl. MS. 6163, quoted by himself, and 
 indeed is tolerably well-known in all places which were connected 
 with the Abbey of Bury S. Edmund's, as for instance, in the 
 porch of Fressingfield Church. The rarity of these bells in 
 West Suffolk, and the absence of the shield at Little Welnetham 
 and Rickinghall Inferior, the nearest points to Bury, do not 
 justify us in locating the foundry at that place. Moreover, that 
 at Newton-next-Castleacre, Norfolk, bears a well-known Nor- 
 wich shield (fig. 51), as well as a cross used by Austen Bracker, 
 which also occurs on the Sotterley second, and the Sprowston 
 third, Norfolk. This produces a marvellous complication which 
 I must confess myself unable to solve. The old second at
 
 A WIIITED SEPULCHRE. 6^, 
 
 Weybread, recast by Messrs. Moore, Holmes, and Mackenzie, 
 another of this type, and bearing the Salutation, was a mere 
 "whited sepulchre," very fair outside, but incredibly honey- 
 combed within. Per cojttra, Athelington and Weston are 
 pretty little rings " maiden," and in good tune. L'Estrange* 
 notes one of the recast Stuston bells, either the third or fourth, 
 as having been of the same type. And thus we pass from the 
 " Burlingham " group. 
 
 * P. 80.
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Suffolk founders — Bury S. Edmund's — A joke on S. Barbara's name — 
 H. S. — The Chirches — Reginald Chirche at Bishop's Stortford — His will — 
 Redenhall tenor the greatest remaining work from Bury — Thomas Chirche — 
 Roger Reve — The Seventh at All Saints', Sudbury — Gun-founding at 
 Bury — Waifs — A Venlo bell at Whitton — A Mechlin bell at Bromenville — 
 Some account of the Mechlin foundry— Gregory Pascal of Capel — The 
 Tonne family — Sproughton tenor. 
 
 At last we get to an artificer working within the limits of the 
 county. We have already seen how that not only Suffolk men 
 generally, but a Bury man in particular, dwelt in the 'Founders' 
 Parish, S. Botolph without Aldgate, London ; but it is rather 
 late in the day when we reach St. Edmund's Bury itself. 
 
 Fig. 65. 
 
 Fig. 66. 
 
 The Mediaeval Bury St. Edmund's foundry has barely a 
 hundred bells altogether now in existence, between fifty and 
 sixty in Suffolk, eighteen in Norfolk, twelve in Cambridgeshire, 
 two in Northamptonshire, one in Hertfordshire, and the rest (a
 
 ST. EDMUNDSBURY. 
 
 65 
 
 number not as yet strictly determinable) in Essex. The shield 
 (fig. 64) already mentioned, though belonging to the Abbey of 
 St. Edmundsbury, does not appear to draw the bells which bear 
 it to the old Suffolk capital, and our earliest certainty is the 
 well-known pair (figs. 65 and 66) about which there need be no 
 doubt. The greatest interest which attaches to this group of 
 bells is in the evidence of gun-founding at Bury in the shield. 
 
 The inscriptions are not remarkable for erudition, and errors 
 appear to have been freely propagated. In the three East 
 Anglian counties the Invocation to the Trinity is incomplete, 
 
 Fig. 67. 
 
 Fig. 68.* 
 
 Fig. 70. 
 
 Hemingstone third and Wickham Market fourth bearing ©eli 
 tet JWunug -5- Caui . mcgnat . (^rinus) &t . Wimi, just like Trump- 
 ington fourth and Garboldisham third, and more than three- 
 fourths of all simply ©ta . i^ro . Jloli^, generally with the 
 
 * These are rather under the actual size.
 
 66 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Virgin's name. One lovely pentameter to gladden the heart of 
 an old schoolmaster turns up on the Monks Eleigh fifth : — 
 
 ©ta . Haurcnti . 33ona . ©ampana . ^act 
 
 The initial cross (fig, Gy) and stop (fig. 68) are far more 
 elaborate than the lettering, of which specimens are given (figs. 
 69, 70, and 71). Another stop, not engraved, is frequently used 
 on smaller bells. A very plain cross is not uncommon. 
 
 Fig. 71. 
 
 One remarkable piece of jocularity has fortunately been pre- 
 served. S. Barbara, unnoticed by the Norwichers, has a few 
 Bury bells dedicated to her, 
 
 Barton Mills, treble, 
 
 Stanton All Saints, second, 
 
 Bealings, Little, old second, probably, 
 
 Stratford, S. Andrew, old tenor, certainly. 
 
 The last of these contained the " lytyll geste," such as it is, of 
 the bell-founder or his counsellor. Barbara, be it known to 
 those of my readers who have never studied Logic, is the name 
 of one of the Figures in that Art, as well as the name of a Saint. 
 These figures are arranged in two " premises," " major," and 
 " minor," and a conclusion. The vowels a, e, i, o are used to 
 show whether the statements are positive or negative, universal 
 or special. Thus from 
 
 Aff Irmo, and 
 
 nEgO 
 we have a and i positive, e and o, negative, the first of each pair 
 being universal, and the second special. So in the figure
 
 A LOGIC JOKE, 6/ 
 
 B'Arb Ar A, both premises and the conclusion are universal and 
 positive ; and when an Act in the University was bein.sf kept, 
 the figure was denoted by the side of the argument, thus : — 
 
 B Ar All animals can feel, 
 b Ar All cats are animals. 
 A Ergo all cats can feel. 
 
 Now some jocular genius has transferred Barbara on the old 
 tenor at Stratford S. Andrew* from the saint to the logical 
 syllogism, 
 
 •J- ^ancta . 23ar . 23ar . % . ©ra . ^^ro . i^obtg. 
 
 There are only two dedicated to S. Edmund, 
 
 Elmswell, third, 
 
 Risby, tenor, 
 which is rather surprising, and some of the inscriptions, such as 
 
 -*• SEtrgo . ©oronata . ®uc , Mo^ . ^D . Mcgna . 33cata. 
 
 (Lead us, crowned Virgin, to the blessed realms), on 
 
 Rendham, third, 
 
 Stonham, Little, third, 
 
 Wilby, tenor. 
 
 ^ 3)oi)anncj . ©j^rtgtt . ©are . J3ignaw . pro . i^obis . orare, a 
 dedication, rare in East Anglia, to S. John-the-Evangelist, on 
 Halesworth sixth, and 
 
 -5- Sbttlh . i^aria . i^atis . ^uccuctc . ^tiMima . Jlobtjj 
 
 (Star of the sea, most holy Mary, succour us), on the seventh 
 at Sudbury All Saints, are better known in VVessex than in 
 East Anglia, 
 
 Though a large number of the East Suffolk bells from the 
 Bury foundry cluster round the cell of the Abbey at Monk 
 Soham, yet in that parish Norwich influence was the stronger. 
 
 It is a matter of great regret that we cannot find the name 
 belonging to the initials, H. S., of the first founder who used the 
 Bury shield, A good approximate date for his work is given 
 by the third bell at Isleham, Cambridgeshire, which bears the 
 arms of Bernard and Peyton, and a long intercessory prayer, 
 addressed to the angel Gabriel, for the souls of John Bernard, 
 who died in 145 1, Thomas Peyton, who died in 1484, and their 
 
 * Fortunately preserved in a rubbing.
 
 68 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 wives. The Registry of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury has been 
 searched in vain for his will. A Henr}^ Smyth of Bury indeed 
 died in 1476, but his last will and testament* gives no indication 
 whatever of metal. He left his son Galfridus (Geoffrey) ten 
 shillings, and his daughter Constance ten sheep. There is a 
 hiatus (valde deflendus) between the end of one book (Hawke), 
 1482, and the beginning of the next (Pye), 1491. Probably the 
 missing document belongs to this period. But we must not 
 despair. When the archives of the Bury Corporation emerge 
 from their present chaos, the names of the fabricator of bells 
 and guns may also come forth. I will now give as complete an 
 alphabetical list as I can of the Bury mediaevals now existing in 
 Suffolk :— 
 
 Aldham, bell, 
 
 Barton Mills, treble, . 
 
 tenor, 
 
 Bealings, Little, second, 
 
 Bedfield, third, 
 
 Bradfield Combust, second, 
 
 Bradfield, S. Clare, treble, 
 
 Charsfield, tenor, 
 
 Chillesford bell, 
 
 Darsham, third, 
 
 Dennington, treble, 
 
 third, 
 
 Denston, treble, 
 
 second, 
 
 Depden, treble, 
 
 second, 
 
 Eleigh, Monks, fourth, 
 
 Elmswell, third, 
 
 Eyke, tenor, 
 
 Felsham, third, 
 
 Halesworth, fourth, 
 
 sixth, 
 
 Hemingstone, second, 
 
 * Lib. Hawke, 218 vet so.
 
 BURY BELLS. 6g 
 
 Hemlngstone, tenor, 
 
 Henley, fourth, 
 
 tenor, 
 
 Hinderclay, third, 
 
 Hollesley, second, 
 
 Holton, S. Mary, treble, 
 
 tenor, 
 
 Ipswich, S. Helen, second, 
 
 S. Laurence, third, 
 
 S. Matthew, third, 
 
 Ixworth, fourth, 
 
 Lakenheath, Clock bell, 
 
 Laxfield, third, 
 
 Offton, third, 
 
 Ottley, third, 
 
 Rendham, third, 
 
 Risby, tenor, 
 
 Shelley, third, 
 
 fourth, 
 
 Shottisham bell, 
 
 Stanton, All Saints, treble, 
 
 second, 
 
 third. 
 
 Stoke Ash, third, 
 
 fourth, 
 
 Stonham, Little, fourth, 
 
 Sudbury, All Saints, fifth, 
 
 seventh, 
 
 Tuddenham, S. Mary, fourth, 
 
 Wattisham, second, 
 
 Weston Market, second, 
 
 Wickham Market, fourth, 
 
 VVilby, tenor. 
 
 All these bells seem to have been the work of H. S., Reignold 
 Chirche, Thomas Chirche, or Roger Reve. The second died in 
 1498, the third late in 1527 or early in 1528, and the last was 
 living in 1533. There are no means of classifying them, and I
 
 70 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 have already said a good deal about the dedications. As yet 
 we have lighted on no documents in the county which relate to 
 them ; but something may be said about the operations of 
 Reignold Chirche in Hertfordshire, of Thomas Chirche in Nor- 
 folk and Cambridgeshire, and of Roger Reve in Essex. 
 
 The reputation of the elder Chirche in 1489 induced the 
 flourishing town of Bishop Stortford to trust them with the 
 recasting of their five bells, and the accounts of the Church- 
 wardens for that year record their costs and expenses " riding to 
 Bury S. Edmund's in order to make the agreement with Reginald 
 Chirche, ' bellfoundor,' for making the said bells within the time 
 of the accounts this year, 4s. Sd. And paid for making the in- 
 denture and obligation concerning the aforesaid agreement, 22d." 
 
 We are gratified to find that no misadventure like that of the 
 men of Mildenhall at Norwich seems to have befallen Bishop 
 Stortford. " And in money paid about the carriage of the bells 
 aforesaid from this town to the town of Bury S. Edmund's ; and 
 for costs and expenses about the re-carriage of the said bells 
 from the town of Bury aforesaid to this town this year within 
 the time of the account, $2s. And likewise in money paid to 
 divers men being about the trussing of the said bells in carts at 
 the same time and in ' trussing lyne ' bought for the aforesaid 
 carts, 3J-. 4^." Business brings business. The Stortford men 
 from employing a Bury founder go on to employ a Bury smith, 
 who received 2gs. for clappers. And, like founders of the present 
 day, Reginald Chirche cast the brasses for the gudgeons to work 
 in — at least seven out of the necessary ten, for which he received 
 igs. Sd. John Thurkill had 4s. Sd. for himself and six horses 
 for the carriage of the bells, and the last item is for money paid 
 for the sanctification of the bells, lys. 4d. After this year come 
 the instalments to Reginald Chirche, who seems to have turned 
 out a respectable ring of five. The details may be read "oerbatim 
 in Mr. Glasscock's Records of S. Michaels Parish Churchy 
 Bishop's Stortford. 
 
 The following extracts from the will of Reignold Chirche were 
 given in my Church Bells of Cambridgeshire* but they deserve 
 rehearsal here : — 
 
 * P- 35-
 
 REIGNOLD CHIRCHE'S WILL. 71 
 
 " My body to be buryed in Seynt Mary chirche, in the Ele of Seynt Pet', 
 vnder the marble ston thar be me leid. To the parysshe preest of the same 
 chirche to p'y for my soule, and to reherse my name in the bede rolle eu'y 
 Sunday be an hooll yeer vjs. vh}d. Myn executors shall visite all the psones 
 that lye sike and bedred, gevy'g eu'y pson iiij"^., or more, as they thynke 
 nede. My executors to kepe a sangrede and an erth tyde yeerly for my 
 soule, etc., in the chirche of our lady. To the new worke wtjn the Monast'y 
 of Seynt Edm'nd, x m'rc. To the gilde of the holy name of Jhu', xs. To 
 the gilde of Corpus, xpi. xiji^. To the gilde of Seynt Petyr, xij^. To the 
 gilde of the Purificac'on of our lady callyd Candelmesse gilde, xxs. To the 
 gilde of Seynt Margerete, iij^. iujd. To the gilde of the Decollac'on of 
 Seynt John Baptist, xxd., and a cuppe of silu' called a peace.* My iij small 
 ten'ntries set in Reyngate strete shall remayn to almesis housis for eu'. 
 Itm. I will Avery Foppys have hir dwellyng in one of the same almesse 
 housis duryng hir lyve. It'm. I will the seid Avery Foppe haue of my goods 
 quarterly, xxd. as longe as she levyth, after the discresson of myn executo''s. 
 It'm. I will that Alis Power haue hir dwellyng in the hous that I bought of 
 hir duryng hir lyffe, and aft' hir discease I will the seid hous shalbe leten eu' 
 aft' to thentent that the seid almesse housis may be repared and susteyned 
 vp wt the fferme of the same hous for eu'. I will that Thomas Chirche my 
 sone do make clene the grete lectorn that I gave to Seynt Mary chirche 
 quart'ly as longe as he levyth." 
 
 The greatest work now in existence which came from the 
 Bury foundry is just outside the boundaries of our county, the 
 tenor at Redenhall. A few words must be said about this 
 magnificent bell. It must be Thomas Chirche's, bearing as it 
 does the Bury marks, and dating from 15 14 or thereabouts, 
 when Thomas Bayly of Harleston willed 6s. 8c/. " to the church 
 of Rednall to the yotyng of the gret belle." It has been terribly 
 mangled from chipping, at one time sharpened and at another 
 flattened, so that from the former process its diameter has 
 probably lost three-quarters of an inch. Its weight is about 24 
 cwt, and none that have heard it will fail to acknowledge the 
 grandeur of its tone. The following dimensions are on the 
 authority of my old friend. Captain A. P. Moore, of Wey- 
 bread : — 
 
 * The readers of Shakespeare's Henry V. will remember the pax which Bardolph 
 stole. A deal of needless ingenuity seems to have been spent on this passage. This 
 was a "loving-cup" for the gilde.
 
 ^2 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Diameter 
 
 50'5 inches. 
 
 Height to crown 
 
 • 37-5 >, 
 
 „ to top of cannons 
 
 . 56 
 
 „ inside 
 
 . 37 
 
 We have notices of Thomas Chirche's operations at King's 
 College, Cambridge, in 1500, when he suppHed the College 
 kitchen with sundry pots and ladles, and recast the second bell 
 of their five, also at S. Mary-the-Great, Cambridge, in 15 14. 
 His will, dated July 12th, 1527, contains the following extracts, 
 especially interesting to Bury people : — 
 
 " My body to be buried in Seynt Mary chirche in the Ele of Seynt Petyr', 
 vnd' the ston ther be me layd. A priest to synge for my soule at the Awter 
 of Seynt Thorn's, etc., for 5 years. To the seid chirche of o'r lady oon food' 
 of led. To eu'y of the iiij priests that shall bere my body to chirche, xij^. 
 To Margaret my wyfe, my ten't joynyng to the capitall ten't late my ffadres 
 in the Southgate strete, su'tyme called Cobbold's. To Seynt Nicholas 
 Gylde holdyn in the College w'thyn the seid Town of Bury a litil stondyng 
 
 Of Roger Reve we have but little to say. He recast the 
 " meane belle " (the second of three, apparently) for the parish 
 church of Debden, in Essex, in 1533, and gave the usual year- 
 and-day bond to William West, gentleman, William Byrde and 
 Richard Hamond, " yomen," of that parish. The amount was 
 £\0, which may suggest that the amount forfeited by Richard 
 Brasyer in the matter of the Mildenhall tenor must have been 
 at least £60, if anything like proportion was observed on 
 account of the size of the bell. Reve did not guarantee his 
 success at the first attempt. The Debden people were to carry 
 the bell backwards and forwards as often as need should require, 
 and to take it up into the steeple and set it down again "redy to 
 the carte." This bond throws light on the weighing business, 
 about which Serjeants Genney and Pigot argued before the 
 judges of the Common Pleas in banco. Should the new bell 
 weigh more than the old, the parish is to pay to the founder at 
 the rate of 30X. the hundred of five score and twelve to the 
 
 * Church Bells of Cambridgeshire, pp. 36, 37.
 
 NO EXISTING CANNON FROM BURY. 73 
 
 hundred, but if the contrary, the founder was to pay the parish 
 at the rate of 15^-. the hundred. 
 
 Roger Reve is styled " clothcar," at which by this time we 
 need feel no surprise. Mr. L'Estrange* suggested that the 
 transcriber had misread a contraction of some such word as 
 " clochearius," but the word is unknown, and no explanation at 
 all seems necessary. The bond is given in full in my Church 
 Bells of Cambridgeshire^ and in the East Anglian.^ 
 
 The largest bell in the county from the Bury foundry is the 
 seventh at All Saints', Sudbury, inscribed : — -5- ^tcUa . i^aria . 
 iKacts . ^uccurre . ^iissima . i^obis. It is a fine bell, with a 
 diameter of 48 inches, and weighing a ton, more or less. The 
 fifth in the same tower is also from Bury, but the sixth, between 
 them, is a London bell, tolerably co-eval. This is rather puzz- 
 ling. Perhaps the London bell hung there by itself for a time, 
 and then was joined by its two Suffolk companions, the effort 
 for adding a big tenor not coming till 1576. 
 
 I regret much that as in the case of Dawe, no old bronze guns 
 have been discovered with the Bury mark. The Woolwich 
 collection is certainly destitute of them. No doubt they served 
 their purpose, and then went to the melting pot. It can hardly 
 be thought incredible that the guns which riddled the galleys 
 and galleons of the Spanish Armada, did not number amongst 
 them some old campaigners which first saw the light of day at 
 Bury S. Edmund's, under the approving eye of H. S., one of the 
 Chirches, or Roger Reve. 
 
 In the church of S. Mary, Bury S. Edmund's, there used to be 
 a double brass, to a citizen and his wife, with bells ; the figures 
 had long been removed, but the incident remained. By this 
 time the stone has possibly disappeared, in the course of 
 "restoration." It is pretty sure to have commemorated one of 
 the artificers of whom we have been treating. 
 
 And now having dealt with the masses we must look up the 
 mediaeval waifs and strays within our borders, some of which 
 
 * Church Bells of Norfolk, p. 63. 
 t P. 37- % II-. 25- 
 
 K
 
 74 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 will turn out to be of peculiar importance. A Longobardic 
 three first present themselves : — 
 
 Ellough, treble, 
 
 South Elmham, S. James, third, 
 
 Frostenden, treble. 
 
 The first bears the Salutation, the second records the name 
 of the donor : — 
 
 H- JOHADDGS : BI^OYn i mG : EGGIT \ EIGI\I, and 
 the last is inscribed, 
 
 -^ GAmPAItA omniYm SAIlCTOI^Ym, the dedication of 
 the bell in this instance according with that of the church, not 
 an every-day occurrence. Of the same make was the old second 
 at Gorleston, appropriately dedicated to S. Nicholas, the patron 
 Saint of fishermen, and with these words on the shoulder : — 
 
 -!- I Am ; mAD •: in i yg iyoi\ghgpg : ob yg ; 
 
 GI\OS. 
 
 These seem to have been the work of some itinerant founder, 
 roaming through East Norfolk and North-east Suffolk. There 
 are seven in Norfolk, at Caister-by-Norwich, Gillingham, Les- 
 singham, Mundham, Rockland All Saints, and Wramplingham. 
 As we know nothing further about them we must leave them. 
 The Whitton bell, inscribed abc . mavta . grada . ano . m . cccc . ilt, 
 is a thing quite by itself Dates at that time of day are excep- 
 tional in England, and the trefoil (fig. 72) which separates the 
 words and lettering, as well as the general aspect of the bell, are 
 Continental, possibly Low Country, possibly French. 
 
 Fig. 72.
 
 PLATE VL 
 
 
 The Flight into Egypt, The Annunciation, and a Piece of Border from 
 A Mechlin Bell at Bromeswell.
 
 VENLO. 75 
 
 I incline to the former theory, and from the identity of the 
 lettering with that on a bell at Baschurch, Salop, I feel disposed 
 to ascribe it to Jan Van Venloe. The Baschurch bell is inscribed 
 ^ maria . int . mt . ong . l)ccrcn . m . cccc . cnt)c . ylbii (In the year 
 of our Lord 1400 and 47), with the name jan . ban . bcnloc. The 
 marks at Baschurch and Whitton certainly differ, the former 
 bearing an initial cross, with the Lion of S. Mark and the Eagle 
 of S. John, and only a single stop between the words. But the 
 lettering, the nearness of date, and the fact that the only other 
 recorded bell of Jan Van Venloe's (now, alas ! recast) at Vow- 
 church, Hertfordshire, bore the Salutation, turn the scale with 
 me, in the absence of other evidence. The Baschurch bell is 
 said to have been brought from Valle Crucis Abbey, but such 
 stories are not reliable. Venlo has been the seat of important 
 manufactures in metal for many centuries. 
 
 An enthusiastic Welshman, misreading the Baschurch inscrip- 
 tion, and thinking it to be in his mother tongue, rendered it into 
 English : — 
 
 " When cut off from life we become dead earth, the soul 
 departs, and proceeds through the air to Eternal Glory."* 
 
 The county is most happy in possessing one indubitable 
 foreigner of a high type of beauty, the smaller of the two bells 
 hanging in Bromeswell tower. I mounted this dangerous place 
 on January 13th, 1870, and certainly doubted my getting down 
 again alive. However, I thankfully record the preservation of 
 my life, and proceed to the inscription, in Flemish, 
 
 Jhesus ben ic ghegoten van Cornelis Waghevens int iaer ons 
 Heeren MCCCCCXXX. (Jesus am I, cast by Cornelis Waghevens 
 in the year of our Lord, 1530), with four medallions on the 
 waist, of which facsimiles are given opposite, and a bold and 
 deep arabesque border. There was formerly a bell smaller than 
 this in the tower, but it fell down, was broken and sold. The 
 note of this bell is C sharp, and of its companion B natural, so 
 that the lost bell, if in tune, was in D sharp. 
 
 The larger bell belongs to a Longobardic group, and is a 
 
 • See Morris's MS. collection in the Shrewsbury Museum.
 
 76 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 century or two older. Flemish bells are so rare, and the later 
 specimens have received such high praise at the mouth of Mr. 
 Havveis, that it is not out of place to say that this one is more 
 remarkable for ornamentation than for tone. 
 
 The family of Waghevens is well known in the annals of the 
 city of Mechlin, and through the kindness of the Reverend 
 William van Caster, one of the Canons of the Cathedral, I am 
 able to give a list of the founders bearing that name : — 
 
 Henry, who died shortly before 1483. He was twice married, 
 and had issue by the first marriage a son Henry. His second 
 wife (Margaret van Belle) bore him two sons, Peter and George, 
 who carried on the paternal trade from 1483 to 1530, or there- 
 abouts. 
 
 Simon is supposed to have been a younger brother. His 
 range is from 149 1 to 15 16. Y xom Medard {ii)2\ — 1557), who 
 is partly conterminous with our Cornells, came a bell at 
 Herendal, not far from Mechlin, which bears a legend com- 
 parable to some of the less elegant in Suffolk : — 
 -J- Maria es meinen name 
 
 Mijn gheluit sij Gode bequame, 
 Also verre me mij horen sal 
 Wilt God beware overal. 
 Medardus Waghevens goet mi te Mechelen in stede als nien 
 screfe. 
 Mcccccxxxni. wede. 
 
 i.e. Mary is my name, 
 
 May my sound be agreeable to God ! 
 Also whoever shall hear me 
 May God preserve everywhere ! 
 
 1530, the Bromeswell date, is the earliest for Cornells known 
 to Canon van Caster. 
 
 Jacop's earliest and latest dates are 1542 and I554- 
 
 John, c. 1 542, was possibly a cousin. 
 
 From Jacop Waghevens we have the tongueless bell in 
 Glasgow Cathedral called the S. Catherine bell, on which the 
 hours are struck, weighing about five cwt. It bears on one side
 
 PLATE VII. 
 
 {<^) 
 
 
 {b) 
 
 (a) Trefoil from Whitton. 
 
 (d) The Presentation in the Temple, from a Mechlin 
 Bell at Bromeswell. 
 
 
 
 / 
 
 Border and Medaluon of S. Michael and the Dragon, from a 
 Mechlin Bell at Bromeswell.
 
 MECHLIN. yj 
 
 the figure of S. Catherine, and on the other the arms of MechHn, 
 and is inscribed, Katherina ben ic, ghegoten van Jacop Vohag- 
 hevens int iaer ons Heeren, 1554, which the reader will by this 
 time be able to translate for himself. A bell discovered by my 
 friend, Mr. Justice Clarence of Colombo, Ceylon, in a bell-cot at 
 Nicholaston, Glamorganshire, seems to have come from the 
 hands of Peter or George Waghevens, or both. There is no 
 dedication, but it is simply inscribed : — Ic ben ghegoten int 
 iaer ons Heeren MCCCCCXVIII. Its tone is excellent, and it 
 bears two medallions. Peter Waghevens (or Waghevents) cast 
 an octave of bells for Louvain in 1525. There seems to have 
 been a later Jacop or Jacques, c. 1590. 
 
 In 1 86 1, Mr. A. D. Tyssen examined, with his father, the 
 bells in Mechlin Cathedral. He found three inscribed thus : — 
 
 (i) miCHAGLt YOCOr^ GT FACTA SUm PG1\ GGOI\GIY 
 YYAGHGYGnS AlinO DOI. mCGCCCXY, 
 
 (2) mccstcr ggmon foagljueng gj^af mgtt accoort mcccqcbiu jitrccfncn 
 iioort 
 
 (3) l^cnrtcus toagtcucn me fecit anno Domini m cccc Ivrv- 
 
 These words are only portions of the inscriptions, and the 
 bells are profusely ornamented. 
 
 Mr. Tyssen thinks that another Mechlin bell is lurking about 
 somewhere in Middlesex, 
 
 Two bells present inscriptions in great confusion, with the 
 same lettering or letterings : — 
 
 Capel, S. Mary, tenor, 
 
 Levington, second. 
 
 On the former some letters are upside down, and some face 
 the wrong way, while others are afflicted with both these 
 maladies, and there are three distinct types, unknown to me or 
 to anyone to whom I have shown them. The general character 
 of the lettering is early, but when at last deciphered the inscrip- 
 tion brings the date down to the later days of Henry VIII. 
 
 OB YOUI\ GHGI\ITG P1\AY EOI\ THG W^GDBAI\G OB 
 GI\GGOI\Y PASCAD. 
 
 Whoever the man may have been who bore this highly 
 ecclesiastical name, the rector of Capel, the Rev. A. Cecil 
 Johnson, found his name early in the register : —
 
 78 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 " Sepultura 32 Henrici Octavi. Sepultura Gregorii Pascall 
 quarto die Februarii. A° p'dicto." 
 
 The Levington bell has its inscription (to the Virgin) back- 
 wards, but adds no further element of enigma. These I should 
 attribute to some local hand. 
 
 We now come to the connecting link between the ante- 
 Reformation and post-Reformation bells, the members of the 
 Tonne family. And here I must cast a doubt on much written 
 by me in the Church Bells of Cambridgeshire about two bells at 
 Wood Ditton. I read 1588 as their date, but it is more likely to 
 be 1544. There appear to have been two members of the house 
 of Tonne, probably brothers, often using the same mark, casting 
 
 I-is- 7Z-
 
 TFIE TONNE FAMILY. 
 
 79 
 
 bells about the same time. John is the man whose name more 
 frequently occurs on the whole, but we have three of Stephen's 
 in East Anglia, the Wood Ditton bells just mentioned, and the 
 fifth at Stanstead of the same date, which bears the large French 
 cross (fig. 73), known elsewhere as John Tonne's, together with 
 three other marks recognizable as used by him (figs. 74, 75, 76). 
 
 Fig. 74. 
 
 Fig- 75- 
 
 Fig. 76. 
 
 I am not aware that any bell of John Tonne's is dated so late as 
 1544. Most are undated, but in Sussex, where they are chiefly 
 found, we find 1522 at Sullington, and 1536 at Botolph's, and at 
 Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex, I read 1540, though I may be 
 wrong, for the figures are very peculiar. 
 
 On the whole I think that Stephen was the son of John, and 
 identical with the Stephen Tonni, whose works we shall consider 
 in the Elizabethan period. Mr. Amherst Tyssen, who knows 
 more about French bells than anybody, past or present, con- 
 siders these specimens as decidedly French, and that the name 
 Tonne, or Tonni, is a corruption oi Antoine, like our own Tony.* 
 I have already suggested that this John Tonne may be identical 
 with the John Tynny named in Culverden's will. He has left 
 us one little bell in Suffolk, the Clock-bell at Stoke-by-Clare, 
 inscribed, -J- jturgc : mane : garbire : iDfo. (Rise in the morning to 
 serve God), with a cross (fig. yj) and stop, well known as his. 
 It is a rare and good inscription, occurring only once besides, 
 on the third at Down, Kent, dated 1 5 1 1. Here, however, neither 
 
 * The surname, however, is known in Suffolk in the previous century. We have 
 Johes Tony instituted rector of Icklingham in 1453-4.
 
 8o 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 marks nor lettering are John Tonne's, and I adopt the theory of 
 the Kentish historian, that the bell came from some one from 
 whom our man learned his business. The ornamentation at 
 Down is of a foreign character. We must remember this 
 inscription, for an expansion of it will come from Stephen Tonni 
 in the time of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 dL2b 
 
 Fig. 77. 
 
 I should be inclined to class Sproughton tenor among the 
 medisevals. It has four coins, apparently the reverse of a 
 shilling, and some letters which may stand for I. H. I found 
 the third and the " ting-tang " at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, 
 to be of the same character, but so far as I know the universe 
 contains no more of them. Thus my medisevals have gone all 
 over the county. They began in the north-west, and they end 
 in the soiith-e^.st.
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Sance and Sacring bells —Funeral uses — Angelus bell— Curfew — Chime- 
 barrels — Jack o' th' Clock. 
 
 This discussion of the bells themselves does not release us 
 from the middle ages. The reader must now be carried in 
 imagination to the usages of those distant days. We must 
 devote a little time to Sance and Sacring Bells, Burial uses, 
 the Angelus Bell, the Curfew, the use of Chime-barrels in Tren- 
 tals, and Jack o' th' Clock. 
 
 First then, of the Sance bell, for which my readers have often 
 noticed a bell-cot standing on the gable of a church nave. 
 
 By the Constitution of Archbishop Winchelsey all that is 
 required of parishes, in the way of bells, is a Handbell to be 
 carried before the Host at the Visitation of the Sick, and Bells 
 with ropes, which latter seem to have been for the tower alone. 
 About 1367 came the Constitutions of Archbishop Sudbury, 
 wherein we find the first-mentioned, together with " Handbells 
 and Bells in Belfry, with cords to the same." 
 
 By degrees the hand-bells were partly supplanted by bells 
 hung in the rood-screen, of which instances remain (fig, y^) at 
 Hawstead, and in Norfolk at Wiggenhall S, German's and 
 Scarning, though for several purposes, of which we shall speak 
 presently, the hand-bells were still required. The bell so hung 
 appears to be that which is meant by a Sance, Sancts or Sanctus 
 bell, for we never find this word in the plural number. The 
 main use of it was to arrest attention at important parts of the 
 service, and especially at the Celebration of the Eucharist, 
 where it was rung at the Ter Sanctus, just before the Canon 
 of the Mass. 
 
 It appears to have occurred to some mind that this use might 
 
 L
 
 82 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 be extended for the benefit of those unable to come to church ; 
 and thus in the Perpendicular period of architecture arose the 
 practice of erecting a Sance-bell cot on the nave-gable. That 
 belonging to my own church at Fressingfield is (fig. 79) as good 
 
 Fig. 7S. 
 
 an example as I can find, the spout for the rope still remaining 
 in the chancel-arch, and a groove for guiding the rope till it 
 would reach the hand of one standing on the floor being still 
 marked in the easternmost of the south arches of the nave. 
 The will of John Colmar of Fressingfield, dated 1495, bequeath- 
 ing one such bell, weighing lOO lbs., gives an approximate date
 
 SANCE BELL. 
 
 83 
 
 for all this work, as it would have been impossible to have 
 inserted the spout into the chancel-arch after it was built. 
 
 At Mildenhall, where there is an unusually fine Early English 
 chancel-arch, there was never a sance-bell cot, but a turret on 
 the north side of the arch was erected in the Perpendicular 
 period for the purpose, and the mark of the rope is still plain 
 below. 
 
 Fig- 79- 
 
 In some cases the Sanctus bell may have been hung in the 
 tower, with the other bells.* The lawfulness or unlawfulness 
 of such things is just the kind of question to rend a nation 
 asunder, upset a throne, cause a frightful effusion of rage and 
 finally of blood, and generally to do the devil's work in the 
 world. There was certainly a time when they were not, so that 
 it is a marvel why anyone should have been seriously injured 
 for the want of them. And, on the other hand, they could have 
 by no possibility propagated error, and their only function was 
 that performed daily in every elementary school in the kingdom 
 by the teacher's little dish-bell, the calling for silence and 
 attention. A bell thus used at the Mass would be called a 
 
 * See Church Belts of Cambridgeshire, p. 53.
 
 84 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Sacring bell, whether sounded by hand or by rope ; but the 
 name of Sanctus bell appears to be restricted to the latter kind. 
 The smaller hand-bells are called Rogation Bells in some of 
 the Essex Inventories, and were doubtless used in the parochial 
 perambulations on the Rogation Days.* 
 
 The use of the Handbell prescribed in the Winchelsey Con- 
 stitutions was not the only one. When a funeral took place, a 
 handbell was rung as the procession went from the abode of 
 the deceased to the church. And this, which was observed at 
 Oxford at the death of Dr. Radcliff,t Principal of Brasenose, 
 in 1645, and is an everyday occurrence on the Continent, is a 
 practice of immemorial antiquity. 
 
 Under the Levitical Law contact with a corpse produced 
 ceremonial defilement.^ The Roman Law was in some points 
 more stringent still. The Flamen Dialis was not allowed to 
 hear the sound of funeral pipes, and even the statues of gods 
 by the roadside had their faces covered with a cloth before a 
 funeral passed by.|| We have it on good authority that bell- 
 men in black preceded Roman funerals,§ to prevent persons in 
 authority thus being contaminated, and the same plan was 
 pursued in case of those who were being led forth to crucifixion 
 or public scourging. Hence appears to have sprung the custom 
 of ringing a handbell before a funeral ; and no doubt one of 
 those which we find in the parish inventories of the reign of 
 Edward VL, was used for the purpose. 
 
 The other burial customs which we find prevalent seem to be 
 of later origin, the Soul bell, and bells during Thirty-days and 
 other commemorations, and at Earth-tides. The first requires 
 no treatment from me, having received such abundant illustra- 
 tion in the histories of Bells of other countries. 
 
 The best instance for the latter in our county will be from the 
 
 * Transactions of the Essex Archceological Society^ vol. ii., part iii., New Series, 
 pp. 223, etc. 
 
 t N. and Q., HI., 297. 
 
 X Lev. xxii. 4. Numb. xix. il. 
 
 II Festus on Aulus Gellius, Nodes Atlica, x. 15. 
 
 § Suidas and Gul. Budseus, quoted by Hieronymus Magius, c. x.
 
 TRENTALS. 85 
 
 will of John Baret of Bury S. Edmund's, who died in 1463, and 
 is buried in S. Mary's Church in that town. I make no apology 
 for inserting his epitaph, which has a noble ring in its sound, 
 and serves to bring the man before us. The will may be read 
 in full in Mr. Tymms's well-known Wt//s and Inventories^ from 
 the Registers of the Covimissary of Bury St. Ednitind's and the 
 Archdeaconry of Sudbury. 
 
 " He that will sadly behold me with his ie 
 John Maye see his own Merowr and lerne to die. Baret 
 
 Wrappid in a schete, as a full rewli wretche, 
 No mor of al my minde to me ward will streche, 
 From erthe I kam and on to earth I am brought, 
 This is my natur : for of erthe I was wrought, 
 Thus erthe on to erthe tendeth to knet, 
 So endcth ech creature : doeth John Baret. 
 
 " Wherefore ye pepil in waye of charitie, 
 With your goode prayeres I pray ye help me. 
 For such as I am : right so shalle ye al bi 
 Now God on my sowle : have merci and pitie. 
 
 " Amen." 
 
 His directions are most ample. The two bellmen that went 
 about the town at his death were to have gowns, and to be two 
 of the five torch-holders, for which they were to have twopence 
 and their meat, the Sexton receiving twelve pence and his 
 bread, drink, and meat. At the " yeerday," the bellmen were 
 to receive fourpence each for going about the town to call on 
 the inhabitants to pray " for my soule and for my faderis and 
 modrys." 
 
 The *' Thirty day " (which may spring from the thirty days' 
 mourning for Moses and Aaron,)t is well-known for its Trehtal 
 of Masses, always of course thirty in number, but varying in 
 detail from time to time. Our concern with them is limited to 
 
 • Pp. 17, &c. 
 
 t Deut, xxxiv. 8. Numb. xx. 29.
 
 S6 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 the use of bells. We find bellmen employed on the " Thirty 
 day," which seems equivalent to another well-known expres- 
 sion, the " Month's Mind." All the good people of Bury, 
 however, were not of the same opinion as John Baret. John, 
 Coote, for instance, " will neyther ryngyn nor belman goynge," 
 but his almsgivings and dinners on his Thirty-day to be " don 
 in secret manner." 
 
 Joan Mason, widow, of Bury, in 1510, directed the " bellemen 
 to go abovvte the paryssh," at her anniversary and earth-tide to 
 "pray and rehcrse the sowles " of all the persons she recited. 
 
 Another remarkable custom was the sounding by means of a 
 Chime-barrel the Requiem Eternam, which, as may be seen, 
 ranged only over five notes. John Baret, of whom we have 
 spoken, makes special arrangement for this music during his 
 Thirty-day. 
 
 " Itm I wil that the Sexteyn of Seynt Marie chirche hawe at 
 my yeenday xijd. so he rynge wil and fynde breed and ale to 
 his ffelashippe, and eche yeer what tyme my yeerday fallyth 
 that at twelve of the clokke at noon next be forn my dirige he 
 do the chymes smythe Requiem eternam and so to contynue 
 seven nyght aftir tyl the Vtas* of my yeerday be passyd and at 
 eue' lenton Requiem eternam and in lykvyse such day as God 
 disposith for me to passe I wil the seid chymes smyth forthwith 
 Requiem eternam and so day and nyth to c5tynwe with the 
 same song tyl my xxx*'' day be past for me and for my freends 
 that holpe therto with any goods of here. Itm I wil geve and 
 beqwethe yeerly to the Sexteyn of Seynt Marie chirche viijj. to 
 kepe the clokke, take hede to the chymes, wynde vp the pegs 
 and the plummys as ofte as nede is, so that the seid chymes 
 fayle not to goo through the defawte of the seid sexteyn who 
 so be for the tyme, and yif he wil not take it vpon hym the 
 owner of my hefd place, the parish preest, and the Seynt , Marie 
 preest to chese oon of the parysh such as wyl do it for the same 
 money, tyl such a sexteyn be in the office that wil undyrtake to 
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 ANGELUS BELL. ^ 
 
 anothir, for his wagys be but smale, so he wil vndlrtake to do it 
 and not fayle." And having made provision for the repair of 
 the chimes, he wills " the seid chymes to goo also at the avees, 
 at the complyn eche Satirday, Sunday and hooly day thowrgh- 
 out the yeer." 
 
 These chime-barrels seem to have been no novelty in the 
 middle of the fifteenth century. 
 
 The Angelus or Gabriel bell appears to have varied in use 
 from time to time. Polydore Vergil, writing from Urbino in 
 1499, attributes its origin to Pope John XXII. (1316 — 34), who 
 ordained that thrice every day at evening time bells should be 
 rung, and that then each should thrice recite the Angelic Salur 
 tation to the Holy Virgin. He adds that the institution became 
 so permanent that it was in use in every nation to his day, so 
 that as soon as the sound of the bell was heard all forthwith 
 bent the knee and prayed. Another name for it was the Ave 
 bell, from the first word of the Salutation. In 1399 Archbishop 
 Arundel issued a mandate that at early dawn one Pater and 
 five Aves should be said. Thus arose the morning Angehis, 
 distinguished in Italy at the present day as Ave Maria dell' 
 Aurora from the older Ave Maria della Sera. 
 
 The well-known Jewish practice of the noon-tide prayer 
 induced a Meridian Angelus on the Continent, but it does not 
 seem to have come into England, though in some parts a mid- 
 day bell is rung. At first any bell would be used, but the 
 prevalence of the Salutation and of the name of Gabriel on 
 some bells seems to indicate that the bell so inscribed was used 
 for the special purpose. But that which we have treated of as 
 the Sance bell, may have been also used. "A gabryell, weigh- 
 ing 100 lbs." is mentioned, as at Blickling, Norfolk, in the 
 returns of 1553, and there would hardly have been two bells 
 of this size in a church. Donors of such bells were desirous 
 of having themselves remembered in prayer. Thus John 
 Alcock, Bishop of Ely,* in 1490, consecrated one large bell 
 at Gamlingay, in Cambridgeshire, and granted forty days' indul- 
 
 * Founder of Jesus College, Cambridge.
 
 88 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 gence to all truly penitent, who at the sound of the great bell 
 shall say five Paternosters and five Saint. Angel, for the good 
 state of the Catholic Church, for the Bishop consecrating, the 
 King, the Queen, and all the souls of the faithful departed this 
 life ; and to all who, at the sound of the little bell, shall say five 
 Saint. Angel, ad clans, adjunct. "God have mercy of John, 
 Bishop of Ely, that hallowede the alters and bells aforesaid, 
 either seting, standing, lyeing, or kneeling."* 
 
 Though the Curfew bell, of which there are traces before the 
 Norman Conquest, ceased to have legal sanction in the reign of 
 Henry I,, there are abundant traces of it all along the years to 
 the present time. It served some useful purpose, and so it 
 survived. At Bury it saved the life of John Perfay, draper, who 
 was not forgetful of the incident, as appears in his will, dated 
 1 509. " I wole that my close which ys holdyn by copy off my 
 lord abbot of Bury Seynt Edmund, and y^ which I purchasyd 
 of Thomas Russell gentylma, my lord payde the residue, I gyve 
 toward y® ryngers charge off the gret belle in Seynt Mary 
 Churche, callyd corfew belle," 
 
 The original of this bequest is thus related by Mr. Gage 
 Rokewodef : — " John Perfey, tenant of the manor of Fornham 
 All Saints, is said to have lost his way in returning from the 
 court to Bury, and to have recovered himself from a perilous 
 situation by accident, by hearing the striking of the clock or 
 bell ^X S. Mary's, Bury. This circumstance, if we are to believe 
 a tale not uncommon, led to his devising certain pieces of land, 
 which took the name of Bell Meadow, parcel of the manor of 
 Fornham All Saints, to the churchwardens of S. Mary's, in 
 order that the bell might be tolled in summer regularly at four 
 o'clock in the morning and nine in the evening ; and in winter 
 at six in the morning and eight at night." 
 
 Mr. Gage Rokewode is very likely right in thinking that one 
 purpose of this endowment was to excite the people to repeat 
 the Angelus. 
 
 Two instances known to me remain of the "Jack o' th' 
 
 * Gent. Mag., vol. Ixxiii., p. 174. 
 t History of Hengrave, p. 1 1.
 
 JACK O' TH' clock. 
 
 89 
 
 Clock," at Southwold (fig. 80), and at Blythburgh. I conjecture 
 that they date back to the earlier part of the sixteenth century. 
 There are many others, of a later period, up and down the 
 country. 
 
 Fig. 80. 
 
 By Shakespeare's time they were " household words," put by 
 him into the mouth of Richard II., who says, 
 
 " My time 
 Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy, 
 While I stand fooling here, his Jack o' th' Clock."* 
 
 In Lacroix's Les Arts du Moyen ^^^f (Paris, 1869), is an 
 account of the celebrated clock brought by one of the Dukes of 
 Burgundy, from Courtray to Dijon, which has two figures, a 
 man and a woman, who strike the hours from one to twenty- 
 four. The name Jacquemart has been usually given to these 
 figures, and a question has arisen as to the origin of the name, 
 which has probably given rise to "Jack o' th' Clock." One 
 derivation \wd,?,jacco inarcJiiardus, a Low-latin word for a coat of 
 mail {jacqiie de viaillcs). But a more probable derivation is 
 from a clock-maker, Jacques Marck, or Jacquemart. There was 
 such a man at Lille in 1422, who seems to have been a grandson 
 of one of the same name, living at Courtray in 1360. 
 
 * Shakespeare's Richard 11. , Act v., Sc. 5. See also Coriolamis, Act. v., So. 2. 
 + Pp. 179, 180. 
 
 M
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The Reformation — Number of Church bells then in Suffolk — Spoliation — 
 Restoration — Stephen Tonni of Bury, and his man William Land — Their work 
 at Long Melford — Death of Julian Tonney the weaver — Bury foundry goes 
 to Thetford — Founders dining at Wattisfield — Thomas Draper, Mayor of 
 Thetford — The Brends of Norwich — Dier's bell at Clare — Topsel's at Crat- 
 field — Richard Bowler — The Thorington bell and a reminiscence of Kett's 
 rebellion — Aldgate gun-founding again. 
 
 My last chapter will prepare the reader to expect some 
 account of the fate of our Church bells during the Reformation. 
 
 Under the court of Augmentation, established in 1536, in 
 view of the Dissolution, Commissioners were appointed for the 
 reception of the goods and chattels of the smaller priories. 
 Inventories were taken, and those for S. Olave's, Flixton, 
 Ipswich (Priory of the Holy Trinity), Redlingfield, Blythburgh, 
 Letheringham, Leyston, Eye, Ixworth, and Campsey remain in 
 the Record Office.* No bells occur in any of these. There 
 must have been similar inventories for the larger houses after- 
 wards, but I know nothing about them. 
 
 Early in the reign of Edward VI. enquiries were set on foot 
 with respect to plate, jewels, bells, and other ornaments belong- 
 ing to the parish churches, which in some parts of the country, 
 especially in Kent, had been embezzled by the churchwardens 
 and others. By whom certificates were demanded from the 
 Suffolk churchwardens does not appear. The volume contain- 
 ing them is 510 of the "Miscellaneous Books" of the Augmen- 
 tation office, containing 179 certificates from Essex and Suffolk. 
 
 * Bundle 1393, File 136, No. i. The date of the earliest, S. Olave's, is 20 Aug., 
 1536, and the Commissioners were Sir Humphrey Wingfield, Richard Southwell, 
 and Thomas Mild may. William Dale was the Prior.
 
 PLUNDER. pr 
 
 The Suffolk certificates are dated early in November, I547, 
 whereas the letter of the Privy Council to Cranmer, charging 
 him to prohibit alienation, bears date the last day of April, 
 1548* 
 
 The labours of Mr. J. J. Muskett, by which that most useful 
 publication, the East Anglian, has been enriched with these 
 records, have been used by me ; and I desire here to return my 
 best thanks to him, and to another valued friend, the editor, the 
 Rev. C. H. Evelyn White, whom the county would gladly 
 welcome again. 
 
 Plate went wholesale, and that these prohibitions were needed 
 as to bells, is clear from the sales which had taken place at 
 Belstead, Chelmondiston, and Lound, while the men of Aldring- 
 ham made return that "all ornamets, playt, and belles belongyng 
 to ow"" cherche ar fore to sell." Robert Thurston and Edmund 
 ffeavyear, churchwardens of Rendham, strong in their honesty, 
 fear neither Commissioners nor any one else, and stoutly reply, 
 " For y^ ornaments and y^ Bells we haue solde non as we wuU 
 answere." "j peyer of hand bells" was sold at Darsham for 
 ijj-. \\\)d. In the great majority of instances nothing is said about 
 the bells. So far as one can judge from these relics of the 
 certificates of 1547, and the state of things in 1553, there had 
 been no general robbery of bells. In one parish, Ilketshall S. 
 Andrew, the money from the chalices went to the bells. 
 
 On March 3rd, 1553, another Commission was issued, the 
 Commissioners being Thomas Lord Darcye of Cheche, Thomas 
 Lord Wentworth, John Jernegan, William Waldegrave, and 
 Thomas Cornwaleys, Knights, Owen Hopton and Christopher 
 Goldyngham. They did not ask for returns, but summoned the 
 churchwardens of each parish before them. The original sum- 
 mons remains in Bedingfield Church chest, and runs thus : — 
 
 "These shal be by vertue of a precepte dyrected unto me and others ffrom 
 the Ryght Wurshyfull Thomas lord Wentworthe Wyllyam Walgrave John 
 Jernynghm and Thomas Cornwaleys Knyghtes Owen hopton and cfofer 
 Goldynghm Esquyers the Kynge Maties Comyssyoners To Wyll you and 
 
 * Strype's Cranmer iY.. II. S.), 11., 90.
 
 92 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 neverthelesse in the Kynge Maties name straightely to charge and comaunde 
 you That ye fayle not psonallye to appere before the Kynge ma''es sayde 
 Comyssyoners at Ypswych the secounde daye of maye next ensuenge before 
 ix of the clocke. And that ye brynge before them (All excuses sett ap'te) 
 All and everye suche p'cell of plate Jewells metall or other ornamente (what- 
 soever they be) belongynge to yo^ churche chapell Guylde Brotherheede 
 ffraternytyes or copanyes as doe Reniayne in y custodye or of eny other 
 psonne or psonnes to y knowledge to the uses aforesayd as yow wyll answere 
 upon othe The grete Belles and Saunce Belles in the Steples only excepte. 
 ffrom Brundysshe in Suff the xxvijthe of Aprylle A^ 1553 
 
 By me Roger Wade " 
 Endorsed 
 
 " To the Churchwardens of the townshyppe of Bedyngfelde 
 
 Geve these."* 
 
 The Commissioners' book is in a perfect condition. The 
 entries show nothing but chalices and bells, one of the former 
 generally remaining to each parish. There were 1,669 great 
 bells, and 85 " Sancts " bells in the county, without Ipswich, 
 which formed the subject of a separate report, and Thetford S. 
 Mary's, which no doubt appeared in Norfolk. The Ipswich 
 Inventories, which are very full, show a total of 52 large bells 
 and 6 Sanctus.f The grand total for the county was therefore 
 1,812. At the present day, excluding the six at Thetford S. 
 Mary's, and the metal of the recently melted four at Ilketshall 
 S. Andrew's, there are 1,864 Church bells in Suffolk ; and in 
 w^eight of metal we have, of course, a great advantage. In the 
 towns and larger villages there has been a gain which more than 
 counterbalances the loss in cutting down the pretty little threes 
 in the smaller villages. 
 
 But the Commissioners' 1,812 is rather under the mark for 
 such a date as 1520, I should say, for though we can point to an 
 increase in some places, there had been a decrease from depre- 
 dation in others, and in one instance for certain the Commis- 
 sioners did not receive a full report. 
 
 A very suggestive case of depredation is that in the parish of 
 
 * East Anglian, New Series, IL, 346. Communicated by the Rev. J. W. 
 Millard, Shimpling Rectory, Scole. 
 
 + The Commissioners' total is 51, but the figures give a total of 52.
 
 A SLIGHT MISTAKE. 93; 
 
 Woolverstone. In the thirty-eight year of Henry VIII., Phih'p 
 Wolferston, Esq., of that place, sold two bells and two vestments 
 belonging to the parish church. When the Commissioners of 
 1553 were making their enquiries, this transaction came to light 
 and the loss to the parish was reported to be ;^20. Wolferston 
 took the course of bringing in a certificate stating that the bells 
 were not worth £^, that the vestments were of small value, and 
 that he had taken them " supposing the sayd churche to be hys 
 owne chapell."* 
 
 His name appears foremost in the catalogue of those who 
 who were bound by their recognizances to appear and answer 
 their several debts. 
 
 " philipp Wolverston, Gentilman, xx/£ 
 Robt Wynkfeld of Branthm, Gentilman, xxx//. 
 fifrauncis Sone of Wantisden, gentilman, 
 
 iiij//. xiijj-. iiijV. 
 [the xxith of June, ffrauncis Noone of Martlishfn, vli. 
 1553. paid.] Nicolas Bramston of Chelmeton, yeoman, 
 
 xiij'//. \\]d. 
 
 Jeffery Blower, Symond Maddocke, William 
 
 Harrison, and William dennaunt of debbenh^m, 
 
 yeomen, x//." 
 
 By the side is written... hath brought in a testimonyall seelyd 
 
 and subscrybyd...to,.,payd the xxj'^ of June, 1553. 
 
 The seals and subscriptions are gone from the " testimonial " 
 presented to Wolferston in recognition of his little mistake as 
 to the ownership of the church, but the words just quoted 
 appear to refer to that veracious document. As the Commis- 
 sioners made remissions in the case of certain " pore men," 
 which remissions were noted in a "p'ticulr boke " in the custody 
 of Sir Richard Cotton, Comptroller of the Household, we cannot 
 say whether these delinquents paid up in full, after the example 
 of Noone of Martlesham. That parish, with Wantisden and 
 Debenham, will appear not to have suffered in bell metal. 
 Chelmondiston acknowledges to have sold an old broken bell to 
 the value of xxji-. \i\]d. 
 
 * The certificate may be read in full in the East Ajig'iaii, New Series, III., 1 12.
 
 94 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Brantham seems a bad case. ;£'30 is a lot of money, and 
 there was only one bell therein 1553. Robert Wingfield (son 
 of the Commissioner of 1536, Humphrey Wingfield), who had 
 married the heiress of Sir John Pargeter, Lord Mayor of 
 London, is absolutely without excuse. The parishes do not 
 seem to have taken benefit from these fines. 
 
 I have said that in one instance certainly the Commissioners 
 did not receive a full report. That instance is Brockley, which 
 is returned as having one bell, whereas three of Jordan's hang 
 now in the tower, without doubt the same which hung there in 
 
 1553- 
 
 Perhaps the men of Brockley feared that what had been done 
 in the disturbances of 1549 might be attempted in Suffolk, and 
 only one bell of the smallest size left for their church,* and for 
 that reason concealed the true number, relying not vainly on 
 their sequestered position. 
 
 It must not be supposed that Suffolk is peculiar in these 
 respects. We will take an instance from Northamptonshire, in 
 which county "the towneshipp of Soulgrave...sold before the 
 fyrst Inventory was taken and maid by John Humfrey and 
 John Mayo, Churchewardens there one bell unto Thomas 
 Stuttesbury and Lawrence Wasshyngton,-|* gent' of the same 
 towne for xvj//. whereof vj//. is delyvyd to the I nhy taunts of the 
 same towne And is bestowed uppon the highe wayes and ford^ 
 
 "And their intent is to bestowe all the rest so," etc.| 
 
 We have already heard of Stephen Tonni, A gap of fifteen 
 years separates the name found at Stanstead, Suffolk, from that 
 on the bell at Reepham, Norfolk, which first bears the name of 
 Bury S. Edmund's : — 
 
 BSATI QUI HABITAT (sic) m DOmO TUA DOmillG. 
 
 (Blessed are they who dwell in Thy house. Psalm Ixxxiv. 
 (Ixxxiii. vulg.), 5). 
 
 DG BYI\I SAnTG GDmOHDG STGEAHYS TOIini mG 
 BGGIT. 1559. 
 
 * Froude, H. E., V. 186. 
 
 f Ancestor of the first American President. See Henry F. Waters's Ancestry of 
 Washington, 1889. 
 X Noytli's C. B. of Northamptonshire, p. 412.
 
 STEPHEN TONNI. 
 
 95 
 
 I am not to decide on the identity of the two Stephens. The 
 latest date of the name is 1587, which would give a range of 
 forty-three years, a good long spell, but nothing incredible. 
 This Reepham bell bears the seal of the cloth subsidy for the 
 county of Suffolk, which may be applied to the history of Roger 
 Reve, "clothear," and a representation of the Crucifixion. 
 Neither of these occur again. His usual marks are the crown 
 and arrows, indicative of the borough (fig. 81), and a flleur-de-lis, 
 perhaps with reference to his French origin (fig. 82). 
 
 Fig. 81. 
 
 Fig. 82. 
 
 1560. 
 11562. 
 ti564. 
 
 As his are the first bells which bear the name of a Suffolk 
 town, I will take them in order of date. I know of none out of 
 East Anglia. The Norfolk and Cambridgeshire bells are in 
 italics, and those -now recast have a dagger (-f-) prefixed to 
 them : — 
 
 Stanton, All Saints, fourth, 
 Helmingham, tenor, 
 Cockfield, tenor, 
 „ StctcJiivoj'th, tenor. 
 The inscription on the Cockfield tenor was given me by 
 Flanders Green, who set me bell-hunting more than forty years 
 ago, an enthusiastic bell-hanger : — 
 
 mADG CITYS ItGCTYm EYGG, mODEtCm DISCYTG 
 
 somnYm, TGmPDYm APPi\opinQYGS, gt ygdgi^ai^g 
 
 DGYm. 
 
 It may be compared with the short admonition to rise early, 
 on the Stoke-by-Clare clock-bell. 
 1566. Hargrave, tenor,
 
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 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
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 1572. 
 
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 Kettlebaston, third, 
 
 Stanningfield, third, 
 
 Troston, treble, 
 
 Stradishall, third, 
 
 Chediston, tenor, 
 
 Fakenham, Great, second, 
 
 Gedding, the two bells, 
 
 Haughley, four lower bells, 
 
 Letheringham bell, 
 
 Somerton, second, 
 
 Sternfield, tenor, 
 
 Ubbeston, tenor, 
 
 Glemham, Little, second, 
 
 Mendlcsham, tenor, a fine bell, reputed to weigh 
 
 24 cwt., 
 Whatfield, second, 
 Bradley, Great, second, 
 Kersey, third, 
 Ottley, tenor, 
 Petistree tenor, 
 Sudbury, All Saints, tenor, the counterpart of the 
 
 Mendlesham tenor, 
 Walsham-le- Willows, fourth, 
 Cavibridge, S. Edimmd,fou7'th^ 
 LandbeacJi, tJiird, 
 
 Wilbraham, Little, treble and second. 
 Winch, West, treble, 
 Rede, treble, 
 Somerton, treble, 
 
 Newmarket, S. Mary, second and third, 
 Levington, tenor, 
 Elmswell, second, 
 OxburgJi, third, 
 Wicken, fourth, 
 Monewden, treble. 
 Rede, second, 
 Barham, tenor.
 
 JULIAN TONNEYE, WEAVER. 97 
 
 The bells on this list marked ^ bear the initials W. Ir., 
 thought with great probability to be those of William Land, 
 Stephen Tonni's foreman, of whom more hereafter. Whatfield 
 second also bears those of Thomas Draper. 
 
 It is a strange thing that we cannot find the will of this 
 active and successful bell-founder, but perhaps (like Briant of 
 Hertford) his labours were more useful to others than profitable 
 to himself. Beyond what is found on his bells, the only 
 glimpses we gain of him are derived from the Long Melford and 
 Wattisfield Parish Books, and from the will of his brother 
 Julian. In the former document, 1582 — 1584, Hugh Isacke 
 being then Churchwarden, may be read. 
 
 *" For takeinge downe the broken Belle vs. 
 
 For carryinge the broken Belle to Burye vs. 
 
 For helpe to loade it ijV/. 
 
 For layde out at Burye for wayinge the belle viijc/. 
 
 Two jorneys to Burye xvjV. 
 
 For makinge the wrytinge between the Church- 
 wardens and the Bell-founder i}d. 
 To the Bell-founder for castinge of the belle 
 
 and metalle iij//. xiiijj-. ijV. 
 
 For hangeinge the belle xjs. viijV." 
 
 And now we stand by the death-bed of Julian Tonney, 
 weaver. It is the 9th of February, 1583. "Julian Tonneye of 
 Bury S' Edmonde in the countye of Suff., weaver, being of good 
 and p'fect remembraunce (thankes be unto God) did speake 
 theise words in manner as followeth, I geve and bequeath unto 
 Stephen Tonney my brother all those my goods, chattells, 
 moveables, and howsholde stuffe, under what manner of kynde 
 soever they be, fownder to paye my debtes so far as they will 
 extend unto, in the p'sence of these men underwritten, John 
 Sterne, Robert Smyth, Williri Longe, John Barrett, John 
 Beacher, Thomas Tonney." 
 
 Poor Julian did not regard his estate with much confidence. 
 He must have died very soon after making this nuncupative 
 
 • Kindly sent me by Mr. Percy C. L. Scott, Hall Mills, Long Melford. 
 
 N
 
 98 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 will, for on the 12th of February, Dr. Deye, Commissary and 
 Official of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, granted letters of 
 administration to Stephen Tonni, as no executors had been 
 named by the deceased. The Thomas Tonney here mentioned 
 did not follow his father's trade, nor did William Land do much 
 on his own account. 
 
 I cannot say how we first found the latter name, though it 
 seems familiar enough to me. The original " Wylliam Lawnd," 
 in 1548 — 9, appears in one of those dealings in old metal for 
 which that remarkable time is eminent. The Churchwardens of 
 the Parish of " Mary Maudelen in Barmondesey" note 
 
 " Item sold more by them a crose of copper and other olde 
 mettyll of lattyn to Wylliam Lawnd weying xlvj pound pryce 
 the pound i'ujd. somme xvs. iiijV."* 
 
 Possibly he was father to the W. L., whose initials we have 
 seen on Stephen Tonni's bells as early as 1572. This later 
 W. L, cast the tenor at Brettcnham in 1574. He made an 
 excursion to Halstead in Essex in 1575, for which church, in 
 conjunction with Thomas Draper, he cast the fine tenor now 
 in that tower, a very grand bell, said to weigh 25 cwt. It is 
 marked with a crown and clipped arrows (fig. 82,), as though 
 
 Fig- S3. 
 
 to mark some past connection with Tonne, but its motto is 
 also on the Whatfield tenor of the same year, which bears the 
 initials of all three founders : — 
 
 Omnia Jovam laudant animantia. 
 
 We have this combination of W. L. and T. D. at Wiston in 
 1574, and at Wattisfield in 1584, where on the fourth appears 
 the following quaint couplet, the words separated by a fleur-de- 
 
 * Sitrrev Inventories, by J. R. Daniel-Tyssen, p. 98.
 
 A DINNER AT WATTISFIELD. 
 
 99 
 
 lis In a lozenge, (fig. 84) to distinguish it from Tonni's fleur-de- 
 lis in an oblong, 
 
 ■HTIt TD in THG I^AYnG 
 
 OB QYGne GIrSGBGTH BIS XIII. 
 
 Fig. 84. 
 
 The Wattisfield folk had foundry dealings with Bury in 1578, 
 as we find from their book, but this job was carried out at 
 Thetford. The detail is very graphic : — 
 
 " Itm. the belfounders dyd dyne, thre of them xd." 
 
 Very suggestive of Tonni being with Land and Draper on 
 this occasion. Perhaps as senior man he consumed the extra 
 penn'orth. Perhaps also the poetry as above was post-prandial. 
 It must have involved a great effort. 
 
 " Itm the belfounders hade for earnest for the bell vi". 
 Itm layd out to the belfounders men when the 
 
 bell was felt (sic.) injd. 
 
 Itm. layd out to father Smyth for the bell hangen xv^. 
 
 and for the bell caryenge and recaryenge iiiji". 
 
 and for bordynge of four men one daye iji". 
 
 and for bordynge of two men one daye xijd. 
 
 and for one man's wages one daye iiijV. 
 
 and for fetching of father Smyth's gear at Reck- 
 
 ynghal to wynd up the bell ijd. 
 
 Itm. layd out for eyornes for the bell viiijV. 
 
 Itm. layd out at fetfor (Thetford) to the bel- 
 
 founder at or ladyes day xxxiiji". iiijV.
 
 100 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Itm. for caryenge of a lode of wode to fetfor to 
 
 U}S. 
 
 the belfounder 
 and for fellyng and makyng of the wood 
 Itm. layd out for the bell clapper 
 Itm. The belfounders dyd dyne at Nycolas Lockes 
 
 and thear dyner cam to 
 Itm. Layd out to John Boulton for whyt lether to 
 
 mend the belles 
 Itm. layd out for half a hundred bord, and thear 
 ar xiij to the half hundred lynge upon the 
 steple to mend the belles wheeles 
 Land's initials occur for the last time on a bell of Stephen 
 Tonni's at Barham in 1587. 
 
 Another William Land, possibly his son, turns up at Crayford, 
 Kent, 161 5, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, 1619, and Wilmington, 
 Kent, 1636. He was a Houndsditch man, and at Stapleford, 
 Cambridgeshire (1622), his initials occur with those of Thomas 
 Draper's son John. In 1624 he cast the "Silver Bell," at S. 
 John's College, Cambridge, and probably in that town, as there 
 is no charge for carriage. 
 
 vd. 
 
 viijV. 
 \]d. 
 
 Fig. SS. 
 
 Thomas Draper had moved on permanently to Thetford by 
 1588 at any rate, wdien he cast there the sixth for Redenhall, 
 esteemed by some the finest bell of that grand eight. It is 
 remarkable that in the same year he cast a small bell for 
 Hutton-in-the-Forest, Cumberland. He has left us but five 
 bells in Suffolk : — 
 
 1584. Ashbocking, second, with a peculiar fleur-de-lis (fig. 85), 
 
 1 591. Tuddenham, S. Mary's, third, 
 „ Sapiston, third.
 
 THOMAS DRAPER, MAYOR OF THETFORD. 10 1 
 
 1593. Stradishall, tenor, 
 
 1594. Yaxley, tenor. 
 
 His health was evidently failing by this time, and he died in 
 1595. Municipal honours in his case were accompanied with 
 heavy cares. There was a turbulent burgess in Thetford named 
 Roger Herbert, who had to be expelled from the " twentieship " 
 for divers heinous offences, " first, he gevcth not his money 
 towards the maiors diet ; he opposeth him selfe against the 
 maior and his companie in repugninge against the constitunes 
 and orders of the Touaic made, etc., viz., made for hogges*, for 
 making rescues against the Serjeant Harington in arestinge 
 him, he Cometh to no assemblie of longe tyme, he defraude men 
 of their money and paye not his detts to the discredit of the 
 towne, and for div'se and sondrie other causes, he misused the 
 maior and burgesses in bad names, in calling Mr. Asteley 
 splittershankes, and some other of the companie cadowes-|- and 
 p'ticadowes^ and Churles meaninge churle by Mr. Sheringe." 
 This expulsion is signed Rich. Asteley John Buxton. 
 
 " Mr. Drap t Maior his m'ke John Goldyngham 
 
 Anthonie Frere." 
 
 We can only trust that the newly-chosen member of the 
 Thetford " twentie " refrained from reflecting on the slenderness 
 of Mr. Richard Asteley's legs, and the loquacity with which Mr. 
 John Goldyngham, Mr. Anthonie Frere, Mr. John Buxton, and 
 even his Worship Mr. Thomas Draper may have been affected. 
 Thomas Draper's last mark in the records of the borough is on 
 May 8th, 1595, in a very trembling hand. His will, proved July 
 9th in that year, mentions his messuage in S. Cuthbert's parish, 
 his wife Margaret, and his sons Thomas, Edmonde, John, Henrye, 
 Richard, and William. Of these the first and third followed 
 their fathers calling. The eldest son was in business before his 
 father's death, the old fourth at Hepworth, before being recast 
 in 1825, having borne the inscription : — 
 
 Thomas Draper the younger made me 1 593-11 
 
 * No doubt analogous to those at Ipswich. 
 
 t Jackdaws. 
 
 t Magpies? 
 
 II MSS. Davy in loc.
 
 102 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 No bell of his seems now to remain, the second at Cranworth, 
 Norfolk, dated 1598, which I saw in 1850, having been recast in 
 1853. His domestic relations were not very happy, as he was 
 returned in the Episcopal Visitation for Norwich Diocese in 
 1597 "for that he keepeth not with his wife, but remaineth 
 wtii his mother, and so have contynewed a quarter of a yeare 
 nowe laste past." 
 
 I will postpone the larger subject of the third son, John, and 
 leave for a time the Bury and Thetford work with the mention 
 of Thomas Andrew, who used Stephen Tonni's well-known 
 marks. From him we have 
 
 Carlton, S. Peter's, four bells, 
 
 Nedging, treble, all dated 1 598 ; to which might have been 
 added the Naughton second, now gone, dated 1599. 
 
 The Norwich Elizabethan bells, from members of the Brend 
 family, form a considerable group : — 
 
 1567. I. B., Stradbroke sixth (the figure 6 is inverted), 
 
 1568. I. B., Metfield treble, 
 
 „ No initials, Little Ashfield second, inscribed Charoli 
 
 Framlingham Militis, 
 „ No initials, Horham, tenor, 
 
 1 581. I. B., Elmham, South, S. James's, tenor, 
 
 1582. No initials of founder, Hacheston, tenor. 
 
 As John Brend the elder died on the 29th or 30th of July, 
 in that year, and was buried on the 31st of July, "greatly 
 indetted to diu'se men in diu'se somes of money," these are the 
 only Suffolkers in which he had a hand. The Horham bell 
 was probably made by him in conjunction with a brother 
 Robert. The works were in S. Stephen's parish, no doubt on 
 the site of the great mediaeval foundry. His lettering is large 
 and clumsy, and the arable numerals very niisleading. William 
 Brend, his son, removed the foundry into All Saints' parish. 
 From him we have : — 
 
 1583. Framlingham, sixth, 
 1590. Farnham, treble, 
 1592. Dallinghoo, treble, 
 
 „ Kettleburgh, tenor.
 
 HENRY TOPSEL'S BELL AT CRATFIELD. 103 
 
 1592. Monewden, tenor, 
 
 1593- Cookley, tenor, 
 
 „ Cratfield, tenor, 
 
 1596. Elmham, South, S. Margaret, tenor, 
 
 1597. Ellough, tenor, 
 
 1598. Fritton bell, 
 
 1599. Glemham, Great, fourth, 
 
 with a large number of others, which we will treat of under the 
 the next century. His 1592 bells are crowded with initials of 
 subscribers or parishioners, notable by those who are reviving 
 the records of their parishes. 
 
 One bell, the sixth at Clare, is by John Dier, an old acquaint- 
 ance of mine, whom I unearthed at Maulden, Bedfordshire, in 
 1852, and subsequently at Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, in 
 1855. I am sorry to add that this prolonged intimacy has not 
 resulted in knowledge of his locality or operations. This Clare 
 bell, dated 1579, is his earliest known. In the following year 
 he cast a bell for Broomfield, Essex, and in 1583, the bell for 
 Arrington, Cambridgeshire. There are ten bells of his in 
 Bedfordshire and eleven in Hertfordshire. His latest date is 
 1597, and he uses sometimes a pentacle in conjunction with 
 other small trade-marks. 
 
 Another solitary bell, though hanging in good compan}', is 
 the fourth at Cratfield, the work of Henry Topsel, in 1585, in 
 which year he also made a bell for Hedenham, Norfolk. This 
 the parish sold to Kirby Bedon, when the Hedenham four were 
 run into six in 1838, and it still hangs in Kirby Bedon tower, 
 bearing " Hednam " on it. This placing the name of the parish 
 on a bell is unfortunately a very rare occurrence. " Cratfeld " is 
 on that fourth, and let us hope that it will never show the name 
 in any other tower. The initials I\. T., for Roger, the son of 
 Henry, are found on both these East Anglian bells. These 
 artificers are elsewhere unknown save in Sussex, where they 
 turn up, working at West Tarring, after an interval of fourteen 
 years. The initials H. T. appear on the second at Bury, 
 Sussex, in 1599, and the names of Henry and Roger on the 
 tenor at Felpham in the following year. " Henry Tapsell, the
 
 I04 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 elder," was buried at West Tarring, October 5th, 1604. Roger 
 went on with his Sussex work some thirty years afterwards. 
 Their bells are of no surpassing excellence. The surname is 
 curious, as denoting a nautical origin. 
 
 A far better artificer is Richard Bowler, whom all agree in 
 placing at Colchester, though there is nothing but tradition for 
 it. We have fourteen bells of his in Suffolk : — 
 
 1589. Stratford, S. Mary, fifth, 
 
 1 591. Bergholt, East, priest's bell, 
 „ Cornard, Little, fourth, 
 
 1592. Wenham, Great, tenor, 
 1598. Cookley, treble, 
 
 „ IlketsJiall, S. Andreiu, tenor (melted in the fire of 1889), 
 
 1600. Greeting, S. Peter, treble, 
 „ Depden, tenor, 
 
 „ Freston bell, 
 
 1 60 1. Bergholt, East, third, 
 „ Campsey Ash, tenor, 
 
 Wickham Market, fifth, 
 
 1603. Lavenham, fourth and sixth, 
 „ Withersfield, second. 
 
 His lettering is generally of a bold Roman type, resembling 
 that of the first ]\Iiles Graye, the prince of founders, who is 
 supposed to have learned his business under Bowler. At 
 Waltham, Essex, is a bell of his with Richard Holdfeld's mark, 
 an unusual combination. There are two of his bells in Cam- 
 bridgeshire, but none in Norfolk, or further north, west or south, 
 to the best of my knowledge. An Augustine Bowler turns up 
 in Lincolnshire twenty or thirty years later than our Richard, 
 but we know little about him. 
 
 And now, for the last time I regret to say, we are brought 
 into touch with the gun-founders. The bell at Thorington bears 
 in shallow black letter, with a pentacle at the beginning, a stop, 
 and consisting of one lozenge over another, a la John Dier and 
 the Clarkes, the inscription, 
 
 5amtocll ©toen itTalic §ei,z foe toanstfli. 1506. 
 
 The Owens of Houndsditch were a great gun-making family.
 
 "THESE VILE GUNS." IO5 
 
 and some idea of John Owen, the first known of the name, and 
 his relations to two who bore the name of Samuel, may be 
 gleaned from his will. We all remember Shakespeare's fop, and 
 his objection to gunpowder. This fabricator of the King's 
 ordnance does not seem to have loved it too well. He is called 
 to a disagreeable service. Kett and his fellows have exchanged 
 their camp on Mousehold heath, around the oak of Reformation, 
 for an occupation of Norwich. Lord Sheffield is killed, and 
 Norwich knows the place of his death to this day. Sir Thomas 
 Cornwallis is a prisoner. Parr, Marquis of Northampton, late in 
 command, has fallen back on Cambridge, and John Dudley, 
 then Earl of Warwick, better known as the Duke of Northum- 
 berland, Lady Jane Grey's father-in-law, is summoned to take 
 his place. The rebels have guns, and Owen, called to Warwick's 
 side, makes his will : — 
 
 " In the name of God, Amen. The xij'^ daye of August 
 Anno din MVXLix. I John Owyn of London (and one of the 
 kinge's founders of his ordynance) hole in bodye and in p'fte 
 memorie, being sent into Norfolke ageynst the Rebles at 
 Norwich, make this my last will and testament in maner 
 and forme following, that is to saye, I bequeathe my bodye 
 and soule into the keping of the lyvinge god who sees all 
 things. 
 
 " I give and bequeathe unto Anne Chainley als Rainse fyftie 
 pounds that she owith me without specialtie, and for the four- 
 score pounds I will that after my death she have the occupying 
 of the said ui]//. for foure years, putting in suerties for the pay- 
 ment thereof withoute intereste. 
 
 " I give and bequeathe to my syster Alice twentie poundes, 
 to the poore people and presoners fourtie poundes. And I 
 bequeathe to a childe that is none of myne although yt is named 
 of me (and as a bill of rekenyng hereto annexed more playnlye 
 shall declare) the whiche is at norsse in sowth meiiles, whose 
 name is Samuell fourtie pounds, unto Samuell my brother 
 Robert sonne I give twentie pounds, to Jones tenne pounds, to 
 Susan fyve pounds. 
 
 " The rest of my goodes, cattell, moveables and immoveables, 
 
 o
 
 I06 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 debts, vvt all other things I give and bequeathe to my brother 
 Robert whom I make my soole executour, to Robert Eyer I 
 bequeath fyve pounds. In the thirde yere of Edwarde the 
 sixte by the grace of god Kinge of England, Fraunce, and 
 Ireland, defender of the faith, and of the churche of England 
 and Irclande the supreme head. 
 
 " Wrytten in hast with my owne hande the yere and daye 
 above said by me, John Owen."* 
 
 I make no apology for transcribing this in full. It is worth 
 record on historical and religious accounts, as well for its con- 
 nection with our special subject. 
 
 John Owen, however, came back from Norwich, and lived to 
 the following year, when his brother Robert made his renun- 
 ciation of the executorship, and the widow Anne, unmentioned 
 in the will, took out letters of administration on the 25th of 
 August. 
 
 To which of the Samuels of 1549, the unhappy nurseling, or 
 the acknowledged son of Robert, we may refer the Thorington 
 bell of 1596, is uncertain. Among the Bronze Ordnance in the 
 Rotunda, Woolwich, are three guns (nos. 4, 8, and 9 in the 
 Official Catalogue) by members of this family. Of the three, 
 one is by John and Robert, a brass saker, dated 1538, one by 
 John alone, a cannon royal, undated, but recovered from the 
 wreck of the Mary Rose, lost off Portsmouth in 1545, and a 
 sakeret on which may be read " Tomas Owen made this pese 
 for the YE'L of Garnse, vhan Sir Peter Mevtas vas Governor 
 and Captayn, Anno Din 1550." 
 
 How this Wanstead bell, the only Owen specimen remaining 
 this side of the county, came to Thorington, may be read in the 
 following memorandum on the second page of the earliest 
 Register : — 
 
 Memorandu yt ye Right worshipful! Edward Coke Esquier Attourny 
 Generall to the Oueenes most excellent maiestie and Bridgett his Wife did 
 Giue unto the Towneshippe of Thorington in June 1598 one Bell alone vppon 
 this condicion that neyther the Churchwardens nor any of the inhabitants of 
 
 * Compare Latimer's Sermons, Parker .S., p. 265.
 
 EDWARD COKE. 
 
 107 
 
 the said Towne should at any time after ye aforesaid Guift sell awaye the 
 said Bell but continve and maintayne the same for the callinge together 
 of the inhabitants of the said Towne to divine Service and other seemely 
 vses. In witnes whereof I Robert Golde minister of the said Towne of 
 Thorington have sett to my hand to this wrightinge the xxth day of Septem- 
 ber 1607. 
 
 Robert' Golde/^^ 
 
 * Kindly sent me by the Rev. T. S. Hill, Rector.
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 John Clarke, an itinerant, in Suffolk — Joseph Carter — Peter Hawkes — 
 The Bury founders in the days of the Stuarts — John Draper of Thetford — 
 The later Brends of Norwich — " Colchester Graye " and his works, inclu- 
 ding the Lavenham tenor — The siege of Colchester — Miles Graye's foundry 
 burnt — The Puritan rigime — Bunyari — Milton — Compulsory ringing — John 
 Darbie of Ipswich. 
 
 Before proceeding to the large blocks of bells which occupy- 
 that great campanarian period, the first half of the seventeenth 
 century, there arc three single specimens to be disposed of. 
 
 The second at Wrentham is the second earliest known (1606) 
 of a few bells, scattered about here and there, by John Clarke 
 (he spells his name at Wrentham without the "e"), who in his 
 pcntacle and shallow lettering resembles John Dier and Samuel 
 Owen. In the following year he cast a tiny treble for Cold 
 Brayficld, in the county of Buckingham. At Wormington, 
 Gloucestershire, and Rumboldswyke, Sussex, he appears un- 
 dated. I turned him up, pentacle and all, at Flitwick, Bedford- 
 shire, with the date 1608. In 1609 he cast the second at Eastry, 
 Kent, and in 161 3 the bell at Welney, Cambridgeshire. The 
 earliest known bell of his is the little tenor of three at Eastwick, 
 Hertfordshire, dated 1601. This seems a genuine case of itine- 
 rancy, and the poorness of the bells may account for it A 
 George Clarke cast a small ring of bells for Duxford S. Peter, 
 Cambridgeshire, in 1564, and a certificate (dated 1557) of the 
 weight of a bell from Wymondley Priory* shows that a bell- 
 founder named Clarke was living at Datchworth at the time. 
 
 * North and Stahlschmidi's C. B. of Hertfordshire, p. 32.
 
 MORE BELLS FROM BURY. 109 
 
 The parish register records the baptism of a John Clarke in 
 1575, probably the maker of the Wrentham bell. He is not our 
 only specimen of a proverbial rolling stone. 
 
 In 1609 Joseph Carter made the small bell at Great Fin- 
 borough. He originally started business at Reading, his earliest 
 date being 1579. Many bells of his and of his son-in-law, 
 William Yare, are found in Oxfordshire bearing the well-known 
 Norwich shield (fig. 50), but his best work seems to have been 
 three for Wittersham, Kent. He died in 1610, not unmindful 
 of his poor neighbours in Whitechapel.* 
 
 I wish I could say something about Peter Hawkes, who cast 
 the Poslingford tenor in 161 3. He is known in Essex, but not 
 elsewhere. At Birdbrook a bird, perhaps a hawk, is stamped on 
 one of his bells. 
 
 We will now take up the Bury bells, but the palmy days of 
 Tonni are over, and such as came forth from James Edbury, 
 John Driver, and Thomas Cheese, are not generally of a high 
 character. They bear for the most part Tonni's marks, and 
 sometimes a bit of arabesque border. These men sometimes 
 worked separately and sometimes together. To disentangle 
 them would be alike impossible and unprofitable, and I give the 
 list in order of time, putting recast bells in italics : — 
 
 1602. Rede, second (I. O-) 
 
 1603. Saxham, Little, tenor (T. C.) 
 „ Stiirstoii, old tenor [I- G.) 
 
 1604. Onehouse bell (I. G.) 
 
 1605. Sudbury, S. Peter, fourth (I. G.) 
 
 This was probably Edbury's greatest effort. 
 1608. Blythburgh bell (I. G.) 
 Charsfield, third (I. G.) 
 „ Cockfield, tenor (I. G.) 
 Shadingfield bell (I. G.) 
 1612. Eleigh, Brent, tenor (I. G.) 
 1614. Denham, S. John Baptist, bell (I. D.) 
 Friston, treble (I. D.) 
 „ Stowlangtoft, second (I. D.) 
 
 * Tyssen's C. B. of Sussex, p. 36. Stahlschmidt's C. B. of Kent, p. 92.
 
 no THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1 6 14. Thcberton, treble and second {\' G. I. D.) 
 Worlington, third {\. G. I. D.) 
 
 1615. Wickham Skeith, third (I. G. I. D.) 
 
 B. B. with them, and a host of parochial initials, 
 1618. Greeting, S. Peter, tenor. 
 Naughton bell. 
 Semer, tenor. 
 ( John Driver died this year, teste registro, in S. Mary's parish, 
 j " Sep. 1618. John Driver belfounder, Nov. 21st." 
 
 These last-named three bells bear his name, (save that at 
 Semer, which omits DI\IVGI\YS,) and the initials of Cheese. 
 
 In 1619, July 17, Arthur Hindes, bell-founder, was buried ) 
 at S. James's, Bury. He has left no works behind him. J 
 
 1621. Semer, treble (T. C.) 
 
 1622. Hargrave, treble (T. G. I. G.) 
 
 1623. Brettenham, second (T. C, I. G.) 
 
 1629. Thorpe Morieux, second (T. G.) 
 
 1630. Bradfield Combust, tenor (T. C) 
 1632. Thorpe Morieux, treble (T-. G.) 
 
 Pressed hard by the Brends on the North-east, and John 
 Draper of Thetford, who had an agent, Andrew Girne, at Bury 
 on the North-west, with Stamford men at work in Cambridge- 
 shire, and the great reputation of Miles Grayc all round, it is no 
 wonder that these small Bury men did but little. I remember 
 the old Worlington third, which was cracked at the lip. Paro- 
 chial ingenuity sawed out the cracked part, the metal showing 
 clean and strong, but somewhat pale. It used to sound just 
 like a piece of wood. Cheese, who seems to have been the 
 survivor of the three, died in 1635, leaving "Thomas Andrews" 
 — perhaps the Thomas Andrew, bell-founder, lately mentioned — 
 the supervisor of his will. He appears to have contemplated 
 the possible re-marriage of his wife IMary, and while making all 
 provision for her during her life, settles small sums of money on 
 his daughters Mary and Elizabeth, and his son Thomas, who 
 takes the reversion of the parlour furniture, the greatest kettle, 
 and the greatest brass pot. The See of Norwich was vacant at 
 this time through the death of Bishop Corbet, and the will was
 
 JOHN DRAPER OF THETFORD. Ill 
 
 proved before John Jewell, Surrogate of Thomas Eden, LL.D., 
 Archbishop Laud's Commissary, which Surrogate was one of 
 the witnesses to the will. 
 
 Whatever came from Andrew Gerne we shall now consider 
 under the works of his master, John Draper, third son of 
 Thomas Draper the elder, and for more than forty years a bell- 
 founder in Thetford. His earliest date is 1600, and he died in 
 1644. The following list gives his Suffolk bells : — 
 
 1600. Honington, tenor. 
 
 In this year in conjunction with his mother, Margaret, he gave 
 a bond to the churchwardens of North Lopham, for the recast- 
 ing of their second bell, which was again recast in 1733. This 
 was on the 29th of August. He had by himself given a bond 
 on the 19th of February of that year to the churchwardens of 
 Lakenheath for the recasting of their tenor, to which his brother 
 Thomas was a witness. This bell was again recast in 1676. 
 Others since recast are in italics : — 
 
 1603. Thelnetham, fourth. 
 
 This bell, like some others in East Anglia, bears the crown 
 and clipped arrows (fig. 83), used by Thomas Draper the elder, 
 and to my mind denoting a past connection with Bury. 
 
 1605. Horham, fifth. 
 
 1606. Braiscworth bell. In this year he was casting at Wells, 
 May 22nd, " divers of the neighbours of the towne and Beeston- 
 next-Mileham accompanyinge them thither merily together."* 
 
 1608. Ampton, treble, 
 
 „ Barton Mills, second, 
 
 „ Icklingham, All Saints, tenor, 
 
 1609. Knettishall, tenor, 
 
 161 5. Thetford, S. Mary, second, 
 
 1616. Elmswell, tenor, 
 
 16 1 7. Risby, second, 
 
 1619. Barton, Great, second, fourth, and tenor, 
 „ Newmarket, S. Mary, treble and fourth, 
 
 1620. Chevington, treble, 
 
 * L'Estrange C. B. of Norfolk, p. 99.
 
 112 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1621. Hinderclay, fourth (I. O- and A. G.), 
 
 „ Thurlow, Great, treble, second, third, and fourth, 
 
 „ Bcrgholt, East, tenor (I. D. and A. G.), 
 
 1623. Barnham, S. Gregory, tenor, 
 
 „ Exning, treble, second, third, and fourth, 
 
 „ Fornham, All Saints, treble and second, 
 
 „ Freckenham, second and third, 
 
 1624. Burgate, third, 
 
 „ Fornham, All Saints, tenor, 
 
 1625. Lidgate, treble, second, and fourth (I. O. and A. G.), 
 
 1626. Hopton, All Saints, tenor, 
 „ Pakenham, second, 
 
 „ Timworth, tenor, 
 
 1627. Beyton bell, 
 
 „ Combs, fourth, 
 
 „ Cotton, third, 
 
 „ Dalham, second and third, 
 
 „ Sturston, second, 
 
 „ Wickham Skeith, tenor, 
 
 1628. Knettishall, tenor, 
 „ Sapiston, treble, 
 
 1629. Hopton, All Saints, second, 
 
 „ Stow, West, third and fourth, 
 
 1630. Badwcll Ash, treble, second, and fourth, 
 
 „ Hopton, All Saints, third, fourth, and fifth (these were 
 the second, third, and fourth to complete a ring of 
 five), 
 
 „ Rickinghall Inferior, second, 
 
 „ Thurston, treble and second (I. D. and A. G.), 
 
 163 1. Ashfield, Great, third, 
 
 „ Stow, West, second and tenor, 
 
 „ Stowlangtoft, treble, 
 
 1632. Buxhall, treble and second, 
 
 1635. Buxhall, third, 
 
 „ Worlington, second, 
 
 1636. Wetheringsett, second, 
 
 „ Rushbrooke, second. This alone by Andrew Gerne, 
 without John Draper's name.
 
 WILLIAM AND JOHN BREND. II3 
 
 This list is almost exclusively from West Suffolk, and East 
 Suffolk during the same period is largely supplied by Norwich, 
 which may be explained by relationship, for as he speaks in his 
 will of John Brend* of Norwich, as his brother, he presumably 
 married a Brend, no daughter being mentioned in the will of his 
 father, Thomas Draper, A little " ring " was thus formed by 
 the brothers-in-law, which kept out Miles Graye of Colchester 
 from the north of the county, and led to a " mighty pretty 
 quarrel " at Wickham Market, the traces of which yet remain. 
 An observation of the dates will show that John Draper's 
 Suffolk business arose mainly from the collapse of the Bury 
 foundry. 
 
 As with his death bell-founding died out at Thetford, we will 
 turn to his Norwich relatives, and take up the bells made by 
 William Brend, or his son John, or both, during the first half 
 of the seventeenth century. 
 
 1602. Wingfield, fifth, 
 
 1603. Elmham, South, All Saints, bell, 
 1606. Brundish, treble, 
 
 „ Wilby, second and third, 
 
 1608. Carlton Colville, treble, 
 „ Worlingham, third, 
 
 1609. Saxmundham, second, 
 
 1 6 10. Briiisyard, second, 
 
 „ Elmham, South, S. George's, second, 
 
 „ Ringsfield, second, 
 
 1611. Halesworth, seventh, 
 „ Herringfleet, second, 
 
 161 2. Brampton, second, third, and fourth, 
 „ Mendlesham, treble, 
 
 „ Mettingham, treble, 
 
 161 3. Wickham Market, tenor, 
 
 „ Wingfield, third, fourth, and tenor, 
 
 161 5. Campsey Ash, treble, 
 
 „ Marlingford, second and third, 
 
 „ Mutford, second, 
 
 * L'Estrange's C. B. of Norjolk, p. 47, note.
 
 114 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1616. Covchithc, second, 
 
 „ Westhall, treble and fourth, 
 
 1 61 7. Kessingland, treble, 
 
 1618. Cratfield, treble and fifth, 
 
 „ Oulton, third, fourth, and tenor, 
 „ Pakefield, second, 
 
 1619. Homersfield, treble, 
 
 „ Ilketshall, S. Laurence, two bells, 
 
 1620. Hollesley, treble and tenor, 
 
 1621. Bramfield, treble and second, 
 „ Pakefield, tenor, 
 
 1622. Aldeburgh, third, 
 Bawdsey bell, 
 Benacre bell, 
 Bradfield, second, 
 Framlingham, seventh, 
 Ilketshall, S. Andmv, treble, second, and third (melted 
 
 in the fire of 1889), 
 Knoddishall bell. 
 Rend ham, fourth, 
 Worlingham, treble, 
 
 1623. Mendham, fifth, 
 
 1624. Badingham, second, third and tenor, 
 „ Rumburgh, treble, second, and fourth, 
 „ Wangford, S. Peter, treble, 
 
 1625. „ „ fifth, 
 
 1626. Cor ton bell, 
 „ Covehithe, third, 
 „ Westhall, tenor, 
 
 1627. Bury, S. Mary, fourth, 
 „ Elmham, South, S. Margaret, fourth, 
 „ Gisleham, treble and second, 
 „ Halesvvorth, fifth and tenor, 
 
 1628. Cove, North, fourth, 
 ,, Bennington, fourth, 
 „ Mendham, third, 
 
 1630. Badingham, treble.
 
 NORWICH CITY ARMS. 
 
 115 
 
 163 1. Farnham, second, 
 
 1634. Carlton Colville, third, fourth, and tenor (in this year 
 William Brend died), 
 
 1636. Mutford, third, 
 
 1637. Carlton Colville, second, 
 
 1639. Benhall, fourth, 
 
 „ Frostenden, second, 
 
 1640. Chediston, second, 
 „ Shipmeadow bell, 
 
 and lastly, in all probability the second, at Metfield, made in 
 1647. To these may be added the smaller of the two bells at 
 Withersdale, bearing simply the initials "W. B. 
 
 Let the judicious reader compare the blank years in this list 
 with those in the others of the same period, and he will not 
 fail to note the results of the occupation of the " Associated 
 Counties " by the Earl of Manchester. The commission was 
 accepted by the Earl, August loth, 1643, 
 
 William Brend's wife's name was Alice, and the monogram 
 of the two, A B with a W below, is very common on his bells. 
 
 Fig. £6.
 
 ii6 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 He often uses also the Norwich ermine shield (fig. 50) and the 
 arms of the city (fig. 86). He died in 1634, leaving his posses- 
 sions to his wife and his son John, who received respectively a 
 silver spoon and a hammer at the signing of the will.* Much 
 of the later work seems to have been done by John, whose 
 name alone occurs as founder in the Bennington Parish book in 
 1628, "ould Brend " being restricted to the hanging business. 
 
 I do not regard John Draper or these Brends as very uniform 
 in their work. With some excellent bells there are many of an 
 inferior quality. The Thetford bells are apt to be weak, and 
 the Norwich bells harsh. 
 
 And now comes the record of their great rival. Miles Graye, 
 of Colchester. 
 
 The general idea is that he learned his business under Richard 
 Bowler, and the slight overlapping of date need not trouble us. 
 There is a great similarity in the strong Roman lettering often 
 used by both, but Bowler's rough cross goes out, and several 
 marks are occasionally used, of which one found at Stradbroke 
 and elsewhere (fig. Sy) may serve as a specimen. The name is 
 
 Fig. 87. 
 
 almost invariably given in full and in English. When he ven- 
 tures into Latin he appears, like the half-Romanized Celts, to 
 have confounded the subject with the object, varying between 
 " Milo " and " Milonem " Graye me fecit. 
 
 However defective his grammar may have been, he was a 
 
 L'Estrange'o C. B. of A^orfolk, pp. 36, 37.
 
 "COLCHESTER GRAVE." 1 17 
 
 prince among workmen. Of the eighty bells and more in 
 Suffolk which yet bear his name most are of excellent quality, 
 and several are said to equal in grandeur of tone that which 
 ringers consider his masterpiece, the celebrated Lavenham tenor. 
 There arc a few of his bells in Norfolk, the bulk of those at 
 Swaffham, etc., some seventeen in Cambridgeshire, one in 
 Sussex (Chiddingly, treble), a good sprinkling in Hertfordshire 
 and Bedfordshire, and of course very many in Essex. His 
 most distant work is the tenor at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which 
 he cast at Colchester in i6 15, said in ArcJicsologia yEliatia* to 
 be his earliest date. However, Suffolk can find earlier. Here 
 is the catalogue : — 
 
 1605. Ipswich, S. Matthew, fourth, 
 
 1607. „ S. Mary-le-Tower, seventh, 
 
 1608. Thrandeston, third, 
 
 1610. Ipswich, S. Mary-le-Tower, eleventh, the old tenor, a 
 
 very fine bell, 
 „ Soham, Earl, treble, 
 „ Woolverstone bell, 
 
 161 1. Harkstead, third and fourth, 
 „ Wickhambrook, fourth, 
 
 161 3. Ipswich, S. Mary-at-Elms, third, 
 
 „ „ S. Mary-at-Quay, fourth, 
 
 „ Kenton, treble, 
 
 „ Stradbroke, fourth, 
 
 1614. Copdock, treble and second, 
 
 161 5. Ashbocking, treble, 
 „ Copdock, third, 
 
 „ Ipswich, S. Mary Stoke, second, 
 Wilby, fifth, 
 
 161 7. Stonham, Little, third, 
 
 16 1 8. Bromeswell, treble, 
 „ Melton, treble, 
 
 „ Nettlestead bell, 
 
 1619. Combs, third, 
 162 1. Chattisham bell, 
 
 • New Seiies IT., 19.
 
 Il8 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1621. Ipswich, S. Helen, treble, 
 „ Newbournc bell, 
 
 1622. Stradbroke, fifth, a good bell, 
 
 „ Stowmarkct, tenor, a very fine bell, 
 
 „ Wherstead, second, 
 
 1623. Bucklesham bell, 
 
 1624. Capel, S. Mary, fourth, 
 
 1625. Lavenham, tenor, already mentioned, 
 „ Nacton, treble, 
 
 1626. Bealings, Great, treble and second, 
 „ Somersham, second, 
 
 1627. Felixstowe bell, 
 
 1628. Hasketon, five bells, ^/le second recast in 1825, 
 
 1629. Shelley, second, 
 
 1630. Ipswich, S. Margaret, six bells, 
 „ „ S. Nicholas, second, 
 
 „ „ S. Peter, sixth, 
 
 » „ S. Stephen, third, 
 
 „ Kenton, second, 
 
 163 1. Martlesham, tenor, 
 
 „ Soham, Monk, treble, 
 
 1632. Bramford, five bells, a treble added in 1805, 
 
 1636. Baylham, second, third, and fourth, 
 
 1637. Bedfield, treble, 
 
 „ Brandeston, third, 
 
 „ Eleigh, Monks, third, 
 
 „ Hollesley, treble, 
 
 „ Monewden, second, 
 (In this year he was at Saffron Walden, where he made a bell 
 for Ickleford, Herts, since recast.) 
 
 1638. Eleigh, Monks, second and fourth, 
 „ Felsham, second and fourth, 
 
 „ Kersey, tenor (" Colchester Graye ") 
 
 „ Winston, third and fifth, 
 
 1639. Felsham, tenor, 
 „ Orford, treble, 
 
 1640. Clare, third,
 
 THE SIEGE OF COLCHESTER. II9 
 
 1640. Edvvardstone, third, 
 
 „ Eye, sixth and tenor, very good, 
 „ Preston, fourth, 
 
 1641. Culpho bell, 
 
 „ Edvvardstone, fourth, 
 
 „ Parham, second, 
 
 „ Sudbury, S. Peter, seventh, 
 
 „ Wickhambrook, treble, 
 1646. Stradishall, fourth, 
 
 Also Barnardiston treble and second, the dates of which I 
 have not. 
 
 This list is the most important by far which has yet been 
 recorded, for sequences as well as for weight of bells. Especially 
 the work of the years 1610, 1622, 1625, 1640, and 1641 deserves 
 to be remarked. The break of Suffolk work after 164.1 is again 
 suggestive, and business was equally slack for him elsewhere at 
 the same time. But worse misfortunes than slackness of busi- 
 ness were in store for this great founder. Those that blow up 
 the flame of partisanship in matters of religion and politics may 
 well ponder the lessons taught by these " portions and parcels 
 of the dreadful past" which come under our notice, and be 
 content to let what is valuable in their principles work itself 
 naturally to the front. There are no signs of a Millennium, 
 either Anglican or Puritan, at Colchester in the summer of 
 1648. The Cavaliers of Kent, Hertfordshire, and Essex entered 
 the town, and Fairfax let them " stew in their own juice," not 
 adopting, however, this course till he had failed in an attack 
 upon Headgate. In this attack Miles Graye's " capitall messu- 
 age or tenement... scituate and being below Headgate in Col- 
 chester" was burned down, as we find from his will, and he 
 himself having endured the horrors of the siege, " set his house 
 in order" on the seventeenth day of May, 1649, "weak in body 
 and erased with age, but yet in p'fect mind and memory," and 
 was dead in a month. There is a not unusual gap in the 
 Register of Burials at S. Mary-at-Walls, Colchester from 1642 
 to 1653, another phenomenon which may be pondered by 
 admirers of Cromwell and the Puritans. But we note the
 
 120 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 baptisms of Christopher* the son of Myles Gray and Jane his 
 wife, 29th January, 1625, and that of Myles, son of Myles 
 
 Graye and his wife, 19th September, 1628, and 
 
 " Moyles " Gray certifies the Register at this time as Church- 
 warden. 
 
 Old Miles's second wife was named Dorothy, and he left her 
 nearly everything. Christopher's name does not appear in the 
 will. Miles and the daughters Ann Darbye and Mary Starlinge 
 are cut off, severally, with a shilling, but James gets the 
 remainder of some leasehold property " to him and to his heyres 
 for ever." The registers of Colchester Holy Trinity, S. Botolph's, 
 and S. Leonard's, and of Stanway give us no information 
 worth recording about either Bowlers or Grayes ; but in 1656 
 Margaret Graye was imprisoned in Colchester Castle, as a 
 Quaker, for declaring the truth in " Peter's Steeple House." It 
 would be curious if she were a member of this family. The 
 Puritan liberty of opinion, whether for prophetic or other pur- 
 poses, was strictly confined to themselves. " New Presbyter 
 is but Old Priest writ large," and when the Independents came 
 in, it was the old song again to a fresh tune. Quakcx's were 
 clearly out of it, but if George P"ox had got the upper hand he 
 would most likely have taken to coercion like the rest. 
 
 About this time the names of John Hardy and Abraham 
 Greene, of Bury S. Edmund's, bell-founders, brothers-in-law, 
 appear among the Bury wills, but no bells from either are known 
 to exist. The former, who died in January, 1657, left his house, 
 which he had lately purchased of Simon Wray, baker, " adjoin- 
 ing to a certaine gate then called Risby Gate," to his widow 
 Mary for her life, then to go to John, the son of his brother-in- 
 law John Bixby of " Thorpe Morioux." Abraham Greene, who 
 had married Hardy's sister Joan, is probably identical with the 
 Abraham Greene of Lindsey, who died in 1662, leaving every^ 
 thing to his sister, Prudence Dyer.f 
 
 The ten years from 1650 are of course not very productive of 
 
 • This, I think must be Christopher Graye the bell-founder ; but there is in the 
 Register another Christopher, son of Edward, born 1618. 
 t Lib. Heron, 7.
 
 THE COMMONWEALTH. 121 
 
 bells. The younger Miles Graye cast the Brantham bell in 
 165 1, and the five for Stansfield in the following year, quite a 
 phenomenon, which the parochial history may explain. John 
 Brend breaks ground in 1654 with the Thrandeston treble, 
 following on with two fives, for Blaxhall and Yoxford, splicing 
 in a medieval at Darsham as a third in a ring of four. But in 
 1657 he evidently regarded himself as having made a great hit. 
 This was at Wickham Market, where the treble and second bear 
 his name, the latter thus girding at the memory of the late man 
 of Colchester : — = 
 
 The monument of Graie 
 
 Is past awaie. 
 In place thereof doth stand 
 The name of John Brend. 
 South Elmham S. Margaret's upper three belong to the same 
 }'ear and man, Bures fourth and Horham fourth to 1658. 
 About that time Miles Graye the younger made the Aldeburgh 
 tenor ; also the Chilton bell, the old second at Newton-next- 
 Sudbury, the second at Acton, the second and third at Glems- 
 ford, and the treble at Great Thurlow, all pretty much in the 
 same neighbourhood. The bell at Brightwell (1657) bearing 
 the name of the parish is probably John Hodson's. 
 
 John Barbie's star now rises on the horizon, but he must be 
 reserved for a complete list. 
 
 To do justice to the Puritan regime there seems to have been 
 little or no bell spoliation ; and though Bunyan regarded his 
 own ringing of bells as a sin, there is nevertheless a charming 
 allusion to their sweet voices, when he describes the entrance of 
 Christian into the Celestial City. Milton's magnificent lines : — 
 
 " Oft on a plot of rising ground 
 I hear the far-off Curfew sound, 
 Over some wide-watered shore, 
 Swinging slow with sullen roar," 
 
 belong to his earlier career, with 
 
 " Or let the merry bells ring round, 
 And the jocund rebecks sound 
 To many a youth and many a maid 
 Dancing in the chequered shade."
 
 122 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Whether he changed his mind about all this we know not, 
 but we know that it would have been summarily put down in 
 the cheerful days of the Major-generals. One compulsory peal 
 in 1650 is recorded in my CliurcJi Bells of Cambridgeshire* and 
 it is worth rehearsing here, as displaying the wariness of the 
 parish authorities of S. Mary-the-Great, Cambridge, in whose 
 book is this entr}- : — 
 
 " 1650. Paid to Persyvall Sekole the clarke for the ringers, 
 by mi order from the Maior, on 30 Jan.,-|- being a day of thanks- 
 giving o . 2.0." 
 
 The latter part of the seventeenth century was a mighty time 
 for bells, and for several reasons we shall lead it off with John 
 Barbie's list, as for some time he was working at Ipswich, some 
 of his bells being of excellent tone, and the earliest eight in 
 Suffolk, Horham, mainly coming from his hand. In 1657 he 
 cast the fourth at Rodmersham, Kent. This is his earliest date 
 The Suffolkers run thus : — 
 
 1658. Henley, second, 
 „ Horham, fourth, 
 
 „ Sproughton, treble, second, and fourth, 
 
 ., Woolpit, fourth and fifth, 
 
 1659. Barking, treble and second, 
 
 1660. Blakenham, Little, treble and second, 
 „ Wetheringsett, treble, 
 
 „ Witnesham, second, fourth, fifth, and tenor, 
 
 1 66 1. Hartest, five bells, 
 „ Holbrook, fourth, 
 
 „ Rougham, treble and second, 
 „ Soham, Monk, fifth, 
 
 Tattingstone, first three, 
 
 1662. Barrow, treble, fourth, and tenor, 
 „ Combs, treble, 
 
 „ Haverhill, third, 
 
 „ Ipswich, S. Mary-at-Ouay, second, third, and tenor, 
 
 „ Nacton, second, 
 
 * p. 108. 
 
 t The anniversary of the execution of Charles I
 
 JOHN DARBIE OF IPSWICH. 1 23 
 
 1662. Somersham, treble, 
 
 „ Sudbury, S. Peter, second, 
 
 „ Winston, treble and second, 
 
 1663. Burgh Castle, tenor, 
 „ Chelmondiston bell, 
 
 Higham, fourth, . 
 
 Horham, sixth and seventh, 
 „ Kettlebaston, treble, 
 ,, Newton, Old, treble, third, and fourth, 
 „ Shelley, treble, 
 „ Soham, Earl, third and tenor, 
 ,, Wickhambrook, tenor, 
 
 1664. Barnham, S. Gregory, treble, 
 „ Belstead bell, 
 
 Belton bell, 
 „ Elvedon bell, 
 
 Thetford, S. Mary, fifth, 
 
 1665. Grundisburgh, second and fourth, remains of a com- 
 
 plete five, 
 „ Ixworth, second and third, 
 
 1666. Battisford bell, 
 
 „ Bennington, tenor, 25 cvvt. (?), very fine, 
 ,, Falkenham, treble and second, 
 
 1667. Offton, fourth, 
 
 „ Thorndon, second, third, fourth, and fifth, 
 
 1668. Brampton, treble, 
 
 ,, Southvvold, fourth and fifth, 
 „ Wangford, S. Peter, third, 
 
 1669. Haverhill, treble, 
 
 „ Ipswich, S. Mary-at-Elms, treble, third, and tenor, 
 „ Mendlesham, fourth, 
 
 1670. Sibton, second (he was rather busy in Norfolk and 
 
 Cambridgeshire this year), 
 
 1671. Gislingham, fifth and tenor, very good, 
 Ipswich, S. Mary-le-Tower, eighth and tenth, 
 
 „ Thorndon, tenor (these are among his best bells), 
 
 1672. Stowmarket, seventh,
 
 124 1'HE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1672. Wick ham Market, third, 
 
 1673. Kcdington, second, third, fourth, and tenor, 
 
 1674. Holton, S. Mary, second, 
 „ Leiston, fifth, 
 
 Stow, West, fifth, 
 „ Sudbourne bell, 
 
 1675. Higham, S. Mary, second and tenor, 
 
 „ Rushmere, S. Andrew, treble and second, 
 
 „ Timworth, treble and second, 
 
 ,, Tuddenham, S. Mary, tenor, 
 
 1676. Cavenham, second and tenor, 
 „ Claydon bell, 
 
 „ Groton bell, 
 
 „ Hoxne, treble, 
 
 „ Lakcnheath, tenor, 
 
 „ Mildenhall, third (cast for a treble, a singularly fine 
 
 bell), 
 
 „ Syleham, treble, 
 
 1677. Bealings, Little, treble, 
 „ Copdock, fourth, 
 
 ,, Elmswell, fourth, 
 
 „ Hintlesham, treble, 
 
 „ Southolt bell, 
 
 1678. Akenham bell, 
 
 „ Hintlesham, second, third, and fourth, 
 
 Rougham, fourth, 
 „ Saxstead bell, 
 „ West hall, second, 
 16'jg. Boyton bell, 
 
 „ • Orford, third and fourth, 
 „ Ramsholt bell, 
 1680. Ipswich, S. Clement, six bells, 
 „ Stanton, S. John-the-Baptist, treble, second, and 
 fourth (in this year he cast the tenor at Isleham, 
 Cambridgeshire, a magnificent bell, said to weigh 
 25 cwt.), 
 168 L Kelsale, third and tenor.
 
 A POSSIBLE MARRIAGE, 125 
 
 1 68 1. Sibton, treble, 
 
 1682. Ipswich, S. Peter, treble, 
 „ Ixworth, treble, 
 
 1683. Barham, treble, 
 
 „ Capel, S. Mary, third, 
 
 „ Hacheston, second and fourth, 
 
 „ Ipswich, S. Peter, fourth, 
 
 „ Stradbroke, seventh, 
 
 1685. Haverliilt, teUor, 
 
 „ Tuddenham, S. Martin, treble, 
 
 „ Wattisfield, treble, second, third, and tenor, 
 
 „ Yoxford, fifth, 
 
 1686. Shotley bell, 
 Ufford, third, 
 
 1 69 1. Stowmarket, third. 
 
 This catalogue far exceeds that of Miles Graye the elder, 
 whose daughter Ann I suspect that he married.
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Dick Whittington — Call-changes — Early peals — The " Twenty all over," 
 or " Christmas Eve " — 7,360 Oxford Treble Bob at Bungay, in 1S60. 
 
 Some day modern critics will be down on the story of Dick 
 Whittington, While as yet we are free from their " triumphant 
 results," let us receive it, as it is fit. The first of his three Lord 
 Mayoralties was in 1397 ; and it must have been in the reign of 
 Edward IIL that he heard the Bow bells calling to him, sup- 
 posing the peal to have been in G : — 
 
 Turn a - gain, Whit -ting -ton. Thrice Lord Mayor of Lon-don. 
 
 At any rate this sequence is that which all have known as 
 "Whittington" by tradition, and the tale is natural enough. It 
 is an excellent specimen of what is termed a " call-change." 
 Before bell-machinery had reached its present development, 
 and while most bells only swung to and fro in chiming, it was 
 impossible to change the sequence at every round. So after 
 thirty or forty rounds of one change, the caller would give the 
 signal for another, just as it is done in Sunday chiming at the 
 present day in many a village church. 
 
 There are very few common subjects on which there are such 
 wild ideas as on bell-ringing. Every Christmas in the illustrated 
 newspapers you see the most grotesque views of ringers plenti- 
 fully exerting themselves in a way which would ensure their own 
 destruction and the ruin of the bell-gear. People think that 
 ringing is a vulgar, low kind of thing, only practised by boors 
 and a few partially-deranged gentlemen, who ouo-ht to be in a
 
 GREAT CHANGE-RINGERS. 12/ 
 
 private lunatic asylum. Did they know anything of the history 
 of the Art, they would find that amongst its votaries have been 
 a nobleman, Lord Brereton ; a great judge, Sir Matthew Hale ; 
 senators, as Sir Symonds d'Ewes ; scholars, as Dawes, and many 
 others, of whose company no honest man need be ashamed. 
 Nor is the nature of change ringing contemptible, for no small 
 mathematical skill is involved in the composition of a peal. 
 These compositions appear to have been unknown till the be- 
 ginning of the seventeenth century, though the allotment of one 
 man to each bell in Udall's Ralph Roister Doisier seems to 
 indicate some system of call-changes. But for a change at 
 every round it was necessary that the mere chiming should be 
 supplanted by a method which should give to the performers a 
 more complete mastery of their instruments ; and that method 
 is what is called '* ringing," where the bell, which was resting 
 mouth upwards, swings completely round and balances mouth 
 upwards again ; a contrivance called the " stay and slide " 
 prevents the bell from falling over, should the balance be dis- 
 turbed. A certain time then, has to elapse between two strokes 
 of the same bell ; and in arranging the sequence of changes it 
 is well to keep the place of any particular bell as near as 
 possible to its place in the preceding change. Thus, if the third 
 bell were sounding fifth in one change, in the next it should be 
 sounding fourth or sixth. The simpler peals which are given 
 by Fabian Stedman in his Tintinnalogia, published in 1667, are 
 recorded by him as having originated fifty or sixty years before 
 his time. 
 
 His method for treating four-and-twenty changes on four 
 bells amounts to "hunting" the treble only. A bell is said to 
 be "hunted up" as she moves towards the tenor's or last place, 
 and " hunted down " when she moves towards the treble's or 
 first place. By observing the sequence of changes, the treble or 
 first bell being printed in stronger type, this movement will be 
 manifest, while it should be seen that the other bells stay twice 
 in each of the middle places, and thrice in the treble's and 
 tenor's. Each change is called a " single," i.e., a change of place 
 between two bells only, as though the composer had wished to 
 produce as little variety as possible.
 
 128 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 I234 
 2I34 
 23I4 
 234I 
 324I 
 32I4 
 3I24 
 I324 
 I342 
 3I43 
 34I2 
 342I. 
 
 43 2I 
 43I2 
 
 4I32 
 I432 
 I423 
 4I23 
 42I3 
 423I 
 243I 
 24I3 
 2I43 
 I243 
 
 A curious method oq five is inserted by Stedman for 
 antiquity's sake. He calls it the "Twenty all over" ; but I find 
 that it is still well known in Fressingfield by the name of 
 "Christmas Eve." It is extremely simple. First the treble 
 hunts up, while the others change no more than to make room 
 for it. 
 
 I2345 
 
 2I345 
 23I45 
 234I5 
 2345I 
 Now the second does the same thing. 
 
 32451 
 34251 
 34521 
 34512 
 
 The third now hunts. 
 
 Now the fourth. 
 
 43512 
 45312 
 45182 
 45123 
 
 54123 
 51423 
 51243 
 51234 
 
 And lastly the tenor, which brings the bells round again. 
 
 15234 
 
 12534 
 12354 
 12345
 
 PLAIN CHANGES ON FIVE. 
 
 129 
 
 Here every change is a " single." The twenty changes arise, 
 of course, from there being four in each of the five hunts. 
 
 Another method called " Cambridge Eight-and-Forty " will 
 be found in my Cliurch Bells of Cambridgeshire. 
 
 But the plaiti changes on five bells are worthy of preservation. 
 
 12345 
 
 4I235 
 
 5I432 
 
 5I324 
 
 21345 
 
 42I35 
 
 54I32 
 
 53I24 
 
 23145 
 
 423I5 
 
 543I2 
 
 532I4 
 
 23415 
 
 4235I 
 
 5432I 
 
 5324I 
 
 23451 
 
 2435I 
 
 542 3I 
 
 5342I 
 
 32451 
 
 243I5 
 
 542I3 
 
 534I2 
 
 32415 
 
 24I35 
 
 54I23 
 
 53I42 
 
 32145 
 
 2I435 
 
 5I423 
 
 5I342 
 
 31245 
 
 I2435 
 
 I5423 
 
 I5342 
 
 13245 
 
 I2453 
 
 I5243 
 
 I3542 
 
 13425 
 
 2I453 
 
 5I243 
 
 3I542 
 
 31425 
 
 24I53 
 
 52I43 
 
 35I42 
 
 34125 
 
 245I3 
 
 524I3 
 
 354I2 
 
 34215 
 
 2453I 
 
 5243I 
 
 3542I 
 
 34251 
 
 4253I 
 
 2543I 
 
 3524I 
 
 345 2I 
 
 425I3 
 
 • 254I3 
 
 352I4 
 
 345I2 
 
 42I53 
 
 25I43 
 
 35I24 
 
 34I52 
 
 4I253 
 
 2I543 
 
 3I524 
 
 3I452 
 
 I4253 
 
 I2543 
 
 I3524 
 
 I3452 
 
 I4523 
 
 I2534 
 
 I3254 
 
 I4352 
 
 4I523 
 
 2I534 
 
 3I254 
 
 4I352 
 
 45I23 
 
 25I34 
 
 32I54 
 
 43I52 
 
 452I3 
 
 253I4 
 
 325I4 
 
 435I2 
 
 4523I 
 
 2534I 
 
 3254I 
 
 4325I 
 
 4532I 
 
 5234I 
 
 2354I 
 
 4352I 
 
 453I2 
 
 523I4 
 
 235I4 
 
 432I5 
 
 45I32 
 
 52I34 
 
 23I54 
 
 43I25 
 
 4I532 
 
 5I234 
 
 2I354 
 
 4I325 
 
 I4532 
 
 I5234 
 
 I2354 
 
 I4325 
 I4235 
 
 I5423 
 
 I5324 
 
 I2345 
 
 If Dr. Burney could assure his readers that the Tlntinnalogia 
 is " not beneath the notice of musicians who wish to explore all 
 the regions of natural melody : as in this little book they will 
 see every possible change in the arrangement of Diatonic 
 sounds, from 2 to 12, which being reduced to musical notes, 
 would, in spite of all which has hitherto been written, point out 
 innumerable passages, that would be new in melody and musical
 
 I30 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 composition,"* I may venture to claim at least as high a regard 
 for the modern peals, in which the bells are more freely moved 
 about amongst each other. 
 
 This method is easily applicable to any number of bells, 
 One of the six bell methods based upon it, the tenor and fifth 
 " hunted down," is called the " Esquire s Tzvclve-score" proving 
 by its name that bell-ringing two centuries ago was a gentle- 
 man's amusement. 
 
 I do not, however, intend to enlarge further on the subject of 
 change-ringing, on which there are plenty of good treatises, nor 
 to attempt a record of the most remarkable peals rung in the 
 county, this being a work undertaken by Mr. Slater of Glems- 
 ford. However, as I have now the honour to hold the post of 
 President of the Diocesan Society of Change Ringers, it would 
 have been unbecoming in me to pass the subject in silence, nor 
 must I be guilty of ingratitude in forgetting a certain 7,360 of 
 Oxford Treble Bob Major, rung to welcome my bride and 
 myself thirty years ago,-f- when I was Master of Bungay 
 Grammar School, and a member of that Society of Ringers. 
 
 The band consisted of 
 
 Benjamin Smith, treble, Benjamin Spilling, fifth, 
 
 William Sheldrake, second, Jarvis Crickmore, sixth, 
 
 George Adams, third, Thomas Spalding, seventh, 
 
 Peter Page, fourth, Captain A. P. Moore, tenor. 
 
 Of this company, Messrs. Smith and Sheldrake, on the 
 previous Friday, had rung 10,080 of the same method at Reden- 
 hall, taking the treble and third respectively. The second was 
 taken by John Ellis, who was sixty-eight years old at the time. 
 The 7,360 took 4 hours 40 minutes, and the 10,080, 6 hours 
 25 minutes. 
 
 * Burney, General History of Music ^ iii., 413. He gives a sprightly "Five Bell 
 Consorte " by John Jenkins, which he traces to Fabian Stedtnan's Tintinnalogia. 
 t Monday, March 26th, i860.
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Later bells — Robard Gurney of Bury — Christopher Hodson of S. Mary 
 Cray — Miles Graye the younger — A solitary bell of Christopher Graye's at 
 Thrandeston — His difficulties in Cambridgeshire — Is succeeded by Charles 
 Newman, and the foundry taken to Lynn — Thomas Newman at Bracondale 
 and Bury — John Stephens— Sudbury and its founders— Henry Pleasant — 
 Thomas Gardiner — His critic at Edvvardstone — John Goldsmith of Redgrave 
 — Ransomes and Sims — London founders — Newton and Peele — Catlin — The 
 Whitechapel men^Phelps and his record of Dr. Sacheverell at Charsfield — 
 His eight at Bury S. Mary's — Lester — Pack— A failure at Beccles — Chapman 
 —The Mears family — Benefactions of the Suffolk nobility and others — The 
 Warners of Cripplegate — A ship's bell from Stockholm at Lavenheath — John 
 Briant of Exning — The St. Neot's men and their successors — Joseph Eayre 
 — Arnold — The Taylors of Loughborough — Osborn and Dobson of Down- 
 ham Market — Birmingham founders — Blews at Lowestoft — Carr at New- 
 bourne— The Redenhall foundry — Recommendation to Southwold — Jubilee 
 bells at Mildenhall — Conclusion. 
 
 RoBARD Gurney, of Bury S. Edmund's, a son of the Andrew 
 Gurney already mentioned, first appears in his father's will, 
 dated 1643. He had accommodated his father with the loan of 
 2 cwt. of metal, which kindness is requited with a legacy of 3 
 cwt, " with all my tooles and moulds for to worke with all, as to 
 my trade belongeth." 
 
 In 1649, as I find from a communication from the Rev. A. F. 
 Torry, late fellow and dean of S. John's College, Cambridge, he 
 recast the bells for that college, the cost of recasting, for new 
 metal, and to the Bury carrier being £4 iSs. gd* His earliest 
 existing date is 1652, both in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 
 (Impington third). The Suffolk list follows : — 
 
 1652. Bradley, Little, bell, 
 
 * In spite of this, the bell still bears the date 1624, and the initials W. I.
 
 132 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1663. Santon Downham bell, 
 
 1664. Stanningfield, treble, 
 
 1665. Worlington, second (a very good bell), 
 
 1666. Tuddenham, S. Mary, second, 
 
 1667. Alpheton, two bells, 
 
 1668. Bradfield, S. George, second and third, 
 „ Felsham, treble, 
 
 „ Poslingford, treble, second, and third, 
 
 „ Wangford, S. Denis, bell, 
 
 1670. Elmswell, treble, 
 
 167 1. Tostock, tenor, 
 
 „ Welnetham, Little, tenor, 
 
 1672. Tuddenham, S. Mary, treble, 
 
 1673. Onehouse, treble. 
 
 I consider him as unusually variant in his work. Some of 
 his bells are detestable. ]\Ir. Deedes notices the curiously trun- 
 cated character of their edges. The Andrew Gurney, whose 
 wife's name was Mary, who had a son Robert baptized in 1667, 
 and was a legatee to the extent of £^ by will of his spinster 
 sister Mary, was almost certainly a brother. There was also a 
 sister Alice, who married a Jennings of Wickhambrook, and a 
 kinsman Thomas, 
 
 Had it not been for Lothingland there would not have been 
 a single bell in the county made by Edward Tookc, of Norwich. 
 As it is there are three : — ■ 
 
 1675. Blundeston, the larger of the two, 
 
 1676. Oulton, treble, 
 
 1677. „ second. 
 
 His operations lasted from 167 1 to 1679, when he died, and 
 was buried in All Saints' parish. He was the second son of 
 William Tooke, Alderman of Norwich, and Sheriff in 1650. 
 These little bells of his in Suffolk call for no remark. 
 
 The London founders could hardly get their noses into the 
 county during the heyday of John Darbie. John Hodson cast 
 the Kersey fifth and the Shelley tenor in 1662, and Christopher, 
 his son presumably, the fourth for Ipswich S. Mary-le-Tower 
 and the East Bergholt fourth in 1688, and the Kersey fourth in
 
 S. MARY CRAY. I33 
 
 the following year. Their bells are more notable for the Stuart 
 coins on them than for specially fine tone. The family, I think, 
 was of Cambridge extraction, the name of Christopher Hodson, 
 gentleman, appearing in the Corporation Lease-book in the year 
 1589.* The locality of the London foundry is not -known. 
 Christopher was in a kind of partnership with his father for four 
 or five years before 1677, when he removed to S. Mary Cray, 
 when his foundry was " in the High Street, on or about the spot 
 where the blacksmith's forge now stands, under the chestnut 
 tree at the foot of the hill on which the vicarage is built."t No 
 doubt Christopher each day attempted and did something to 
 earn a night's repose, but it could not well have been always at 
 Cray. 
 
 The situation is too awkward. He probably itinerated, and 
 as he cast Great Tom of Oxford in 1680, it would be worth 
 while seeing whether the Christchurch compoti for that year 
 throw any light on the point. That Great Tom is a poor bell 
 considering its weight, 7 tons 12 cwt. 
 
 . I return to Miles Graye the younger, whom we have already 
 seen at Brantham and Stansfield. He was in Bedfordshire and 
 Cambridgeshire from 1653 to 1656. These are also from him : — 
 
 1656. Cockfield, third, 
 
 1658. Chilton bell, 
 
 „ Neivt07i-next- Sudbury, second, 
 
 1659. Acton, second, 
 
 „ Glemsford, second and third, 
 
 1660. Thurlow, Great, treble, 
 
 1661. Clare, fifth, 
 
 1662. Stanstead, third and fourth, 
 
 1663. Acton, third, 
 
 „ Edwardstone, fifth, 
 
 1664. Cornard, Great, third, 
 
 „ Newton-next-Sudbury, fifth, 
 „ Wiston, second, 
 (He is in Cambridgeshire for the next three years.) 
 
 * Church Bells of Cambridgeshire, p. 88. 
 
 t Stahlschmidt's Chtwch Bells of Kent, p. 97.
 
 134 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1671. Assington, treble, 
 
 1672. Melford, Long, S. Catherine's Mission Room bell, 
 
 which used to hang on the tower of the Parish 
 Church, 
 
 1678. Hadleigh, treble and second, 
 
 1679. „ third, 
 
 1680. „ tenor, a fine bell, estimated to weigh 28 cwt., 
 
 1681. Somerton, third, 
 
 1683. Bildeston, third, 
 
 „ Hawkedon, five, the fourth since recast, 
 
 1684. Stutton, first three, 
 
 1685. Acton, tenor. 
 
 Another storm of politics was then raging over England, and 
 some zealous Abhorrer marks the Acton tenor with " God save 
 the King." About the middle of June in the following year, 
 when James's Irish policy was in full bud. Miles Graye died at 
 Colchester, leaving a shilling each to his children Samuel, 
 Francis, Myles, James, Francis and Jane, and the residue to his 
 widow Elizabeth. The gifts of his father had not fully de- 
 scended to him or to his elder brother Christopher, whom we 
 have only at Thrandeston, for which church he cast the fifth in 
 1678. 
 
 In my Cambridgeshire book I traced him to Ampthill in 
 1659. There can be no doubt that in 1677 he was at Ipswich 
 helping John Darbie, for Mr. L'Estrangc* says that the former 
 name is on the third, and the latter on the fourth at East 
 Harling, both dated 1677, while in the churchwardens' accounts 
 the item of 2s. 6d. appear " for writen the Artickells and the 
 bond between John Darby and the Towen," £\ 6s. od. for 
 bell-clappers bought of John Hollwell of Ipswich, and ^^3 6s. od. 
 " payed John Darby in money for tow new bells casting." As 
 no bells of Christopher Graye's are known to bear date 1673, 
 1674, 1675, 1676, the probability is very strong that all this 
 time he was helping Darbie, and that the Thrandeston tenor 
 was made at Ipswich, like the East Harling third. 
 
 * Church Bells of A'orfoik. p. 67.
 
 AN EMERGENCY. 135 
 
 Being at Haddenham in 1683, very likely he was the man 
 about whom the Rev. J. M. Freeman of Haddenham relates the 
 following local story : — " An old inhabitant recalls a tradition of 
 his early youth, some fifty years since, to the effect that there 
 lived a bell-founder in this place in the olden time ; and that on 
 one memorable occasion, when the operation of melting the 
 metal had reached a critical stage, it was found that there was 
 a deficiency in the supply of materials ; a few moments more 
 and the process would he endangered, if not spoilt. Acting at 
 once on the maxim that 'the end justifies the means,' our 
 traditional ' man of metal ' rushed frantically from his foundry 
 and made his way to a neighbouring inn — the present ' Rose 
 and Crown,' so the story goes — making an unceremonious raid 
 upon the establishment, ' whipping up ' the pewter pots and 
 measures, as well as the ordinary vessels available for the 
 purpose. These were hurriedly conveyed home and cast into 
 the furnace in time, let us hope, to meet the exigences of the 
 case. Passing, however, to the present time, I may just add, 
 that in digging for the foundation of the new tower, a cavity 
 was found in the rock, containing cinder ashes, portions of bell- 
 metal and mussel shells, from which circumstances it has been 
 conjectured that the church bells were, for convenience sake, 
 cast on the very spot over which they were destined to hang."* 
 
 From Haddenham records it is pretty plain that there was 
 some connection between Christopher Graye and Charles 
 Newman, who in 1684 seems to have moved on to Lynn from 
 that village. Some of his bells are very good, and the county 
 contains about thirty of them : — 
 
 1686. Glemsford, tenor, 
 „ Hemingstone bell, 
 
 1688. Boxford, fourth, 
 
 1 69 1 . Redgrave, five bells ^ 
 
 1692. Stutton, second, 
 
 1693. Clare, tenor, 
 
 1695. Wickhambrook, second, 
 
 * Cambridge Chronicle, February 5th, 1876.
 
 136 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1696. Bentlcy bell, 
 
 „ Bnty S. Edmund's, St. Marys, tenor, 
 
 1697. Lakcnheath, fourth, 
 
 „ Livcrmcrc, Little, bell, 
 
 „ Stradbroke, third, 
 
 1698. Buxhall, fourth, 
 „ Lidgatc, third, 
 „ Occold, third, 
 
 „ Timworth, third, 
 
 1699. Bacton, treble, 
 
 „ Bradfield, S. Clare, tenor, 
 
 „ Cockfield, third, 
 
 „ Kettlebaston, second (?), 
 
 „ Stowmarket, fifth, 
 
 „ Thurston, fourth, 
 
 „ Waisham-le-Willo\vs, second and third, 
 
 1700. Cockfield, second, 
 „ Erwarton bell, 
 
 „ Walsham-le-Willo\vs, treble, 
 
 170L Hundon, second, 
 
 „ Thornham, Great, treble, second, and fourth, 
 
 1702. Barham, third. 
 
 This number pretty nearly equals that in Norfolk. There 
 are some eight in Cambridgeshire, and none elsewhere. 
 
 Comparing the Norfolk work with the Suffolk in 1699, his 
 busiest year, I am inclined to think that he had returned to 
 Lynn, after a ramble into West and South Suffolk. He seems 
 to have made use of water-carriage both by river and sea. The 
 bell at Blakeney was made by him in 1699, and two years 
 afterwards the churchwardens of S, Laurence's, Norwich, fetched 
 their tenor from the same little port, which is hardly possible to 
 have been used as a business centre. Most of the contempora- 
 neous Suffolk bells are within a fair distance of the river Lark ; 
 and Lakenheath Lode would have carried the bell for that 
 parish from the Little Ouse very conveniently. 
 
 The arabesques on Charles Newman's bells are something 
 like John Barbie's. His wife's christian name was Alice.
 
 THOMAS NEWMAN. 1 37 
 
 While they were living at Haddenham, in 1682, she bore him a 
 son Thomas, whose Suffolk works we shall have occasion to 
 mention. 
 
 The wanderings of Thomas Newman were more frequent 
 than extensive. He was born at Haddenham, April 2nd, 1682, 
 and baptized on the 13th of the same month. The presence of 
 Charles Newman's ornament on his earlier bells is to be noted. 
 He began work when he -was only nineteen years of age, his 
 earliest date being 1701. In the following year his head- 
 quarters were at Norwich,* and after a few single casts, he 
 adventured himself on a ring of five at Tunstead, Norfolk, cast- 
 ing them (according to tradition) in the churchyard, with- no 
 remarkable success. Two little fives of his in Cambridgeshire, 
 Cambridge Holy Trinity and Foulmire, cast in 1705 and 1704, 
 are of poor quality. His Suffolk list contains nothing very 
 remarkable, the peculiarity of his bells, in my opinion, being 
 their inability to make themselves heard among their fellows. 
 Here it is : — 
 
 1704. Culford bell, 
 
 „ Walsham-le-Willows, fifth and tenor, 
 
 1706. Somerleyton, tenor, 
 
 1707. Elmham, South, S. James, second, 
 171 1. Blythford bell, 
 
 „ Kessingland, second, 
 
 „ Rushbrooke, tenor, 
 
 1727. Thornham, Little, bell, 
 
 1728. Kessingland, third, 
 
 „ Pakefield, tenor, " at Norwich," 
 
 1729. Haverhill, tenor, 
 
 1730. Lound, three bells, 
 Lowestoft, S. Margaret, bell, 
 
 „ Sapiston, second, 
 
 1732. Burgh Castle, treble and second, 
 „ Mildenhall, third and fourth, 
 
 1733. Bardwell, fourth, 
 
 * Teste, the bell at Howe, Norfolk.
 
 138 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1733. Rushbrooke, tenor, 
 
 1734. Cowlinge, treble and second, 
 
 1735. Ashficld, Great, treble, 
 Kentford, three bells, 
 Lackford bell, 
 Lawshall, five bells, 
 PakenJLam.fonrtJi, "at Bury," 
 Shimpling, first four, 
 
 1736. Redgrave, lower five out of six, 
 
 1737. Brome, five bells, 
 
 „ Palgrave, six bells, 
 
 1738. Boxstead, second, 
 
 1 74 1. Fressingfield, third, fourth, 3.r\d fifth, 
 „ Hcr7'ingswell, treble, 
 
 „ Rickinghall Superior, tenor, 
 
 1742. Wingfield, treble, 
 
 1744. Mildenhall Clock bell (a good bell), 
 
 1745. Ashfield, Great, second, 
 „ Wrentham, fourth, 
 
 In 17 19, in conjunction with Thomas Gardiner, he cast the 
 tenor for Newmarket S. Mary. One thing is to be noticed in 
 his favour, that where he cast once, he very often cast again. 
 Between 171 1 and 1727 he was very busy in Norfolk, and after- 
 wards in Cambridgeshire, Cambridge being his headquarters in 
 1724, when he cast the tenor for Berden, Essex, and in the 
 following year when he received money for the " brasses " 
 (sockets for the gudgeons to turn in) for S.- Benedict's, Cam- 
 bridge. But a reference to the foregoing list will show that 
 before long he was back in Norwich, his foundry occupying the 
 spot in " Brakindel," where now the "Richmond Hill" public- 
 house stands. All the 1735 bells were doubtless cast at Bury. 
 
 He was of a poetical turn, no " mute inglorious Milton." As 
 early as 1706 his genius burst forth at Worstead in 
 
 " I tell all that doth me see, 
 That Newman in Brakindel did new cast mee." 
 
 In 1707 he married Susan Aspland of Haddenham, who
 
 BRACONDALE. ' 139 
 
 seems to have survived him, for the entry of his burial in S. 
 John Sepulchre, April 20th, 1745, describes him as a married 
 man. 
 
 But neither family cares nor business trials could quench his 
 light, which culminated in a lambent flame in 1732, when 
 
 " Thomas Newman cast me new 
 In 1732 (tew)," 
 
 occurs at Burgh Castle, Mildenhall, and Winfarthing, 
 Metaphor as well as rhyme occurs at Great Ashfield — 
 
 " Pull on, brave boys, I am metal to the back- 
 bone, but will be hanged before I crack.'' 
 
 During his absence from Suffolk the Bracondale foundry was 
 occupied by John Stephens, a very fair workman, from whom 
 we have some twenty bells : — 
 
 17 1 8. Burgh, S. Botolph, five bells (a treble afterwards 
 added), 
 „ Framlingham, treble and second to complete the 
 octave. This seems to have been the second or 
 third eight in Suffolk, Bungay S. Mary trebles to 
 the old eight bearing the same date. 
 
 1720. Bealings, Great, second, 
 „ Framlingham, third, 
 
 1 72 1. Eye, treble, second, and third. This seems to have 
 
 been the third eight in Suffolk. 
 Hawkendon, fourth, 
 T tins tall, six bells, 
 Wangford, S. Peter, fourth, 
 
 1722. Mettingham, second, 
 
 1723. Thorpe-by-Ixworth bell, 
 „ Mildenhall, tenor, 
 
 1724. Hessett, five bells (the fourth since recast), 
 
 1726. Ringsfield, treble, 
 
 1727. Bergholt, East, tenor (a fine bell), 
 
 This was about his last work. His burial at S. John 
 Sepulchre was on October 12th of that year, "widower." After
 
 140 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 his death the Rraconclalc foundry was occupied for a short time 
 by Thomas Gardiner, of whom we shall speak presently, and 
 with whom the long chronicle of Norwich founding ends. 
 
 Gardiner forms a good connecting link between Norwich and 
 Sudbury, to which latter town we will now turn, when Henry 
 Pleasant, another poetaster, was at work, taking in the district 
 the place of the younger Miles Graye. His list follows : — 
 
 1691. Peasenhall, second, 
 
 1692. Barnardiston, fourth, 
 
 1694. Orford, second, 
 „ Sibton, tenor, 
 
 1695. Bradfield, S. George, treble, 
 „ Drinkstone, tenor, 
 
 „ Welnetham, Great, bell, 
 
 1696. Drinkstone, second and fourth, tJiird and fifth, 
 „ Hawstead, second and third, 
 
 1697. Hitcham, fourth, 
 
 1698. Nayland, second, 
 
 1699. Stoke- by-Nayland, fifth, 
 
 1700. Offton, second and fifth, 
 
 1701. Euston, first three, 
 
 „ Sudbury, All Saints, third, 
 „ Westhorpe, first two, 
 
 1702. HaiigJiley, treble, 
 
 „ Lavenham, third and seventh, 
 „ Preston, fifth, 
 
 1703. Lavenham, fifth, 
 
 „ Wetherden, tenor, 
 
 1704. Preston, tenor, 
 
 1706. Eyke, second, 
 
 „ ' Framsdcn, tenor, 
 
 „ Ipswich, S. Nicholas, five bells, save the second, 
 
 „ Stonham, East, treble, 
 
 ,, Stutton, third, 
 
 1707. Cornard, Little, second and third; and Brettenham 
 
 treble, undated. 
 He was evidently proud of his name, and in the last year of 
 his life celebrated it thus at Maldon : —
 
 PLEASANT POETRY. I4I 
 
 " When three this steeple long did hold, 
 We were the emblems of a scold. 
 No music then, but we shall see 
 What Pleasant music six will be." 
 
 At Thetford S. Cuthbert's he simply records : — 
 
 " Henry Pleasant did me run 
 In the year 1701." 
 
 and with sublime idiom at Ipswich S. Nicholas : — 
 
 " Henry Pleasant have at last 
 Made as good as can be cast." 
 
 Mr. L'Estrange* quotes a writer in the Bury and Norwich Post, 
 probably the late Rev. Dr. Badham of Sudbury, to the effect 
 that Pleasant succeeded the Grayes at Colchester about 1686, 
 and afterwards removed his foundry to Sudbury. He also 
 speaks of Pleasant as casting at Bracondale about 1705, and 
 that he was in some way acting with Charles Newman about 
 that time appears from the fact that while two bells at Blickling, 
 dated 1703, bear the name of the latter, three years afterwards 
 the parish recovered three pounds of the former. 
 
 His English will not allow of his being considered the author 
 of the not faultless hexameter on the tenor at Ipswich S. 
 Nicholas : — 
 
 " Marlburio duce castra cano vastata inimicis," which records 
 that great general's victory over Villeroy at Ramilies. 
 
 He left behind him a widow, Milicent, to whom letters of 
 administration were granted February 12th, 1708. 
 
 John Thornton, whose bells generally please me, followed 
 him, casting in 
 
 1708, Cornard, Great, treble, second, and tenor, 
 
 17 1 2, Cornard, Little, bell, 
 „ TJiiirloiv, Great, fourth, 
 
 (both these in conjunction with John Waylett,) 
 17 16, Acton, treble, 
 
 * Church Bells of Norfolk, p. 67.
 
 142 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1718, Boxford, tenor (his most important work), 
 „ Burstall, three bells, 
 
 „ Withersficld, fourth, 
 
 1 7 19, Wiston, tenor, 
 
 1720, Hundon, tenor. 
 
 There are also nice tenors of his at Chevcley and West 
 Wickham, and a neat little five at Newmarket All Saints, all 
 given in my Cambridgeshire book, and three bells in Norfolk, 
 at Pulham S. Mary-the-Virgin, and Shropham. Otherwise he 
 is not found but in Suffolk and Essex, His "infrequent 
 partner," Waylett, however, is known in Sussex (17 15-1724), 
 Hertfordshire (1716), Kent (17 17-1727), and Surrey (17 18). 
 
 Some of Waylett's work in the South was done for Samuel 
 Knight of Reading. He appears to have been a good, though 
 rough workman, but he hardly belongs to us, and we will pass 
 to the last Sudbury founder, who has been already mentioned, 
 Thomas Gardiner. He started just after Thornton, his earliest 
 date being 1709, when like others of the craft, his first efforts 
 were not fully appreciated. Edwardstone was the earliest scene 
 of his labours, where he was entrusted with splicing in three 
 Miles Grayes (two of the elder and one of the younger) as third, 
 fourth, and fifth in a ring of six. No fault apparently was 
 found with his treble ; but a local genius, one William Culpeck, 
 otherwise to fame unknown, disagreed with him about the note 
 of the second, designated him as a " want-wit," then no uncom- 
 mon term of reproach, as we know from the Pilgriins Progress, 
 and humbled him by compelling him to cast on that bell these 
 words, "Tvned by W'"- Culpeck, 1710." But a quarrel with a 
 founder is like a quarrel with a newspaper editor, and Gardiner 
 had his revenge of the last word on casting the tenor, which he 
 inscribed : — 
 
 " About ty second Cvlpeck is wrett 
 Becavse the fovnder wanted wett 
 Thair jvdgments were bvt bad at last 
 Or elce this bell I never had cast. 
 Tho. Gardiner." 
 Etymologically this' is valuable, " ty " being the representative
 
 AN ALLEGED WANT-WIT. 1 43 
 
 of "the," well-known to all who talk the beloved East Anglian 
 tongue, and " wett " for " wit," shows the local pronunciation at 
 the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
 At Ickworth he writes — 
 
 " Tho. Gardiner he me did cast, 
 I'll sing his praise unto the last," 
 but otherwise he is plain enough, save that he sometimes puts 
 on his bells impressions of coins, as at Pakefield, where I found 
 those of a coin of John V. of Portugal, dated 1745, and a half- 
 penny of our George II., and uses a small cross reduced from a 
 mediaeval one at S. Giles's, Norwich. His Suffolk list is a long 
 one : — 
 
 1709. 1710. Edwardstone, treble, second, and tenor, 
 
 1 7 10. Badingham, fourth, 
 
 171 1. Ickworth bell, 
 
 1712. Weston, Market, treble, 
 
 17 1 3. Rendlesham, second, 
 „ Snape, tenor, 
 
 1 7 14. Boxford, treble, 
 
 „ Campsey Ash, second, 
 
 . „ Hemley bell, 
 
 „ Rendlesham, treble, 
 
 Waldringfield bell, 
 
 „ Wenham, Little, bell, 
 
 „ Wrentham, third, 
 
 1715. Bredfield, third, 
 „ Mickfield, tenor, 
 
 1 7 16. Hinderclay, second, 
 
 „ Kersey, treble, second, and clock bell, 
 
 „ Sternfield, third, 
 
 „ Sweffling, tenor, 
 
 1 7 17. Witnesham, tenor, 
 
 17 1 8. Bildeston, tenor, 
 „ Chediston, treble, 
 ,, Sweffling, third, 
 
 Wissett, second, third, and tenor (at Benhall), 
 
 1 7 19. Wattisham, treble.
 
 144 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 I7I9. 
 
 Wyverstone, second, 
 
 1720. 
 
 Huntingfield, five (the treble recast), 
 
 )) 
 
 Knettishall, treble, 
 
 I72I. 
 
 Lidgatc, tenor. 
 
 1722. 
 
 Barningham, tenor, 
 
 >» 
 
 Glemham, Great, second. 
 
 » 
 
 Harkstead, third, fourth, and tenor, 
 
 >> 
 
 Hintlesham, fourth. 
 
 »' 
 
 Holbrook, tenor, 
 
 ., 
 
 Huntingfield, treble. 
 
 1723- 
 
 Wrentham, treble, 
 
 1725- 
 
 Poslingford, fourth, 
 
 >1 
 
 Stoke-by-Nayland, treble. 
 
 >> 
 
 Thetford, S. Mary, fourth, 
 
 » 
 
 Weston, Market, tenor, 
 
 1726. 
 
 Clare, clock bell, 
 
 „ 
 
 Greeting, S. Peter, bell, 
 
 1) 
 
 Elmsett, treble. 
 
 )> 
 
 Hepworth, first three, 
 
 ,, 
 
 Hundon, third. 
 
 1727. 
 
 Greeting, S. Mary, bell, 
 
 » 
 
 Stonham, Earl, second, 
 
 1728. 
 
 Falkenham, third and fourth, 
 
 » 
 
 Rumburgh, third. 
 
 1729. 
 
 Gampsey Ash, third, 
 
 >1 
 
 Thelnetham, tenor. 
 
 1730. 
 
 Euston, fourth, 
 
 1731- 
 
 Barton, Great, treble, 
 
 » 
 
 Easton, treble, 
 
 1732. 
 
 Burgate, tenor. 
 
 » 
 
 Ipswich, S. Mary-at-Quay, treble, 
 
 1733. 
 
 Ipswich, S. Peter, second, 
 
 1734- 
 
 Hinderclay, fifth. 
 
 1735- 
 
 Barnham, S. Gregory, second and tenor, 
 
 >» 
 
 Ipswich, S. Peter, fifth, 
 
 >) 
 
 Ofifton, treble. 
 
 1737- 
 
 Winston, fourth.
 
 GOLDSMITH OF REDGRAVE. I45 
 
 1739. Orford, tenor, 
 
 1740. Alderton bell, 
 
 „ VVesthorpe, third, 
 
 1743. Eriswell, tenor, 
 
 „ Kedington, second, 
 
 „ Stradishall, treble, 
 
 1744. Hitcham, tenor, 
 „ Preston, fourth, 
 
 1745. Stratford, S. Mary, second (in this year he removed to 
 
 Norwich), 
 
 1746. Burgate, treble and second, 
 
 1747. Acton, fourth (surely from Sudbury), 
 
 1748. Mendham, treble, second, fourth, and tenor, 
 
 1749. Pakefield, treble, 
 
 1750. Cove, North, treble and second, 
 
 175 1. Mildenhall, tenor (" Norwich," a fine bell), 
 „ Ipswich, Holy Trinity, bell, 
 
 1754. Boxford, third 
 „ Glemsford, fourth 
 „ Rattlesden, first four 
 
 1755. Dalham, treble 
 His latest known date is 1759, on two bells at Danbury, 
 
 Essex. The writer in the Bury Post, already quoted, says that 
 the Hospitallers' Yard, near Ballingdon Bridge, and Curds or 
 Silkweaver's Lane were successively the sites of foundries. 
 This is all that can be said about Gardiner, save that in poetry 
 Dr. Johnson would have called him a " barren rascal," for he 
 uses the same jingle in 1754 as at Ickworth in 1711. And now 
 comes a man of some little local interest, John Goldsmith of 
 Redgrave, no poet, but fortunately a preserver of ancient dedi- 
 cations, his bells being frequently inscribed " Maria," " Gabriel," 
 etc. In tone his bells are rather sweet than powerful. About 
 twenty of them remain in Norfolk and Suffolk, and none in any 
 other county. I append a complete list, with N. before those 
 from Norfolk. 
 
 1702. Badley, second, Jl/ar/a. 
 „ „ third, Margaret. 
 
 T 
 
 (all of these two years at 
 Sudbury).
 
 146 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 N. 1707. Frenze bell. 
 
 N. 1708. Pulham, S. Mary-the-Virgin, fifth, Margaret 
 
 1 7 10. Darmsden bell, JSIaria. 
 
 171 1. Hoxnc, third, Gabriel. 
 
 „ Oakley, Great, treble, Margaret. 
 „ second and fifth, 
 
 N. 171 1. ShimpHng, third (split). 
 
 „ Thetford, S. Mary, tenor, Maria. 
 N. „ Terrington, S. Clement, second, Maria. 
 
 1712. Rickinghall Superior, second, third, fourth, and 
 
 fifth (very small). 
 N. „ Ellingham, Little, bell, 
 N. „ Rushall bell. 
 N. „ Thorpe Abbot's, second. 
 
 17 1 3. Wilby, treble. 
 
 We know from Tom Martin that the tenor at Thetford S. 
 Mary was inscribed : — 
 
 -5- 33ona 3ilepcnDc ^la. II050 i^agDalcna i^ada, 
 from which it appears that Goldsmith's learning did not extend 
 to deciphering the whole inscription, or he would have lettered 
 his recast bell Alagdaleti instead of Maria. 
 
 His Margarets were probably Brasyer's, bearing 
 
 ''* JFac iWargarcta. iloftis |i?cc iiXuncra B-cta, or Londoners with 
 
 -5- fl)cc iiora CTainpana i>Xargarcta lest i^lominata. 
 
 His Gabriel^ the Hoxne third, was no doubt the Angclus bell 
 of that parish, probably a Brasycr, with the well-known 
 
 + p?ac In CoHclafac. (gabticl ilunc ^jJangc ^uafae. 
 
 With the solitary exception of Tattington tenor, cast by the 
 well-known firm of Ransomes and Sims, at Ipswich, in 1853, 
 the record of bells cast in the county now closes. 
 
 Having now altogether disposed of the bells of East Anglian 
 make in Suffolk, we will revert to the Metropolis. 
 
 There are two sid generis at Kelsale, and one at Crowfield. 
 All the rest come from the great foundry of Whitechapel, from 
 which as yet we have only had one specimen, the bell at Great 
 Finborough, 1609. 
 
 The Kelsale bells in question are the second and the sixth,
 
 WHITECHAPEL. 
 
 147 
 
 both dated 1708, the former bearing the name of John Peele, 
 the latter that of Samuel Newton also. The site of their 
 foundry is denoted by a court called Founder's Court, in the 
 parish of S. Giles, Cripplegate, marked in old Ward maps. 
 Newton was the master, and Peele the apprentice. Though the 
 former was Master of the Founders' Company in 171 1, there 
 are very few of his bells in existence. The same remark applies 
 to the latter, son of Samuel Peele, " latt of Bishopsgatt silkman 
 deceased," whose apprenticeship was out in 1704, and who died 
 in reduced circumstances between 1752 and 1755.* The Crow- 
 field bell was made in 1740 by Robert Catlin, who in that year 
 was elected a " love brother " of the Founders' Company, and 
 took up the business of Samuel Knight of Holborn.-f" 
 
 Pig. 88. 
 
 Nearly a century separates the two first Whitechapel bells. 
 The Somerleyton second is by James Bartlett in 1700, and 
 bears a well-known mark of his (fig. 88). The name of the 
 donor. Sir Richard Allen, Bart., appears on it. 
 
 James Bartlett, the elder son of Anthony Bartlett, a "lone 
 man," wrought for about a quarter of a century, doing more 
 work in the home counties than in East Anglia, where there are 
 
 * Stahlschmidt's C. B. of Kent, pp. 103, 104. 
 t P. loS.
 
 148 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK, 
 
 three small College-chapel bells in Cambridge, and three not 
 very notable specimens in Norfolk, besides this Somerleyton 
 second. He died in 1701 intestate, and letters of administration 
 were granted to his sister, Elizabeth Bixon, widow. He was 
 succeeded by a very able man, Robert Phelps, said to have been 
 a native of Avebury in Wiltshire, from whom we have : — 
 
 1 7 10. Charsfield, treble, 
 
 171 1. Kcttleburgh, treble, 
 1723. Bruisyaj'd, treble, 
 172S. Ottley, second, 
 
 „ Stonham, Little, tenor, 
 
 1729. Rendham, second, 
 
 173 1. Bedfield, second, 
 
 1734. Bures, second and third, 
 
 „ Bury, S. Mary's, eight bells, splicing in the present 
 fourth, a William Brend. Weight of tenor, 24 
 cwt., in D sharp, very good, 
 
 „ Soham, jMonk, second, 
 
 1735. Bredfield, second, 
 
 1736. Helmingham, third, 
 
 „ Trimley, S. Mary's, bell, 
 
 1737. Ringshall, treble. 
 
 The first on the list has a truly notable legend \- — " Sic Sache- 
 verellvs [ore melos] immortali olli [ecclesiae defensori h] anc dicat 
 [Gvlielmvs] Leman de Cher[sfield Eqves 17 10. R. Phelps]." 
 
 This is restored from Carthcw's MS., and though " constructio 
 latet," as Person would have said, there can be no doubt as to 
 the political feeling which dictated it. But the immortality of 
 Dr. Sacheverell is not very enviable, and though " Hoy for Hoy 
 Church and Sachcfrel " was the shout at many a harvest home,* 
 it may be doubted whether the name would have got into 
 history save for that zeal which prompted his impeachment. 
 
 However, Sir William Leman thought well of him, and he 
 may stand in the same hagiology as Thomas of Canterbury, 
 though only a star of an inferior order. Phelps, described as 
 
 * IVaverhy, ch. li.
 
 THE BECCLES FAILURE. 149 
 
 " a man from y^ High Street," was buried at Whifechapel in 
 1738. 
 
 Thomas Lester, then thirty-three years old, took up his work. 
 His predecessor had given the county an almost complete eight 
 at Bury S. Mary's, He followed with six at Coddenham in 
 1740, either wholly in great part the gift of Theodore Eccleston, 
 Esq., of Crowfield Hall. But the tenor, of 15 cwt, had to be 
 recast in 1742, and then two trebles were added. In the three 
 following years the same generous donor and the same founder 
 were concerned in the first ten that were ever heard in Suffolk, 
 the Stonham Aspall bells, tenor 24 cwt. ; and the brick tower 
 at Long Melford delighted by its eight tuneful bells, tenor 16 
 cwt, the ears of many whose eyes it had outraged. Besides 
 these he made the two smaller bells at Cotton and the three 
 smaller at Thelnetham. Soon afterwards he took Thomas 
 Pack into partnership, and lived on to 1769, when he died of 
 convulsions. 
 
 I have now reached a period with which the antiquary is 
 hardly concerned ; and I shall only notice the principal works 
 of later founders. A pleasant five at Ousden, tenor 14)^ cwt, 
 came from Lester and Pack in 1758, the gift of Thomas Moody, 
 Esq., and the Reverend Richard Bethell ; then in 1761 followed 
 the eight at Debenham, tenor 20 cwt., while in the next year 
 Suffolk saw the smallest five then known. Great Livermere, 
 tenor 5 cwt., and a mighty ten boomed over the Waveney 
 valley, from the massive tower at Beccles, tenor 27^ cwt* But 
 these were originally a bad casting, and it is rather a marvel 
 how they have lasted so long. The third was recast in 1804, 
 and the sixth and seventh in 1871, after having existed in a 
 cracked condition for many years. The treble, second, fourth, 
 and eighth have wooden crowns, the eighth having also a strong 
 iron band round the shoulder, though I could not discover 
 where the crack was. The ninth has a crack in the crown, 
 which did not amount to much when I examined it in i86r. 
 On a second visit, in 1869, I found that a piece of metal, 
 
 * So by weight, in 1871. Lester and Tack's list gives 28 cwt., and common 
 repute 29 cwt.
 
 150 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 weighing some 1 5 lbs., had fallen from the lip of the seventh, 
 while the fourth chattered, and the vibration of the sixth was a 
 minimum. In the section of the fracture of the seventh, I 
 observed that the metal was quite clear and free from honey- 
 comb, but there was an oval-shaped grain, like the grain of 
 wood, the nucleus of it in the middle of the fracture. Under 
 these circumstances the Beccles folk need not be surprised at 
 further collapses. 
 
 I am informed by Mr. S. B. Goslin, of the Cripplegate 
 foundry, where the sixth and seventh were recast, that the pecu- 
 liarity noticed by me occurs when castings are poured, the 
 metal flowing in having a chilled surface or cake, which may 
 slip in unless sufficient care is exercised, or sometimes from a 
 chill in the mould, which for some reason may be cooler in one 
 part than another. In such cases the metal, not being lively 
 enough with heat, flows sluggishly, hence such faults in the 
 casting. 
 
 After Lester's death Chapman became Pack's partner. They 
 made five for Gazeley, tenor 10 cwt., in 1775, and a similar ring 
 for Cavendish in 1779. Pack died of decline in 1781, and 
 Chapman of consumption in 1784. In the meantime a young 
 man from Canterbury, William Mears, had been taken into the 
 Whitechapel business. His name appears on the little five at 
 Moulton, tenor 6 cwt. After Chapman's death William Mears 
 brought in his brother Thomas (said to have been a brewer) 
 from Canterbury, and the two brothers cast the six for Clopton 
 in 1788. Nothing of note came from Whitechapel after this 
 till 1 804, when Thomas Mears made the sixth for Worlingworth. 
 The Duchess of Chandos, then resident in the parish. Lord 
 Henniker, Emily, Lady Henniker, and others were benefactors, 
 as may be seen in the list of inscriptions. The Suffolk nobility 
 have not been unmindful of the bells on their estates. The Earl 
 of Dysart gave eight to Helmingham (by Thomas Mears the 
 younger) in 181 5. 
 
 In 1820 the inhabitants of Bungay cut down a fine peal of 
 eight, the second or third oldest in the county, to the present 
 set, losing some 2 cwt in the weight of the tenor, though
 
 A ship's bell. 151 
 
 possibly gaining in equability. The present tenor is in F sharp, 
 and further information will be found in the list of inscriptions. 
 Sev^en for Sudbury S. Gregory's, with a tenor of Pack and 
 Chapman's, gave that tower a complete Whitechapel eight in 
 1 82 1, and Polstead exchanged a grand old five (probably with 
 one or two cracked) for a lighter but tuneful six of Thomas 
 Mears's in 1825. Norton and Nowton, his last considerable 
 works in Suffolk, followed in 1829. Fornham S. Martin's six 
 in 1844 were from his sons, Charles and George Mears, the 
 latter of whom survived his brother, dying at Landport, Ports- 
 mouth, in 1873. From his hand we have the five at Ingham, 
 " offered " (as we find from the bells themselves) " at the church 
 at Ingham in memory of her Ancestors by Frances Wakeham, 
 June, i860." 
 
 My fellow-townsman, Mr. Robert Stainbank, took up the 
 Whitechapel work some time before George Mears's death. 
 From him we have two sixes, Troston (1868), and Gorleston 
 (1873), both prompted by the same kindly natal feeling, the 
 former also notable for the preservation, as far as possible, of 
 the old inscription. The donors, respectively, were E. Stanley 
 and Miss Miriarn Chevallier Roberts. 
 
 The Whitechapel foundry has had of late a formidable rival 
 in the Warners of Cripplegate. They did a mighty work at 
 the "Tower" Church, Ipswich, in .1866, putting a treble and a 
 tenor to the existing ten, and recasting the present ninth, so as 
 to prevent tuning. Ipswich knows the history of all this work, 
 and it is as needless for me to rehearse it, as to sing the praises 
 of the great twelve, from which I heard a good touch of Grand- 
 sire Cinques in December, 1887, when superintending the 
 Cambridge Local Examination. 
 
 The sixth and seventh at Beccles were recast by the Cripple- 
 gate men in 1871. Two trebles were added by them to 
 Sudbury S. Peter's in 1874, and All Saints' followed suit two 
 years afterwards. 
 
 A single bell by Oliver of Wapping hangs in Stowupland 
 bell-cot. I know no more of the make. 
 
 In Lavenheath tinkles an old ship's bell, rather curious than 
 antique, bearing the words —
 
 152 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 " Back Skieppet ADoLF Guten 
 
 Bygdt Stockholm 
 
 i Jacobstad A. X. iSoi af Gerhard Horner." 
 
 When the good barque Adolphus, built at Jacobstad, on the 
 east coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, perished, I know not, or how 
 the bell came to Lavenheath. " Guten " may be noted as the 
 Scandinavian for " cast," and compared with the Flemish 
 " ghegoten." 
 
 We must now notice a few Suffolk bells by a Suffolk man, 
 John Briant, of Exning, born there in the middle of the last 
 century, and intended for Holy Orders. His love for mechanics 
 and clock-making, however, regulated his destiny, and he 
 developed into bell-founding at Hertford about 1781, when he 
 made the five for Great Thurlow, tenor 13 cwt. In 1800 he 
 cast the old five at Great Waldringfield into six, an achievement 
 which we do not find recorded in his lists. In 1807 and the 
 two following years he recast the tenor at Little Thurlow, 
 added a treble to Gazeley, and recast the third and fourth 
 (apparently Thomas Newman's) at Cowlinge. 
 
 For some years he had the benefit of the foremanship of 
 Islip Edmunds, who had served Arnold in the same capacity. 
 An honest, capable, and enthusiastic member of his craft, his 
 advice was sought by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln when 
 the old " Great Tom " was broken, though at the time he had 
 given up the foundry. His sensible, straightforward correspon- 
 dence may be read in North and Stahlschmidt's ClinrcJi Bells of 
 Hertfordshire* and the course of events abundantly justified 
 his counsel. It is painful to record that he fell into difficulties 
 through his unselfishness, and ended his days as a pensioner in 
 the Spencer Almshouses at Hertford, in 1829, not living to 
 witness the completion of the New "Tom o' Lincoln" in 1834. 
 
 The great Leicester foundry of the Newcombes and Wattses, 
 though claiming, as it seems, East Anglian, origin by the free 
 use of Brasyer's Norwich shield, did not touch Suffolk ; but 
 Joseph Eayre of S. Neot's, who for his part claimed business 
 
 Pp. 57, &c.
 
 DOWNHAM MARKET. 1 53 
 
 descent from Watts, has left his mark at Haverhill, when he 
 recast the fourth in 1765. His foreman, Thomas Osborn, and 
 his cousin, Edward Arnold, continued the foundry for a little 
 time, but soon separated, the former going to Downham Market. 
 From the latter we have a little ring of five at Whepstead 
 (1774), and a recast or two. Towards the end of the century 
 Arnold brought the foundry back to Leicester, and was suc- 
 ceeded by Robert Taylor, one of whose sons, John, with his 
 elder brother William, after working at Oxford, and in Devon- 
 shire and Cornwall, finally took up his quarters at Loughborough 
 in 1840. Their first Suffolk work to be noted is the turning of 
 the "Tower" eight into ten in 1845. 
 
 When I was a boy, disliking much the noise in Worlington 
 tower, I got up a subscription, and the Taylors recast the fourth 
 and added a treble there. 
 
 Ten years afterwards they put the Mildenhall folk into 
 possession of a tuneable six, and nine years after that recast 
 the three for Herringswell, after the fire at that interesting 
 little church. Then 1879 saw the octave completed at Strad- 
 broke, during the incumbency of the present Bishop of Liverpool, 
 and in 1884 filial and fraternal affection moved the members of 
 the well-known family of Garrett of Leiston to do the same 
 work for their parish church. A peculiarity of St. Neot's work 
 used to be the heavy clapping of 1,4, 6, 8. I know not whether 
 this is still observed. The effect would be manifest. 
 
 From the St. Neot's foundry arose that at Downham Market. 
 Thomas Osborn, son of Richard Osborn, joiner of that town, 
 baptized 1741, had been foreman to Joseph Lay re, and for a 
 while partner with Arnold. About 1778 they dissolved partner- 
 ship, and Osborn returned to his native place, where he 
 conducted an extensive business. For a short time he was in 
 partnership with Robert Patrick of Whitechapel (from whom by 
 himself we have Holbrook third, 1783); but the bulk of his 
 work bears no name but his own. 
 
 He made between sixty and seventy bells in our county, the 
 earliest being Great Barton third, in 1779, and the latest. Little 
 Glemham treble and Woodbridge eight, twenty years afterwards. 
 
 U
 
 154 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 His work is generally held in good repute, and his cJief d'ocnvre 
 is the fine ten in the Norman tower at Bury, in D, tenor 30 
 cwt.* He died in December, 1806, and lies in Downham 
 Market Churchyard. For the last six years of his life his name 
 seldom occurs, his grandson, William Dobson, managing the 
 foundry. Suffolk has but two bells of this time, Coney Weston 
 bell, 1802, and Hadleigh fifth, 1806. Afterwards Dobson cast 
 between thirty and forty of our bells, none of more note than 
 the treble and second at Lavenham in 181 1, a little five for 
 Brandon in 1815, and the Horningsheath (Horringer) six in 
 1818. His work is very variable, from the excellent peal at 
 Diss to the not excellent peal at S. Nicholas, Liverpool. After 
 a while he fell into difficulties. Thomas Mears of Whitechapel 
 purchased his business in 1833. He went to London, was made 
 a brother of the Charterhouse, when he died and was buried in 
 1842.-I- 
 
 From Birmingham we have six at Christ Church, Lowestoft, 
 by Messrs. Blews and Son, and a bell at Newbourne by Carr, 
 
 The Redenhall foundry, under my friends Moore, Holmes, 
 and Mackenzie, were not so successful in Suffolk as in Norfolk. 
 They have given us a bell at Holton S. Peter's, 1881, and six at 
 Weybrcad, their first effort in 1879. I much admire the tone of 
 some of their individual bells, and wish that Weybread may 
 some day experience Walter of Odyngton's " cos et lima," so as 
 to " tell the tale " as prettily as Winterton tells it, or as Thorpe 
 would tell it if it had a tower stout enough to carry the eight 
 made for it. As to their work at Southwold, the pity was that 
 they attempted to do anything with such a queer, though inter- 
 esting, crew as the present tenants of that glorious tower. 
 
 Winterton was occupied by a very " scratch " five, and my 
 counsel to my friends was to attempt nothing with splicing, but 
 send them all to the boiler. The result has been very good, 
 only the Wintertonians would have six out of metal that sufficed 
 for five. Let Southwold take the same course. London, 
 Loughborough, Birmingham — any one of them will do the work, 
 
 * Note from Robert Carr. Weight from Dobson's list, 
 t n Estrange s Church Bells of Norfolk, p. 49.
 
 FINIS CORONAT OPUS. 155 
 
 but let the whole eight know the power of the furnace, and if 
 means do not suffice, have a fairly heavy six, and leave it to 
 the future to put on the trebles. Cutting down is often an 
 irreparable evil. 
 
 My story ends where I took it up in 1848, at Mildenhall. 
 After the many vicissitudes already related, the parishioners 
 determined to have a peal of eight worthy of their church, in 
 commemoration of the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria's reign. 
 
 Happily they were induced not to top a light six with two 
 trebles, but to " top and tail " with a treble and tenor, flattening 
 by a semitone the old fourth, now the fifth, which being a rather 
 thick bell, from Loughborough, stood the operation well. Mr. 
 Lawson, the representative of Mears and Stainbank, of White- 
 chapel, undertook the work, and carried it out admirably. 
 
 The detail will be found under the head of that parish. 
 
 I cannot close this work without an expression of thankful- 
 ness to Him from whom all mercies come, for the continuance, 
 amongst varied scenes of labour, of the will and power to 
 persevere in what seemed once an impossible task. So many 
 friends have helped me that I cannot thank them individually. 
 Not a few, indeed, have left this world, and of those that remain 
 I have lost sight of many in the labours of forty years. But 
 none the less do I cherish an affectionate recollection, so far as 
 memory will extend, of my kind helpers. 
 
 Long may dear old "sely" Suffolk resound at all appointed 
 times with the solemn and yet cheery music of the " peaceful 
 bells," which 
 
 " Still upon the hallowed day, 
 Convoke the swains to praise and pray ! "
 
 INSCRIPTIONS 
 
 ON 
 
 ilje €ljmdj §dh of Suffolk. 
 
 1. ACTOM A// Sawfs. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Thornton made me 1716. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1659. Nicholas Kerington. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1663. 
 
 4 Tho. Gardiner fecit 1747. 
 
 5 Miles Graye made me 1685. God save the King. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return ot 1553. 
 
 Davy, Aug. i8th, 1S26, rotes the date of the 2nd as 1679, and the name 
 " Kennington " ; also the 5th as 1684. 2, 3, 4 chipped. 
 
 2. AKENHAM S. Marj: i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1678. (45 in.) 
 
 3 in 1553- 
 Davy, 9 Sept., 1827, did not go up to it. 
 
 3. A L D E B U R G H 5.9. Paer and Paul. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner and Son, London, 1885. 
 Rev. H. Thompson, B.A., Vicar, 
 
 N. f!^ Hde I Churchwardens. 
 Hung by G. Day and Son, Eye. 
 
 2 Lester and Pack of London fecit 1764. 
 
 3 Anno Domini 1622. W. L B. 
 
 4 Recast by John Warner and Sons, London, 1884. 
 Rev. H. Thompson, B.A., Vicar. 
 
 XT 17 IT 1 I Churchwardens. 
 N. F. Hele ) 
 
 Hung by G. Day and Son, Eye. 
 
 5 Lester and Pack of London fecit 1764. 
 
 Jn°. Wynter and Samuel Aldrick Ch. Wardens. 
 
 6 Thomas Mears of London fecit 1820. 
 Clock-bell. 181 2. 
 
 " Great bells iiij. Sancts Eells j." Return of 1553. Old 4 by J. Darbie.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 157 
 
 In Davy's MS. 2 and 3, then i and 2, are reversed, and the bell recast in 
 i88| has the same inscription as the present 3rd. The old tenor was inscri- 
 bed " Miles Graye made me 1653." 
 
 No mention of bells in certif. of iij Nov. 1547. 
 
 4. ALDERTON .9. ^;/^;r7<:'. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1740. 
 No mention of bells in certif. of iij Nov. 1547. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy notes the steeple about half down, 9 June, 1830. 
 
 5. ALDH AM S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. XJ 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67. <§aitfta D iWaria Q ©ra Q iPro D Mohii. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 " One " Davy, 19 Aug., 1825. Faculty for sale of two, 1759. 
 
 6. ALDRINGHAM 5. Afidrew. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Mears Founder London. 1842. 
 
 Diameter i8j in. 
 
 "One" Davy, 1808. 
 
 From Eastern Counties' Collectanea, p. 239, we know that there were three 
 in 1687, when Bishop Lloyd granted a faculty for the sale of two. These 
 were probably those alluded to in the words: — "All ornamets playt and 
 belles belongyng to ow^ Cherche ar fore to sell." Certif. iiij Nov., 1547. 
 5 in 1553. A. cum Thorpe. 
 
 7. ALKmSTOH S. Jo/m Baptist. 
 
 Ecclesia destructa. 
 No return in 1553. 
 
 8. ALPHETON .S^". Fcter and Paul. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 Roberd O Gvrney made me [667. '^ 
 
 2 Robard O Gvrney made me 1667. ^ 
 
 The mark between the names is a flower with eight petals. 
 Two heavier bells are said to have disappeared in the early part of the 
 eighteenth century. Traces of them still remain. 
 "Alton, Great bellis ij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, Aug. 16, 1S31, "2 bells." 
 
 9. AMPT OH S. Feter. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 Presented by the Honorable Clara E. C. Paley, 1888. 
 
 On a medallion below, John Taylor & Co., Lough- 
 borough. 
 
 2 Johanes Draper me fecit 1608. 
 
 3 □ 6 thrice. 
 
 -(- 47. SAnCTA : mAl^GTA : OI\A PP^O : 
 
 llOBIS : THOmAS : BGCI-T. ^^ 
 
 4 6 thrice. <>-■'->- ^'' 
 + 7. □ SAnCTG □ AHDI^GA □ OI\A Q PI\0 
 
 □ llOBIS □ DGP^^BY. 
 
 See pp. 12, 41. The occurrence of fig. 6 on a Norwich and a London A 
 
 bell in the same tower is remarkable. The "second" mentioned on p. 41 
 has become the third. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 "Three bells and a clock,' Davy,
 
 158 THE CHURCH BELLS OP^ SUFFOLK. 
 
 10. ASHBOCKING^// ^.7////.-. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Ciraye made me 1615. 
 
 2 15^4 D ^5 five times. 
 2 in 1553. 
 
 Davy, 7 May, 1824, notes i "Blank," and the old tenor " Thos. Gardiner 
 made me 1745." 
 
 Terrier, 13 May, 1806. " Item, three bells with their frames." 
 
 n. ASH BY .5. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 
 " Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 No bells. Davy. 
 
 12. ASHFIELD, GREAT, All Saints. Tenor Ab, c. 11 cwt. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho. Newman fecit 1735. Thomas Rice Churchwarden. 
 Pull on, brave boys, I am metal to the back- 
 bone, but will be hanged before I'll crack. 
 
 2 Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1745. 
 
 3 John Draper made me 1631. 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 4- cSwm ^ofa ^ulfata iHuntt iWaria ITotata. 
 
 5 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -j- i^evitis CJDmuntJt Simug 51 ©viminc itlunDi. 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 6 July, 1843, no notes. 
 
 13. ASHFIELD, LITTLE, ^. Mary. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 W. M. Moss Churchwarden. 1825. 
 T. Mears of London fecit. 
 
 2 Charoli Framlingham Militis 1568. 
 
 He was resident at Crow's Hill, Debenham, in 1542. His sole heiress 
 was married to Sir Charles Gawdy of Debenham. 
 
 This seems to be the " Ashefeld," of which Wyllm Seme and Wyllm 
 Roger were C. W. iij Nov., 1547, when they made return, "We have styll 
 remaynyng a peyer of Shalys and iij Bells." Same return in 1553. 
 
 " The church has long been down . . . part of the steeple still remains, 
 and it is a picturesque object. A small bell hangs near the ground in a 
 latticed shed, at the east end of the chancel." Davy. See Thorpe next 
 Ashfield, whence the larger bell came. 
 
 14. ASPALL. I Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 2 in 1553. 
 Davy, 7 Nov., 1815, " 2 bells." 
 
 15. ASSINGTON .S. ^^;;/?/«./. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me 167 1. 
 
 2 illegible. 
 
 3 _|_ HOG ; siGnvm : sgi\ya ; xpg : mAi\iA : 
 
 THOmA. 
 
 4 + i^iffi tic ccHsi j^abeo nomcn CSabttclig. Weight said 
 
 to be 19 cwt., diameter 43 in. 
 See p. 10 for 3. 4 belongs to the group on pp. 34, 35. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, Oct. 2, 182S. "The steeple is a square tower, containing 5 bells, 
 but I could not get up."
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 159 
 
 16. ATHELINGTON 5. /'.Yrr. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 -|- : AVG GI\AGIA PLGUA DHSTGCY. 
 
 2 4- : omAGDAIJGnA : DUG : nos : AD GAUDIA 
 
 PErGHA. 
 
 3 -}- SGG BAI^THOIJOmGG SALtYG mG. 
 
 See pp. 61 — 63. 
 
 " Alyngton, Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 25 Nov. 1813, notes 3 small bells. 
 
 The musical notes are E. D. C. Teste Rev. H. W. Thornton. 
 
 17. B ACT ON S. Mary. Tenor G#. 5 Bells. 
 
 I Charles Newman made me 1699. 
 
 2, 5 Thomas Mears Founder London 1841. 
 
 Reyd. E. B. Barker, Rector. 
 
 Edward Cooper 1 r-u u j 
 ,,,.,,. T' r Churchwardens. 
 
 William Kerry ] 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -f ^ancta D #TarR Q <9ra Q i^ro D i^obtg. 
 
 4 Pack and Chapman of London fecit 1772. 
 
 4 in 1553. 2 and 5 flattened by turning. 
 Davy, 21 July, 1831, " 5 bells." 
 
 18. BADINGH AM S. /o/in Ba/>f/sL 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Anno Domini 1630. 
 
 2 Anno Domini 1624. 
 
 A B 
 W 
 
 3 ^nno JSomini 1624. 
 
 A B 
 W 
 
 4 Thomas Gardiner made me 17 10. 
 
 5 Anno Domini 1624. 
 U 5°- 
 
 No mention of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. 
 4 in 1553. 
 
 Two of them noted correctly by Davy, 27 May, 1S06. 
 One recast by Warner in 1889. 
 
 19. BAD LEY S. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 68 -|- 68 sancte : augustinc ora pro nobis. 
 
 2 -(-John Goldsmith fecit 1702. W. R. S^ Maria. 
 
 3 Ex dono Elebth Pooley -f- John Goldsmith fecit 1702. 
 
 S'. Margaret. 
 
 Cross on i identical with that at Radwinter. This bell has no crown- 
 staple. 
 
 3 in 1553- 
 
 Davy, 15 June, 1827, imperfectly reports as above. 
 
 20. BADWELL ASH S. Mary. Tenor Ff. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 4 John Draper made me 1630. 
 3 John Darbie made me 1664. 
 5 U 50 thrice. (Diameter 41^ in.) 
 4- 61 ilRuncrc 33apttstc D 62 UcncDictuS =it ©j^orug Bte.
 
 l60 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 " Ashefekl p'va. Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 " Five," Martin ; and Davy, 6 j uly, 1843. 
 
 21. BAR DWELL SS. Peter and Paul 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho. Gardiner Svdbvry fecit 17 19. 
 
 2 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1770. 
 
 3 Vv'illiam Eaton Churchwarden 1820. 
 
 4 Thomas Spinluf & Charles Phillips C.W. T. Newman 
 
 fecit 1733. 
 
 5 Tho. Newman fecit 173- Roger Cooke, Robert Bvgg. 
 
 C.W. 
 
 6 John Brett Churchwarden, Tho^ Osborn Downham 
 
 fecit 1780. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 "6," Davy, July 26, 1832. 
 
 22. BARHAM S. Mary. Diameter of tenor 40I in. 4 Bells. 
 
 T John Darbie made me 1683. S. D. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1641. 
 
 3 Charles Newman made me 1702. Francis Weekes C.W. 
 
 4 De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs. Tonni me fecit W. L. 
 
 1587- 
 
 Left blank in 1553 report. Probably 3, as the numbers fall short of the 
 total by 4, of which Darmsden may reckon for i . 
 
 Davy, 31 May, 1827, gives obviously wrong dates for i and 2, which he 
 also crosses. 
 
 23. BARKING ^. J/^ry. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1659. 
 Frances Theobald Esq. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1659. 
 Thomas Roberts Bvgg Mvdd. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 16-4. 
 
 4 IJ 9 thrice. 
 
 -[-13 ?i?,ic In Condabc Gabriel i!iunc i^angc *ualJ^ 
 
 5 8 thrice. 
 
 -|- 12 ir^iotrge ^rccc ^la C&uo$ ©onboto ^amta iHarla. 
 
 Seep. 17. Ncedham-in Barking. 
 No return of bells in certif of 1547. 4 in 1553. 
 
 So Davy, 16 June, 1827, though, like ourselves, he cannot read the date 
 on 3. 1, 4, 5 cracked. 
 
 24. BARNARDISTON ^// .W/^A-. Tenor 37 in. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Milo Graie me fecit. 
 
 2 Milo Graie me fecit per nun. 
 
 3 u 25 + 22 U 26. 
 
 ^ancta iHfiria ^fclagtialena (Ttra ^ro iiobi'S. 
 
 4 Henry Pleasant made mee 1692. 
 
 5 □ omnes = sahgti ; dgi \ oi\atg ; Pi\o : 
 
 noBis. 
 
 See pp. 8, 24. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 No notes. Davy.
 
 INSCRirXIONS. i6i 
 
 25. BARN BY S. John Baptist. i Eell. 
 
 Bell. U 52 thrice. %q\}. J^iptng. 
 -|- 61 In iWultis Slnnis D 62 lS,csonct ®amfa %^\iKi>. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 26. BARN HAM 5. Gregory. 4 Bells. 
 
 I John Darbie made me 1664. 
 2, 4 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1735. 
 3 John Draper made me 1623. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 27. BARN HAM S. Martin. 
 Ecclesia destrjicta, 
 
 " Great bells iij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 In 1639 the Rectories of S. Gregory and S. Martin were consolidated, 
 and the services directed to be performed in them alternatively. In 1682, 
 there was an order for the sale of S. Martin's bells, and S. Gregory's was 
 made the sole Church. Registr. Nor. 
 
 28. BARNINGHAM ^. ^//^/mc'. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 17 52 thrice. 
 
 -f- 61 €lucfumu3 ^ntrca D 62 jpamulorum Sufctpc Uota, 
 
 2 U 52 thrice. 
 
 + 61 iiog 5oci«t ,5ci!3 □ 62 5fmper itiicI)olaMS Jn ^Itig. 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1722. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Returns of 1553. 
 
 The old treble J3ona ItiepenlTE ^ta ItJogo i^tlagUalrna ftlaiia- T. Martin's 
 notes. 
 
 Davy, 26 Aug. 1832, "3 bells." 
 Tenor G according to Sperling. 
 
 29. BARROW All Saints. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 T. Osborn Downham fecit 1786. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1662. 
 
 3 T. Osborn fecit 1786. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1662 Robert Hayward C.W. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1662. John Daynes. 
 
 30. ^k^K^WK'^ Holy Trinity. In D. Diam. 27^ in. i Bell 
 
 Bell i^ij no m □ 62 u 51- 
 
 " Great Bells iij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553, 
 
 Davy mistook KL for RD. He did not see that the inscription is a 
 portion of the alphabet. June 2, 1808. Pits now for three. 
 
 31. BARTON, GREAT, Holy Innocents. 5 Bells. 
 
 I Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1731. 
 
 2, 4, 5 John Draper made me 1619. 
 
 3 Tho''. Osborn Downham Norfolk fecit 1779. 
 So Davy. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 32. BARTON MILLS 6^ J/«;.y. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 66 thrice. 
 
 n 67 -ancta Q ^Sarbara Q o»^'T D pi^o D Jiobis. 
 
 2 Johanes Draper me fecit 1608. 
 
 V
 
 l62 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67 <^ancic D SluDria D ^postoli Q ora G P^o D 
 iiobis. 
 " Great bells iij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 T. Martin (no date) notes 3. 
 Inscriptions incorrectly given by Davy, 21 Aug., 1829. 
 
 33. BATTISFORD S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1666. D. P. C.W. 
 
 3 in 1553- 
 
 Davy, June 18, 1827, could not examine it. 
 
 34. BAWDSEY S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. W. I. B. Anno Domini 1622. 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. " Great bells iij." Return 
 
 of 1553- 
 
 " One bell which I did not venture to approach." Davy, 9 June, 1830. 
 
 35. BAYLHAM S. Peter. Tenor G. Diam. 41 in. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner & Sons London 1865. 
 
 2, 3, 4 Miles Graye made me 1636. 
 
 5 Rev^. Henry Asplin, Ambros Brown & Sam'. Southgate 
 Ch: Wardens. Miles StoUery. 
 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1772. 
 
 3 in 1553. 
 
 Davy, II May, 1824, notes the old treble the same as 2, 3, 4, and the 3rd 
 fallen out of its frame. 
 
 36. BEALINGS, GREAT, 6'. J/^r;;. 4 Bells. 
 
 3, 4 Miles Graye made me 1626. 
 
 2 John Stephens made me 1720. Henry York, Church- 
 
 warden. 
 I Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1772. 
 Rob'. York Ch. Warden. 
 
 "Great bells ij." Return of 1553. Robert Godewyne, 1457, left 6/- 
 towards a new bell. Davy, 4 Aug., 1810, crosses i and 2. T. Martin, 1750, 
 notes 3 bells. 
 
 37. BEALINGS, LITTLE, ^// 6rt/;//^. 2 Bells. 
 
 I John Darbie made me 1677. John Rose. 
 2+67 5ancta □ ittana Q <9ra D 4,3ro Q ^obts. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 T. Martin, 1750, notes 3 bells. 
 
 Davy, 4 Aug., 18 10, notes an intermediate © martir 13arbara, &c. 
 Terrier, 21 Apr., 1834, 3 bells. 
 
 38. BECCLES S. Michael. Tenor in B. 10 and Priest's bell. 
 
 I Lester & Pack of London fecit Edw^. Brooks Portreve 
 
 1762. 
 2, 4 Lester &: Pack of London fecit 1762. 
 
 3 Thomas Mears of London fecit 1804. 
 5 Our voices shall with joyfull sound 
 
 Make Hills & Valleys echo round. 
 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1762.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 163 
 
 6, 7 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, Royal Arms 
 
 Patent, 187 1. 
 
 C. F. Parker ] r-\ u j 
 
 ■n /-> TT 1.^ f Churchwardens. 
 R. C. Houghton j 
 
 8, 9 [inscriptions entirely covered by an iron band]. 
 
 10 4 O Quam dulces sonas. Domini properemus ad eedes 
 
 (sic) ^ W"\ Clark & Rob'. Margerom Ch. Wardens, 
 
 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1762. 
 
 Priest's bell, 1766. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. " Great bells iij. Sancts 
 
 Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 East Anglian, N. S. 11., 241, 269. 
 
 "Eight tuneable bells"! Davy, Oct. 24, 1824, and May 27, 1825. 
 
 5 and 8 recast by Warner, 1889. Now a fair peal, though 4 and 9 are 
 
 cracked. See p. 149. 
 
 39. BEDFIELD S. M'c/io/as. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me 1637. 
 Symond Jefrey Peter Aldreg. 
 
 2 The Rev<^. Charles Scolding M.A, Rector, William Warner 
 
 Ch. Warden. 
 R. Phelps fecit 17 31. 
 3+67 sanrta D itXaria Q ©ra Q ^to Q i^oliig. 
 
 4 T. Osborn Downham fecit 1790. 
 Sam'. Frewer Church Warden. 
 
 5 Pack & Chapman London fecit 1774. 
 John Pritty Ch. Warden. 
 
 4 in 1553. 
 
 " Five," Davy, 23 July, 1808. 
 Terrier, 1753, gives 5 bells. 
 
 In 1839, Davy says, " The steeple now contains 4 bells." This is incom- 
 prehensible. 
 
 40. BEDINGFIELD S. Alary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. U 52 thrice. 
 
 -f 61 ©ucfumus ^nDrca Q 62 iFamulorum 5ufclpc Ifota. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 3 in 1553. 
 
 Martin notes 3, 21 Nov., 1734. Faculty for sale of one of three, 1760. 
 
 Terrier, 23 June, 1794, gives 2. 
 
 41. BELSTEAD S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1664. 
 " Belstead pva. gregory Crevn^ (.?) & Roberte lynde chvrchwardes one bell 
 solde ffor xxxj. which was broke v yers past which is & shalbe Inployed to 
 the reperacn of chvrch roffe & the palyng of the chvrchyerd." Certif. of 
 
 1547- 
 
 I in 1553 and Sanctus bell. 
 
 Davy by mistake notes " Gardiner" for " Darbie." 
 
 42. B ELTON All Saints. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1664. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Faculty granted in 1690 to sell the smaller bell in order to hang the other. 
 Weight 6 cwt. 2 qrs. Weighed at Yarmouth Crane, at the time of re- 
 building the tower, by direction of the Revd. T. G. F. Howes, Rector.
 
 l64 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 43 BEN AC RE 5. Michael. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. G. G. W. F. €I)urcIjh)art)cn« Qlnno Somim 1622. 
 
 4 in 1553- 
 
 Davy gives this inscription imperfectly, 17 June, 18 17. 
 
 44. BEN HALL ^. J/^/7. 6 Bells. 
 
 I T. Mears London. 1S42. 
 2, 3 John Brend made me 1639. 
 
 4 James Grimsbye John Bvlling Churchwardens 1639 J. B. 
 
 5 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -j- 61 ?£?ac 1\\ Conclabc Q 62 C^abrid JZunc ^angc ^uafac. 
 
 6 Richard Brown John Baldry C. W. 1723. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 3 Nov., 1547. "Great bells iij." Return 
 of 1553- 
 
 Tenor by Gardiner, diameter 36.J in., weight 7 cwt. Davy gives the five 
 without the treble as here, with "Thomas" for "James," as Grimsbye's 
 christian name. 
 
 45. BENTLEY 6". Mary. ' i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Charles Newman made me 1696. 
 2 in 1553. " One bell," Davy. 
 
 46. BERGHOLT, EAST, 6'. J/.^o'. 5 and Priest's bell. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner & Son, London, 1887. Jubilee 
 
 bell. Hung by G. Day and Son, Eye. 
 
 ^ ^ <g ^ ^ 
 
 2 U26-I-22IJ25 |i?tcce (ISabrlelis ^onat "^^tt ©ampana 
 
 dFitelts. 
 
 3 i svm i i^osA : pvitsata : monDi : mAi^iA 
 
 YOCATA. 
 I\ICA1\DYS BOWIiGP^ ; mG ; BGCIT I60I. 
 ISAAC mGGHCHGLf 
 
 joHn Br^GTon GHvr^GH-wAr^DGns. 
 
 4 Christopher . Hodson . made . me . 1688 . . 
 
 John . Leach . John . Peake . Chvrch . Wardens .... 
 
 5 John Stephens fecit 1727. Walter Gvllifer, Thomas 
 
 Proven Churchwardens (sic). 
 Priest's bell. Richard vs Bowler fecit 1591. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 
 
 5 and Sance bell m 1553. 
 
 The treble, which weighed 8 cwt., now weighs 4 cwt. 
 
 On the 4th dots denote coins, obv. and rev. of crown of Charles IL, &c. 
 
 Cut in each side of the pit for the Tenor in the frame " 1691. IT IE." 
 
 The old treble bore Ricardvs Bowler me fecit 1601 . . . (three impressions 
 of corns, indistinct). 
 
 Davy's account mainly agrees with this. 
 
 This extract has been kindly copied from the Parish Book by Archdeacon 
 Woolley : — A note what the great bell wayed when it went to Berre, and 
 what it now wayeth this 24th of December, 1621. 
 
 It wayed, in the Churchyard, before it went to Berre, 26 hundred and 56 
 lbs. ; it was broken in pieces and wayed agayne at Berre, and found 27 
 hundred and 24. 
 
 It weyeth now at home, 25 c. and 32 lb. at one end of the beame, and at 
 the other end 26 c. and 09; the odes being 89 lb., which being divided, is 
 44 lb. and half.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 165 
 
 The bell now wayeth five and twenty hundred seventy-five pound and half. 
 
 The bellfounders ware to be allowed for wag ^40, and to account the bell 
 at 26 c. and 96 lb. 
 
 And it now wayeth 25 c. and 76 and half. So they have in mettell, 
 which they must allow, one hundred twenty five poundes, at eight pence the 
 lb., which makes m money, four pounds, a dozen shillings, eight pence. 
 They are to have for setting the bell, taking it at Barfould {i.e , Bergholt) 
 
 and delivering it there agayne, building a and so to kep hur one hole 
 
 year, nine pounds ten shillings. 
 
 Remayne to them four pounds eighteen shillings and fourpence, which is 
 paid to Andrew Gerne, of Berre Seynt Edmundes, by the appoyntment of 
 the Mr. Workman, John Draper, of Thetford, Charles Bromey, with others. 
 
 47. ^Ei^O^ All Saints. I Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Draper made me 1627. 
 
 " Payton, Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 " One," Davy. 
 
 T. Martin (c. 1719) notes four bells. 
 
 48. BILDESTON .9. J/<?;-j'. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 I IJ 19 D -|- 22 Sancte tZToma ©ca i^co i^obig. 
 
 2 No inscription. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1683. 
 
 4 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 \- 61 ^ubbentat i3tgna D 62 ©onantibus ?l?anc Itatcdna. 
 
 5 Thomas Farrow Joseph Prockter Churchwardens 1704. 
 
 6 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 17 18. 
 "Bylston, Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 " Six," Davy, 24 Oct., 1S26. 
 
 49. BLAKENHAM, GREAT, S. Mary. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 U 51 thrice. 
 
 + 61 CCelefti iHanna D 62 ^ua i^colcg ^os ©ibct ^nna. 
 
 2 TJ 51 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 ^ufacniat Btgna □ 62 Sonantibus ?l?anc iSatctina. 
 
 3 in 1553- 
 
 "Two," Dav}', II J\Iay, 1824. 
 
 50. BLAKENHAM, LITTLE, 6*. J/;?^;. 2 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 John Darbie made me 1660. 
 
 3 in 1553- 
 
 Davy, irf May, 1829, " Two which I did not examine." 
 
 51. B LAX HALL S. Pder. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3 John Brend made me 1655. 
 
 4 Recast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1881. (Royal 
 
 Arms) Patent. 
 
 A. N. Bates, M.A. Rector. 
 
 James Toller 1 z^, , j 
 ;, ^3 \ Churchwardens. 
 
 George Rope ) 
 
 5 Omnis Sonvs Lavdet Dominvm 1655. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. " Great bells iiij," 1553. 
 The old fourth like the first three, Davy. 
 
 52. BLUNDESTON 6". J/czo/. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 T. B. 1661. 
 
 2 E. T. 1675.
 
 l66 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. " Blomston, Great bells iij." Return 
 
 of 1553- 
 
 In Davy's time there were three, one not hung. 
 
 53. BLYTHBURGH ^^/j' 7>/;//0'. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. James Edbere Q 82 1608 (arabesque). 
 L. 
 J.M. 
 No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. Legacies — J oh. Greyfe, 
 1442, towards covering the bell-tower, and Hen. Tool, 1470, 20 marks for a 
 great bell. 5 in 1553. "Formerly 5." Davy, 12 Aug., 1806, "In the belfry 
 below, however, stands another small one, on which is SCG PGTI^G 
 
 SALtYA me." 
 
 54. BLYT H FORD A// Saw fs. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Newman made me 17 11. 
 3 in 1553, doubly returned. 
 Davy notes one, but refers to Martin, who gives three. 
 
 55. BOTESDALE. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Draper made me 16 . . 
 
 A Chantry, with an inscription : — 
 
 "©rate p. aiahi Sofjis Sl&ribe et urorts ctus." 
 
 No return in 1553. 
 
 56. BOULGE S. Michael 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 " Bowge, Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. 
 • "The steeple is a small and low square tower of red brick, ... and con- 
 tains one bell, which has no inscription on it. The clerk informed me that 
 there were some years ago 3 bells, but that 2 were sold for repairs." Davy, 
 27 May, 1823. 
 
 57. BOX FORD S. Mary. Tenor Diam. 52 in. 8 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho . . s Gardiner Svdbvry me fecit 17 14. 
 
 2 ^ancte J^ccolae ©ra pro fiobis U 26 -j- 22 U 25. 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1754. 
 
 4 Charles Newman made me 1688. 
 
 5 T. Osborn fecit 1790. Isaac Strutt, Hugh Green C^. 
 
 Wardens. 
 
 6 [A border]. "'^ 
 
 + 49 svm i^ATGi^inA □ 48 sempei^ □ 46 
 
 UII\GO □ 48 DGO DIGHA. 
 
 7 U 31 D 38 + 41 Intonat @ ©dts 2Foc ©ampaiu Gabircltg 
 
 (sic). 
 
 8 Haec Campana Beatse Trinitatis Sacra Fiat. John 
 
 Thornton Sudbury fecit 1718. 
 " Great bells v, Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. Cannons of 7 gone. 
 Davy, Oct. 2 and 3, 1828. Noted imperfectly, but in accordance with this. 
 
 58. BOXTEAD All Saints. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 T. Newman made me. A. Golding & S. Spalding C.W. 
 
 1738. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 18 Aug., 1831, "Two bells."
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. \6y 
 
 59. BOYTON S. Andrew. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbic made me 1679. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy (22 Jan., 1818), mistakes the date for 1692. 
 
 60. BRADFI ELD [Combust] ^// 6'a/;//x. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Mears & Stainbank Founders London. 
 Bartholomew Young Church Warden 1693. 
 
 2 Recast 1869, Arthur Young Warden. 
 
 n 34 D 33 D 35 D 32. 
 
 -f- 15 ^anctcT illaria itlaglialcua ©ra ^ro ifiobisl. 
 
 3 n 81 Thomas □ 82 Cheese made me 1630. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Notes F|, E, D|:. 
 
 " The steeple is down, but in the roof at the west end' of the Isle are hung 
 3 bells, but I could not get to them." Davy. Diameter of Tenor 25^ in. 
 
 61. BRkD¥\ELD S. Clare. Tenor. Diam. 37I in. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 66 thrice. 
 
 4- .gancta' D 68 ittaria D 63 ©ra D 68 ^ro D 68 
 
 2 Richard Ottewell Ch. Warden. W. & T. Mears, late 
 
 Lester, Pack, & Chapman of London fecit 1787. 
 
 3 Charles Newman made mee 1699. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 "2 bells/' Davy. Notes C|, A|, G|:. 
 
 62. BR^DV\El.D S. George. Tenor. Diam. 37I in. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 H. P. made me 1695. 
 
 2 ^ R O G ^ 1668. 
 
 3 Robard ^ Gvrney made ^ me 1668. 
 
 4 Uriah Woodard & W"". Smith Ch. Wardens. 
 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1764. 
 
 5 R. A. Wardens. Henry Pleasant made me 1695. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 So Davy, only mistaking "Robard" on 3 for "Richard." He notes 60 
 steps in the tower staircase, i cracked, notes of the others C^, B, A|;, G^. 
 
 63. BRADLEY, GREAT, ^. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 n 81 De D 82 Bvri D 82 Santi D 82 Edmondi D 82 
 
 Stefanvs D 88 Tonni D 82 me fecit D 82 W. L. 
 D 81 1576. 
 
 3 □ I^ICAP^^D ; DG YYYmBIS \ mG : EGGIT. 
 See p. 10. 
 
 The treble probably a very old bell. C. Deedes. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 No notes, Davy. 
 
 64. BRADLEY, LITTLE, All Saints. i Bell 
 
 Bell. ^ R. G. ^ 1652. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 No notes, Davy. 
 
 65. BRADWELL S. Nicholas. 3 Bells. 
 
 I XJ 50 thrice, 
 -f- 61 f£?ac Jin ©onclabc Q 62 ©nbcicl f}uc ^i-age ^uabr.
 
 l68 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 2 U 5° thrice. 
 
 4- 47 ^ctriis 9D Interne D 62 Ducat {loi i^astua Fttc. 
 
 3 ij 50 thrice. 
 
 -j- bifel D 48 ifeJn^ t^^""^ tsfti no mbt. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 I and 2 maiden, 3 a little flattened. 
 
 66. BRAISE WORTH S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1879. 
 
 1606, recast 1879. 
 
 R. M. Bingley, Rector. 
 
 W. Allen. ) nu u A 
 
 ^ r- 1 c ij r Churchwardens. 
 C. Schofield ) 
 
 Hung by G. Day & Son, Eye. 
 
 I in 1553- 
 
 Davy, 22 April, 1S19, "John Draper made me 1606. 
 
 67. BRMIiF\ELD S. Andrew. Tenor FJf. 5 Bells. 
 
 1, 2 AB U 52 U 86. 
 
 W 
 Slnno Domini 1621. 
 
 3 ^ancta i«argarcta ©ra ^ro iiobi? U 25 + 22 U 26. 
 
 4 sit i^omen IBomini 23cnfDictum U 25 -|- 22 U 26. 
 §■§■§'& © 
 
 5 f ntonat licrlis £23ot Campana iHirI)acli&. 
 U 25 -|- 22 U 26. 
 
 So Davy, 23 May, 1806, with one or two involuntary variations. No re- 
 turn of bells in cert, of iiij Nov., 1547. 4 in 1553. The first live of a six. 
 Bells re-opened after hanging, April 17th, 1890. 
 
 68. B RAM FORD S. StepJmi. Tenor G. Diam. 41 in. 6 Bells. 
 
 I Thomas Mears & Son of London fecit 1805. 
 
 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Miles Graye made me 1632. 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 10 June, 1828, calls the treble the 2nd, and dates the 5th 1636. 
 
 69. BRAMPTON ^. /'d'/^r. Tenor Bi. Bells in tune. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1668. 
 
 2 Anno Domini 161 2. W. B. 
 
 3, 4 U 86 AB U 52- 
 
 W 
 anno lini 1612. 
 5 y 51 thrice. 
 -|- 61 Jiobig Solamcn Cclorum D 62 Dct i9cus ^men. 
 
 4 in 1553. 
 
 So Davy, 2 June, 180S. 
 
 70. BRANDESTON ^// 6'.7/;//i-. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 4 Recast at the expense of the parish. 
 Lester and Pack of London fecit 1768. 
 2 The gift of H. Stebbing, Esq'-% Mrs. A. Rivett, Widow, 
 and other benefactors, obtained by John Revett 
 Gent. 1709. 
 R. Phelps made me.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 169 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1637. 
 
 5 Recast at the expense of John Revett, 
 Lester and Pack of London fecit 1768. 
 
 6 This bell was recast at the expense of John Revett 1768. 
 
 R. P. F. E. 
 (two impressions of the arms of Revett.) 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. "Great bells iiij." Return 
 of 1553. AB 
 
 Havves notes i as 2 here. 2 W Anno Dom. 1600. 3 in i?Hultt6 ^nnte, 
 &c. 4 Sancta ISart^oIma (sic) ora pro nobis, and dates the tenor 1710. He 
 speaks also of a purchase of bells from Little Ashfield. On woodwork of 4, 
 "T. D. Tho^. Packard made me 1670," as at Raveningham, teste G. Day. 
 
 71. BRANDON ^6'. Peter and Pard. Tenor in A, 16 cwt. 
 
 6 Bells. 
 
 1 John Warner «Sc Sons, London, 1S70. 
 
 2 These five bells were cast by William Dobson 181 5. 
 
 3 Prosperity to the town of Brandon 181 5. 
 
 4 Give no offence to the Church. W"". Dobson fecit 1815. 
 
 5 William Dobson Downham Norfolk founder 1815. 
 
 6 Rev«^. W™. Parson Rector, Tho^ Willett and Rob^ Smith 
 
 Churchwardens 18 15. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 I recast from the old 2nd at Wangford, q.v. 
 
 Five noted by Davy, 22 Aug., 1829. 
 
 These were cast out of an old three inscribed — 
 
 1 + l^ac fin Conclabc Oatriel >Cunc iSange ^uabe. 
 
 2 + sum Kosa ^^ulsata fflunitt iflarta Vocata. 
 
 3 4- ftn ?^onore [^ancti fflactc ct sancti Kaiertnc l^trgtnes {sic)\ Ex infor. 
 J. H. Sperling. 
 
 72. BRANTHAM .<?. Alichael. 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me 165 1. 
 So Davy, i in 1553. 
 
 73. BREDFIELD S. Andrew. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 Richard Phelps made me 1735. 
 
 2 FC. 
 
 W. M. G. F. D. P. L H. 1622. 
 
 3 Thomas Gardiner made me 17 15. 
 
 4 U 51 thrice. 
 
 + 61 ^ctrus 5lli lEtctne Q 62 Sucat £loi l^aicm ViU. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of lij Nov., 1547. " Great bells iij." Return 
 of 1553. Davy notes 4. "W. M. L. F. L. F. I. H. 1592." 
 
 74. BRETT Eli H AM S. Mary. Diameter of Tenor 27 in. 
 
 3 Bells. 
 
 1 H. Pleasant made me Reginald Saver Warden. 
 
 2 Thomas Cheese James Edbere me fecit 1623. 
 
 3 D 82 Prais n 82 God Q 82 1574 □ 82 W. L. 
 "Brentham, Great bells iij." Return of 1553. T. Martin, 31 May, 1737, 
 
 3 bells. 
 
 W
 
 lyo THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 75. BR\CE.JT,(^RE^T, S. Mary a ttd S. Laurence. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 Georgius Williams, Coll. Regal. Soc. 
 posuit Anno mdcccxxxix. 
 
 2 In honore Sanct^ Trinitatis. Anno mdcccxxxix. 
 
 Very small. 3 in 1553. Davy, Oct. 23rd, 1826, visited this place. He 
 notes, March 28th, 1843, on the authority of Rev. C. P. Parker of Ringshall, 
 " One bell 3Iii Ujonorr ^anrte CCritiitati?;.' Martin had noted Crtnitatc. It 
 weighed 10 cwt. according to Terrier, 1834. 
 
 76. BRICETT, LITTLE. 
 
 Ecclesia dcstnicta. No return in 1553. 
 
 77. BRIGHTWELL S. John Baptist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. For Brighwell (sic) in Suffolcke Feb 5. 1657. 
 
 "Great bells ij." Return of 1553. T. Martin, Sept., 1725, One in a little 
 tower. 
 
 78. BROCKFORD. 
 
 Ecclesia destructa. No return in 1553. 
 
 79. BROCKLEY 6". ^«^m£/. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 □ 21 IJ 20 -|- Uoi ^ugustini <Sonct In ^urc Dei. 
 
 2 n 21 U 19 + 22 Cristu^ ^crpctuc Set iiobts (i^auliia 
 
 Utte. 
 
 3 D 21 U 20 -j- ^it ilomcn Somini 23cnctiittura. 
 "Great bells j." Return of 1553. See p. 94. No notes by Davy. 
 
 80. BROME 5. J/ary. In B'd, not in tune. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4 Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1737. 
 5 Thomas Newman fecit. S. Newstead, P. Rodwell C. ^V. 
 
 1737- 
 So Davy, 17 June, 1S09. 3 in 1553. 
 
 81. BROMESWELL S. Edmund. Notes Vh and B. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 Jhesus ben ic ghegoten van Cornelis Waghcvens int iaer 
 
 ons Heeren mcccccxxx. 
 
 
 2 □ in : Honoi^G : sahctg : payi;g. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. "Great bells iij." Re. of 
 1553. I Clear but not melodious, unchipped. 2 Slightly flattened. P. 75. 
 
 According to Davy (12 Sept., 1807,) there was another, inscribed "Aliles 
 Graye made me 1618." The other inscriptions agree with these. The 
 missing bell was the smallest of the three. It fell, was broken, and sold. 
 
 82. BRUISYARD S. Peter. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Cast by John Warner & Son, London, 1867. 
 (Royal Arms) Patent. 
 No return of bells in cert, of iij. Nov., 1547. " Great bells iij." Return 
 
 of 1553- 
 
 Davy notes 3, i R. Phelps made me. Richard Brown, gent., Church- 
 warden, 1732. 2 anno Ditt 1610. 3 i^ac En Conclabe, &c. 
 
 83. BRUNDISH.S. Laurence. AB 3 Bells. 
 
 I ANNO DOMINI 1606. T G. W T.B.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 171 
 
 2 IJ 52 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 i3ulcl5 ©isto iHcli^ n 62 ©ampana Focor iWicIju. 
 
 3 ij 50 thrice. 
 
 + 61 ^ucfumug ^nDrca Q 62 JFamulorum Sufctpc Fota 
 
 T G probably = Thomas Glemham. Pits for 5. 4 in 1553. Terrier, i 
 June, 1791, and Davy, 16 June, 1809, give 5 bells. 
 
 84. BUCKLESHAM.S. Alary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me 1623. 
 
 _ "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy, 23 Feb., 1825, reports it 
 inaccessible. 
 
 Terrier, 3 May, 1845 " One bell in weight about 500 pounds." Diameter 
 30 in. 
 
 85. BUNGAY S. Mary. 8 Bells. 
 
 I) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 T. Mears of London fecit 1820. 
 
 7, 8 T. Mears of London fecit 1820. Richard Mann, 
 John Reynolds Churchwardens. Cha^ Brightly, 
 Richd. Smith, Rob'. Butcher, Robert Camell, M. B. 
 Kingsbury, Thomas Hunt, Ja^ Sheppard. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. " Great bells v. Sancts 
 Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 No notes by Davy. From a MS. of W. Adams, and notes of Rev. T. 
 Bewicke, I am able to compare the past and present peals. 
 
 I Past. I Present, 
 
 cwt. qrs. Ibs.'cwt. qrs. lbs 
 
 1718, probably by I ij 4 3 18 5 2 5 
 
 Stephens J 2 5 o 19 5 2 22| an AYG bell. ' Most of 
 
 Long cracked 36 o iS^ 6 2 14 these others seem to have 
 
 Bad, long cracked 47 o 17, 6 3 21 
 
 One, probably 3, was 
 
 been by Gilpin, 1700. 5 
 was brought from S. Peter 
 Mancroft, Norwich. The 
 six were first rung in 1702. 
 See pp. 56, 130. 
 
 Inscribed 
 
 |los ^Tftome, &c. 57 2 24 8 2 21 
 
 Good, cast 1 761 610 o 11 10 o 21 
 
 Fine bell 7,13 2 i 10 3 21 
 
 „ in E. Split 1817 8 18 i 1916 i 4 
 
 Total I73 o 1570 3 17 
 
 86. BUNGAY Holy Trinity. i Bell. 
 
 IJ 51 thrice. 
 
 -[- 61 dFac i^argawta D 62 i^obis ?l?ec iHuneca Seta. 
 So Davy, May 14th, 1823. 
 
 No return in 1553, the church having been partially burnt not long before. 
 A fine bell cast in 1566, apparently by John Brend, sen., was sold by the 
 parish in 1755 for _;^82 ^s. 6d. The present bell was bought second-hand in 
 1759. The detail m 1566 contains "Itm gyvin to his (J. B.'s) wife in Re- 
 warde x\jd. Itm gyven then to his mansvant and unto his mayde in reward 
 xij^," a remnant of guild- privilege. 
 
 87. BU RES S. Afary. Tenor. Diameter 50 in. 6 Bells. 
 
 I T. Mears of London fecit. 
 2, 3 R. Phelps fecit 1734. 
 
 4 John Brend made me 1658. 
 
 5 Thomas Mears Founder London 1840. 
 
 Rev'^. Arthur Hanbury Vicar. 
 
 ^ . 1 117 J John Garrard I Church- 
 
 Gnmmard Wood j u -d ■ } ^ a^,.^ 
 
 John Boggis J wardens.
 
 172 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 6 T. ]\Iears of London fecit 1826. 
 
 John Garrard ] r-u i. ^ 
 •r 1 r) • r Churchwardens. 
 John Boggis ) 
 
 Davy, Oct. 2, 1828,3 not noted. 5 "The Revd. Philip Gurdon, M.A., 
 Vicar, Wm. Ambrose, John Harvey Church Wardens. Richard Phelps 
 made me 1734." 
 
 " Great Bells v. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 88. BU RG AT E S. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Thos. Gardiner Norwich fecit 1746. 
 
 2 1746. 
 
 3 Thomas Sturt John Draper made me 1624. 
 
 4 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1772. 
 
 5 Thomas Gardmer Sudbury fecit 1732. 
 5 in 1553. Martin and Davy note five. 
 
 89. BURGH ^. ^^/^^/;. Tenor. Diameter 36. \ in. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Chapman & Mears of London fecerunt 1782. 
 
 2 John Stephens fecit 17 18. 
 
 3 John Stephens made me 17 18. 
 
 4 John Stephens Bell Founder of Norwich made us 5. 
 
 1718. 
 
 5 John Stephens fecit. 1718. 
 
 John Votier Rector John Page Churchwarden. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 90. BURGH CASTLE ^. /'.'/^r. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Newman cast me new 
 In 1732. 
 
 John Pitcearn Rector. 
 
 2 Thomas Killett, Churchwarden, George Harris Over 
 
 Seer. 1732. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1663. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 9L BURSTALL 6". J/^7rj'. 3 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3 John Thornton Sudbury fecit 17 18. 
 3 in 1553. Three bells, Davy. 
 
 91a. BURY S. EDMUND'S, The Abbey. 
 The Great Bell Tower at the Abbey. 
 
 "The plan of the new building" (of the latter part of the eleventh cen- 
 tury), says Mr. John Gage, in AtchcFologia, xxiii , " bore a near resemblance 
 to Ely Minster, and both had, at the west end, a high tower between lower 
 lateral towers." It was not till the time of Samson of Tottington, tenth 
 Abbot, elected in 1180, that the work was finished. Jocelin of Brakelond, in 
 his well-known Chronicle, records the collection of stones and gravel {sabu- 
 lum)^ made for the purpose by Samson, while he was subsacrist, and the 
 alleged pecuniary assistance afforded by certain burgesses. The passage is 
 well worth reading. In Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, i. 303, it is re- 
 corded from the Register of Abbot Curteys, that one of the towers fell in 
 12 10, and another, probably the bell-tower, in 1430, "tum propter quercuum 
 magnas et horas (sic) missas in opus lapideum, et conjunctas operi ligneo in
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 173 
 
 quo pendebant campanje, turn propter inordinatam et immoderatam earun- 
 dem pulsationem," fortunately after the people had left the church. 
 
 The ruin seems not to have been total, for the lead, bells, and some part 
 of the walls were subsequently taken down. Next year the east side of the 
 tower gave way, and was followed by the north wall in 1432. 
 
 The mason's contract for reconstruction is given at length by Mr. Gage, 
 together with a list of legacies towards the work, one as late as 1 500. 
 
 Writing in 1830, he says, "The flinty fragments of a south pier of the 
 tower have escaped the hand of destruction, and together with the flint work 
 of the western facade, which is a mass of deformity, point out to us the spot 
 where the Bell Tower once stood." 
 
 Professor Thorold Rogers's note on the weights of the bells in " Bury 
 Hospital" ( N. and Q, Sixth Series, i. 193), is exceedingly perplexing. 
 
 92. BURY S. EDMUND'S S. James. 10 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5 T. Osborn Fecit 1785. 
 6, 8 T. Osborn, Downham, Fecit 1785. 
 7 Cum Voco Venite T. Osborn Fecit 1785. 
 9 Our voices shall in concert ring 
 
 In honour both to God and King 
 
 T. Osborn Fecit 1785. 
 10 Percute Dulce Cano Bury St Edm'^. 
 
 St James' Parish. Zephaniah Ostler, 
 
 Rob'. Carss Church Wardens. T. Osborn Fecit. 1785. 
 
 "Great bells v." 1553. Formerly 3 in N. aisle, i, De Bvri Santi 
 Edmondi Stefanvs Tonm me fecit 1580. Deo Patrie et Proximo ; 2, R. G. 
 1664; 3 ^it i^omen Somini 33eiutiictum U 20 □ 21 -f-. 
 
 93. BURY S. EDMUND'S S. Jo/in Evangelist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Mears, Founder, London, 1841. 
 
 94. BURY 8. EDMUND'S S. Mary. 8 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 6 R. Phelps Londini Fecit 1734. 
 
 3 T. Osborn Fecit 1785. 
 
 4 'Slnno iBomIni 1627 AB 
 
 W 
 
 5 R. Phelps Londini Me Fecit 1734. 
 
 7 Matthias Wright and Simon Buchanan, Church Wardens 
 
 1776. Pack & Chapman of London Fecit. 
 
 8 Mr. Richard Rayment & Mr. Robert Singleton Church 
 
 Wardens. Anno Domini 1734. Richard Phelps 
 of London Bellfounder made these eight bells. 
 
 " Great bells vj." Ret. 1553. Tenor recast at Bury, 1696, L'E., p. 66. 
 
 95. BURY 8. EDMUND'S S. Peter. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. T. Mears, Founder, London, 1858. 
 
 96. BUT LEY 6". John Baptist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. CFterntS Slnnts Ecfonct Campana %Q\i^m\\1> U 9 
 coin. 
 
 So Davy. No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. "Great bells 
 iij." Ret. of 1553. Hawes notes one smaller, inscribed ^ancte y^tXxt ora pro 
 nobis.
 
 174 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 97. BUXH ALL S. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 John Draper made me 1632. 
 R. M. & T. N. Wardens. 
 
 3 John Draper made me 1635. 
 
 4 John Griggs C. W. Charles Newman made mee 1698. 
 
 5 Gregory Copinger, Tho. Fuller C. W. 
 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1739. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy (June 13th, 1827), notes 5 bells, but the door locked. 
 
 98. BUXLOW S. Peter. 
 
 Ecclesia destrncta. 1 in 1553. 
 
 99. CAMPSEY ASH 6". >//« ^a///j/. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 I. B. Anno Domini 1615. 
 
 2 Tho. Gardiner fecit me 17 14. 
 
 3 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1729. 
 
 4 Ricardus Bowler me fecit 1601 
 
 No mention of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. " Great bells iiij." Re- 
 turn of 1553. 
 
 So Davy, 20 April, 1S19. Hawes notes the old 2nd, OuIctS fft'sto JffitcItS 
 CTampana Vocor itlirfiaElts, and the 3rd, R. G. Anno Domini 1583. Martin 
 also notes Dulcis, &c. 
 
 100. CAP EL 5. A7idrmK 
 Ecclesia destructa. No return in 1553. 
 
 101. CAPEL .5-. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 T. Mears of London fecit 1829. 
 Rev'd. Joseph Tweed Rector. 
 Cooper Brooke Esq*"., Churchwarden. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1683. W. O. I. T. 
 
 4 Miles Graye made me 1624. 
 
 5 OB YOYI\ GHGI\ITG PI\AY BOI\ THG l^GIf- 
 
 BA1\G OB Gl\GGOI\Z PASGAIf. 
 
 5 and Sance bell in 1553. See p. 77. 
 
 Davy was quite beaten by the tenor, which he gives: — DAIW SIN 
 SONGA CNA LAOSNP NONI FO DRAFIEW ROA. YARP. He 
 leaves 4 blark, notes 4 as 3, 3 as 2, and gives i, TJirgomarta ora pna proiiobifl. 
 
 Possibly the inscription was one known in the West of England 
 + JInterceOc Ipta ^^ro i^obts 'Firgo ittaria. 
 
 102. OKKL'X OH S. Peter. Tenor. Diam. 31I in. 4 Bells. 
 
 i> 2, 3, 4 □ 81 Thomas □ 82 Andrew □ 82 me □ 82 
 fecit D 82 1598. 
 
 1 has no fleur-de lis between " me" and fecit. 
 
 Davy, 29 May, 1806, gives 1528, not recognizing the peculiar form of 
 the 9. 3 in 1553- 
 
 103. CARLTON CO LVILLE 6-. 7'^/^r. Tenor. Diam. 45! in. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Anno Domini 1608. W. B. 
 
 2 John Brend made me 1637. 
 
 3 Anno Domini 1634. 
 U 5°-
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 175 
 
 4 Anno Domini 1634. 
 
 5 □ Omnis Sonvs lavdet Dominom. 
 Anno Domini 1634. 
 
 U50- 
 No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. "Great bells iiij. Sancts 
 bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 So Davy, save that he gives 1634 as the date of the second. 
 
 104. CA\/END\SH S. Mary. Tenor 12 cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 I mean to make it understood 
 Although I'm little yet I'm good. 
 
 Mears London fecit 1779. 
 
 2 If you have a judicious ear 
 
 You'l own my voice is sweet & clear. 
 Mears London fecit 1779. 
 
 3 Music is medicine to the mind. 
 
 Mears London fecit 1779. 
 
 4 Peace & good neighbourhood. 
 
 Mears and London fecit 1779. 
 
 5 Our voices shall in consort ring 
 In honour both to God & King. 
 
 Mears London fecit 1779. 
 
 6 Cast by John Warner Sz Sons, London, 1869. 
 
 Royal Arms Patent. 
 "Great bells v." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, Nov. 9th, 1805, 6. *'T. Osborn Downham Norfolk fecit 1786." al. 
 sim. 
 
 105. CAVENHANl S. Andrew. 3 Bells. . 
 
 I William Dobson founder Downham Norfolk 1831. 
 
 2, 3 John Darbie made me 1676. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 T. Martin (12 Nov., 1755), and Davy (20 Aug., 1829), note 3 bells. 
 
 106. CHARSFIELD .S. T'.f/^r. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Sic Sacheverellvs [ore melos] immortali olli [ecclesise 
 
 defensori h] anc dicat [Gvlielmvs] Leman de Cher 
 [sfield Eques 17 10. R. Phelps]. 
 
 2 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 -[-61 ^Bec ipit Scbrum Q 62 Campa Sautif IJonorum. 
 
 3 □ 81 James Edbere (arabesque) □ 82 1068 (for 1608). 
 
 4 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 Sulcia Stgto iitdb D 62 Campa Y^ocox iWicj^adtS. 
 
 5 65 thrice. 
 
 4- ^ancta D i^arta D ©ta Q iP" D iiobtg. 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. " Great bells iiij." Return 
 
 of 1553- 
 
 The inscription on the treble restored from Carthew's MSS., who notes 
 the rest like these, and refers to a legacy (1454) for the tower. 
 
 The Sachevereli inscription was evidently intended as a protest against 
 the prominent part taken by Bp. Trimnell in the House of Lords, 17 10, 
 
 107. CH ATT \SH AM S. Mary and A// Saiufs. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me 162 1. 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 3 in 1553. " Three bells," Davy.
 
 1/6 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 108. CHEDBURGH A// Sai;i/s. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. T. Osborn fecit 1797. Edward Drew Church 
 warden. 
 •' Great bells ij." Return of 1553. No note, Davy. 
 
 109. C H E D I STO N ^. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho. Gardiner fecit 1718. R. M. C.W. 
 
 2 W. C. J. S. 
 
 John Brend made me 1640. 
 
 3 D 81 Filius D 82 A'irginis D 82 Marie D 82 r)at D 82 
 
 Nobis D 82 Gaudia □ 82 Vite. □ 82 De D 82 
 Bvri n 82 Santi Q 82 Edmondi D 82 Stefanvs 
 D 82 Tonni □ 82 me Q 82 fecit Q 82 1572. 
 (Cracked.) 
 
 No return of bells in certif. iiij Nov., 1547. 3 in 1553. 
 
 Davy, 25 May, 1807, notes as above. 
 
 no. CHELMONDISTON S. Andrew, 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1663. 
 
 " We have sold also an old broken bell to the valevv of \x\s. \i\yi. The 
 trew s'tificat of Rychard Dylley and Wyllam Camper," C. W. 1547. 
 I in 1553. " One bell." Davy. 
 
 111. CHELSWORTH ^//6-a////^. 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. Lester & Pack, 1763. 
 
 *' Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 26 Oct., 1826, notes no inscription. 
 
 112. CHEVINGTON All Saints. Tenor in F. Bells in tune. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Draper made me 1620. 
 
 2 C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1848. 
 W-". Rayner Rolfe ) r-, , ■, 
 
 W- Jennison [ Churchwardens. 
 
 Elizabeth White, John White, Francis White. 
 
 3 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1760. 
 
 4 -|- John Sparrow Ambros Ray C.W.^ 
 Tho. Gardiner fecit 1737. 
 
 5 Benj. Downs Church Warden. 
 Tho^ Osborn, Dovvnham, fecit 1780. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy notes 5 bells, but no inscriptions. 
 
 113. CHILLESFORD 5. Fcter. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. XJ 66 thrice. 
 
 + ^mtta D iWaria Q ©ra D iPro Q MoUfi. 
 So Davy. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1533. Pits for three, this probably the 
 treble. 
 
 114. CHILTON S. Mary. Diam. 32 in. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me 165S. 
 So Davy, Sept. 13th, 1S27. " Great bells ij." Return of 1553.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. ■ I'j'j 
 
 115. CLARE ^6". Peter arid Paul Tenor c. 28 cwt. Diam. 54 in. 
 
 8 and Clock bell. 
 
 1 Given by voluntary subscription 1781. 
 Mears fecit. 
 
 2 T. Mears of London fecit 1829. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1640. 
 
 and a shield, party per pale, a griffin (?) passant. 
 
 4 Whilst thus we join in chearful sound 
 Let Love and Loyalty abound. 
 
 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1779. 
 
 5 Miles Graye made me 1661. 
 
 6 ioljn Dicr maDe mc 1579. 
 
 7 O 17 ©ongcrba O 17 © O 17 ^linttas O 17 tffampanam 
 
 O 17 Islam. 
 
 8 John Kenyon Vic. William Wade C. W, L L. 
 Charles Newman made mee 1693. 
 
 Clock bell. Tho. Gardiner fecit i7?6. 
 
 "Great bells v. Sancts Balls j." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy nearly as above, with a mistake or two. The 7th very much worn . 
 See p. 17, and East Anglian, L, 28, for notes by Mr. J. B. Armstead. 
 
 116. QLMDO^ S.Peter. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1676. 
 So Davy, 15 Sept., 1827. 3 in 1553. 
 
 117. CLOPTON ^. ^/.?;j. Tenor. Diam. 43I in. 6 Bells. 
 
 I) 2, 3, 4, 5 W. & T. Mears, late Lester, Pack, & Chapman 
 of London fecit 1788. 
 
 6 This peal cast in the year 1788 by unanimous consent of 
 the parishioners ; by recasting the five old bells and 
 adding this tenor made them a peal of six. 
 W. & T. Mears, late Lester, Pack, & Chapman of Lon- 
 don fecit 1788. 
 
 The C.W. sold a " payre of cKalles," of which they made verdict at 
 Ipswich 28 Sept., 1547, " ffrome y' day we haue neyther sold alyenatyd nor 
 pledged neyther ornam^ Jewells plate nor bellys.' iiij Nov., i547- 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 118. COCKFIELD^. Peter. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Laus Deo 1843. 
 
 Thomas Mears fecit Londini. 
 
 2 Charles Newman made mee 1700. 
 
 3 Charles Newman made me 1699. G. H. H. T. 
 
 4 Miles Graye made me 1656. 
 
 5 n 81 James Q 82 Edbvry Q 82 1608. 
 
 6 John Jowars Rob'. Debenham C.W. 
 Tho. Gardiner fecit 1721 Num. 126. 
 
 Date on 5 " 1098 " by mistake. See p. 95. 
 
 " Great bells V." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy notes " T. Martin's notes taken in I735-"
 
 178 • THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 119. CO DD EN H AM S. Mary. Tenor c. 15 cwt. 8 Bells. 
 
 1 Theodore Ecclestone, Esq', 1742. Thomas Lester 
 
 made me. 
 Although I am but small 
 I will be heard above you all. 
 
 T. P. A. F. C. (incised). 
 
 2 Thomas Lester made me 1742. The: Ecclestone. 
 
 3 Theodore Ecclestone. Thomas Lester made us all, 1740. 
 
 4 The Revd. John Longe, Vicar, John Fox, James Brook 
 
 Ch. Wardens. 
 Thomas Mears & Son of London fecit 1806. 
 5, 6 Recast by John Warner & Son, London, 1878. 
 
 These bells are for the honour of God & the use of His 
 
 Church. 
 Revd. Robert Longe, Vicar of Coddenham. 
 
 Walter Chapman | Church 
 
 Frederick Gull [ Wardens. 
 
 7 Thomas Lester made us all 1740. 
 
 8 
 
 . (filed off) 1742. 
 
 Thomas Lester of London made us all. 
 Clock bell, 1808. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 7 May, 1824, notes all as Lester's, save 4. 
 
 Theodore Ecclestone, Esq., was owner of the Crowfield Hall Estate, 
 which was purchased in the year 1764 by Arthur Middleton, Esq., Governor 
 of S. Carolina, and grandfather of the late Sir W. F. F. Middleton, Bart. 
 
 120. COMBS S. Mary. Tenor E. Diam. 46} in. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1662. R. B. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 16 19. 
 
 3 U 51 thrice. 
 
 n 49 /io«i ^rccc Baptiate Q 62 ^albent tZTua 2!Julncra 
 .\*pc. 
 
 4 John Draper made me 1627. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy notes 5 bells, one broken. Weights, according to 
 Terrier of 1770, 15, 18, 21, and 24 cwt. 
 
 1 21 . C O O K L E Y 6". Mic/iael. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Ricardvs Bowler me fecit 1598. 
 
 2 Thomas Gardiner fecit 1728. 
 
 3 ^nno iBomini 1593 W. B. 
 So Davy, 26 June, 1806. 
 
 Thomas Haywarde and Wyllam Sparke certify iiij Nov., 1547, that they 
 have sold "neither plate, joyells, bells." 3 in 1553. 
 
 122. COP DOCK S. Peter. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Miles Graye made me 1614. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1615. 
 
 4 John Barbie made me 1677. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1679. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. 3 in 1553. 
 Davy calls the third the treble, otherwise there is no difference.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 179 
 
 123. CORNARD, GREAT, ^. Andrew. Tenor. Diam. 37 in. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Thornton made me 1708. 
 
 2 Buxton Vnderwood Jef. Poter Warden 1708. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1664. 
 
 4 CFiernts 'Slnm<s lic^onet Campann 3)o!)ts U 1 1 + ^ 9 twice. 
 
 5 John Thornton made me 1708. 
 
 The cross on 4 is No. 27 in North's Church Bills of Bedfordshire. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, Sept. 12, 1827. 2 " Binxton ... Josef." 3 " 1616" al. sim. 
 
 124. CORNARD, LITTLE, yi// .S^////.-. Tenor. Diam. 33 in. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 I Thornton and Waylet made me 17 12. 
 2, 3 Henry Pleasant made me March 1707. 
 
 4 -f- Ricardvs Bowler me fecit 1597. 
 
 5 -j- IHS HAZAI^GHYS I\GX IYDGOI\Ym. ^ 
 
 So Davy, Sept. 12, 1827. The crosses on 5 are Austen Bracker's, Cam- 
 bridgeshire, No. 71, but probably come from an earlier hand. The letters 
 are rich. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 In 1 581 there were at least two bells, as the Parish account has a charge 
 of \]d. for " a Bald'ycke for one of o^ Belles." 
 
 125. GORTON S. Bartholomew. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1847. 
 No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. "Great bells iiij." Return 
 
 of 1553- 
 
 The parish in 1697 got a faculty for selling a piece of a bell for hanging a 
 bell in the porch and other expenses. 
 
 The old bell bore the Norwich mark (erm.) and the inscription, 
 i5. U. anno Donunt 1626. It used to hang in a frame of timber over the 
 porch, but in 1768 was removed to its present position in the tower. See 
 Davy's MS. Suckling says 15. K. 
 
 126. GOTTON S. Andrew. 5 Bells. 
 
 1, 2 Thomas Lester of London made me 1746. 
 
 3 John Draper made me 1627. Thomas Barthroope 
 
 ' Robert Rose Wardens A. M. T. E. 
 
 4 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 CTdcstt iJlanna D 62 ^ua i^tolcg i^os ©ibct ^nna. 
 
 5 ij 50 thrice. 
 
 -j- 61 ilio^ ^fjomc iWcritig D 62 iHcreamiir (i^aiiliia 2lucis. 
 3 cracked. 4 in 1553. Martin, 16 Dec, 1724, notes 4. 
 "Five," Davy, 21 July, 1831. 
 
 127. COVE, NORTH, .9. Botolph. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Gardiner Norwich fecit 1750. 
 
 2 Anno Domini 1628. 
 
 AB 
 \N 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner Norwich fecit 1750. 
 Tho. Horth C. W. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy notes the date on 2 1618 instead of 1628, June 19, 1817.
 
 l8o THE CHURCH liELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 128. COVE, SOUTH, ^. Laurence. i BlU. 
 
 Bell U 52 thrice. 
 
 -f 61 ^ctrus ^D Ictcrne D 62 Sucat i!ios ^^agcua 'iJitc 
 So Martin, 28 June, 1750. " The rest of o>" Jowells as bells plate and other 
 ornaments remayneth in the Costodye of the Township, " Certif. of James 
 Hanse and Roger Spicer, 1547." 3 in 1553. 
 Terrier rendered 18 May, 1827, "by computation 500 lbs. weight." 
 
 129. COVEHITHE ^. ^«^;rz£/. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 AB 
 W 
 
 'llnno Uomtni 1616 
 
 3 ^nno Somini 1626. 
 
 U5I- 
 
 4 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 ^3etrus ^D iiternc Q 62 Bucat j^os ^ascua SUite. 
 
 5 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -[- 61 ^wnx ilosa ^ulsata □ 62 iWunDt i^Waria "iJotata. 
 So Davy, 17 June, 181 7, save 1628 on 3rd. 
 '■ Northalys," certif., 15471 no sale of bells. 5 in J553. Well toned bells. 
 
 130. COWLINGE ^. J/^r^^r^/. Tenor. Diam. 39 in. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 I, 2 Thomas Newman made me. Ex dono F. Dickins, 
 
 Esq^, 1734. 
 3, 4 John Briant Hertford fecit 1809. 
 
 5 T. Newman made me. Stephen Phillips & John Fenton, 
 C. Wardens. 
 " Great bells iij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 131. CRANSFORD S. Peter. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 W. B. Anno Domini 1594. 
 
 2 U 52 thrice. 
 
 -\- 47 }i}tt ^it ^taxw n €*ampa EauDc 33onorum. 
 
 3 Recast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1878. Hung 
 
 by G. Day & Son, Eye. 
 Mrs. Borrett \ 
 Mrs. Pooley f ^ 
 G.T. Borrett ( D^^^'"-^' 
 T. P. Borrett ) 
 G. F. Pooley, M.A., C. C C. C, Rector of Cransford. 
 
 T T?i '^ I Churchwardens. 
 J. Flory ] 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 The old tenor was inscribed, En Jfilultis Slnnt'S, &c., and bore the same 
 marks as the 2nd. The rhyme-stop is not engraved, I think. Not in tune. 
 
 132. CRATFIELD ^. Mary. Tenor a very good bell, 
 
 6 and Clock bell, 
 
 1 Chapman & Mears of London fecerunt 1781. 
 
 2 John Smyth of Norwod and Henry Fiske Chvrchwardens. 
 
 Ao Do 1593 W, B.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. l8l 
 
 3 U 50 U 86 AB 
 
 ^\' 
 ^nno IBomtm 16 18. 
 
 4 Cratfeld. Henry Topsel, R. T. Ano Dni 1585. 
 
 5 □ If with my fellowes I doe agree 
 
 Then Hsten to our harmony. 
 ==W. D. G. S Chvrchwardens. W. B. 16 18. 
 
 6 □ 48 Per me fideles invocantur ad preces. 
 1637. J. B. 
 
 Clock bell -|- 47 ©irginta lEgrcgic -|- 47 Wocot Campana 
 itlaiic liJrfg dFor Zl)c ^oU Of eatUiam BlcfiS. 
 
 So Davy, 22 May, 1807, with one or two involuntary variations. No re- 
 turn of bells in certif. of Symond Smyth and John Bateman, C W., iiij Nov., 
 1547. The battlement to the tower was then built by the sale of "a peyer 
 of Chalys a peyer of Senso''s and a Crosse, the pi'ce xxli." 4 and a Sance 
 bell in 1553. 
 
 The Clock bell has a staple for a tongue, and is worn internally. See 
 pp. 41, 103. 
 
 Some of the capitals on the 2nd are of the Norwich mediaeval type, like 
 Nos. 54, etc., and the A is quite peculiar. 
 
 133. GREETING^// Saints. 
 
 Ecclesia destructa. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 T. Martin, Sept., 1732, "3 Bells (old ones)." 
 
 134. GREETING 6'. J/c^o'. Diam. 39 in. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Crardiner fecit 1727. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 13 June, 1827, "One bell which I did not examine." Hung in a 
 chestnut frame and wheel, diam. of latter 7 ft. On the wheel is " Thomas 
 Sharman, Churchwarden, i FF (letters chipped off) 1733." 
 
 135. GREETING 6-. Olave. 
 Ecclesia destructa. No return in 1553. 
 
 136. GREETING .S. P^/^/'. Tenor. Diam. 27 in. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Ricardvs Bowler me fecit 1600. 
 
 2 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1726. 
 
 3 Johannes Drivervs T C. me fecit 16 18. 
 
 "West cretynge. Great bells iij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 Notes, probably by Tom Martin, 26 Sept., 1732, record "3 modern bells." 
 Davy, June 15, 1S27, apparently by mistake notes only two, inaccessible. 
 Treble cracked. 
 
 137. GRETINGHAM .S. T'^/^r. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1661. T. C. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1661. H. C. 
 
 3 XJ thrice. 
 
 + Vtn iFit ^cotu" D G^ampa SauDc 93onotu. 
 
 4 XJ thrice. 
 
 -|- ©clcfti iKanna Q ^"a l^rolrg iiog ©ibct ^nna. 
 
 * William Dowsing and Gregorie Smith.
 
 1 82 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 5 U thrice. 
 -|- Jiubbcntat Digaa Q Bonantibug ?i?anc IXateitna. 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. " Great bells iiij." Return 
 of I553. 3, 4, 5 Norwich bells. Shield 50, Cross 61, Rhyme-stop 62, I feel 
 tolerably sure. 
 
 138. CROWFIELD ^// Saints. i Bell. 
 
 IjcII. Rob'. Catlin fecit 1740. 
 From Davy, 12 May, 1824. i in 1553. 
 
 139. CULFORD S. Mary- I Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Newman made me 1704 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 18 Aug., 1829, "one bell." 
 
 140. CULPHO .S. £otolJ>h. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me 1641 (cracked). 
 
 " Cvlsfo... Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 
 141. DALHAM J). Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1755. 
 
 2 SII\ mAI^-Tin STU^J^BIIiDe XJ (Stuteville). J'er 
 
 pale, arg. and sa. a saliire engrailed crniine and 
 ermines. 
 I am the second in degree 
 And will in tune and time agree. 
 John Draper made me 1627. 
 3 SIP^ mAP^Tin Sa^U-TEIIJDG \J his arms. 
 I am the third and you shall her 
 Me beare my part, and sound most cleere. 
 John Draper made me 1627. 
 
 4 Sir Ja\ Affleck Bart., and Jeremiah Moore Church- 
 
 wardens. Cha^ D. M. Drake Rector. 
 This bell was recast by ^V'". Dobson, Downham, Norfolk, 
 A.D. 1832. 
 
 5 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -h 61 Sum iiofa ^^ulfata D 62 iHunDt iWatia SFocata. 
 
 Sir M. S. died suddenly while smoking at the Bell at Thetford. See Rous's 
 Diary. See also Gawdy MSS., p. 116. His daughter Anne married James 
 de Grey of Alerton, who died in 1665. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy could not get the key. 
 
 142. DALUHQHOO S. Mary. Tenor G. Diam. 37 in. 
 
 4 Bells. 
 
 1 C. 
 
 W. M. L. F. L. F. H. M. 1592. 
 
 2 Richard Phelps made me 1732. 
 
 3 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -\- 61 ^^ctru3 an Ictcruc D 62 33ucat floi ^agtua ^ite. 
 
 4 Thomas Gardiner made me 1715. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Hawes says "3 by Miles Graye, 5 
 formerly," and Martin, 1745, says 3.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 183 
 
 143. DARVISDEN^-. Andretc'. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Goldsmith fecit 17 10. Santa Maria. 
 
 No return of bells in certif of iij Nov., 1547, probably i. Left blank in 
 1553. Davy, 14 Sept., 1827, "One bell ... no ladder." 
 
 144. D^RSH^^ All Saints. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 John Brand made mee 1656. 
 2, 4 John Brand made ma 1656. 
 
 3 TJ 65 thrice. 
 
 -\- i£anctc (sic) ©pont'a <9ra ^jro ^obis. 
 
 The churche reves of Darsham, John Re^•e and Robt. Backler, A''. 1547, 
 certify to the sale of " j peyer of handbells for the p^ce of \]s. iiijc/." 3 in 1553. 
 
 Davy, 3 June, 1808. gets the numbers wrong, and reads Cf)Oma on the 
 Tenor, ©ponta is for apollonia. See Cambridc^eshire., p. 126. 
 
 First four of a tive m G, all maiden, in tune. 
 
 145. D E BACH .4/7 5c7z';//j% In F. Diam. 23^ in. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Xo inscription. 
 No return of bells in certif of iiij Nov., 1547. " Debedge... Great bells 
 ij." Return of 1553. Davy (27 May, 1823), found it inaccessible. 
 
 146. DEBENHAV. S. Mary. Tenor i ton, in E. Diam. 44 in. 
 
 8 Bells. 
 I, 3, 6 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1761. 
 
 2 Lester & Pack fecit 1761. 
 
 4 Lester & Pack of London fecit. Tho% Kersey 1761. 
 
 5 Tho\ Mears of London fecit 1793. 
 
 7 Lester & Pack of London fecit. Ed\v^'. Davie & J"". 
 
 Orford Ch. Wardens 1761. 
 
 8 In Wedlock's bands all ye who join 
 
 With hands your hearts unite 
 So shall our tuneful tongues combine 
 
 To laud the nuptial rite. 
 [The Re\-d. M^ Ja^ Clubb Vicar : The Revj. Mr. Robert 
 Leman Curate, engraved\ 
 So Davy substantially, but without a date to 4, and 1795 o" 5- 
 '■ Gret bells v." Return of 1553. 
 
 147. ^"t-H^k^ S. John Baptist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. 1 614. I. D. 
 3 in 1553. Davy, 16 June, 1809, notes one bell. See p. 109. 
 
 148. DENHAM 5. yir^zO'. In F. Diam. 21 in. i Bell. 
 
 Ecll. Xo inscription. 
 •' Great bells ij." Return of 1553. Long-waisted, and apparently old. 
 
 149. DENNINGTON ^. Mary (fine bells). 5 Bells. 
 
 1 "7 52 thrice. 
 
 -f- ^anrta iHarta (Dra |3ro ilobt'S. 
 
 2 -j- 47 dFac jUaisavcta D 48 iiobis "p^a i'Hunrra ZLcta. 
 
 3 -|- ^aiuta ^f)oma Ota ^Jro ilobtg. 
 
 4 Anno Domini 162S. \V. I. B. Omnis Sonvs Lavdet 
 
 Dominvm.
 
 1 84 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 5 1666 Anno Orbis incendio redempti vrbis peremptiie. 
 Gvil. Bell T. P. Vicarius. 
 John Darbie made me. 
 5 and a Sance bell in 1553. 
 
 So Davy and Jermyn, Aug. 5, 1S06. Gillingwater, 10 May, 1798, notes 5. 
 Terrier, 3 July, 1753, "Five large bells, the Tenor of 25 cwt., the other 
 proportionable." 
 
 Much curious matter in parish accounts. The bell-frame is athwart the 
 tower, which has been built around it. Part of the capstan forms a beam. 
 
 150. DENSTON 6". Nicholas. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 rj 65 thrice. 
 
 + ^ancta □ i'Harta D ©ra D i^ro D i^obls. 
 
 2 U 65 thrice. 
 
 4- 5'incte n ^ttrc D <5ra D liJro D iiobis. 
 
 " Denarston... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 No notes. Davy. Mr. Deedes notes these as i and 3 of a trio, as the 
 middle pit is vacant. The usual failure has of course resulted from an 
 attempt to cut the crack out of 2. 
 
 151. DEPDEH S. Mary. Tenor. Diam. 36 in. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67 ^ancif D [Btco]lac D ®ra D ^to D i^obt^. 
 
 2 ij 65 thrice. 
 
 -f 67 5ancta D ^""a Q <'5ra Q ^ro D i^obi?. 
 
 3 Ric ardvs Bowler me fecit 1600. 
 
 (A band between each word, and six Elizabeth coins on 
 the sound-bow.) 
 
 "Debden... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 No notes. Davy. Notes C, Ajt, and .\. 
 
 152. DRINKSTONE ^// &/;//.f. Tenor. Diam. 39 in. 
 
 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1771. Henry Plume 
 
 Church Warden. 
 
 2 Henry Pleasant made me 1696. F. P. 
 
 3, 5 Mears & Stainbank, founders, London, 1869. 
 
 4 Henry Pleasant made me 1696. 
 
 6 Reginald Sayer, Tho. Cocksedge C.W. Henry Pleasant 
 made me 1695. 
 
 " Great bells i iij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy notes 3 and 5 like the rest, but "P. C." for " F. P." Tenor cracked. 
 
 Notes of the others F, D^, C^, C, Air. 
 
 153. DUNNINGWORTH S. Mary. 
 
 Ecclesia destructa. No return in 1553. The church was standing and in 
 use in the year 1561. Davy. 
 
 154. D U N W I C H ^// Saints. 
 
 Ecclesia destructa. See extracts from Gardiner, 1734. No mention of 
 bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. 3 in 1553. 
 
 " The steeple appears in tolerable repair : I remember a man who had 
 occupied a farm at Yoxford, and whose name was Parker, being convicted 
 and transported for stealing, I think, one of the bells and some of the lead." 
 Davy, 24 Oct., 1839.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 185 
 
 155. D\JNVJ]CH S. /a;;ics. c. 5 cwt. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. T. Mears of London fecit 1832. 
 Coeval with the church, given by Frederick Barne, Esq. 
 
 156. D U N W I C H 6". >//« Bc7j>fisf. 
 Ecclesia d est met a. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. 3 in 1553. 
 
 157. DUNWICH 6-. Leonard. 
 Eeelesia destrucfa. No return in 1553. 
 
 158. DUNWICH .S-. Martin. 
 Eeelesia destnteta. No return in 1553. 
 
 159. DUNWICH 6-. Nieholas. 
 Eeelesia destrneta. No return in 1 553. 
 
 160. DUNWICH S.Peter. 
 
 Eeelesia destrneta. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. 3 in 1553. 
 
 161. ^^^'T OH All Saints. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 173T. 
 
 2 T. Osborn fecit 1791. 
 
 Rev. Loder Allen, Rector. Joseph Rust Ch. Warden. 
 
 3 Miles Graie made me 1627. I. E. 
 
 4 -\- miSSYS YGI\0 PIG GABI\IGD EGI\T DGTA 
 
 mAI\IG. 
 
 5 Recast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1884. 
 
 This bell was cast and the peal rehung at the expense of 
 
 the Duke of Hamilton, A.D., 1884. 
 Hung by G. Day & Son, Eye. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 No return of bells in certif of iiij Nov., 1547. 
 
 The places are still visible in the under-chamber where the beams were 
 built in. The old tenor, like the 4th, was of the " Burhngham " type, 
 inscribed -f SPGS DOSTI^A SAIJYS nOST-I\A O BGATA 
 TI^iniTAS. It bore shield No. 64. 
 
 162. EASTON B AVE NTS 6\ Margaret. 
 
 Eeelesia destrneta. 3 in 1553, either in this Church or the next. 
 
 163. EASTON BAVENTS S. Nieholas. 
 Eeelesia destrneta. See No. 162. 
 
 164. EDWARDSTON E .S. J/^rry. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Mr. Cook and Nvtting C W. 1709. 
 
 2 Tvned by WX Cvlpeck 17 10. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1640. 
 
 4 Miles Graye made me 1641. 
 
 5 Miles Graye made me 1663. 
 
 6 About ty second Cvlpeck is wrett 
 Becavse the fovnder wanted wett 
 Thair jvdgments ware bvt bad at last 
 Or elce this bell I never had cast. 
 
 Tho. Gardiner.
 
 1 86 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 See p. 142. " Great bells iiij ." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, May 21, 1829, leaves out "tuned by" on 2. 4 " 1663." He could 
 not read the Tenor. 
 
 165. ELEIGH, BRENT, S. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 n 81 Thomas Cheese n 82 made me 1629. 
 
 2 □ 81 Thomas □ 82 Cheese made me 1632. 
 
 3 (arabesque) Jeams □ 81 Edbvry D 82 1612. 
 
 " Brondylly... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, Oct. 25, 1826, " i, 1632," al. sim. 
 
 166. ELEIGH, MONKS. ^. Pc/.r. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 T. Osborn fecit 1790. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me M 1638. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me M 1637. 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 4- 67 <9ra n 68 3Laurtnti D 68 93ona D 68 ©ampana 
 n 68 ^^aci. 
 
 5 □ AssvmPTA : GST ; mAP^iA ; in ; CGDYm. 
 
 6 Miles Graye made me M. 1638. 
 
 See. p. 10. " Mounksylle... Great bells iiij." Returns of 1553. 
 Davy, Oct. 25, 1826. Imperfect, but accordant notes. '•31 May, 1737- 
 There were only 5 bells." 
 
 167. ELLOUGH All Saints. Tenor. Diam. 32 in. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 □ AYG : mAl^IA : GI\ACIA : PDGnA : 
 
 DOmiBYS : TGCVm. 
 
 2 The Revd. Rob^ Lemon Rector. John Warne Ch. 
 
 Warden 1763. Lester & Pack of London fecit. 
 
 3 Anno Domini 1597. 
 
 See p. 74. So in substance, Davy, June i, 1808. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 168. ELM HAM, SOUTH, ^// .S^i///.-. Note C. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Anno Domini 1603. 
 
 " Pochia omn Scor in Sowthe elmehm... Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 Here were three bells till about 60 years ago. It is said that two were 
 sold to Southwold, where there was recasting and addition in 1828. The 
 following note is from the Churchwardens' book : — 
 
 "€■■. By Cash of Mr. Burgess for 2 Bells. 
 
 Wt. 10 cwt. I qr. 3 lbs. at 6id. ^31 3 5 
 
 Dr. Allowed Mr. Burgess for Tare and Tret in the 
 
 weight of Bells 8 i 
 
 Geo. Durrant Churchwarden." 
 That this is true there can be little doubt, for Davy records 3 bells, 
 
 " I Laudes (for laudet) Deo in 2 Anno Domini 1603. 3 ... ora pro ..." 
 
 Now the Southwold 6th bears, "Eu (Lifglllb anil in 17o JLaulics Sco," which 
 Davy may well be excused for not deciphering. This was, according to him, 
 the largest of the three. 
 
 169. ELMHAM, SOUTH, S. George. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 J Taylor & Son, Founders, Loughborough, 1844. 
 J. Hurry, Norwich, Agent. 
 
 2 auuo Domini 16 10 AB 
 
 W
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 187 
 
 3 U 64. __ 
 -|- AYG : mAI\IA : GP^AGIA : PDGIIA : DllS : 
 
 TGGY. 
 
 4 U 51 thrice. 
 
 -{- 61 i^04 ^Oomc iHftttts n 62 iHcrcamur ©autta Suci?. 
 
 5 John Brend made me 1635. 
 
 See p. 61. "Sandcroft in Sowtvilla... Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy notes four, which he did not venture to inspect. 
 
 170. ELM HAM, SOUTH, S. fames. Tenor. Diam. 31! in. in C^f. 
 
 4 Bells. 
 
 1 R. B. 1662. 
 
 2 Thomas Newman made mee 1707. Joseph Barber C.W. 
 
 3 _|_ joHAnnes : Bi\ovn : me : bggit : bigi\i. 
 
 4 Anno Domini 1581. LB. 
 
 Bells not in tune. See p. 74. R. B. for Ralph Brend. 
 
 No sale of bells in certif. of 1547. "Great bells iij. Sancts j." Return 
 of 1553. Davy dates 2 1704, crosses 3 and 4, and could not read 
 JOHADIiGS on 3. 
 
 171. ELMHAM, SOUTH, 6'. AfargareL 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3 John Brend made me 1657. 
 
 4 ^nno JDomiui 1627. 
 
 AB 
 W 
 
 5 17 51 thrice. 
 
 Slnno Somtui 1596. "W". B. 
 So Davy, save that he reads " 1586" for 1596. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 172. ELMHAM, SOUTH, 6'. Mic/iae/. A good clear bell. 
 
 I Bell. 
 Bell. C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1847. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. "Only i bell," Davy. 
 
 173. ELMHAM, SOUTH, ^. Nicholas. 
 
 Ecclesia destructa. " Great bells iiij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 " The church is now entirely demolished." Davy. 
 
 174. ELM HAM, SOUTH, 6". /V/^r. Tenor. Uiam. 34I in. 
 
 NoteBb. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 IJ 9 four times. 
 
 2 IJ II four times. 
 
 -\- 15 3)o]^anncs O 16 Cri^ti O 16 €are O 16 Stgnarc 
 O 16 ^ro O 16 jSobis O 16 ©rare. 
 
 3 U 8 four times. 
 
 -f 15 5um O 16 (J^alirtcl O 16 iFata O 16 /«aclf. O 16 
 ^um O 16 Comitata* 
 
 Seep. 17. Well-toned bells. 
 
 No sale of bells in certif. of 1547. "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 (The same three hung in the tower m 1889.) 
 
 175. ELMSETT 6". Pd'/^r. Notes C and A#. 2 Bells. 
 
 I Thomas + Gardiner + Sudbury + fecit + 1726 (two 
 coins).
 
 l88 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1636. 
 Pits for two others, which are said to be in Stowmarket tower. " Great 
 bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy by mistake, 20 May, 1829, " i Bell." 
 
 176. ELMSV\/ ELL S. /o/tn £mnge/isf. Tenor. Diam. 4o.nn. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Robard Gvrney ^ made me ^ 1670. W. M. T. F. 
 
 2 De D 82 Bvri □ 82 Santi D 82 Edmondi Q 82 Stefanvs 
 
 D 82 Tonni Q 82 me D 82 fecit D 82 WL D 81 
 1582 n 81. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -|- ^anttt D liUmunDt D <9ra D i^" D MoUi. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1677. 
 
 5 3)oJ)" J3rapcr aoc me 1616 (cracked). 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, II June, 1827, imperfect notes, but correct as far as they go. 
 
 177. ELVEDEN 6'. Amfrera. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1664. 
 
 "Elvedene... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 24 Aug., 1829, notes one bell, but gives Ringers' Rules, dated Sept. 
 19, 1707, showing that there was at that time a ring of bells in this tower, 
 copied by Jermyn, 18 17. 
 
 178. ENDGATE S. Alary. 
 
 Ecclesia destnicta. " Ingate. Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Church taken down 1577. Bells, lead, etc., sold for £j(> 18 4, which was 
 given to Dunwich on account of losses sustained there. See W. J. A. in 
 East Suffolk Gasette, Aug. 9, 1887. 
 
 179. ERISWELL .S. Laurence. 
 Ecdesia destructa. No return in 1553. 
 
 180. ERISWELL 6". Peter. 3 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Tho^ Osborn founder 1795. John Spark Church 
 Warden. 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner made me 1743. 
 
 So Davy, 21 Aug., 1828. " Great bells vj." Return of 1553. 
 
 181. ERWARTON 6'. Mary. 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. C. Newman made me 1700. R. Sporll. W. 
 Fisher C. W. 
 So Davy, i and Sance bell in 1553. 
 
 182. EUSTON S. Genevieve. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3 Henricvs Pleasant me fecit 1701. 
 
 4 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1730. 
 
 5 Domini Thome Hanmeri Baronetti. 
 Anno Domini 1701. H. P. 
 
 " Great bells iij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 4 July, 1843, " Five." 
 
 183. EYMWAQ S. Martin. 5 and Clock bell. 
 
 ^) 2, 3, 4 John Draper made me 1623.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS, 189 
 
 5 C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1S45. 
 William Fyson ] ^, , ,,, , 
 JohnDobede ) Churchwardens. 
 
 Clock bell. T. Mears of London fecit. 
 
 W" Fyson ] 
 
 Tho^ Bryant } ^'^'"'^^^ Wardens 1831. 
 
 Late the gift of Francis Shepherd Esq''., 1723. 
 
 "Eycenyng Halfe Hundred :—Eycenyng... Great bells iiij. Sancts Bells 
 j." Return of 1553. 
 
 184. EYE SS. Peter and Paid. 8 Bells. 
 
 1 Ex dono Gulielmi Brampton generosi Anno Domini 1721. 
 
 2 Pack & Chapman of London fecerunt. Simon Cook 
 
 Churchwarden 1779. 
 
 3 Thomas Rust oppidi Prcefecto J. Stephens made us 3 
 
 1721. 
 
 4 Let us rejoice our King restord. 
 
 Sami. Cowing Danl Sewell C\ Wardens. 
 T. Osborn fecit 1789. 
 
 5 O God continue thy tender mercies to the King. 
 Dan'. Sewell Sam'. Gowing, C". Wardens. 
 
 T, Osborn fecit 1789. 
 6, 8, Miles Graye made me 1640. 
 7 U 51 thrice. 
 
 -f- 61 IBona McpcnDc ^ta n 62 Mogo JWagDalcna iWarla. 
 
 So Davy, 17 and 18 June, 1809. 5 and a Sance bell in 1553. 
 Sperling notes the tenor as in Ej?, 24 cwt. 
 Comparison of dimensions of 7th and Tenor: — 
 
 7 : 8 
 
 ft. in. I ft. in. 
 
 Height in full ... ... 3 o|^ 2 10^ 
 
 ,, to shoulder ... 2 6^1^ 26 
 
 Diam. lip ... ... 3 6:^ | 4 o 
 
 Circum at inscription ... 6 4 I 6 ii|- 
 
 Eye Town Hall possesses an old bell without inscription, but apparently 
 from London, c. 1350. Till the last century it used to hang in a spire which 
 formerly surmounted Eye tower. Very likely the original Sance bell. 
 
 185. EYKE All Saints. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 Henry Pleasant made me 1706. 
 
 3 17 55 thrice. 
 
 + ^antta D iWaria D ©ta D ii^io Q ^oblg. 
 
 So Davy, 12 Sept. 1807. Martin (no date) notes 5. 
 From Hawes : — i. 
 
 2 Henry Pleasant made me 1706. 
 
 3 Jbantta Ora |)ro iBobis. 
 
 4 3:n JttulttS, cvc. 
 
 5 Miles Graye made me 1630. 
 
 "Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Returns of 1553. Faculty for selling 
 two bells in Uavy. 
 
 186. FAKENHAM, GREAT, .5. /V/rr. Tenor A J. c. 8 cwt. 
 
 X Bells.
 
 IQO THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 1 -\- Saiuta : marta : ora : pro : nobis. 
 
 2 Ue Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 1572. 
 
 3 R. G. 1667. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Returns of 1553. Davy, no notes. 
 
 187. FAKENHAM. LITTLE, 5. J;idre7a. 
 Ecclesia destrncia. No return in 1553. 
 
 188. FALKENHAM 6-. ^///^/^t-;-/. 4 Bells. 
 
 1, 2 John Darbie made me 1666, 
 
 3, 4 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1728. 
 
 So Davy, 15 July, 1829. No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 189. FARNHAM .5". Mary. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 T. S. T. P. 1590. 
 
 2 ^nno Domini 1631. 
 
 U 5°- 
 So Davy. Diameters 2ft. 2in., 2ft. 3fin. No clappers. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 190. FELIXSTOWE ^5. Peter and Paul. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me 1627. 
 "ffylsto^ve. Great bells j." Return of 1553. Davy, 15 July, 1S29, i Bell. 
 
 191. FELSHAM 5. i'.^-r. Tenor. Diam. 45I in. in F. 
 
 6 Bells. 
 I Robard ^ Gvrney made me ^ 1668. 
 
 2, 4 Miles Graye made me M. 163S. 
 
 3 ij 65 thrice. 
 
 -[- 67 Sancta Q ^nna Q <?^" Q 1*^" D i^obtS. 
 
 5 John Warner and Sons, London, 1SS7. 
 
 6 Miles Graye made me M. 1639, 
 
 " ffeltham... Great bells iiij." Re. of 1553. Davy, "6 bells and a clock." 
 The old 5th bore U 51 thrice, with -f- 61, □ 62, and Dona ilcpcntic, 
 &c. 
 
 192. FINBOROUGH, GREAT, 6'. Andre-a'. Very small. 
 
 I Bell. 
 Bell. Josephus Carter me fecit □ 1609. 
 
 3 in 1553. Notes, probably by Martin, 15 April, 1756, record three bells ; 
 the Terrier of 1784 mentions but one. The tower fell in 1819; Davy, June 
 13 and 14, 1827, names a single bell hanging in a cupola. 
 
 193. FINBOROUGH, LITTLE, 6'. ^^r//wA7w^7£'. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 
 2 in 1553. Davy, June 14, 1827, notes a single bell within the roof of the 
 nave, at the west end, and that the steeple was standing within the memory 
 of some of the present inhabitants. 
 
 194. F I N N I N G H AM 5. BartJwlomcjv. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Lester & Tho% Pack fecit 1754. 
 
 2 U 50 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 ^trginis C?gtfgic D 62 iJotor Campana i^laric.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 191 
 
 3. No inscription. 
 3 in 1553. Davy, 22 July, 1838, notes 3. 
 
 The third apparently a very old bell, with long barrel, sharp shoulder, no 
 headings, and light cannons. 
 
 195. FLEMPTON S. Catherine. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Percute Dulce Cano. T. Osborn fecit 1786. 
 "Great Bells iij." Return of 1553, Tom Martin, c. 1724, notes "The 
 steeple half down, three bells." See Davy's further notes. 
 
 196. FLIXTON ^. Andrew. 
 Ecclesia dcsiriicta. No return in 1553. 
 
 197. FLIXTON S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 
 No return of bells in certif dated iiij Nov., 1547. " fflyxon... Great bells 
 iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 The late Revd. H. Warren, Vicar, informed me that there were three 
 bells formerly, the inscriptions on the other two being 
 
 + i«iffus 12iJcro ^tc (Saliiicl iUiX Hcta iHarie, and 
 -j- Citucfumus ^ntirca dFamulorum ^ufcipc Uota. 
 Davy s account is intended to agree with this. Here the late Sir R. 
 Shafto Adair placed a large Dish-bell bearing twice the arms and motto of 
 his family, and inscribed, (J^cntte iiifaUemfaii Domino. i^JenrS mc ^CCtt 
 MDCCCLVII. It was struck on the outside with a large hammer, and emitted 
 a somewhat broken, booming sound, very effective at a distance. After 
 some years' use it became cracked, and was sold to help to buy an organ. 
 
 198. FLOWTON S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 3 in 1553. 
 
 199. F O R D L E Y Holy Trinity. 
 Ecclesia destrncta. 3 in 1553. 
 
 200. FORNHAM y^// .s^/;//j-. 4 Bells. 
 
 1, 2 John Draper made me 1623. 
 
 3 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -f- 61 ?i?ac Itn Conclarc D 62 fflatiriel J2unc ^angc ^uabc. 
 
 4 John Draper made me 1624. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy has mistaken "Draper" for 
 " Darbie," and put a century on the dates. 
 
 201. FORNHAM^. Genevieve. 
 
 Ecclesia destnicta. " ftornham Genofefye... Great bells ij." Return of 
 1553. " Three bells." Martin.'' 
 
 202. ^ ORHH MA S. Martin. 6 Bells. 
 
 I) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 C & G. Mears, Founders, London, 1844. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Three bells noted by Davy, but no inscriptions. 
 
 203. FOXHALL All Saints. 
 
 Ecclesia dcstriicta. "ffox.hall. Chalice one, wayinge vijoz. q"". Great 
 bells ns (= nescio)."
 
 192 THE CHURCH BELLS OE SUFEOLK. 
 
 204. FRAMLINGHAM ^. Michael 
 
 1 John Stephens of Norwich made me 1718. 
 
 2 John Stephens fecit 17 18. Prosperity to all my bene- 
 
 factors. 
 
 3 John Stephens made me 1720. 
 
 4 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 + 61 ?t?ac In Coclabe Q 62 Gabriel i^uc ^angc ^uabc. 
 
 5 ij 50 thrice. 
 
 -j- 61 2Firgtms C?grcgtc D 62 iJFofot Camjma ^Waric. 
 
 6 Omnis Sonvs lavdet Dominvm Anno Domini 1583. 
 
 7 Anno Domini 1622. W. I. B. 
 
 8 Per me fideles convocantur ad preces I. S. 17 18. Thomas 
 
 Mvlliner Moses Bvry C W. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. "Great bells v. Sancts 
 bells j." Return of 1553. 7th a bad bell. " 
 
 Many bequests "novo Campanili," from 1497 — 1534, by Christiana 
 Durrant, Margery Spinke, Tho Skimming, Rob, Maggs, Joan Trusse, Joh. 
 Botson de Saxsted, &c. 
 
 In 1657 a sixth bell was bought, probably of John Brend, partly by con- 
 tribution, partly by the sale of timber. Mr. Alexander, a Town feoffee, gave 
 ^10. This is the second or third eight in the county, Horham being the 
 nrst, and Bungay S. Mary's old eight completed in the same year with 
 Framlingham. 
 
 205. FRAMSDEN .S. J/.7n'. Tenor 16 cwt. 8 Bells. 
 
 I and 2 Gift of R' Honourable Wilbraham Earl of Dysart, 
 1 8 14. T. Mears of London fecit. 
 
 3 Will™. Dobson, Downham, 1809. 
 
 4 No inscription. 
 
 5 Sir Lionel ToUemache, Earl of Dysart, Baron of Hunt- 
 
 ingtower Bart and K'. of the most ancient order of 
 the Thistle, who died March loth, 1770, recast 
 these bells to complete the peal. 
 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1770. 
 
 6 Henry Pleasant made me 1706. 
 
 7 T. Mears of London fecit 1815. 
 
 8 Sir Lionel ToUemache, Earl of Dysart, Baron of Hunt- 
 
 ingtower Bart and K' of the most ancient order of 
 the Thisde, who died March loth, 1770, left by 
 will this bell. 
 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1772. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. " Great bells iiij." Return 
 of 1553. Davy records 3 as bearing the same inscription as 5 : and 7, 
 " Renovata Senectus in florem redeat. John Robers, A.1\L, Vicar, John 
 Revell, Ch. Warden, 1740." 
 
 206. FRECKENHAM 6'. ^;7^mf'. 5 Bells. 
 
 I William Dobson Fecit Downham Norfolk 1S09. 
 2, 3 John Draper made mee 1623. 
 
 4 The Rev^. H. Bates Rector W"". Westrop and W'". 
 
 Mainprice Churchwardens 1809. 
 
 5 T. Osborn fecit 1792. 
 
 "ffrakenham... Great bells iiij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. The 
 same inscriptions, but allotted to wrong bells by Davy, 21 Aug., 1829.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 193 
 
 207. FRESS\NGF\ELD SS. Fefer and I^au/. 8 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 T. Mears of London fecit 18 19. 
 
 3 Thomas Newman made me 1741. 
 
 4 Mr. T. Sancroft & P. James C. W. 1741. 
 T. Newman made me. 
 
 5 George Mears, founder, London, 1866. 
 6, 7 Thomas Mears of London fecit 181 7. 
 8 tl 50 thrice. 
 
 + 42 ^corum iWcritig □ 48 ^angamus ©antica HauDis. 
 
 See pp. 43, 83. 7 a little flat. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. 4 and a Sance bell in 1553. 
 Jermyn and Davy were here, 14 Oct., 1806. They note 3 and 4 as they are 
 now, 5 like 4 (as it was at my visit, 19 March, 1862), 6, Dona ISeprntrc, &c., 
 and 7, Omnis Sonus laudet Dominum 1632. I. B. On the crown L A. 
 R. A. See Gillingwater's extract for the opening of the complete eight. 
 
 The 5th, which ringers think inferior to its predecessor, was recast after 
 an accident while William Riches was ringing in a course of 720. 
 
 There seemed to be no cause for the sudden cracking of the bell, so W. 
 R. tells us. 
 
 208. FRESTON 5. Fder. 
 
 Bell. Ricardvs Bowler me fecit 1600. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 3 in 1553. A good bell. 
 
 Davy, by mistake, 1660. 
 
 L'Estrange, p. 65, mistakes this parish for Friston. 
 
 The Visitation Records of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk (1674) mention an 
 order for a new bell to be provided in place of an old one, which had been 
 sold. This order was repeated in 1675. ^^ 16S9 "the great bell" is 
 mentioned. 
 
 209. FRISTON S. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Johannes Drivervs me fecit 16 14. 
 
 2 13J 50 thrice. 
 
 -f- ©ucfumug ^ntrca D 62 JFaniulorum Sufctpe l^ota. 
 
 3 No inscription. 
 
 So Davy. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 210. FRITTON S. Edvmnd. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. M. Sydnor Esquier. 1598. 
 
 " ffreton... Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 
 In Reeve's Historical Collection two bells are mentioned. 
 
 211. FROSTENDEN ^//5rz/;//.r. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 + CAmPADA : omnivm : sAncTOi\Ym 
 
 (cracked). 
 
 2 John Brend made me 1639. (Note B.) 
 
 3 □ : O : UGO : BBAI\A : PP^O : POBIS : 
 
 DGYGXOr;A : (Note A). 
 
 So Davy, 3 Sept., 1837. Treble probably an early London bell. Tenor 
 bears " Burlingham " lettering. See p. 60. 
 
 No return of bells in certif of iiij Nov., 1547. 3 in 1553. 
 
 Z
 
 194 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 212. GAZE LEY All Saints. Weight lo cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 .'\ grateful strain boys let us sing 
 To praise the name of Messrs. King 
 "Wedge, Cornell, Norman, Hynes, and Fyson, 
 Death, Barnes, Staples, also Wilson, 
 
 By whose kind and generous aid 
 I (leader of this peal) was made. 
 John Briant fecit A.D. i8o8. 
 
 2 Pack &; Chapman of London Fecit 1775. 
 
 3 Whilst thus we join in chearful sound 
 May Love and Loyalty al)ound 
 
 Pack & Chapman of London Fecit 1775 
 
 4 Ye ringers all that prize 
 
 Your health and happiness 
 Be sober merry wise 
 
 And you'll the same possess. 
 
 Pack & Chapman of London Fecit 1775. 
 
 5 In Wedlock's bands all ye who join 
 
 With hands your hearts unite 
 So shall our tuneful tongues combine 
 To laud the nuptial rite. 
 
 Pack & Chapman of London Fecit 1775. 
 
 6 William Brewster and Rich"^. Hynes Churchwardens 
 
 1775. Pack & Chapman of London Fecit. 
 " Great bells V." Return of 1553, No note. Davy. 
 
 213. GEDDING. 2 Bells. 
 
 De Bvri Santi Edmondi. 
 
 1 Stefanus Tonni me fecit 1572. 
 
 2 De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanus Tonni me fecit 1572. 
 
 Omnia lovam lavdent animantia. 
 No return in 1553. "2 bells and a small Pully." Davy. 
 
 214. GIPPING. I Bell. 
 
 Bell. Charles Tyrell, Esq., Patron. 
 Recast Anno Dom: 181 2. Gipping Chapel. 
 I in 1553. 
 
 215. GISLEHAM Holy Trinity. Diams. 2 S & 34 in. 2 Bells. 
 
 1, 2 Anno Domini 1627 AB 
 
 ^V 
 
 So Davy. No return of bells in certif. of iiij Nov., 1547. "Great bells 
 iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 216. GISLINGHAM 6". J/c/rj'. Li E., in tune. Tenor. Diam45iin. 
 
 6 Bells. 
 I Cast by William Dobson of Downham Norfolk 18 14. 
 
 2, 3, 4 Miles Graye made me 1641. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 167 1. 
 
 6 John Darbie made me T671. G. S. C.W. 
 4 in 1553. Fine-toned bells.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 195 
 
 217. GLEM HAM, GREAT, ^//^«/;//^. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 U 52 thrice. 
 
 4-61 fi?cc iptt ^cotutn n 62 Campa Xautie 9i3onorum. 
 
 2 Thomas Gardiner fecit 1722. 
 
 3 U 52 thrice. 
 
 -}- 61 i«unerc 33apttstc D 62 33jncDictug 5it e?]borus Ifte. 
 
 4 Anno Domini 1599. 
 
 5 -\- 14. U 2S -{- 14 ^nm llofa ^ulgata iWuntJt i^atia 
 
 i^ocata. 
 So Davy. No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. "Great bells 
 V." Return of 1553. 
 
 218. GLEMHAM, UTTLE, S. Andre7c>. Tenor. Diam. 44 in. 
 
 Fij:. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Osborn Downham Norfolk fecit 1799. John 
 
 Cottingham Churchwarden. 
 
 2 De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 1574. 
 
 3 Little Glemham November 1749. Cast by Thomas 
 
 Lester of London. 
 
 So Davy, No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. "Great bells 
 iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 219. GLEMSFORD ^. 3fary. 6 Bells. 
 
 I Tho^. Mears of London fecit 1830. 
 2, 3 Miles Graye made me 1659. 
 
 4 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1754. 
 
 5 Tho^ Mears of London fecit 1830. 
 Rev. W"". Butts, Rector. 
 
 Rev. E. D. Butts, Curate. 
 
 Ambrose Jefferys ) churchwardens. 
 Charles Bigg j 
 
 6 Charles Newman made mee 1686. 
 
 William Stanby 1 r-, u ^i^ ^ 
 , , ™ ^ }■ Churchwardens. 
 
 John iomson J 
 
 Davy, Aug. 18, 1 83 1. No notes. " Great bells v." Return of 1553. 
 Nov. 16, 1698, "Wm. Tamplin for hanging the tenor and mending the 
 other bells, 9/6." P. Ace. 
 
 220. GORLESTON S. Andrew, 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mears & Stainbank, founders, London, 1873. 
 6 Mears & Stainbank, founders, London, 1873. 
 
 This peal of bells dedicated to the honor and glory of 
 God and the use of the parish church of St. Andrew's 
 Gorleston by Miriam Chevallier Roberts born at 
 Southtown in that parish A.D. 1853. 
 The old 4 were thus inscribed : — 
 
 1 U 50 AB U 86. 
 
 W 
 1610. Dame Chamberlin Xpofer Poope. 
 
 2 (see p. 42) + I Am : IHAD : in ; YG WOI\CHePG 
 
 : OB YG : CP^OS. 
 -j_ SAHCTG i IIYCHOIJAG • OI\A i PI\0 \ 
 nOBIS.
 
 196 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 3 Anthony Taylor, W^. Cross Ch. Wardens 1763. Lester 
 
 & Pack of London fecit. 
 
 4 U 50 AB U 86. 
 
 W 
 John Belton, Dame Chamberhn, Xpofer Poope, Church- 
 wardens 16 1 9. 
 " iiij Nov., 1547. Certif. of Erasmus ffox and and Barnard Sudbru 
 Chyrchewardens ther. We snefye that the towneshypp have sold one Crosse 
 of sulu"^ and one sens'" of sylu^ to the value and sma of xiiijli iiijs. yerys sence. 
 The whyche xiiijli is bestowyd vppon a newe belifframe to the bells and a 
 new Battylment to the stepuU for iiij yerys paste." 
 " Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 When I was here in 1866 I found only the two smaller of the four whole, 
 being the 2nd and 4th of a six. The treble and third were sold c. 1845 to 
 assist in pewing the church. 
 
 221. GOSBECK S. Mary. i Bell. * 
 
 Bell. Recast by J. Taylor &: Co., Loughborough, 1879. 
 The Rev"d_ y. S. Barry Rector. 
 ^^^ Mayhew, Churchwarden. 
 
 3 in 1553. Davy, 8 May, 1824. One bell inscribed— 
 S'sncta iHarta ora pro notts. 
 
 222. GROTON 6". Bartholomew. Tenor. Diam. 40^ in. Weight 
 
 10 cwt. 3 qrs. II lbs. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1676. 
 
 2 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1764. 
 
 Richd. Lifton & Geo Mumford Ct'^Vardens W'^. Dawson. 
 
 3 U 25 + 22 U 26 ^anctc IXatcnna ©ra ^ro Jioliis. 
 
 ■& § ^ § 
 
 4 ^ 3S U 31 + .Sit i^omcn Somtni OScnetktum. 
 
 5 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1763. 
 
 Geo Mumford «& Rich^. Lifton Ch.Wardens. 
 " Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 223. GRUNDISBURGH 5. J/.zr>'. Tenor. Diam. 38^. 
 
 6" Bells. 
 
 1 T. Mears. of London fecit 1830. 
 Reyi. D^ Ramsden Rector. 
 James Hayward Churchwarden. 
 Sam'. Cutting Subscriber. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1665. 
 William Yorke C. W. 
 
 3 Pack & Chapman of London fecerunt 1779. 
 James Johnson Churchwarden. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1665. 
 
 5 G. Mears & Co , London, 1864. 
 
 6 Miles Graye made me 1628. 
 
 T. Martin, 1725, notes "John Darbie made me 1665 upon 4th bell lying at 
 the West end of the Church, upon the least but one 
 
 William W 
 
 Yorke C 
 
 upon the biggest S' William Bloys Knight. Another broken bell run at the 
 
 same time lies in a Vestry or inclosed place at the West end of the South 
 
 Isle."
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 197 
 
 224. GUNTON S. Peter. 
 
 No Bell. 
 No return in 1553. None in Robert Reeve's time. 
 
 " We neur sold no other ymplemens (but plate) nat for ys xxti yers past. 
 Certif. of Henry Heyham and Henry Blocke, C.W. iij Nov., 1547." 
 
 225. HACHESTON ^// ^^/V//.. 
 
 I [Inscription wholly obscured by iron band]. 
 2, 4 Ihon Darbie made me 1683. 
 3 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -f 61 iBulctg ©ifto iWcIig D 62 ©ampa Uocot ^\t\yii,. 
 5 U Sr. 
 
 1582. S. G. Rector. H. F. C.W. 
 
 Four bells are returned under " Parham Haston" in 1553. 
 
 Hawes notes the treble as " Richard Phelps made me 1712," and the tenor 
 as SG. RBCT RR RE CR HR. SH BR HT GT MVV HI PII 1589. 
 Davy, Oct. 24, 1817, adds "Anno." 
 
 226. HADLEIGH S. Mary. Tenor 28 cwt. Diam. 52^ in. 
 
 8 and Clock bell. 
 I, 2 Miles Graye made me 1678. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1679, 
 
 4 +891731-1-37 c^tt ^omen IBomint 91SencDictum. 
 
 5 The Rev. D"". Drummond Rector. 
 
 J. B. Leake and Thos. Sallows Churchwardens 1806. 
 
 6 The Very Rev. H. B. Knox Rector. 
 
 J. Rand W. Grimwade Churchwardens. 
 C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1856. 
 
 7 The Rev. D^ Thos. Drake, Rector. Samuel Hyell 
 
 Edward Sallows Ch. Wardens. T. Osborn fecit 1788. 
 
 8 Miles Graye made me 1680. 
 
 Clock bell. AYG mAI\IA GI\ACIA PDGRA 
 (backwards). 
 
 " Great bells vj." Return of 1 553. 
 . Davy, 5 and 6 Nov., notes 5, Johannes Thornton fecit 1719. In Multis 
 Annis Resonet Campana Johannis, and 6, sum Mosa ^JJulsata jHunill Jtlaria 
 "Focata. al. sim.
 
 19^ THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 227. HALESWORTH 6'. J/.7r>-. Tenor in C. 
 
 8 and Clock bell. 
 I, 2 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1770. 
 
 3 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1759. 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67 ^anctc n 68 Z\)oma □ 68 ©ta Q 68 ^ro Q 68 
 iiobis. 
 
 5 I\IGHA1^D "WGDTOn ADD DAIIIGD BAI\nG 
 
 GHV'P^CH ^WAI\DGnS lYIJII 1622 WIB 
 
 6 IJ 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67 n 68 SoDanncS D 68 Cl)vi!3ti D 68 CTarc D 68 
 IDicinare D 68 pro \J 68 iiobijs Q otaw. 
 
 7 U 86 AB U 50. 
 
 ^v 
 
 ^nno Domini 161 1. 
 
 8 iltio BcpaireD ^5 ^^ogct 2^ooDss CJragmud iHoss CJ)urcI) 
 
 SSarlicns '^afctg dl^arctt gabc me. WIB. 
 
 Clock bell. T. Mears London fecit 1826. 
 
 Davy, 1806, agrees with this. No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 5 and 
 a Sance bell 1553. 7th, inconceivably honeycombed, lasts by a miracle. 
 
 228. HARGRAVE ^. ^.//«//«^. Tenor in A. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 ^ Thomas Cheese □ 82 James □ 82 Edbere 1622. 
 
 2 T. Mears of London fecit 1841. 
 Ehzabeth White, Sarah White. 
 
 3 n 81 Anno n 82 : n 82 Regni Q 82 Regine D 81 
 
 Elizabeth. De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni 
 me fecit. 
 □ 81 Anno n 82 Domini □ 82 1566. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. "3 bells," Davy. The treble has 
 been over-flattened. 
 
 229. HARKSTEAD 6". Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 3, 4 Miles Graye made me 161 1. 
 I, 2 Thomas Gardiner fecit 1722. 
 5 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1722. 
 So Da\y. 3 in 1553. 
 
 230. HARLESTON ^. Augicstine. Diam. 16^ in. Note D. 
 
 I Bell. 
 Bell. J. Warner &: Sons, London. 
 (Royal Arms) Patent. 
 
 Recast 1862. Rev^. C. Perry Rector. James Matthew 
 Churchwarden. 
 
 2 in 1553. Davy, June 13th, 1827, notes a small bell in a cupola, inac- 
 cessible. 
 
 231. HARTEST All Saints. Tenor. Diam. 38* in. 11 cwt. 
 
 5 Bells. • 
 I5 2, 3, 4 John Darbie made me 1661. 
 5 John Darbie made me 1661. William Coppinge Richard 
 Mirrld (sic) C.W. 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy, Aug. 17, 1831, " 5 Bells."
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 199 
 
 232. HAS K ETON S. Andreta. Tenor. Diam. 36^ in. Note A. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 r, 3, 4, 5 Miles Graye made me 1628. 
 2 T. Mears of London fecit 1832. Samuel Randale, 
 Churchwarden. 
 
 I, 3, 4, 5 also bear the arms of Nath. Atherold, ob. 1678. No return of 
 bells in certif. of 1547. " Wodbridge haston... Great bells iiij." Return 
 of 1553- 
 
 233. HAUGHLEY^. J/^70'. Tenor. Diam. 45 in., in F. Weight 
 
 I ton. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Virorum \ sumptus \ nostrorum \ sunt ; Haughley. 
 Recast in memory of E. Ebdon Surgeon for 43 years a 
 
 resident of this Parish. 
 E. E. Ward A^icar. ^' J- ^'^^^rison | Churchwardens 
 S. S. Baker [ 1885. 
 
 J. Smyth, G. Reed 1702 HP 
 Recast by John Warner & Son, London, 
 2, 3, 4, 5 Stefanvs Q 82 Tonni Q 82 me Q 82 Fecit D 82 
 WL □ 82 1572. 
 D 81 De n 82 Buri D 82 Santi D 82 Edmondi D 82. 
 XJ 81 Sumptus n 82 Nostrorum Q 82 Sunt Q 82 
 Haughlue □ 82 Virorum. 
 So Davy, 4 and a Sance bell in 1553. 
 
 234. HAVERHILL ^. J/^ry. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 3 John Darbie made me 1669. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1685. 
 
 4 Joseph Eayre S', Neots 1765, John Godfrey and Abel 
 
 Bull Churchwardens.^ 
 
 5 Tho. Newman of Norwich made mee. 
 W, Wilshere & S. Bridge C,W. 1729. 
 
 " Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. No notes, Davy. 
 
 235. HAWKEDON S. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1, 2, 3, 5 Miles Graye made me 1683. 
 
 4 Samuel Sparrow William Pettit Church Wardens. J. S. 
 fecit 1 72 1, 
 So Davy, " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 236. HAWSTEAD All Saints. 3 and a Sance bell. 
 
 I + 15 U 9 CHtcrnig Slnnts Mcfonct Campana 3)o6anntS. 
 
 2, 3 Henry Pleasant made me 1696. Thomas Cason CW. 
 Sance Bell. No inscription. 
 
 " Halstede.. .Great bells j." Return of 1553. The engraving of the Sance 
 bell, fig. 78, is taken from the chancel, and the bell hangs at the south end 
 of the Rood-screen. See p. 82. 
 
 The Whitechapel foundry cast five bells, tenor 9 cwt., for Hardwick 
 House in this parish at some time in the last 100 years, 
 
 237. HAZLEWOOD. 
 
 Ecclesia destructa. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553.
 
 200 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 238. H ELM INGHAM 6". J/tirj. Tenor. Diam. 49 in., in D. 
 
 Weight igf cwt. 8 Bells. 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 T. Mears of London Fecit 18 15. 
 
 7 1815. 
 
 8 The Peal of Eight Bells were the gift of the Right 
 
 Hon^'^. the Earl of Dysart. Anno Domini 1815. 
 T. Mears of London Fecit. 
 
 Davy, 5 Aug., 1806, left spaces for inscription on 6 bells, but alas ! did not 
 write them in. T. Martin (no date) notes 5. Old Tenor, Lionell Tallmach 
 Esq. De Bvri Sti. Edm. 1562. Stephanvs Tonni me fecit. Davy. See 
 Henley. 4 in 1553. 
 
 239. HEMmGSTONE S. Gregory. Tenor. Diam. 45in. 
 
 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Charles Newman made me 16S6. 
 
 2 U 65. 
 
 + 5ancta D i^atia \J ©ra n ^ro Q i^obis. 
 
 3 U65. 
 
 + Cell n Set n iWunus n ^ut n IScgnat D ^t Q 
 
 So Davy, 8 May, 1824, imperfectly, crossing i and 2. 3 in 1553. 
 
 240. HEM LEY A// Saints. 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 17 14. 
 
 So Davy, 21 May, 181 1, save 1715. 
 
 No return in certif. of 1547. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 241. H EN GR Ay E S. /c?/i;i. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. 1796. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 " No bells, except a small one for the clock." Davy. 
 
 242. HENHAM. 
 
 Ecclesia destriicta. No return in 1553. 
 
 243. WEWV.Ey S. Peter. Tenor 9 cwt. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Mears & Son of London fecit 1809. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1658. 
 
 Rafve Meadowe | .i- u n 
 
 Willyam Meadowe ] S^ve this bell. 
 
 3 Lionellus Tolmach Comes de Dysart hunc de novo 
 
 fundi C. 1736. 
 
 4 65 thrice. 
 
 + ^ancta Q iWaria D ®ra D i^to D iiobtg. 
 
 5 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -j- ^anctc D ^oma D ©ra D i^ro D i^obtg. 
 
 Davy, 9 May, 1824, "The Clerk told me this (now the 3rd) came from 
 Helmingham." 4 in 1553. 
 
 The old tenor was by Gardiner, 1729, and weighed 10 cwt. i qr. 25 lbs., 
 without the crown staple. From this the present treble is supposed to be 
 made. The old 3rd by Miles Graye, 161 7, was exchanged for a bell at 
 Helmingham c. 1870. In 1730 ^22 \is. was paid to a Sudbury founder, 
 no doubt Gardiner, for casting a bell and carriage.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 201 
 
 244. HEN STEAD 6*. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 So Davy, 31 Aug., 1809. " One," Martin, 1750. 
 3 and a Sance bell in 1553. 
 
 245. HEPWORTH S. Peter. Tenor. Diam. 35 in, in A. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 I, 2, 3 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1726. 
 
 4 Rob'. Nunn Churchwarden. William Dobson 1825. 
 
 5 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -|- ^etrus a?) lEtctnc Q 63 Bucat ilios ^^agcua Wwt. 
 Impressions of coins and medals on i, 2, 3. " (ireat bells iij." Return 
 of 1553. 4 "Thomas Draper the younger made me 15931" says Davy, 6 
 Jan., 1810, otherwise as above. 
 
 246. HERRINGFLEET S. Margaret. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 1837. 
 
 2 AB U 86 U 52. 
 W 
 
 Slnno J3omim 161 1. 
 "Heryngsheath... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. We find from Reeve's 
 Historical Collection that there were three bells, one inscribed + ©uesumus 
 anUrea. iramuloruiu ^uscipc ¥013, and another + DulctS €tSto i'ttelis. 
 CTamyana Vocov Jtlttljaclts. 
 
 247. HERRI NGSWELL 6". Ethclbert. Tenor in B3, all tuned by 
 
 turning. 3 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3 I. Taylor & Co., Founders, Loughborough, 1869. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 The original treble, iFac Jlflargareta iflobts "^n ittunera Heta ley 
 Ijono robfrii t)ou (T. Martin). Recast 1741, inscribed John Pond C.W. 
 1741. Tho. Newman made me. 2 Q ?^?fc Ji^'t :=covu □ Cl^ampa 
 Saiilic 23onoru. 3 D ^M £n ©onclafac D (J^abiicl i'iunc ^angc ^uabc. 
 
 These three bells seen by me early in 1849 bore the usual Norwich marks. 
 Davy reports these so, 22 Aug., 1828. Martin notes 3 in 1755, so that the 
 jFac Jttargareta must have come from earlier notes. 
 
 248. H ESS ETT ^. ^///^/^^r/ (fine bells). 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Robert Midson John Vacher Churchwardens. 
 John Stephens made me 1724. 
 
 3 T. Osborn Founder 1787. 
 
 4 John Stephens Bell-founder of Norwich made me 1724. 
 
 5 John Stephens made me 1724. 
 
 So Davy. " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 See notes in Canon Cooke's History of Hessett, in the proceedings of the 
 Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, vol. iv.. No. 6, pp. 330, 331. 
 
 249. HEVENINGHAM ^. J/;;:^?''^/-^^- Tenor 9 cwt. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho. Osborn fecit 1797- Percute dulce cano. 
 
 2 T. Osborn Downham fecit 1797. 
 
 3 T. Osborn fecit 1797. Cum voco Venite. 
 
 4 T. Osborn fecit 1797. 
 
 5 Thos. Osborn fecit 1797. Long live King George the 
 
 Third. 
 
 2A
 
 202 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFP^OLK. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 4 in 1553. 
 
 Extract from Terrier rendered 24 May, 1784, "also four bells with frames, 
 the least thought to weigh 7 cwt., the 2nd 9 cwt., the 3rd 11 cwt., and the 
 4th about 15 cwt." One of the present five is cracked in the shoulder. 
 
 250. HIGH AM S. Suj>/iaL i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1861. 
 Presented by Joseph Gurney Barclay Esq""., Higham, 
 1861. 
 
 251. HIGHAM S. Alary. Tenor 8 cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Mears, Founder, London 1842. The gift of A. 
 
 C. Reeve, Esq. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1675. 
 
 3 William Mears of London fecit 1781. John Stubbin 
 
 Churchwarden. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1663. 
 
 5 + 43 U 23 ^ancta dfiDcS Ora ^ro ilobi^. 
 
 6 John Darbie made me 1675. John Partridge C. W. 
 So Davy, only transposing 2 and 3. See p. 23. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 4 in 1553. On the battlement of 
 the steeple "J. S. W. M. 1786." 
 
 The late Vicar, the Rev. A. C. Reeve, died early in 1889. He was insti- 
 tuted in 1835. 
 
 252. HINDERCLAY ^. Mary. Tenor. Diam. 39I in., in G. 
 
 c. 13 cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Cum voco venite. T. Osborn Downham fecit 1790. 
 
 2 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 17 16. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -|- gancta : catcrina : ora : pronobif. 
 
 4 I. D. and A. G. made me 162 1. 
 
 5 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1734. 
 
 6 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 + 61 J2o«i ©Dome iHcritts D 62 iHcccamut ffiauliia 
 ilucb. 3)ol)cs Samfon. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy"s notes on the Pitcher, 19 June, 
 1844. Sperling says, " Tenor G, 14 cwt," 
 
 253. HINTLESHAM ^. iV}V//^/^^. Tenor. Diameter 37 in., about 
 
 8i cwt. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 5 John Darbie made me 1678. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1677. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1678. S. H. C.W. 
 
 4 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury me fecit 1722. 
 So Davy. 2 in 1553. 
 
 254. HITCHAM A// Samfs. Tenor 8 cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Thomas Mears of London, flounder, 1837. 
 ^ William Powell ] r-. u j 
 2 W-". Everett j Churchwardens. 
 
 4 'Henry Pleasant made me 1697. 
 William Powell | „j , 
 Wm Everett j hardens.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 203 
 
 5 Thomas ... Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1755. 
 I Fieldgate \ r w 
 
 R. Kemball f *-• ^^• 
 
 6 Thomas Gardiner fecit 1744. 
 I. Fieldgate I p w 
 
 I. King / 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 T. Martin, 6 July, 1741, notes 6. Davy, 24 Oct., 1826, 5. 
 
 255. HO LB ROOK A/I Saints. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Pack & Chapman of London Fecit 1775. 
 Thomas Green & Jn°. Clark Ch. Wardens. 
 
 2 William Dobson Founder Downham Norfolk 1807. 
 
 3 Robert Patrick of London Founder 1783. 
 Tho^ Green Churchwarden. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1661. 
 
 5 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1722. 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 4 in 1553. 
 
 " Five bells, the oldest founded 1661." Davy. 
 
 256. HOLLESLEY ^// Saints. . 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Anno Domini 1620. 
 
 2 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -|- Sancta i*laria Ora ^ro iiobis. 
 
 3 Per me fidelis invocantur ad preces. Anno 1620. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 There was another bell, with a large hole in the upper part of it, probably 
 the treble, at Davy's visit, 14 Sept., 1824, inscribed, " Miles Graye made me 
 1637," otherwise his record agrees with this, save that he kindly corrects 
 " hdelis " to " iideles." 
 
 257. HOLTON S. Mary. Notes B, Bb, Ab. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 65 thrice. 
 
 + ^ancte D 68 \Uyx\t D 68 ©ra Q 68 ^ro Q 68 iiobtS. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1674. R. T. C.W. 
 
 3 ij 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67 llbc D 68 itlaria D 68 (Sacla (sic) Q 68 ijJIcna D 
 68 Bominus Q 68 ®ccum. 
 3 in 1553- 
 
 258. HOLTON S. Peter. i Bell. 
 
 BeU. Three marks, " M. H. M. 1881 " (by Moore, 
 Holmes and Mackenzie.) 
 2 in 1553. " One bell." Davy. 
 
 259. HOMERSFIELD S. Mary. 2 c^ 3 out of tune. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 86 AB U 5-- 
 
 ^mio ©omtni 16 19. 
 
 2 U 52 thrice. 
 
 -f- 61 dPac i«arsarcta D 62 £}obU Sicc iHuncra Hcta. 
 ^ ij 50 thrice. 
 
 + 61 ?i?ac Jin eonclabc D 62 Gabriel Jlunc ^^angc 5uat.c. 
 ^' Hum^sfelde in Sowthelma... Great bells iij." Return of 1553- 
 Davy notes three bells, but could not get ihe key. INIay 18, 1S30.
 
 204 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 260. HONINGTON All Saints. Tenor A, c. 8 cwt. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -f 61 abc i^atia CUratta ^iJlcna D 62 Sna IZTccum. 
 
 3 John Draper made me 1600. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 25 July, 1832, " 2 bells. ' 
 
 261. HOO ^5. Andrew a7id Eustachius. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription (very small, cracked). 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547, or in 1553. 
 Davy, Apr. 21, 1S19, notes it as inacessible. 
 
 262. HOPTON All Saints. Tenor in Y%, c. 13 cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 William Dobson Downham Norfolk fecit 1807. 
 
 2 John Draper made me 1629. 
 
 3, 4, 5 John Draper made me 1630. 
 6 John Draper made me 1626. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 27 July, 1824, omits date on 
 2. al. sim. Sperling (i860) says, "Tenor FA, 13 cwt." 
 
 263. HOPTON ^. Margaret. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. T. Mears of London fecit 1S15. 
 No return of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. "Great bells iij." Return 
 of 1553. Three bells mentioned in Reeve's Historical Collection. 
 
 264. V\0?.\^^\^ S. Mary. Tenor in Bb , out of tune. 8 Bells. 
 
 1 John □ Clvb 1673 □ Horham. 
 
 2 John Clvb Horham 1672. 
 
 3 John Clvb Horham 1672. 
 
 4 John Clovb [Gierke] 1658. 
 
 5 Johanes Draper me fecit 1605. 
 
 6, 7 John Darbie made me 1663. John Clovbe Rector of 
 
 Horham and Athelington. 
 8 Anno Domini 1568 (1568 also scratched in the mould). 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 16 July, 1809, notes these nearly so, except the tenor. 
 They are the earliest octave, apparently, in the county. The Terrier, 13 
 Dec, 1672, notes " Eight bells, with frames, ropes, etc." 
 
 John Clubb, Rector, left in 1693, 6^-. 8rtf. to be given to the poor on Plough 
 Monday. His arms are on i, 2, 3. Lettering of these puzzling. 
 
 265. MORNINGS HEATH S.Leonard. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 William Dobson Founder 18 18. 
 
 2 Peace and good neighbourhood. 
 
 3 William Dobson Downham Norfolk Fecit 18 18. 
 
 4 These Six Bells were given by Arthur Brooks Esq'., 18 18. 
 
 5 W>". Bacon Wigson Esq"", and Thomas Gardiner Church- 
 
 wardens 18 1 8. 
 
 6 The gift of Arthur Brooks Esq"". The ReV^. Henry 
 
 Hasted, M.A. Rector. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Tom Martin, c. 1724, notes, " Steeple 
 lowered. 3 bells." Davy in 1834 by mistake records only 5 bells.
 
 IXSCRIPTIONS. 205 
 
 266. HOXNE SS. Peter and Paul. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1676. E. \V. A. G. J. H. S. L. 
 
 2 Omnis Sonus laudet Dominum. 1655 J. B. 
 U (arms of Thruston, engraved on the bell). 
 
 3 + John Goldsmith fecit 17 11 Gabriel J. L. R. W. C. W. 
 
 T. P. 
 
 4 U 50 ©rate TJ 50 pro aia U 50 Ifvirarlii Smitlj. 
 
 n 62 iSos Cljomc iWcritts □ 61 iWrreamur (&aut)ia 3luci0. 
 
 5 D 47 AHt iHar^arrta Q 48 iiobis ^}tt itTuncra Seta. 
 1; and a Sance bell in 1553. See Thorpe Abbot's, L'Estrange, p. 223. 
 Martin (without date) notes "upon one cast some years ago was this, 
 
 ?^ac fin (JToncIabc ©alirtfl Nunc 13angc Suabt." This was almost certamly 
 the present 3rd. He gives wrongly ISrotonc for Smtlft on the 4th. See his 
 note. Gillingwater, 20 Aug., 1799, says, "The 6th bell being split was sold 
 about 50 years ago, and the money applied towards seating and repairing 
 the church." In witness whereof the present five are in note the first five of 
 a six. 
 
 N.B. At Thorpe Abbot's are two bells : — 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1678. 
 
 2 John Goldsmith fecit 1712. Mr. John Caton Ch. Wd. Mr, 
 
 SI. Staiiard. 
 T. R. E. iij belles. One said to have been sold to Hoxne. 
 East Ano^lian, I., 108, for repair of Clock (1521) in Bishop's Palace. 
 
 267. HULVER. 
 
 Ecclesia destructa. 
 
 268. HUN DON All Saints. Tenor. Diam. 3 ft. 10 in. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho''. Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1796. 
 
 2 Charles Newman made mee 1701. 
 
 3 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury Fecit 1726. 
 
 4 T. Osborn Fecit Downham Norfolk 1801. 
 
 5 Thomas Mears Founder London 1841. 
 
 6 John Thornton Sudbury Made me 1720. 
 Henry Teverson | ^h^ Wds 
 
 John Hills j 
 
 "Great bells v." Return of 1553. No notes, Davy. 
 
 269. W\}n^TO\A S. Michael. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Pack & Chapman of London fecit. John Rust C. W." 
 
 2 J. D. made me 16 14. 
 
 3 Johannes Drivervs me fecit 161 7. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 6 July, 1843, " three bells." 
 
 2 70. HUNTINGFIELD ^. J/./n'. Tenor cracked. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas IJ Gardiner Q fecit 1722. 
 
 2 Thomas Gardiner fecit 1720. 
 3, 4, 5 Tho. Gardiner fecit 1720. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 3 in i553- 
 
 Davy, I Aug., 1806, gives no inscriptions. P^-ame very bad now. 
 
 271. \OY.UnQy\^^\^ All Saints. 3 Bells. 
 
 I IJ 8 thrice, 
 n 61 S^irginig ^grcgic D 61 2Focot CJampana |tTarlf.
 
 206 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK, 
 
 2 IJ 51 thrice. 
 
 n 47 dutfumus SlnDrca □ 48 ipamulorum ^ufcipc Wotti. 
 
 3 Johanes Draper me fecit 1608. 
 "Great Bells iij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 272. \CKL\NGHAN\ S. /c7mes. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 20 Aug., 1829, notes one bell. 
 
 273. ICKWORTH S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Tho: Gardiner he me did cast 
 
 111 sing his praise unto the last. 17 11. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. No mention of bells by Davy. 
 
 274. \Y.^^ S. Botolph. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 U26n2 2U25 ^anttc <ri)omn ©ta ^to iiobtg. 
 
 2 £2aoi- Sluguftini <$onct Hit ^uvc S3ct. 
 U26 D 22 u 25 
 
 3 U 26 n 22 IJ 25 e^ancta ISatcrina 0ra ^10 ^obig. 
 ■ - § § ■§ s s 
 
 4 Sanctc lacobc ©ra 4^ro iiobtS U 29. 
 
 No return of bells in ccrtif. of 1547. " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 So Davy, save that he could not read No. 2. See pp. 25, 33. 2 should 
 have been mentioned with i and 3. 
 
 275. ILKETSHALL S. Andrexu (before the fire, Sept., 1889). 
 
 4 Bells. 
 I, 2, 3 ^nno Somtni 1623. 
 AB 
 \V 
 4 Ricardvs Bowler me fecit 1598. 
 So Davy, March i6th, 1810. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 In 1547 John Emerys and John Chevez C.W. return that "Robert Skytte 
 w'h the consent of thole Towne did sell one payre of chalyes v yeres agone to 
 the sum of iiij m^cs \d.'" which was bestowed about one bell, also "that 
 Roger Walker and Rychard Warner did selle one payre of chalyes ths last 
 yeare to the Siile of xxxvi-. whereof we have bestowed vpo a great belle xxji'." 
 The date on the tenor and one of the other bells remained unmelted. 
 The metal, when run out, yielded 14 cwt., enough for recasting the two 
 larger bells. Old tenor B. Diam. 34 in. i and 2 cracked in the crown. 
 
 276. ILKETSHALL S. lo/ni Baptist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell : n • SAHCTG : PGTI\G : Or;A : PBO : 
 
 me : 
 
 "Great bells ij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 "One small bell," Davy, March 16, 1810. 
 
 277. ILKETSHALL 6'. Laurence. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 1619. W. B. 
 
 2 Anno Dni 16 19. W. B. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. So in substance, Davy, Mar. 16, 1810. 
 
 278. \LKET SV\ ALL S. Margaret. 3 Bells. 
 
 I U 8 thrice. 
 D 12 <^um ISloga l^ulsata itTunDi I\atcrina ITotata.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 207 
 
 2 U 8 thrice. 
 
 D 12 Bulcts <^tsto 0le\i^ ©ampana Wotot (EabncUg. 
 
 3 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 n 61 i*luncrc 33aptigtc Q 62 JlJcncDictus <§tt CTJoniS Istc. 
 " Great bells iij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 Treble cracked, 2 and 3 poor tinny bells. Tenor in F, a little sharp. In- 
 accessible to Davy, May 20, 1830. 
 
 279. \ l^GH AM S. Barf /lo/omeia. Tenor F^. Diam. 4if in. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5 G. Mears, founder, London. 
 
 Offered at the Church at Ingham in memory of her 
 Ancestors by Frances Wakeham, June, i860. 
 
 The old bell was inscribed, U 9 + U 9 fS?" i^oba Campana Jttargarcta 
 CPst iSomtnala. See p. 17. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 25 Aug., 1829, " Only one bell." 
 
 280. \PSW\CH A// Sainfs. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 
 281. IPSWICH S. Clement. Tenor F]f. Diam. 43 in. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 John Darbie made me 1680. 
 So Davy, 19 May, 181 1. 
 
 " Itm bells in the Stepyll iiij." Return of 1553. See East Anglian^ 
 N. S. III., 204, etc., January, 1890. 
 
 282. IPSWICH ^. ^^/^«. 2 Bells. 
 
 I Me Made Graye Miles 162 1. 
 
 2+67 Jiancta Q i'Haiia D ©ra D i^^o i^obig. 
 "Seynt Ellyns...Impms bells in the Stepyll iij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 19 May, 181 1, notes a third bell, hke the present 2nd. 
 
 283. IPSWICH ^. Z^?/m/^^. Tenor F. Diam. 43. ^ in. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 U 66 thrice. 
 
 4- 67 Jancta D iJ*Tavta Q ©ra D l^ro D iiobig. 
 
 2 U 32 D 22 Sancta iiatcvina ©ra ^vo J^obis. 
 
 3 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 n 61 ^onitug lEgiCiti D 62 ^srcnDit au Culmtna Celt. 
 
 4 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 n 61 i^03 ^{)omc #i;crttt« D 62 iHcrcamur (©autila 3luc(s. 
 
 5 U 50 thrice. 
 
 D 61 5um Eosa pulgata D 62 i>Xunlit i«aria Uocata. 
 So Davy, 20 May, 181 1. See his note for legacies to the steeple. _ 
 "bells we have sold non." Certif. of parishioners, 1547. "Itm in the 
 Stepyll bells v Wheruppon gothe the Chymes. Itm Sanctus bell." Return 
 of 1553. Tower engraved in the Building News, Dec. 29, 1882. 
 
 284. XP^'HXOW S. Margaret. Tenor F. Diam. 44 in. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 3, 4, 5 Miles Graye made me 1630. 
 2 K.obertus Richmond. 
 
 Miles Graye made me 1630. 
 
 6 Miles Graye made me 1630. 
 
 The living to the church, the dead unto the grave, 
 Thats my onely calling and propertie I have. 
 No return of bells in certif of 1547. "Itm bells in the stepyll iiij." 
 Return of 1553. Davy, 31 Aug., 1825, "six."
 
 2o8 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 285. \PSy\f\CH S. Mary-a^-£/ms. Tenor G. Diam. 36 in. 
 
 ^> 3) 5 John Darbie made me 1660. 5 Bells. 
 
 2 + + U 23. 
 4 Miles Graye made me 16 13. 
 "Itm bells in the stepyll iiij. Itm Sanctus bell j." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 21 Aug., 182 1, notes i and 4 as here, gives 1662 as the date of the 
 tenor, crosses 2 and 3, the former of which he calls " plain." 
 
 286. \PSVJ\C\^ S. Mary-ai-Quay. Tenor A. Diam. 33 in. 
 
 6 Bells. 
 I T. G. fecit 1732. Mr. Henry Bowell C.W. 
 2, 3, 6 John Darbie made me 1662. 
 
 4 Miles Graye made me 1613. 
 
 5 Pack & Chapman I^ondon fecit 1775. 
 
 " Itm Sanctus bell i. Itm bells in the stepyll iv." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, II June, 181 1, notes 2 and 3 as dated 1663. 
 
 287. \PSV^\CH S. Mary S^oJ^e. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 Miles Graye me made 1615. 
 
 "Itm bells in the stepyll iiij." Return of 1553. Another removed 1887, 
 which Davy, 2 Aug., 1824, notes "plain." 
 
 288. I PSW \CH S. Mary le Tower. Tenor D:> , 32 cwt. Diam. 58 in. 
 
 12 Bells. 
 
 1 -f- CTantatc i3omino CTantico i?iobo -|- 1866. 
 
 2 John Taylor & Son, Loughborough, Founders, July 15th, 
 
 1845. 
 
 3 George Taylor Joselyn & Edwin Brook Churchwardens 
 
 1844. 
 
 4 Christopher Hodson made me 1688. R. M. T. S. 
 
 5 -(- EauDate Bominiim In Cjmbalis Ucncjsonantilius -|- 1866. 
 6, 8, 10 John Darbie made me 167 1. 
 
 7 Miles Graye made me 1607. 
 9 -|- lEn Mcsono lirparata iHana i3cfora '^ocata -\- 
 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1866. 
 
 11 Miles Graye made me 16 10. 
 
 12 -|- ITriplcf persona ^rinitas iiunc ©auliia J3ona. 
 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1861. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 5 and a Sanctus bell in 1553. 
 
 Davy, 2 Aug., 1810, notes i, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 (the present 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 
 11) as here. The old 2nd (present 5th) was like the old treble, and Warner 
 in 1866 repeated the inscription on the old 6th (present 9th), dated 1707. 
 The recasting saved any tuning. 
 
 289. IPSWICH S. Matthew. Tenor G. Diam. 39 in. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 5 Pack &: Chapman of London fecit 1772. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -j- 5ancta D I^^atcrina D ©ra D i^ro Q i^obtg. 
 
 4 Miles Graie made me 1605. 
 
 So Davy, 17 June. 1824. No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 
 
 " Itm bells in the stepyll iiij. Itm Sanctus bell. Return of 1553. 
 
 In 1583, ^4 4J. zd. was paid for casting a bell and overweight, and 5^. 4^. 
 for carrying it to Bury. In 1606 the brass of the 3rd cost 6d. for carrying to 
 Colchester and back, and Myles Graye received £,\ 2s. 6d, for casting the 
 2nd. There are some more curious items.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 209 
 
 290. \PS\N\Ch\ S. 2V/c/w/as. Tenor G. Diam. 39 in. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 3 H. P. 1706. W Tweedy E. Syer C"^ 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1630. 
 
 4 Henry Pleasant have at last 
 
 Made us as good as can be cast. 1706. 
 
 5 H. P. 1706. Marlburio duce castra cano vastata inimicis. 
 So Davy, 30 June, 1826. No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 
 
 " Itiii bells in the stepyll iiij. Itm Sanctus bell." Return of 1553. 
 _ It is supposed that a Church dedicated to All Saints once stood on the 
 site of S. Nicholas. See p. 141. 
 
 291. IPSWICH ^. T^t'/^r. Tenor Gij:. Diam. 3 4^ in. 6 Bells. 
 
 T John Darbie made me 1682. 
 
 2 Thos. Gardiner Sudbury Fecit 1733. 
 
 3 No inscription 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1683. 
 George Maciery Moreto. ? 
 
 5 T. Rainbird, W. Goodrich CW^ T. G. Fecit 1735. 
 
 6 Miles Graye made me 1630. 
 
 " Itffi bells in the Stepyll iiij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 15 June, 181 1, assigns these inscriptions thus: — 
 
 1 nowhere j 4 to 3 
 
 2 to I 5 to 4 
 
 3 to 2 I 6 to 5, and calls the tenor 
 "John Catchpole C.W. Charles Newman made me 1701." 
 
 292. \PS\N\CH S. Sfe/>/ien. Tenor B, 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U II thrice. 
 
 + Voy auguftini 5onct In ^urc Bci. 
 
 2 ij II thrice. 
 
 -|- ©riftu-i ^crpctuc 33ct iiobis Cautita WiU. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1630. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. " Itm bells m the Stepyll iiij." 
 Return of 1553. Davy, 3 Aug., 1810, "3 Bells." See p. 17. 
 
 293. \PSVJ\CH Ilo/y Tri;iify. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Gardiner Norwich fecit 1751. 
 Church about the beginning of the century. 
 
 294. IXy^ORTH S. Mary. Tenor E, c. 18 cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 I John Darbie made me 1682. Sim: Boldero, The. 
 
 Clark ChvrchWardens. 
 2, 3 John Darbie made me 1665. 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -j- ^ancta Q iHaria D Ora D il^ro D MoUi. 
 
 5 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -f- 61 iSos ^Jome i^crttis Q 62 iHtrcamur (i5aut)ta Huclg. 
 
 6 Roger Boldero Gent & Tho^ Garnham Ch, Wardens. 
 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1766. 
 
 " Yxford.. .Great bells V. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 24 July, 1832, gives no bell notes, but an interesting inscription 
 from the tower. The tower bears the name of " Master Robert Schot, 
 Abot" (of Bury). He was a native of Ixworth, and the date is c. 1470. 
 See pp. 55, 69, 123, 125. 
 
 2B
 
 2IO THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 295. KEDINGTON vS^. Peter and Paid. 5 and Clock bell. 
 
 1 Thomas Mears, Founder, London, 1838. 
 
 2 The. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1743. 
 3, 4, 5 John Darbie made me 1673. 
 
 Clock bell. 1779. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. No notes, Davy. See p. 124. 
 
 296. KELSALE S. Peter. 8 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 T. Mears of London fecit 1831. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me t68i. 
 
 4 J. Peele me fecit. E. H. Burssor Churchwarden 1708. 
 
 5 T. Mears London fecit 1830. 
 
 6 S. Newton, J. Peele fecit. E. Hobart, E H. Burssor, 
 
 John Brothers, Ralph Eade Churchwardens 1708. 
 
 7 U 50 thrice. 
 
 n 61 IBona l*lcpcnlic ^ia Q 62 iflogo iHagDalcna ifWaria. 
 
 8 John Darbie made me 1681. Philip Eade, A. E. 
 
 feoffees, Ralph Eade, Churchwarden, William Wright, 
 
 M. W. C. E. 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 4 and a Sance bell in 1553. 6 and 7 
 noted so by Davy, 29 May, 1806. I am not quite sure of the 7th marks. 
 See pp. 58, 124, 146. 
 
 297. KENTFORD 6". i^/^;j. 3 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Thomas Newman of Norwich made mee 1735. 
 3 T. Newman made me. R. Norman & T. MuUinger 
 C. W. 1735. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Three bells. Davy. See p. 138. 
 
 298. K^HT on All Saints. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me 16 13 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1630. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 10 Nov., 1815, notes two bells. 
 See pp. 117, 118. 
 
 299. KERSEY .S. yl/.^o'. Tenor F. Diam. 42 in. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 17 16. 
 
 3 D 81 1576 D 82 De n 82 Bvri D 82 Santi D 82 
 
 Edmondi D 82 Stefanvs D 82 Tonni Q 82 me 
 D 82 fecit n 82 W L 
 
 4 Christopher Hodson made me 1689. 
 
 John Fellget Edward Lapeg Church Wardens. 
 
 5 Stephen Kembell John Hodson made me 1662. W. H. 
 
 Rodger Clarke Church Warden. 
 
 6 Samuel Sampson Church Warden I say 
 
 Caused me to be made by Colchester Graye M. 1638. 
 
 Clock bell. Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 17 16. 
 So with one or two involuntary variations, Davy. Clock bell from him, 
 19 Aug., 1825. "Carsseye... Great bells v." Return of 1553. See pp. 96, 
 118, 132, 143. 
 
 300. KESGRAVE ^//^-^r/;//^. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. -|- Sancta ittaria ©ra ^ro ilobtS U 29. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy. Note on Sir Samuel Barnardiston's generosity. See p. 33.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 211 
 
 301. KESSINGLAND ^. ^^///««^. Tenor E. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Anno Domini 1617. WIB 
 
 2 Thomas Newman made me 1 7 1 1 . 
 Thomas Jealous C. W. 
 
 3 Thomas Newman made me 1728. 
 Thomas Brown, C. Warden. 
 
 4 Mears & Stainbank, Founders, London, 1866. 
 
 5 J. S. Crowfoot Churchwarden. R. Manthorp Overseer 
 
 1813. T. Mears of London fecit. 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. "Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." 
 Return of 1553. The old fourth was merely dated 161 5, and the old tenor 
 was inscribed, "Thomas Newman made me 1728. Thomas Brown C.W. 
 John Jenner." Davy, who gives 161 5 as the date of the treble. Tower, 93 
 feet high, a line sea-mark, bee pp. 114, 137. 
 
 302. KETTLEBASTON S. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1663. 
 
 2 Steven Barton John Jenings Churchwardens 1699. 
 
 3 D 81 1567 n 82 De D 82 Bvri Q 82 Santi Q 82 
 
 Edmondi □ 82 Stefanvs Q 82 Tonni □ 82 me 
 
 D 82 fecit. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, by mistake, 27 August, 1826, 2 Bells. See pp. 96, 123, 136. 
 
 303. KETTLEBURGH .9. ^//^;rw. 3 Bells. 
 
 I Samuel Thompson, D.D., Rector. Robert Sparrow Gent. 
 Robert Salmon, Ch W. R. P. fee. 171 1. 
 
 3 AP RG WW PA F.R. WP SRSNGLBI FTP. O 1592 
 
 So Davy, 3 Oct., 1805. "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See pp. 
 102, 148. 
 
 304. KIRKLEY 5. P./^r. i BeU. 
 
 Bell. U 52 thrice. 
 
 -f- 61 33ulcis ^tsto iildis Q 62 CTampa iiJocor itlidjis. 
 So Davy. No return of bells in certif. of 1547. "Great bells iiij." 
 Return of 1553. See p. 55. 
 
 305. KIRTON S. Mary. 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell, No inscription. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 15 July, 1829, i Bell. 
 In C, not a modern bell, and possibly an old one, with high crown. 
 Diameter 28 in. C. H. H. 
 
 306. KNETTISHALL.4// Sahits. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1720. 
 
 2 John Draper made me 1628. 
 
 3 John Draper made me 1609. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1353. Davy, 7 July, 1843, no notes. See 
 pp. Ill, 112, 144. 
 
 307. KNODDISHALL S. Laurence. 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. AV. L B. Anno Domini 1622. 
 So Davy, i Aug., 1S08. 3 in 1553. No return in 1553. Terrier of 1725 
 names three bells. Terrier of 1806 names one bell. Sec p. 114.
 
 212 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 308. LACK FORD vS. Laurence. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1735 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. One bell. Davy. See p. 138. 
 
 309. LAKENHEATH 6". J/^rr;'. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Mears, Founder, London, 1841. 
 
 2 ^ancta liatcttna ora pro Jiobis -|- 21 U 20 -f- 
 
 3 Cristus ^crpctiic 33ct Jiobis (©auCta 2Fitc + 21 U 20 -f- 
 
 4 John Parsley Vicar. Charles Newman made me 1697. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1676. Thomas Denton James 
 
 Parlet Churchwardens. 
 Clock Bell. — auc Q maiia O (Sratia. 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy, 28 Aug., 1829, notes 5 bells. 
 See pp. 21, III. 
 
 310. LANG HAM 6-. Mary. 2 Bells. 
 
 Two small modern bells, about the size of a school-bell. 
 
 "Great bells ij. Sancts Bells j." Return in 1553. 
 Davy, 7 July, 1843, "one bell." 
 
 311. \.K\IEHWk\i\ SS. Peter and Paul Tenor. C. 23 cwt. 
 
 8 Bells. 
 I, 2 William Dobson, Founder, 181 1. 
 
 3 Henry Pleasant made me 1702. 
 
 4 Ricardus Bowler me fecit 1603. 
 
 Jacobus Fuller et Antonius Hormesby Guardiani ecclesie 
 de Lavenham. 
 
 5 Henry Pleasant made me 1703. 
 
 6 Ricardus Bowler me fecit 1603. 
 
 Hie mevs vsvs erit popvlvm vocare (four dwarfs and 
 other devices). 
 
 7 C. & G. Mears, Founders, London. 
 
 Richard Johnson, M.A., Rector. James Knight Jen- 
 nings, MA., Curate. 
 
 George Mumford | ^,, , j 
 T) I .. tj A r Churchwardens. 
 
 Robert Howard j 
 
 Thomas Turner, Woolstapler. Charles King, Shoe- 
 maker, 1846. 
 
 8 Miles Graye made me 1625. 
 
 Davy, Aug. 14 and 15, 1S26, omits " Hie, etc., on 6." al. sim. Long and 
 interesting note. The old 7th " Henry Pleasant made me 1702." The White- 
 chapel men were rightly proud of their new seventh. She had to be flattened, 
 however. The tenor (see p. 117) is a very noted bell. John Carr when he 
 first heard her, said, " She came in with such a noble sound that she vibrated 
 a perfect octave." Others have observed the absence of overtones. Some 
 consider that she varies with the weather. Mr. H. A. O. Mackenzie has 
 kindly allowed me the sight of the vertical section. The peculiarity seems 
 to be thinness, especially at the crown. "Great bells v. Sancts bells j." 
 Return in 1553. See Dr. Howard's Vis. of Suffolk, pp. 170, etc. 
 
 312. LAVENHEATH 6-. J/^?////^7£/. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Back Skieppet ADoLF Guten 
 
 Bygdt Stockholm 
 
 i Jacobstad. A X 1801 af Gerhard Horner. 
 See p. 151.
 
 LAXFIELD TO^YER. 
 
 21 
 
 Fi£. 9c.
 
 214 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 313. LAWSHALL All Saints. 6 Bells. 
 
 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1735. 
 6 T. Mears of London fecit 1828. 
 
 Davy, Aug. 16, 1831. "contains 5 bells, which I did not visit." 
 '• Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return in 1553. 
 
 314. LAXFIELD All Saints (good). 6 Bells. 
 
 I Lester & Pack of London fecit 1760. 
 
 2, 4 Cast by John Warner & Sons, 1873. 
 W"". Bloomfield ) Church ^^'ardens. 
 Wf". Aldridge ) George Day hung me. 
 Rev<i. J. Dallas Vicar. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -f 67 ^ancta D <H.iri?t Q ^ro (sic) D i^" D l^obig. 
 
 5 : □ DIUinu : AUnXIEtlY (sic) : mAKGAT : SGm- 
 
 PG]^ : nOBISCY. 
 
 6 Thomas Mears of London fecit 1804. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 5 and a Sance bell in 1553. 
 
 Davy, 22 May, 1807, notes the old 2nd, lEii i^ultis aunts Kcsonft Campaiia 
 
 .^ofjifi, and the old 3rd, ^anda fflaria ©ra iJJro iSobis, and the rest as here. 
 The tenor has a crack, which Day has stopped by boring a hole. This noble 
 tower (fig. 90) bears the arms of Winglicld and Fitz-Lewes in pale. See 
 pp. 62, 69. 
 
 315. LAYHAM S. Andreiv. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. U 50 twice U 86. 
 
 -|- 61 i3ona 2i\cpentic ^ia □ 62 IXogo i^aglialcna ittavia. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return in 1553. 
 
 T. Martin, 17 Aug., 1717, 4 Bells. Davy, 18 Aug., 1825, only one bell. 
 See p. 58. 
 
 316. LEISTON S, Margaret. 8 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 J Taylor & Company B F. Added by F. Garrett in 
 remembrance of his partner and brother, who died 
 30th July, 1884. 
 Vicar, B. W. Raven. 
 
 Churchwardens, F. Sherwood, W. H. Borrett. 
 3 John Taylor & Son, Loughborough, 1854. 
 
 4, 6 John Brend made me 1640. 
 
 5, 8 J Taylor & Co., Bell-founders, Loughborough, 1884. 
 
 Dedicated by affectionate children to the memory of 
 Elizabeth Garrett, who died the 30th of March, 1884. 
 Vicar, B. W. Raven, C. W. F. Sherwood, ^V. H. Borrett. 
 
 7 John Darbie made me 1674 James Reeve John Wool- 
 
 nough C. W. 
 
 The old treble also by Brend 1640. 
 
 Terrier, 1806, i c. 5 cwt. ; 2, 7 cwt. ; 3 c. 9 cwt. ; 4, 12 cwt. ; 5, 15 cwt. 
 
 No return of bells in certif. of 1547. 3 in 1553. See pp. 124, 153. 
 
 317. LETHERINGHAM S. Mary. i Bell 
 
 Bell. De Buri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 
 1572 W. L. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return in 1553. 
 
 Davy gives the date 1579 (21 April, 1819). See p. 96.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 215 
 
 318. LEVINGTON 5. i'./.r. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 ^tt f'^omcn ^'rnmu i3cnct)irtura U iT H — h 37. 
 
 2 □ em □ op^p □ Ai^o □ Aii^Am □ at-cdas. 
 
 3 n 81 De D 82 Bvri n'82 Santi Q 82 Edmondi Q 82 
 
 Stefanvs D 82 Tonni □ 82 me D 82 fecit D 81 
 
 WL. n 81 1581. 
 So Davy, 3 Aug., 1810. "Great bells iij." Return in 1553. They hang 
 from N. to S. i, 3, 2. Levington second is of the same type as Capel S. 
 Mary tenor. The stop is not engraved, as far as I know. See pp. 35, 77. 
 
 319. U DG AT E S. Mciry. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 John Draper made me 1625. 
 
 3 Charles Newman made mee 1698. 
 
 4 John Draper and Andrew Gurny made me 1625. 
 
 5 W. S. T. T. C.W. The. Gardiner Fecit 172 1. 
 
 Five bells, Davy. "Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return in 1553. 
 See pp. 112. 136, 144. 
 
 320. LINDSEY S. Pda: i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Inscription unknown. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy. 19 Aug., 1825, 4 Bells. 
 The tower fell in 1836, when three of the four were sold. 
 
 321. LI N STEAD, GREAT, 6". /'^/m i Bell. 
 
 Bell. U 52 thrice. 
 
 -|- 6r 'S'^irgint^ icgrrgtc □ 62 iJUocor Campana iHaric. 
 2 in 1553. Davy, 31 May, 1833, "Only one small bell." Terrier, 7 June, 
 1806, no mention of a bell. See p. 54. 
 
 322. LINSTEAD, LITTLE, S. Margaret. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. 1789. 
 2 in 1553. Davy, 7 Jan., 1810, "a single bell." See his note. 
 
 323. LIVER MERE. GREAT, 6-. Peter. Tenor 5 cwt. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4 Lester & Pack of London Fecit 1762. 
 5 Simon Mothersole Farmer & Simon Mothersole Brick- 
 layer Ch. Wardens 1762. 
 Lester & Pack of London Fecit. 
 Davy notes this as recorded on the north wall of the Church. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See p. 149. 
 
 324. VJNE?.UE?.E UTTLE, SS. Peter and Paul i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Charles Newman made mee 1697. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 26 Aug., 1829, "Only i bell." 
 
 325. \j:^\in^ S. John Baptist. 3 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Tho. Newman of Norwich made mee 1730. 
 3 Tho. Newman of Norwich made mee 1730. 
 John Kett and William Ellis C. W. 
 " One bell hanging and two splitt ones standing in the belfry." Reeve's 
 Historical Collection. He adds in a parenthesis, "3 new bells." 
 
 " iiijor Nouembr Ano. R. R. Edwardi pnno Lounde. .A. newe cnyficat 
 maid by y^ church Wardens of lownde Thomas Jaxe and RobPt Candlar. 
 Itm y' we haue sold a bell for ye some of iiij/z. 
 
 Itm for ye yottyng of a bell ... ... ••• ••■ '^l-^'" 
 
 " Great bells ij." Return of 1553. See p. 137
 
 2l6 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 326. LOWDHAM 
 
 Ecdesia dcstructa. No return in 1553. 
 
 327. LOWESTOFT Christ Church. 6 Bells. 
 
 I. W. Blews & Sons, Birmingham. 
 Eleanor Strong 
 1876. 
 2 W. Blews & Sons, Founders, 1875. 
 3. 4 W. Blews & Sons, Birmingham, 1875. 
 5 W. Blews & Sons, Birmingham, 1875. 
 Charles Hebert, D.D., Vicar. 
 E. y. Barnes 
 
 R. S. Barnes [ Churchwardens. 
 6 W. Blews & Sons, Founders, Birmingham, 1875. 
 -)- Voce mea viva depello cuncta nociva. 
 See p. 154. 
 
 328. ^O'H^^JO?'^ S. John Evangelist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. 1855. 
 
 329. LOWESTOFT S. Margaret. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. I tell all that doth me see 
 
 That Newman of Norwich new cast mee 1730. 
 G. Durrant, C. W. 
 "Spire. Square Tower, i Bell. 5 formerly. 4 of them stole or perhaps 
 taken away during the time of the Commonwealth." Reeve's Historical 
 Collection. 
 
 "iiij° Nouember hs>. Dm. 1547. 
 
 Leystoft. The certyficate of Jamys Jeto"-. Antony Jeto^. Robert Aleyn and 
 Roberd Hudschyd Cherchewardens there" makes no mention of bells. 
 " Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. Seep. 132. 
 
 330. LOWESTOFT 5, Peter. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 Small and modern. 
 
 331. MARLESFORD 6". Andrew. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 U 52 thrice. 
 
 + 61 In iWultis 'Snmp D 62 Bcfonct ©ampa %^\y^ 
 
 2 Anno Domini 1615. 
 I }) J 5S mp 
 
 3 Anno Domini 1615. • 
 ii p 3i 35. 
 
 4 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 iHuncrc i3apti«tc □ 62 93cncDtctuS Sit CTj^otus Igtf. 
 
 So Davy, nearly. "Mr. Edwd. Williams, Rector, has built a place for 
 the Saint's bell." 
 
 lijo Nouember Ao Dm 1547. Certif. of Tho. Bayman and John Nuttall 
 C. W. makes no mention of bells. "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 See p. 59. 
 
 332. MARTLESHAM ^. Mary, 3 Bells. 
 
 I U 52 thrice. 
 4- 61 ^Wiffus l)e €t\\i n 62 ?i?abco Jlomcn Gabrtdtg. 
 
 3 U 51 thrice.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 217 
 
 > Churchwardens. 
 
 + 61 dpac i^argarrta Q 62 iiohii ^tc iWuncra Heta. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1631. 
 
 1547, certificate of and — Syluerne C. W. of Martellesham makes 
 
 no mention of bells. See pp. 53, 57, 118. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 333. MELFORD, LONG, Holy THnify. 8 Bells. 
 
 I T. Lester made me. 
 
 2, 3 Thomas Mears of London, founder, 1833. 
 Revd. Edward Cobbold, M.A., Rector. 
 Richard Almack, F.S. A., Sir Hyde Parker, Churchwardens. 
 4, 7 Thomas Lester made me 1744. 
 5 C. & G. Mears, Founders, London, 1845. 
 Rev<i. Edwd. Cobbold, Rector. 
 
 George John Coe Robert Harris Esq. Churchwardens. 
 6 Abram Oakes Rector. 
 
 Giles Jarmin & Joseph Middleditch Churchwardens 1744. 
 Thomas Lester of London made us all 
 John Williams of Stonham Aspal hung us all. 
 8 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1865. 
 Re\^. William Wallace Rector. 
 D. Mills 
 H. Cooper 
 W. Downs hung me. 
 Davy, Aug. 16 — 18, 1826, 8. "Abraham Oaks Rector, Giles Jarmin 
 Joseph Middleditch Churchwardens 1764. The end crown (sic) the work. 
 Thomas Lester of London made us all." 2, 3, 5, as 4 and 7. Long and 
 interesting note. When Dr. Warren, Rector, was ejected " as he returned 
 home, one of the party beat a frying-pan before him, crying, ' This is your 
 Saints bell.'" For an account of Dr. Warren see C. Deedes's Dr. Bisbie's 
 MS. collections in Suffolk Ajxhcpology, 1889. Peal in East Atii^lian, 2nd 
 S I., 322. " Great bells V. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. Weight of the 
 old tenor, 16 cwt., Mears and Stainbank, 31 Jan., 1888. See pp. 97, 149. 
 
 334. MELFORD, LONG, S. Catharines (Mission Room;. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me, 1672. 
 
 This bell used to hang on the top of the tower. It was sold about 1868, 
 and repurchased by the Rector, the Rev. C. J. Martyn, for the Mission 
 Room. See p. 134. 
 
 335. MELLIS 5. J/«ry. i Belh 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me 1626. 
 4 in 1553. Martin, 18 Jan., i72»/6, notes 5 bells. Bought from Thwaite 
 c. 1846. Davy, 23 April, 1819. notes this inscription as on the Thwaite bell. 
 C. W. accounts are interesting. 
 
 336. MELLS^. Margaret. 
 
 Ecdesia destriida. No return in 1553. A small towerless Norman 
 building. 
 
 337. MELTON S. Andreic. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me 1618. 
 
 2 U 51 thrice. 
 
 + ii?ac In Coclauc D 62 ©abtid iiut ipange ^uabc. 
 
 2C
 
 2l8 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 3 U 51 thrice. 
 
 -f f}os 'Crijomc i«cnttg Q 62 iiTcrcamur ffiauDia Sude. 
 
 4 ij 51 thrice. 
 
 + 61 Sona i^cpcnDc ^13in D 62 Bogo iWagDalena ittavta. 
 So Davj% 12 Sept., 1807. (i in old church, 2, 3, 4 in new.) 
 iij Nov., 1547, certif. of Roger Truston and John Chamberleyn, C.W. 
 
 makes no mention of bells. "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. See pp. 
 
 53, 55, 5S, 117- 
 
 338. MENDh\AM Al/ Saints. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Tho. Gardiner Norwich fecit 1748. 
 
 3 Anno Domini 1628 W. I. B. 
 
 4 Tho. Lines C.W. Tho. Gardiner Norwich fecit 1748. 
 
 5 U 86 U 50- AB 
 
 W 
 ^nno Somitti 1623. 
 
 6 Cook Freston Esq. Will™. Rant Esq. 
 Tho. Gardiner fecit 1748. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 21 June, 1839, notes 6 bells. See pp. 114, 145. 
 
 339. M EN DLESH AM S. Afary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Ultima tuba fui sonitu non ultima vita magna ubi mag- 
 
 nanimo Frederico optimo nuptialia. 16 12. AB 
 
 2 17 50 thrice. W 
 -|- 61 Sulcis €tfto iHclig D 62 ©ampa Uocor iW^tcj^is. 
 
 3 ij 50 thrice. 
 
 -f- 6t ^pctrus at) ©tfcnc D 62 I3ucat iioS ^ascua Witt. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1669. 
 
 5 n 81 De n 82 Bvri Q 82 Santi D 82 Edmondi Q 82 
 
 Stefan vs Q' 82 Tonni Q 82 me Q 82 fecit Q 82 
 
 1575- 
 Clock bell U 52. 
 4 in 1553. Martin and Davy 5. See pp. 55, 56, 96. 
 
 340. Wi ETF\ ELD S. /o/in Ba/>tisf. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Anno Domini 1568 I. B. 
 
 2 Mr. John Franclin and Mr. Charles Watson Church- 
 
 wardens 1647. 
 
 3 ij 50 U 86 twice. 
 
 -)- 61 i^uncrc 33aptistf D 62 ^cnctiictus ^tt Cfjorug Igtc. 
 
 Davy, 7 Jan., 1810, gives "Richard" as Mr. Watson's christian name, 
 
 and crosses i and 2. Anno Dni 1547. Metffilde. Certif. of John hybarde 
 
 and Nycholas Gooche C.W. makes r.o mention of bells. 4 and a Sance bell 
 
 in 1553. See p. 59. 
 
 341. METTINGHAM ^// ^a/;//.f. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 17 52 thrice, 
 anno tjomtni 1612. 
 
 2 John Stephens fecit 1722. Beniamin Culham Church 
 
 Warden. 
 
 3 No inscription. (A pretty border.) 
 
 4 No inscription. (A rough old bell.) 
 
 So in substance, Davy, Aug. 18, 1814. " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 The compoti of the College founded here by Sir John de Norwich contain 
 notices of bells.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 219 
 
 342. M\CKf\ELD S. J/tdre7c>. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 T. Mears of London fecit 18 16. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1626. 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury E. F. F. C. 17 16. 
 
 From Davy, 14 April, 1828. No sale of bells in 1547 certif. 3 in 1553. 
 
 343. MIDDLETON Jlo/y Trimly. 5 Bells. 
 
 1, 3 Pack & Chapman London fecit 1779. 
 
 2, 4 John Darbie made me 1670. 
 
 5 Pack & Chapman London fecit 1779. 
 In Wedlock's bands all ye who join 
 
 With hands your hearts unite 
 So shall our tuneful tongues combine 
 
 To laud the nuptial rite. 
 
 So Davy, 23 Sept., 1805. 4 in 1553. No sale of bells in 1547 certif. 
 Terrier of 1678, no mention. 
 
 )> 1753) "five bells in good tune." 
 
 1820 „ 
 
 344. MILD EN S. Peter. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Mears, Founder, London, i860. 
 
 " Myldyng... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 Noted inaccessible by Davy, Oct. 25, 1836. 
 
 345. MILDENHALL S. Andrew. Tenor in E, c. 18 cwt. 
 
 8 Bells. 
 I, 8 Mears and Stainbank, founders, London. 
 V. R. 
 Jubilee 
 18S7. 
 2 John Darbie made me 1676. IT DP RS RC IW. 
 
 3, 4 Thomas Newman cast me new in 1732, Norwich. 
 
 5 I TAYDOI^ ADD CO. DOVGHBOP^OYGH C. B. 
 
 YovriGmAn g CHAPmAn a pgaghgy. 
 
 1860. 
 
 6 _|-2i Ij2o + 3Ini*luItts^nni5 3Acfonct®ampana5}of)anni^. 
 
 7 lOHH TAYDOl^ AUD CO IJOVGHBOI\OYGH 
 lAmCS P^GAD ADD CHAI\LGS OWGI\S 1860. 
 
 " Myldenaelye... Great bells iiij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 21 Aug., 1829, notes 6 bells. See pp. 21, 46-50, 83, 124, 137, 138, 
 
 The frame was clearly made for five bells, but the difficulties about the 
 tenor, to which reference has been made, which were not solved in 1530, 
 seem to have been waiting solution in 1553, when there were only four bells in 
 the tower. I regard the old fourth of the six hanging in the tower when I went 
 up in 1848, ins'^cribed + 21 U 19 + i^-omrn ii-lagtralrne CTampaiia ©rrit 
 iftlflottif, as the treble of these. The present 5th was recast from it. It 
 weio-hed 7i cwt. Thus the present 6th would have been the 2nd, a missing 
 bellt from which perhaps John Darbie made the treble (with loss of metal) 
 in 1676, would have been the 3rd, and the bell from which tlie old tenor 
 before i860 was made would have been the 4th. This old tenor weighed 
 close on 15 cwt., and was inscribed "Jos. Arthy, Tho. Casburn C. W. 
 Tho. Gardiner, Norwich, fecit, 1751-" Whether there ever was before the 
 Jubilee a larger bell than this I cannot say. Henry Poulter of Worhngton
 
 220 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK, 
 
 used to quote his father to the effect that the Isleham tenor, see Cavibs., was 
 brought from Mildenhall because the tower was not strong enough for it. 
 Before i860 there was on the top of the tower a Clock bell, weighing 44 cwt., 
 inscribed, "Thomas Newman of Norwich made me, 1744." 
 
 346. MONEWDEN 5. J/^ry. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 De Bvn Santi Edmondi Stefanus Tonni me fecit 1586 
 
 W. L. D 81. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1637. 
 
 3 AVM RB GS O S E B U R + PT PS MH AI MR^M 
 
 O 1592 O TK FB 
 So Harvey's ALS , p. 606. iij Nov., 1547. IMoneden. Certif. of John 
 Malster and John haryson C.W. makes no mention of bells. 
 " Monedele... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See p. 96. 
 
 347. \^0\JL.T OH S. Fcter. Tenor 6 cwt. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 3 Chapman & Mears of London Fecerunt 1782. 
 2 Chapman & Mears of London Fecerunt 1783. 
 
 4 Chapman & Mears of London Fecerunt 1784. 
 
 5 Chapman & Mears of London Fecerunt 1783. 
 Messrs. Abr™. Cawston & T. Poole Ch Wardens. 
 
 "Mowton... Great bells iij. Sancts bells J." Return of 1553. 
 
 348. MUTFORD S. Andrew. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 John Brend made mee 1638. 
 
 2 Anno Domini 16 15. W. B. 
 
 3 John Brend made me 1636. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Eastern Coiuitics' Collectanea^ p. 240. Davy records three. 
 
 349. N ACTON 6". Martin. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me 1625. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1662. 
 
 So T. Martin, Sept , 1725, save date of 2, which he gives 1666 or 1660. 
 " Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 
 350. NAUGHTON S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell, n 81 Johannes □ 82 Driver\-s -|- C me fecit 16 18. 
 So Davy, 14 Sept., 1827, noting also an " old treble Miles Graye made me 
 1672 (?), and an old second, Thomas Andrew me fecit 1522 or 99 (sic)." 
 (1599. j. J. R.) " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See pp. 102, 1 10. 
 
 351. nK^\.KH^ S. Stephen. 6 and Clock bell. 
 
 1 W"". Dobson, Downham, Norfolk fecit 18 10. 
 
 2 Henry Pleasant made me 1698. 
 
 3 John Murrell, Will. Infield C.W. I.G. 1733. E.G. 
 
 4 Messrs. Samuel Alston & Isaac Nicholson Church- 
 
 Wardens 1789. W. & T. Mears Late Lester & Pack 
 of London fecit. 
 
 5 Miles Graye made me 1636. 
 
 6 James Edbvrie of Bury made my fellowes and mee. 
 
 U 1605 □. Both marks contain curious monograms. 
 Clock bell. 1764. 
 "Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. Tenor omitted on 
 p. 109. Davy, Sept. 30 and Oct., 1828, "Six bells which I did not e.\amine."
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 221 
 
 352. NEDGW^G S. Mary. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 D 81 Thomas Q 82 Andrew \J 82 me D 82 fecit D 82 
 
 1598. 
 
 2 U 8 thrice. 
 
 + "Dobancs O 16 CTrtSti O 16 C^arc O 16 Bignarc O 16 
 ^ro O 16 ilobis O 16 ©rare. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See pp. 17, 102. 
 
 353. NEEDH AM MARKET S. fo/in Bapist i Bell. 
 
 Bell. By Private gift 1886. S. Maude M.A. Vicar. 
 C. Cooper Churchwarden. 
 See Barking. The return for 1553 is for " Nedham in Barkynge." 
 
 354. N ETT LEST E AD S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye made me 1618. 
 3 ill 1553- Davy, 18 May, 1829, notes two inaccessible. 
 
 355. NEWBOURNE ^. TJ/^ry. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Miles Graye 1621 me made. 
 C. Carr 1885 me remade. 
 Davy. Terrier, 1780, "about six hundred." No sale of bells in 1547 
 certif. " Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 
 356. N EW MARKET S. Mary. 5 and Clock beU. 
 
 I, 4 John Draper made me 16 19. 
 
 2) 3 D 81 De Buri Santi Edmondi Stefanus Tonni me fecit 
 
 W. L. 1580. 
 5 The. Gardiner and Tho. Newman Fecit 17 19. W. 
 
 Sandiver W. Headley, C. W. 
 Clock Bell, John Thornton Sudbury Fecit 17 18. 
 
 So Davy, 21 Aug., 1828. He notes the tenor as not hung. 
 "Eycenyng Halfe Hundred. ..Newmarkett... Great bells iij. Sancts bells 
 j." Return of 1553. See pp. 96, in, 138. 
 
 357. NEWTON, OLD, S. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 3, 4 John Darbie made me 1663. TH RP 
 2 William Dobson Founder 18 10. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1663. Thomas Hoggar R. P. 
 C. W. 
 3 in 1553. Seep. 123. 
 
 358. NEWTON-NEXT-SUDBURY ^// ^-^///^.f. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1872. 
 
 (Royal Arms) Patent. 
 5 Miles Graye made me 1664. 
 
 Thomas Dearesle. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, Sept. 13, 1827, " Contains three bells :—i Thomas Kearsle Miles 
 Graye made mee 16S5. I. W. 2 Miles Graye made me 1658. 3 Miles 
 Graye made me 1685." He is wrong. See p. 133. 
 
 359. NORTOH S. Andre7c>. Tenor c. 13 cwt. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 Illegible, broken. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1674. Richard Clarke C. W.
 
 222 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 3 John Draper made me 1628. 
 
 4 John Draper made me 1635. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 T. Martin, 26 May, 1757, "Four bells." Mentioned by mistake on p. 151. 
 
 360. NOWTON S. Peter. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5 T. Mears of London fecit 1829. 
 
 6 T. Mears of London fecit 1829. This peal of six bells 
 
 was given by O. R. Okes Esq^ Henry Ja^. Okes 
 
 Esq"". & the ReV*. Auston Okes. 
 
 " Nolton... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 T. Martin, 26 Aug., 1749, notes 4 bells. Davy, Aug. 27, 1829, speaks of 
 the present bells as " all cast and hung in the present year, the gift of Mr. 
 Oakes. The belfry is locked up." See p. 151. 
 
 361. OAKLEY, GREAT, 5. iVzV/wA7.r. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Goldsmith Fecit 171 1 S. Margaret. Mr. L K. C.W. 
 
 2 John Goldsmith Fecit 17 11. 
 
 3 William Dobson, Founder, Downham, Norfolk, 1828. 
 
 4 O 15 Sum O 16 lioga O 16 ^ulgata O 16 iHunDi O t6 
 
 i.^ate^na O 16 SFotata. 
 
 5 John Goldsmith Fecit 1711. Mr. John Kett, Mr. 
 
 Brown Turner Church Wardens. 
 
 3 in 1553. Martin, 5. See pp. 14, 176. 
 
 362. OAKLEY, LITTLE, ^. Pder. 
 Ecclesia destnicta. No return in iSS3- 
 
 363. OCCOLD^. Michael. 5 Bells. 
 
 1, 2, 5 John Brend made me 1653. 
 
 3 Charles Newman made mee 1698. 
 
 4 William Dobson, Downham, Norfolk, Founder, 1824. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, iS June, 1809, notes the old 4th like i, 2, 5. See p. 136. 
 
 364. OF ETON 6'. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 I rhos. Gardiner Sudbury Fecit 1735. 
 
 2, 4 Henry Pleasant made me 1700. 
 
 3 + <5aiuta p i^arta Q (Dca n ^ro D i^obig. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1667. 
 
 So Davy, 19 May, 1829. A curious extract from Mr. Parker of Ringshall. 
 4 in 1553. See pp. 69, 123, 140, 144. 
 
 365. OHE.WO\}%^ S. John Baptist. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 RnGi673 D 
 
 2 □ 81 1604 James □ 82 Edbery □ 82. 
 
 No return in 1553. Tom Martin, 16 April, 1756, "Good Fryday," notes, 
 "Round steeple, two bells." Davy, 13 June, 1827, records the same number, 
 inaccessible, or to use his own words, " the way up seemed by no means 
 convenient, or perhaps safe." See pp. 109, 132. 
 
 366. OR FORD S. Bartholomezv. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me M 1639. 
 
 2 Henry IJ Pleasant U made XJ me \J 1694. John 
 
 Cragg. W. A.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 223 
 
 3, 4 John Darbie made me 1679. 
 
 5 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1739. J. Harris C. E. 
 Ellis C. W. 
 
 So Davy. No sale of bells in certif. of 1547. " Great bells iiij." Return, 
 of 1553. See pp. 118, 124, 140, 145. 
 
 367. OTTLEY S. Mary. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner & Son, London, 1878. 
 
 Henry & Catherine Woolner gave me August 8th, 1877. 
 
 H. Wilkinson, M.A., Rector. 
 
 G. F. W. Meadows ) Church 
 
 T. King J Wardens, 
 
 2 R. Phelps made me 172S. Mr. Bartholomew Russell 
 
 Donor. 
 
 3 17 65 thrice. 
 
 -|- <Sancta Q l^atcnna D Ora Q i^ro D ilobig. 
 
 4 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -\- |[)ac I-n G^onclafac n 62 Gabriel Jiuc |3angc 5ua&f- 
 
 5 TJ 50 thrice. 
 
 4- iiosi "STbome i'Hcdtts Q 62 plcrcamur Gautiia Hwtii. 
 
 6 De Buri Santi Edmondi Stefanus Tonni me Fecit W. L. 
 
 1576. 
 Davy. Terrier, 1794, 5. " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. See pp. 
 53, 55. 67, 96. 
 
 368. OU LT O N S. ML/uie/. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Edw. Tooke made me 1676. 
 
 2 Edw. Tooke made me 1677. 
 3, 4 U 50 U 86 AB 
 
 W 
 ^nno Somini 16 18. 
 5 U 50 U 86 AB 
 W 
 ©mnig ^onug HauDet SBominum 161S G ZB, Z ^ 
 " Great Bells iij." Return of 1553, See pp. 114, 132. 
 
 369. OUSDEN^-. Fefer. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Lester & Pack of London Fecit 1758. T. M. c^ J?. B. 
 
 6 = 1=0. 
 
 2 Lester & Pack of London Fecit 1758. T. M. d- R. B. 
 
 7 = = 20. 
 
 3 Lester & Pack of London Fecit 1758. T. M. &• R. B. 
 
 8 = 1 = 12. 
 
 4 Lester & Pack of London Fecit 1758. T. M. &" R. B. 
 
 10 = 2 = 26. 
 
 5 Lester & Pack of London Fecit 1758. This peal of bells 
 
 was the gift of Tho'. Moseley Esq"" 6- The Rev. R. 
 Bet hell., .._ 14=1 = 10. 
 " Great bells lij." Return of 1553. See p. 149- 
 
 370. PAKE FIELD All Saint atid S. Margaret. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Gardiner Norwich fecit 1749. 
 
 2 AB U 86 U 50. 
 W
 
 224 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 5ccunl)us ^^crgrntus 1618. 
 
 3 ^nno Bomini 162 1. 
 
 4 Thomas Newman at Norwich made me 1728. 
 
 Davy records live. No sale of bells in certif. of 1547. " Great bells iij." 
 Return of 1553. See pp. 114, 137, 145. 
 
 371. PAKENHAM ^. Afary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Mears & Stainbank, founders, London. C. W. Jones 
 
 Vicar, G. W. Mathew T. Thornhill Jun. Church- 
 wardens 1872. 
 
 2 John Draper made me 1626. 
 
 3 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1760. 
 
 4 G. Mears & Co., Founders, London, 1862. 
 
 Good Will to Man. 
 C. W. Jones Vicar, Rob'. Stedman G. W. Mathew 
 Churchwardens. 
 
 5 G. Mears & Co., Founders, London, 1862. 
 
 Glory to God. 
 C. W. Jones Vicar, Rob'. Stedman G. W. Mathew 
 Churchwardens. 
 No notes by Davy. See p. 112. 
 
 372. PALGRAW E S. jR^^er. 6 Bells. 
 
 I Gloria Deo in excellsis (sic) W. Plampin Gen'. 1737. 
 2> 3) 4, 5 Gloria Deo in Excelsis W. Plampin Gen'. 1737. 
 
 6 I tell all that doth me se 
 
 that Newman of Norwich new cast me 1737. 
 
 So Davy, 4 June, 1810. 3 in 1553. Sperling (c. i860), "Tenor 04." 
 See p. 123. 
 
 373. PARHAM S. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 □ ueni : sponsA ; mcA i ad : oi^Tum : 
 
 mevm. 
 
 2 nASSUmPTA ; GST : mAP^IA \ in : CGLUm. 
 
 3 W. I. B. Anno Domini 1623. 
 
 So Davy. No sale of bells in certif. of Nov., 1547. "Great bells iij." 
 Return of 1553. See Cant. v. i, vulg. 
 
 374. PEASENHALL ^. /l//^/;^^/. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 4 Mears & Stainbank, Founders, London, 1876. 
 
 2 Henry Pleasant made me 1691. 
 
 3 U 51 thrice. 
 
 -\- 61 ©ucsumus '3[ni)rea □ 62 ipamulorum ^uscipc Uota. 
 5 U 9 thrice. 
 
 -f- 13 Sum 2A0'"a i,9ulf$ata iiTunDi IXatcrina ^ocata. 
 4 and a Sance bell in 1553. Davy, June 11, 1806, calls 3 "4," notes a 
 li^ac En Conrlabc... for 3, old treble and present 2nd, " Henry Pleasant made 
 me 1694." al. sim. W's from Terrier. 
 
 No sale of bells m certif. of Nov., 1547. See pp. 17, 56, 140. 
 
 375. PETISTREE SS. Peter and Paul. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 John Taylor &: Sons, Founders, Loughb°, 1848. 
 
 2 One bell recast unto three at the expense of Richard 
 
 Brook Esq>- of Petistree Lodge A.D. 1848. Jo. 
 Taylor & Son fecit.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 225 
 
 3 John Taylor & Son, Founders, Loughborough, A.D. 1848. 
 
 4 U 8 thrice. 
 
 4-12 &tnm% annig Idefonct Campana 3)oDannig. 
 
 5 TJ 8 thrice. 
 
 -j- 12 ittc CFlamante lijtiu i^ancat 93ctljlccm 5inc Hsin. 
 
 6 y 8 thrice. 
 
 + 61 3)ungcte f^os .\*po D 62 ^^tulicat ilic^olaus In ^Ito. 
 
 Pytestre. Certif. of 1547 records no sale of bells. " Petystre. Great 
 bells iiij.'' Return of 1553. 
 
 At Davy's visit (6 June, 1806), the inscription on the old tenor, no doubt a 
 grand bell, was" De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 1576." 
 .See pp. 17, 58. 
 
 376. PETTAUGH S. Catherine. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. U 51 thrice. 
 
 -[- 61 C^ucfumus antirea Q 62 JPamuIorum Sufctpe ITota. 
 
 " Pettawe, iii Nov., 1547. The certyficate of Thomas ISIallyng and tlraunces 
 
 pyrson Cherchewardens th(ere) ffyrst we pi'sent that Robert orvvell and Lacy 
 
 Lord that tyme beyng Cherchewardens hathe sold a peyer of Shalys pf'ce-xls. 
 
 Whereof 
 We did bestowyd vpon the cherche in ladyng the seid xls. And yt remayn 
 styll a peyer of Shalys and iiij bells. " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 There were three bells at Davy's visit. That which remains seems to 
 have been the tenor. The others were inscribed, John Darbie made me 1662, 
 and Jtttssus Vcro y^iz (Satricl jftrt ILeta fflane. See pp. 53, 57. 
 
 377. PLAYFORD ^. Mary. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 U 50 thrice. 
 
 + 61 ^ac Jin Conclabc Q 62 (gabricl iluc ^angc ^uabt. 
 
 2 ij 50 thrice 
 
 -f- 61 2)wnSf« J2ojj ^To n 62 5tut)cat iltcI;olau£{ In aito 
 
 Terrier, 1784. "Three bells, two of them by Computation about 18 cwt. 
 The third on the ground, having been broken time out of mind, by compu- 
 tation about 12 cwt." 
 
 Terrier, 1801. "Two bells, by computation about 18 cwt." 
 Certif. of 1547 imperfect, but apparently no mention of sale of bells. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See pp. 53, 58. 
 
 378. POLSTEAD 6". J/«r>'. Tenor, c. 10 cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5 T. Mears of London fecit 1825. 
 6 T. Mears of London fecit 1825. 
 Rev"!. John Whitmore, Rector. 
 
 JohnCorder \ churchwardens. 
 Isaac Strutt j 
 
 " Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. No date to any visit 
 by Davy. Formerly 5 heavier bells. Present tenor 12 cwt. A tuneful ring. 
 
 379. POSLINGFORD S. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3 Robard Gurney made me 1668. 
 
 4 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury me fecit 1725. 
 
 5 Peter Hawkes-made me 161 3. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. See pp. 109, 132, 144. 
 
 380. PRESTON S. Mary. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1744. 
 
 2D
 
 226 THE CFIURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 3 Tho. Norden Roger C. \V. Tho. G. fecit 1744. 
 
 4 Miles Graye me fecit 1640. 
 
 5 Henry Pleasant made me 1702. 
 
 6 Henry Pleasant made me 1704. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy, Au?. 15, 1826, puts 3 for i- 
 al. sim. See pp. 119, 140. The surname to Roger is Coe, as it appears 
 from the parish book (1743), when a cracked treble and a sound tenor were 
 ordered to be cast into three small bells, at a cost not e.xceeding £"]. 
 
 381. RAMSHOLT^// Saints. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1679. 
 
 " Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 
 "The steeple is round and has but one bell." May, 1726, T. Martin Q) 
 In 1747 the top of the steeple was blown down, and now the tower has no 
 roof, and is much dilapidated. See p. 124. 
 
 382. RATTLES DEN S. Nicholas. 5 Bells. 
 
 1, 2 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1754. 
 
 3 Robart Bumstead John Drake Church Wardens 1754. 
 
 4 Tho. Gardiner he did us cast 
 
 Wee will sound his praise to the last. 
 
 5 Henry Westley John Jewers Churchwardens. T. Osborn 
 
 fecit 1789. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy notes i, 3 as i, 2, 2 as 5, 4 as 3, and 5 as 3. See p. 145. 
 
 383. RAYDON.S'. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 18 — . 
 
 3 in 1553. Davy records the inscription on the old bell, Sauctc Barnabc 
 (sic) ©ra ^3ro i^obts. 
 
 384. REDE All Saints. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 n 81 De n 82 Bvri Q 82 Santi D 82 Edmondi D 82 
 
 Stefanvs D 82 Tonni Q 82 me D 82 fecit Q 82 
 W L D 82 1578. 
 
 2 n 81 De n 82 Bvri D 82 Santi D 82 Edmondi D 82 
 
 Stefanvs D 82 Tonni Q 82 me D 82 fecit Q 82 
 W L D 81 1586. 
 
 3 John n 81 Dry Q 82 Ver D 81 me fe cet D 81 1602. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Tom Martin, March 12, 1724, says, "Steeple above half down, 3 bells." 
 Davy, by mistake, Aug. 25, 1831, speaks of 2 bells. See pp. 96, 109. 
 
 385. REDGRAVE 6". J/^o'- 6 Bells. 
 
 I T. Osborn fecit 1785. 
 
 2, 3, 4, 5 Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1736, 
 
 6 John Munns & John Goldsmith C. W. Thomas New- 
 
 man of Norwich made me 1736. 
 
 3 in 1553. T. Martin notes. In Sept., 1736, the five bells were taken out 
 of Redgrave steeple, in order to be new (run or) cast. The tenor had a piece 
 broken out of the top of it. and this circumscription: Chas. Newman made 
 me 1691. Goldsmith Ch W. On the other 4: Chas. Newman made mee 
 1691, in capitals. Sperling (i860) says, "Tenor G|:, 9 cwt." See pp. 138, 
 145.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 227 
 
 386. REDISHAM, GREAT, 6". Peter. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 
 Suckling notes a split bell dated 1621. " The steeple has been long down. 
 But one bell hangs at the west end, in a frame on the ground. It bears 
 inscription, Anno Domini 1621." Davy, June 2, 1808 (.^) 
 
 " Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 
 387. REDISHAM, LITTLE, S.James. 
 Ecdesia destrticta. No return in 1553. 
 
 388. REDLINGFIELD S. Andrew. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 
 3 in I553-. So Dav>% 5 Dec, 1817. 
 
 Martin (without date) notes three modern bells hanging in a wooden frame. 
 
 389. RENDHAM^. Michael. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 T. Mears of London fecit 1831. 
 
 2 Inscription entirely covered with an iron band. Date of 
 
 stock 1794. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -|- IJirgo D Coronata D 33uc Q l^og D ^IJ D I'^cgna 
 il^cata. 
 
 4 N. S. T. H. E. L 
 Anno Domini 1622. WIB. 
 
 5 Thomas Mears of London fecit 1S02. 
 
 Davy gives the 2nd"Edmond Palmer, John Blinco Churchwardens. R. 
 Phelps fecit, 1729." 
 
 Jonathan Grimwood of Rendham went up to see the tenor cast, and flung 
 seven half-crowns into the metal, to which some are said to attribute the 
 good tone of the bell. Tenor c. 13 cwt. 
 
 "for y^ ornaments and ye Bells we haue solde non as we wull answere." 
 Certif. of Rob. Thurston and Edm. ffeavyear. C.W. 1547. ''Great bells 
 iiij." Return of 1553. See pp. 69, 91, 114. 
 
 390. RENDLESHAM 6-. 6^;r-^0'- 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury me fecit 17 14. 
 
 2 Thomas Gardiner made me 17 13. 
 
 3 JVIiles Graye made me 1630. 
 
 Pits for five. The usual coins and marks on i and 2. Bells in <Z\, C, 
 and B, with diameters 27^ in., 29^ in., and 31! in. Certif. of 1547 records 
 no sale of bells. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See p. 143. 
 
 391. REYDON S. Margaret. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. \J 50 thrice. 
 
 + 61 ?i?ac En ©onclabc D 62 ffiabricl ^unc ^angc ^uabe. 
 3 in 1553. "formerly 4 if not 5," Davy, Aug. 19, 1814. See p. 53. 
 
 392. RICKINGHALL INFERIOR ^. ^^'7- 3 Bells. 
 
 1 -j- SCG : JAGOBG : IHTGI^CeDG : PI\0 : mG 
 
 2 I. D. 1630. 
 
 3 No inscription. 
 
 " Great bells iij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553- 
 Davy, 6 Jan., 1810, " 3 bells." See pp. 62, 1 1 2.
 
 228 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 393. RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR 6. ^/^/rv. 6 Bells. 
 
 I Jonathan Steggal George Porter C. Wardens. In a scroll 
 '• I. ^aglor anil Son iFountcrs 2.ougf}boroual)" 1850. 
 
 2, 3> 4, 5 John Goldsmith fecit 17 12. 
 
 6 Mr. George Elmy & Mr. Henry Freeman C. W. 1741. 
 Tho. Newman made me. 
 4 in 1553. See pp. 138, 146. 
 
 394. RINGSFIELD^// Saifds. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 John Stephens made mee 1726. 
 
 2 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 Donvm Clem. Gooch et Rob. Shelford 16 10. 
 "Great bells ij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. Pits for four. 
 Davy notes 3, June 2, 180S. See pp. 113, 139. 
 
 395. RINGSHALL S. Catherine. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 R. Phelps Londini fecit 1737. 
 
 2 + 24 IJ 23 -)- 43 Stancta i^atcrina ©ta ^ro ^obtS. 
 
 3 in 1553. So Mr. Parker, who does not condescend to note i. See pp. 
 23, 148. 
 
 396. RISBY 6". (?//^j. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 51 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 IrTtrginls Isgrcgic n 62 2Focor C^ampana iHaric. 
 
 2 JOHD DI^APG1\ mADG ffiG 16IC. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -[- 67 iHcrhls n 68 IcHmunti D 68 ^imus D 68 ^ Q 
 CTriminc □ 68 i*luntii. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. " 3 bells," Davy. See pp. 54,69, iii. 
 
 397. RISHANGLES S. Margaret. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 52 thrice. 
 
 + i^fc dFtt 5cotum n 62 ©ampa Saulie 33onoruni 
 
 2 y 51 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 CFcIcstt iW;anna D 62 IZTua ^rolcS Jiog ©tbct Slnna. 
 
 3 ij 51 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 itTcvitig lilimunlit Q 62 ^imu3 ^ Criminc iHunDi. 
 3 in 1553. So Davy with involuntary variations from Martin. 4 Dec, 
 1817. See pp. 54, 58. 
 
 398. ROUGH AM S. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1661. William Maning C.W. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1661. 
 
 3 U 9 thrice. 
 
 -j- 13 <$um ilofa ^iilsata iWunlil i^aria Uocata. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1678. 
 
 5 John Martin Church Warden. Tho^ Osborn fecit 1790. 
 
 Vcnite Exultemus. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1 553. 
 Davy notes five bells, but no inscriptions. 
 
 399. RUMBURGH S. Michael. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 4 ^nno Somini 1624 WIB. 
 
 2 1^ 5 1: St €i)uicf)barCfnf. ^nno i3omim 1624 WIB.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 229 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1728. 
 
 5 The Rev"*^. Lombe Althills (sic) Perp. Curate. John 
 Briant Hertford fecit 1823. C. Reynolds. 
 3 and a Sance bell in 1553. " Old treble T. B. 1660." Davy, 16 May, 1806, 
 See pp. 7, 114. 
 
 400. RUSH BROOKE ^. A7^//^A?^. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1733. 
 
 2 □ 81 Andrew Gvrny made me 1636. 
 
 3 Thomas Newman made mee 1 7 1 1 . 
 
 "Square steeple, 3 bells, and Dr. Needen says, modern ones." Davy, 
 See p. 1 12. 
 
 401 . R U S H M E R E 6*. Andrew. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 John Darbie made me 1675. 
 
 3 U 26 -}- 22 U 25 .^anctc 913otolfe ©ra ^ro i^obig. 
 
 4 U 26 -j- 22 IJ 25 1^o)f Slugufitnt Sonet In "Slutc IDct. 
 
 5 U26-I-22IJ25 Sancta Ciatanna ©la ^ro iiobig. 
 
 6 Mears & Stainbank, Founders, London, 1885. 
 
 Ad gloriam Dei et in memoriam Sancti Andreae, Apostoli 
 et Martyns, dedicata. Gulielmus Wigston, Vicarius, 
 Alfredus Meller, Gulielmus Dawson, Sacrorum 
 Custodes. 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy, 4 Aug., 1810. 
 
 402. RUSHMERE 6*. J//^//a^/. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 IJ 52 thrice. 
 
 In ITilct anl) In too SautJcs Bco. 
 
 2 17 64 thrice. 
 
 -|- : SCA : BAI^BAI^A : PP^O : mG : DGVm : 
 GXOI^A. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See p. 59. 
 
 403. SANTON DOWNHAM S.Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Robard Gvrney made me 1663. 
 •' Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 24 Aug., 1829, notes one bell. See p. 132. 
 
 404. SA PISTON S. Andrew. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 John Draper made me 1628. The gift of Thomas 
 
 Mannynge. 
 
 2 Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1730. 
 
 3 'STljomas 33tapcr 1591. 
 4^51 thrice. 
 
 -\- 61 ilos ^Dome iWlcritb D 62 iWcteamur (Sautifa 2luctg. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 25 July, 1832, "four bells." 
 See pp. 56, 100, 112, 137. 
 
 405. SAX HAM, GREAT, S. Andrew. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 T. Osborn 1787. 
 
 2 T. Osborn fecit 1787. 
 
 3 Thomas Mears of London, founder, 1836. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. The old tenor was inscribed, " Fred. 
 Evered, Ch. Warden, 1787." Davy, Aug. 19, 1828.
 
 230 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 406. S AX\^ AM, UTTLE, S.JVic/io/as. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 51 thrice. 
 
 -j- 61 abc iHana Gratia ^9lcna Q 62 IDominud 'Cecum. 
 
 2 51 thrice. 
 
 -)- 61 iHtffus Sc ®cli5 n 63 ?i)alico iiomcn ffialiticli«{. 
 
 3 Thomas Cheese made me 1603. SB 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy transposes i and 2, and omits 
 S. B. on the tenor. See pp. 52, 53, 109. 
 
 407. SAXMUNDHAfA S. /':}/m Ba/>ti^. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London. Presented by 
 
 Mrs. Ann Crampin. Hung by G. Day & Son, 
 Eye, 1880. 
 
 2 Anno Domini 1609. W. B. 
 
 3 : -|- • santta : mavgarcta : ora : pro nobi^. 
 
 4 -}- O ^anctc jacobc ©ra ^10 ii obis. 
 
 5 D 34,' D 35, D 32, D 33- 
 
 -f- O ^ancta jWargarcta ©ra ^|.Uo iiobts. 
 
 6 1762. Lester & Pack of London fecit. _/«». £ade &= 
 
 Ja^. Last Ch. Wardens. 
 
 Davy gives 1602 as the date of the 2nd. 
 
 " Great bells V. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. See pp 35, 113. 
 
 408. SAXSTEAD All Saints. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1678. 
 
 3 in 1553. Martin, 15 June, 1735, notes 3. No notes in Davy. Hawes 
 and Loder, p. 324, give a 2nd, "Anno L P. I. A. 1589, and a 3rd, 
 Vtrgtnts IHgregie "Focor Campaiia Jltartf." See p. 124. 
 
 409. SEMER All Saints. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 n 81 Thomas □ 82 Cheese me fecit 162 1. 
 
 2 17 52 thrice. 
 
 -j- 61 .iiticritis ictimunt)t Q 62 <Simu<s % ©riminc iHunti. 
 
 3 D 81 Johannes D 82 Me fecit TC Me fecit 16 18. 
 
 So Davy, 26 Oct., 1S26. "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See pp. 
 58, no. 
 
 410. SHADm(^?\ELD S. Jo/in Baptist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. James □ 81 Edbere □ 82 1608 (arabesque). 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. "i Beil," Davy, 2 June, iSoS. See 
 p. 109. . 
 
 411. SHELLAND. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. H. P. ) ,-,,,,, 
 
 ,,. - cut in the shoulder. 
 
 W. zZi ) 
 
 □ 81 Thomas □ 82 Cheese me fecit 1624. 
 Davy, June 13, 1827, notes one in a cupola, inaccessible. 4 in 1553. 
 
 412. SHELLEY All Saints. Tenor. Diam. 39 in. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1663. 
 Samvell Kerridge Esqvire gave me. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1629. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -j- sancta O ana (sic) O ora O pro O nobis
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 231 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -(- sancta : maria : ora : pro : nobisJ. 
 
 5 John Hodson made me 1662. This bell was given by 
 
 Samvell Kerredge Esqvier W. H. C (W ?) 
 DUO (the first a fleur-de-lis, the last a medalhon, 
 probably intended for Charles II.) 
 
 3 ii^ 1553- Davy transposes 4 and 5. See pp. 69, 118, 123, 132, These 
 are never rung. They have a wondrous system of " clocking." 
 
 41 3. SHIMPLING^. George. 5 Bells. 
 
 1, 4 Thomas Newman made me 1735. 
 
 2, 3 Thomas Newman of Norwich made me 1735. 
 5 Thomas Mears, London, 1843. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, " Four bells 1734, five bells 1831." See p. 138. 
 
 414. SHIPMEADOW ^. ^^r/Z/^/^w^. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Brend made me 1640. 
 "Great bells iij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. "Only one bell," 
 notes, 6 June, 1769, in Davy's MS.S. Seep 115. 
 
 415. SHOTLEY 5. J/a/7. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1686. W. D. R. F. S'. 
 Henry Felton : Baronett U (Fclton). 
 So Davy, 1S23. But under " MS. notes by Sir J. Blois, p. 180," there is 
 " Ric. Bowler on the bells." 4 in 1553. See p. 125. 
 
 416. SHOTTISHAM S. Margaret. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. X) 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67 ^.nncta Q iHana D ©ra [J ^ro D iiobts. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. "One bell," Davy, 12 Oct., 1818. 
 See p. 69. 
 
 417. ^X^lOW S. Peter. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Mears, founder, London, 1848. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1670. 
 
 3 1^ 9 thrice. 
 
 -j- 3rn itlultis ^nntS Bcfonct Campana 3)ol)anni3. 
 
 4 ij 52 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 ^ctnis au ictctnc D 62 Ducat iScs ^ascua Fitc. 
 
 5 Henry Pleasant made me 1694. Edmund Rickit 
 
 Warding. 
 Dec. 6, 1805, Daw notes the old treble, " John Darbie made me 1681. 
 W. R." Dec. 1805, dates the 2r.d 1673, and gives iilrnits on the 3rd for 
 3En J^ulttB. No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547- 4 in I553- See 
 pp. 17, 56, 123, 140. 
 
 418. SIZEWELL ^. NicJwlas. 
 Ecclesia destnicta. No return in 1553- 
 
 419. ^H^?^ S. John Baptist. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 John Wehincopp. 1674. 
 
 2 N. H. O. I. 476 W C. P. O. C. N. I. H. I. W. 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner fecit. 1713. R. H. I. K. 
 
 From Davy, June 12, 1806. No sale of bells in certif. of 1547- " Great 
 bells iij." Return of 1553. The date of 2 is probably 1576.
 
 232 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 420. SOHAM, EARL, S. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graie made me 1610. 
 
 2 17 50 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 (Elucfumus anDrcn [J 62 .-fFamulorum Sufctpc Uota. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1663. R. D. H. B. W. S. 
 
 4 U 50 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 ^^ctnis ^D lEtcrnc D 62 Ducat ilo« iNscua WiU. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1663 R D H B W S. 
 
 Hawes crosses i and 3, and gives a wrong date for 5. The old windlass 
 remains. 
 
 On the buttresses of the tower is the following hexametrical quatrain, in 
 stone and cut flint : — 
 
 ISanlpJus (JTobptt 60a marta cotuitt isti 
 lEccUe eacte cui prcett gracia crtslt 
 
 Campailis tin' l^omas (PJioa futt autor 
 i^ui' et siiuul optimus auiiliator. 
 
 I regret to leave a word unread. 
 
 The wills of Radulph Cubytt of Norwich, and Thomas Edwarde of 
 Congham, in the first half of the reign of Henry VIII., have reference to 
 Earl Soham, and they seem to be the persons indicated in the inscription. 
 
 No sale of bells in certif. of 1547. " Some comits Great bells iiij." Re- 
 turn of 1553. See pp. 56, 57, 117, 123. 
 
 421. SOHAM, MONK, 5. P^/m Tenor G. Diam. 40I in. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me 1631. 
 
 2 Post nullas renovata sodales. Reverendus Vir Gulielmus 
 
 Ray A.M. Rector. Thomas Martin & Laurentius 
 Spinny Ecclesie Guardiani. R. Phelps London 
 fecit 1734. 
 
 3 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -j- 61 Bnldi Jitsto illdis D 62 ©ampa 2Focor iWidjacUg. 
 
 4 51 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 ^^ctrus 51D Ictcrnc D 62 iDucat iiog ^3ascua 5^ttc. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1661. John Aldrich Robart 
 
 Rous. 
 
 So Davy, 30 April, 1828. 4 in 1553. 
 
 No bells in 1547 certif. mentioned as sold. See pp. 55, 56, 118, 122, 148. 
 
 422. SOMERLEYTON 6'. J/;?o'. Tenor G. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 J. Taylor & Co., Founders, 1872. 
 
 2 S--. Richard Allen Baronet 1700 I B O 88 
 
 3 D 47 ^YG □ 48 uii\GO □ 48 uii\Gmum □ 48 
 
 mATGI\ □ 48 IHU □ 48 XPl. 
 
 4 U 51 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 SJirginb Ctgrcgic D 62 ilFococ ©ampana 0(atie. 
 
 5 U 51 thrice. 
 
 -j- 61 ^HC In Conclafac \J 62 (i^abricl iiunc ^aangc 5uabc. 
 
 6 William Ayton C.W. Thomas Newman made me 1706. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Re-opened Oct. 7, 1872. See pp. 
 
 41, S3. 54, 147-
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 233 
 
 423. SOMERSh\ AM S. Mary. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1662. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1626. 
 
 3 in 1553. Davy, 18 May, 1829, notes an old treble like the present 2nd. 
 See pp. 118, 123. 
 
 A24. SOMERTON S ATargaret. 4 Bells. 
 
 I De Bvri Santi Edmondi. Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 
 
 W. L. 1578. 
 2, 3 De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 1573. 
 4 Miles Graye made me 168 1. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, March 23rd, 1814, calls i, 2; and 2, i ; 3, 4; and 4, 3." See pp. 
 96, 134. 
 
 425. SOTHERTON ^. y!?;/^m^'. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Mears, Founder, London, 1842. T. F. 
 So Davy, June i, 1808. Terrier rendered 24 June, 1794, " One small bell 
 with the frame, weighing about J cwt." 
 
 Certif. of iiij Nov., 1547, by Thomas Davy and John Noone. 
 
 " ItiTi for a broken hande bell ... ... viiji^." 
 
 No bell returned in 1553. 
 
 426. SOTTERLEY ^. Margaret. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Gardiner fecit 17 17. 
 
 2 : + : SAHGTA : mAI\GAI\eTA : 0\K : PI\0 
 
 liOBIS. 
 
 So Davy, i June, 1808. No sale of bells in certif. of 1547. "Great bells 
 iij." Return of 1553. See p. 62. 
 
 427. SOUTHOLT S. Margaret. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1677. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 3 May, 1837, "One small bell." See p. 124. 
 
 428. SOUTHTOWN S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. 1 83 1 (the year of Consecration). 
 
 429. SOUTH WOLD S. Edmund. 8 and old Clock bell. 
 
 I, 2 No inscription. 
 
 3 William Dobson Downham Norfolk fecit 1820. 
 4, 5 John Darbie made me 1668. 
 
 R. I. T. S. Chvrch Wardens. T. P. T. N. Baylifes. 
 
 6 \\\ SJcgltlj U 52 anS lin 2^0 SauDcg ISco. 
 
 7 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 ^ubbcniat Dtgna Q 62 Qonatibus ?i?anc Ivatcrina. 
 
 8 Hon^i"=. & Revd. A. Rous, Vicar, J. Sutherland, P. 
 
 Edwards, Bailiffs, E. Freeman Ch. Warden, 1828. 
 Bell attached to old "Jack o' th' Clock." No inscription. 
 
 5 and a Sance bell m 1553. i and 2 cast not many years ago by Moore, 
 Holmes and Mackenzie. See extract from Gardiner's MS. 6 and another 
 bought from South Elmham All Saints. See No. 168, p. 186. 
 
 Davy, 12 Aug., 1806. " 5 bells hung, and one standmg on the ground," on 
 which he did not note the inscPfi. Old Tenor En ftlulttS... 
 
 "A htill syluyr belle" was sold in 1547 by Thomas Jentylman and 
 Willam Wright, C. W. 
 
 2E
 
 234 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 The treble, from which the present 3rd was cast, was of the same make 
 as the present 4th and sth, and that which occupied the place of the present 
 6th, according to Davy, bore no inscription. Gardiner notes Katherme and 
 John as the Christian names of K. Tylls (1470) and Joh. Cawnteler (1471) 
 who left 5 marks each "ad facturam unius Campanae." 
 
 T. P. T. N. are apparently the initials of Thomas Postle and Thomas 
 Nunn, Bailiffs in 1671 and 1662 respectively. Those of 1667 and 166S bore 
 other initials. Tokens of Postle's are mentioned in Golding, p. 67. See pp. 
 57, 59, 123, 154. 
 
 430. SPEXHALL S. Peter. i Bell. 
 
 XJ 52 thrice. 
 
 -j- 61 33ulcts ^tsto iiTclis Q 62 CTampa Jl^otor iWicljtS. 
 3 in 1553. Davy, June 3rd, 1808. "3 bells formerly hung in a shed in 
 the yard, but in 1771 a faculty was obtained to sell 2 of them to repair the 
 church. The other hangs in a cupola at the west end of the nave." 
 
 Terrier rendered June, 1791. "Also one Bell hanging in a new erected 
 Cupola." See p. 55. 
 
 431. SPROUGHTON All Saints. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 4 John Darbie made me 1658. 
 3 Thomas Mears of London fecit 18 13. 
 
 5 O 
 
 I 
 
 OHO 
 
 o 
 
 So Davy, who merely notes the tenor blank. 
 
 No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. 3 in 1553. See pp. 80, 122. 
 
 432. STANNINGFIELD ^. iV^/^/w/aj. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Robard .., Gvrney ... made ^> me 1664. 
 
 2 IJ 51 thrice. 
 
 + 61 abe. (Eracta ^^leiia n 62 IBomtuusi 'STtcum. 
 
 3 D 81 De n 82 Bvri Q 82 Santi n 82 Edmondi D 82 
 
 Stefanvs D 82 Tonni Q 82 me D 82 fecit D 82 
 n8i 1567. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. So Davy, with slight variations. See 
 pp. 52, 96, 192. 
 
 433. STAN SFI ELD ^// ^^z>^/i-. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5 Miles Graye made me 1652. 
 " Great bells iij," Return of 1553. See p. 121. 
 
 434. STAN STEAD 5. y;?;;/^^. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 T. Mears of London fecit 1830. 
 3, 4" Miles Graye made me 1662. 
 
 5 n 74 -Sancta Q 75 ttimtaai D 76 unusi D 75 ^f«^ D 76 
 miiScrcrc D 75 nobis. 
 
 ^544 
 
 "^^ gtepbene tonne mc fecit. 
 
 6 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1775. 
 "Great bellys iij." Return of 1553. Davy, Aug. 18, 1831, "Six bells." 
 See pp. 79, 133.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 235 
 
 435. STANTON ^// Sain fs. Tenor G. Diam. 39.^ in. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -\- : iSflnrta : mana : ora : pro : nolus, 
 
 2 TJ 65 thrice. 
 
 -j- 67 © martic D 68 33arbara D 68 ^vomc Q 68 iBcum 
 D 68 Izxoxa D 68. 
 
 3 U 65 thrice. 
 
 4- 67 ©0tt)uS n 68 €di D 68 :^ac Q 68 JSarbara Q 68 
 ©rcmtna (sic) □ 68 ©cU. 
 
 4 n 81 Anno D 82 : n 82 Regni Q 82 Reginae-Elizabeth 
 
 n 82 De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me 
 fecit n 81 Anno Q 82 Domini □ 82 1560. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 5 Jan., 1810, notes the niscription on treble defaced. See pp. 69, 
 95. 
 
 436. STANTON S. /o/in BaJ>tisf. Tenor G. Diam. 37 in. 
 
 4 Bells. 
 I, 2 John Darbie made me 1680. 
 
 3 No inscription. 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1680. I W S B CWs. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 5 Jan., iSio, as this. See p. 
 124. 
 
 437. ST ERNF\ ELD S. Afary Magdalene. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 John Brend made me 1659. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1681. I. B, 
 
 3 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 17 16. 
 
 4 De Bvri Santi Edmondi. Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 1573. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. From Davy, June 12, i8c6. 
 
 438. STOKE ASH A// Sai;/fs. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 William Dobson, founder, Downham, Norfolk. 
 
 2 No inscription. 
 
 3 TJ 65 thrice. 
 
 -\- ^aiicta n ^ttna D ©ra D i^ro D i^obis. 
 
 4 -|- *CrcDo n Jfn 13cum ©mtti □ potcntcm. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 23 April, 1819, notes the treble as AYG flQAI^IA 
 GI\ACIA PDGDA, the third Sanrta iJHaria €>ra ?3ro Nobts. 
 
 These two dedications had been recorded by T. Martin, c. 17 19. See p. 69. 
 
 439. STOKE-BY-CLARE S. Michael. 6 and Clock bell. 
 
 I, 3 T. Osborn fecit 1786. Cum voco venite. 
 2 T. Osborn Downham Norfolk fecit 1786. 
 4 Mors vincet omnia. T. Osborn fecit 1786. 
 5, 6 Joseph Harrison Daniel Pannell Churchwardens. 
 Tho^ Osborn founder Downham Norfolk 1786. 
 Clock bell + 77 furgc \ mane \ farbirc ; Deo. 
 "Great bells v." Return of 1553. Sec p. 79. 
 
 440. STOKE-BY-NAYLAND .9. J/.?9'. 6 and Clock bell. 
 
 1 Thomas Gardiner fecit 1725. 
 
 2 John . Hollon . Samuel . Bigsbe . C.Ws. 1725.
 
 236 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 3 + 89 In i^tlultis Slnnis lilcfonct CTampana 3)o|^anmg + 
 
 O %ci\)^$ froft alias tI)orn 
 
 4 _|_ oi\A : menTG ; pia ; pp^o : pobis ; 
 
 Yii\Go i mAP^iA ; AmGP -. 
 
 5 Joseph Holies . 1699. Thomas Williams . 1699. H. 
 
 Pleasant made me. 
 
 6 Reverend Joshua Rowley Minister Henry Cook Ed. 
 
 Cook Churchwardens 181 1. Thomas Mears. 
 Clock bell. No inscription, apparently. 
 
 "Great bells v." Return of 1553. Davy, Sept. 29 and 30, 1828. "12 
 bells which I omitted to visit." This is remarkable. J. J. R. 
 
 The capital lettering on the fourth is unknown to me ; but the initial cross 
 looks like an enlargement of No. 47. 
 
 After the dissertation was printed, my friend, Mr. Justice Clarence, of 
 Colombo, Ceylon, went to see Giffard Hall, in this parish, formerly the resi- 
 dence of the Mannock family. Here over the gateway he found a small 
 bell, scarce 18 in. high, bearing a coin or two, and the inscription, SaitclE 
 iijugo ©ra l3ro jgobis. There were no marks, but the lettering is Culverden's, 
 see pp. 37, etc. It is remarkable that his Lincolnshire proclivities show 
 themselves here in a dedication to the well-known Bishop of Lincoln. 
 
 441. STONHAM ASPALL ^. Z^z/^^^r/. Tenor E. 24 cwt. 
 
 ID Bells. 
 I, 2, 4 T. Mears of London fecit 1826. 
 3 T. Mears of London fecit 1826. Dan^ Wade aged 80 
 years. W"^. Last, Two of the Parish Ringers. 
 
 5 Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1770. 
 W™. Banyard & Sam'. Davie Ch: Wardens. 
 
 6 T. Mears of London fecit 1826. 
 Job Roper John Blomfield. 
 
 7 T. Mears of London fecit 1826. 
 
 ReV^. Tho'. Methold Rector. W^. Taylor & Saml. Ford 
 Churchwardens. 
 
 8 Thomas Lester made me 1746. 
 
 9 In this tower hung 5 bells the tenor weighing 10 hun: 
 
 2 qrs. o lb. In the year 1742 they were taken 
 down & with y« addition of 3 tons 10 hun: of mettle 
 were recast into ten att ye expence of Theodore 
 Ecclestone Esq""^ of. Crowfield Hall, aged 27 years. 
 He gave also a new frame att y^ same time, 1742. 
 Tho^ Lester made us all. 
 10 Theodore Eccleston Esq"", gave me 1742. Thomas 
 Lester of London made me 1745. John Williams 
 hanged me. The end crowns the work. 
 So Davy, 12 May, 1824. 
 I, 2 Theodore Ecclestone Esq. 1742. 
 3 Tho. Lester of London made me. 
 At proper times my voice I'll raise 
 Unto my Benefactor's praise. 
 Theodore Ecclestone Esq"". 1712. 
 No mention of bells in certif. of iij Nov., 1547. 4 in 1553. See p. 149.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 237 
 
 442. ST ON HAM EARL S. Afary. Tenor Gf. Diam. 38 in. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Henry Pleasant made me 1706. 
 
 2 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1727. 
 
 3 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -f- 61 €lucrumus ^ntirca D 62 ^Ipamulocum ^ufcipe "Foia. 
 
 4 ij 50 thrice. 
 
 -[- 61 2^trgini= CFgwgic n 62 ©ocor Campa i^Xam. 
 
 5 Candler Bird Ch: Warden. T. Osborn Downham fecit 
 
 1 781. Percute dulce cano. 
 So Davy imperfectly, 28 March, 181 1. 4 in 1553. Seepp. 54, 57, 140, 144. 
 
 443. STONHAM, LITTLE, 6". Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 T. Mears of London fecit 18 17. 
 
 2 T. Mears of London fecit 18 16. 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 16 17 V. 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -f- SUirgo ®orna I3uc iio» ^D iXcgua. 
 
 5 R. Phelps fecit 1729. 
 4 m 1553. T. Martin notes 5 bells. 
 
 3 Siancta Iflarta ora pro nobis. 
 
 4 Vix^o (fforonata iJuc nos ail rec^na bcata. 
 
 5 ^ancta ISatcrtna ora pro nobis. 
 
 Davy, 26 Oct., 1829, notes 5 inaccessible. See pp. 67, 117. 
 
 444. STOVE N S. Margaret i Bell. 
 
 Bell. 1759. 
 So Davy, 13 June, 1808. 2 in 1553. 
 
 445. STOW WEST S. Mary. Tenor. Diam. 42 J in. 6 Bells. 
 
 I G. ADD G. meAl^S DOIiDOn IStJfQ. Pl^AISG 
 YG THG LtOI\D. 
 
 2, 6 John Draper made me 1631. 
 
 3, 4 John Draper made me 1629. 
 5 John Darbie made me 1674. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 19 Aug., 1829. "5 bells which I did not visit." See pp. 112, 124. 
 
 446. STOWLANGTOFT S. George. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 John Draper tiiade me 1631. 
 
 2 J. D. 1614. 
 
 3 y 51 thrice. 
 
 -|- 61 ^ubfacniat IStngna □ 62 SDonantibuS ?i?aiic iKatcrina. 
 
 4 For the service of God. Cast at the expense of Henry 
 
 Wilson Esq. 1856. Taylor and Son, Founders, 
 
 Loughborough. 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, 6 July, 1S43. "4 bells," apparently quoting T. Martin. See pp. 
 57, 109, 112. 
 
 447. STOW MARKET SS. Peter atid Mary. Tenor D, c. 24 cwt. 
 
 Diam. 51* in. 8 Bells. 
 
 1 William Dobson, Downham, Norfolk, Founder, iSio. 
 
 2 Tho: Osborn fecit 1791.
 
 238 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1691. 
 
 Thomas : Godard MP. John : Keeble : Richard : 
 Osbvrnd : 
 , 4 -[- 22 U 20 iit f2omcn HJomtni 33ene»3ictum. 
 
 5 Charles Newman made mee 1699. 
 
 6 T. Mears of London fecit 1823. 
 
 7 John Darbie made me 1672. 
 
 8 Miles Graye made me 1622. 
 
 Clock bell -f- AYG mAI\IA Gl^ACIA PDGnA. 
 
 Probably the old Sance bell. 
 
 5 and a Sance bell in 1553. Davy transposes 2 and 3. The inscription 
 
 on the former he records as Adoremus unum Deum in Trinitate fideliter. 
 
 On 2 he mistakes "Tho" for "John," gives both Darbie's bells wrong dates, 
 
 and changes the names on 3. See pp. 21, 118, 123, 125, 136. 
 
 448. STOWUPLAND Holy Trivity. 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. Oliver, Wapping, London. Revd. A. G. H. 
 HoUingsworth. 
 
 r^ -r, T^ Churchwardens. 
 
 G. R. J:<reeman 
 
 In Nomine SS. Trinitatis 1843. 
 
 See p. 151. 
 
 449. ST RAD BROKE A// Sainfs. Tenor Eb, c. 22 cwt. 
 
 8 Bells. 
 
 1 I Taylor & Co., Founders, Loughborough, 1879. Awake 
 
 thou that sleepest. 
 
 2 I. Taylor & Co., Founders, Loughborough, 1879. Hal- 
 
 lelujah. 
 
 3 John Borrett Donor. Charles Newman made mee 1697. 
 I. U B. L U B. (arms of Borrett). 
 
 4 Miles Graye made me 16 13. 
 
 5 -\- Miles p Graye G 87 made Q nie Q 87 1622. 
 
 6 Fill Dei vivi miserere nobis 1567 L B. 
 
 7 Nvmen inest nvmers. John Darbie made me 1683. 
 
 Thomes Aldous, Joseph Gibbs, C. W. 
 
 # 'i' '§'§'§ 
 
 8 -[-44U25 -|- 14 ^'fc^ ffiabrtclb 5onat ^fc ©ampana 
 
 The figure "6" on the sixth is inverted, and looks like a "9." 5 and a 
 Sance bell in 1553. Davy, 16 Oct., 1806, "6 bells." See pp. 25, 102, 117, 
 118, 125, 136. 
 
 450. ST RkD\SH ^LL S. Margaret. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho. Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1743. 
 
 John Yale Rector, Tho^ Flack & Thos. Cook C.W. 
 
 2 EdW^. Arnold St. Neots fecit 1775. 
 
 3 De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 1570. 
 
 4 Miles Graye made me 1646. 
 
 5 THOmAS DI\APGI\ mADG mG 159.3 Q 8^. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. "Five bells and a clock." Davy. 
 See pp. 96, loi, 119, 145.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 239 
 
 451. STRATFORD 5. ^w^mc/. 3 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1870. 
 3 Recast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1885. 
 
 Rev. E. Hall, M.A., Rector, S. Plant, Churchwarden. 
 
 Hung by George Day & Son, Eye. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 Old Tenor \J 65 thrice. 
 
 + Saiicta D Car D Hav D 31 n ©ra n Pro D iBobtS- See p. 67. 
 This was the original treble. The otiiers were inscribed, ^atlcta J^aria 
 ©ra pro nobis, and JllErttis ifrUmuntii, &c. 
 
 452. STRATFORD S. Mary. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Rector Ecclesiam restoravit 
 Campanam Sextam me donavit 
 Cum gratiis Dominum adoravit 
 
 H. G. Anno 1879. 
 I. Taylor & Co., Founders, Loughborough. 
 
 2 Thomas Gardiner fecit 1745. 
 John Sacker, John Cooper, C.W. 
 
 3 Thomas Gardiner fecit 1723. 
 
 4 + 43 + 37 3En iilultis Slnnta Jdefonct ©ampana 3)o]^anmS. 
 
 5 -|- Richardvs Bowler me fecit 1589. 
 
 6 0+ S^anctc O ffircgori O ©ra O ^10 O ^oljtg 
 
 U45 
 So Davy. " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. See pp. 37, 104, I45' 
 
 453. STRATTON S. Pder. 
 Ecclesia destntcta. No return in 1553. 
 
 454. ^IKi^.^T OH All Saints. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 John Draper made me 1627. 
 
 3 C. & G. Mears, Founders, London. 
 Walter Chenery, Rector. 
 
 Osborn Tippell, Churchwarden, 1853. 
 
 4 C. & G. Mears, Founders, London, 1857. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 16 Oct., 1806, notes the old 3rd, © maier I3ct memento met, 
 and the old tenor, James Edbere me fecit 1603. R. B. W. S. E. D. The 
 old 3rd belonged to the " Burlingham" group, as recorded in L'Estrange's 
 Church Bells of Norfolk, p. 80. Messrs. Mears and Stainbank note that i, 
 3, and 4 were supplied by them in 1847, and the latter two since recast. 
 
 Peal first of 5 bells, tenor 8 cwt. ; now of 4, tenor 4 cwt. 3 qrs. 4 lbs. 
 Diameter of treble 21^ in., of tenor 32 in. See p. 112. 
 
 455. STUTTON S. Peter. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 4, 5 Miles Graye made me 1684. 
 
 2 Charles Newman made mee 1692. 
 
 3 Henry Pleasant made me 1706. 
 
 So Davy. 3 iu 1553. See p. 134, where "first three " is an error ; also 
 pp. 135, 140. 
 
 456. SUDBOURNE ^// ^a/;//j. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Darbie made me 1674. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. No notes in Davy. Diam. 3 ft. 3 in. 
 See p. 124.
 
 240 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 457, SUDBURY All Saints. Tenor D!?, c. 30 cwt. 
 
 8 and Clock bell. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner &: Sons, London, 1876. 
 
 In memory of Charles Badham M.A. 27 years Vicar of 
 this Parish. Died April, 1874. 
 
 2 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1876. 
 Presented by Elliston Allen. 
 
 3 George Dashwood Esi. John Crystall Wardens. 
 
 H. P. 1701. 
 
 4 Miles Graye made me 167 1. 
 
 5 U 65 thrice. 
 
 4- 67 5ancta Q ISatcdna D ^w n i^^o D i^obtg. 
 
 6 -j- 91 + 41 <^"»« i^of'T il^wlfata iWunDi i^ilarta SFocata. 
 
 7 U 65 thrice. 
 
 4-67 *tclla n illarta D PtariS D <5uccurrc D ^itfftma 
 n iiobts. 
 
 8 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London. 
 I toll the Funeral knell 
 
 I ring the Festal Day 
 
 I mark the fleeting hours 
 
 And chime the Church to pray. ' 
 
 Cast 1576. 
 
 Recast 1875. 
 
 Rev'i. A. H. Arden, Vicar. 
 
 H. S. Pratt \ n\. ^ A 
 ... \ Churchwardens. 
 
 Clock bell. No inscription. 
 
 " Great bells iij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 reverses 6 and 7. Tenor as in Badham's notes. 
 
 The tenor was by S. Tonni of Bury, 1576, inscribed, " Filius Virginis 
 Marie dat nobis gaudia vite." Badham. The crosses on the 6th are in 
 lozenges, instead of octagon, our blocks being according to the form at 
 Gloucester Cathedral and S. Alban's. See pp. 140, 151. 
 
 Dav>' notes no date, 
 Sim. 
 
 Fig. 91.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 241 
 
 458. SUDBURY S. Bartholomew. 
 Ecclesia destrncta. No return in 1553. 
 
 459. SUDBURY ^. 6^r<;?-^ry. Tenor F, 16 cwt. 8 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 T. Mears of London fecit 182 1. 
 
 7 Mears of London fecit 182 1. 
 H. W. Wilkinson, Minister. 
 
 A. Dacon, W"\ Jones, Churchwardens. 
 
 8 Pack Chapman of London fecit 1774. 
 Ye Ringers all that prize 
 
 Your health and happiness 
 Be sober, merry wise 
 And you'll the same possess. 
 " Great bells V. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. Seep. 151. 
 
 460. SUDBURY 5. P.'/t^r. Tenor E'^>. Diam. 49 in. 23 cwt. 
 
 8 Bells. 
 I, 2 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1874. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1662. 
 
 4 □ 81 • James • Edbvrie (arabesque) 1605. 
 RB IS RS IW RE RB TB RB WB IC EC 
 
 ^ Q, ^ ^ 
 
 5 + U 31 + 37 5tt i'iomcn 33ommi iJcnetiictum. 
 
 § § ^ ^ ^ 
 
 6 + U 31 + 36 In iHuUig ^nm$ Mcfonct ©ampana 
 
 3)oDannig. 
 
 7 Miles Graye made me 1641. 
 
 8 -1- 15 IJ 31 -|- 3Intonat CH ©cits 2Fo)f ©ampaitc iHicDadis. 
 "Great bells v." Return of 1553. Davy, no date. The lower 6 cor- 
 rectly though imperfectly given. The beauty of these capitals is extraor- 
 dinary. See pp. 35, 109, 119, 123, 151. 
 
 461. SUTTON All Saints. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Robert Hvrnard Tho. Gardiner fecit 17 13. 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. "The steeple is down. One small 
 bell hangs in the roof." Davy, 12 Oct., 1818. Order for sale of a bell, 1692. 
 Eastern Counties Collectanea, p. 240. 
 
 462. SWEFFLING ^. J/r?;^. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner & Son, London, 1887. 
 Jubilee bell. ReV^. R. Peek, M.A., Rector. 
 Hung ])y G. Day & Son, Eye. 
 
 2 T. Mears of London fecit 183 1. 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner fecit 17 18. 
 
 4 Thomas Mears & Son of London fecit. 
 
 5, 6 Thomas Gardiner Benhall fecit. 17 16. 
 " Swestlyng... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. No notes in Davy. See 
 P- 143- 
 
 463. SWILLAND 6". Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. -|- AYG mAI^IA GI\ACIA PliGIlA DOm- 
 
 invs TGcvm. 
 
 So Davy imperfectlv, 2S May, 1827. 3 in 1553. See p. 61. 
 
 2F
 
 242 THE CHURCH bells of Suffolk. 
 
 464. SY LEH AM S. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1676. 
 
 2 John Goldsmith made me 1708. S'. Margaret's. 
 
 3 -f 61 ilo% Cljome itUdtis D 62 iitcrcamur (Gautita ILucis. 
 So Davy nearly, 13 Oct., 1806. 3 ia 1553. See pp. 56, 124. 2 omitted 
 
 from Goldsmith's list, p. 145. 
 
 465. TANNINGTON 6-. ^///^//vr/. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 4 John Darbie made me 1662. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1662. Thomas Dade Esqvire. 
 5 John Darbie made me 1662. 
 
 William Dade Esq, John Jeffrey, W.K. CW. 
 
 3 in 1553. Davy, 23 July, 1S08, crosses 3 and 5. 2 and 4 are maidens, 
 the others chipped. On each stock is G. Day, Eye, 1866. 
 
 A William Dade of Tannington married Mary VVingfield of the Crowfield 
 branch. She died in 1624. No sale of bells in certif. of 1547. 
 
 466. TATTINGSTONE 6". J/^ry. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3 John Darbie made me 1661. 
 
 4 Thos. Mears of London fecit 1795. 
 
 5 Ransomes & Sims made me 1853. 
 
 The inscription on the old tenor is noted by Davy as i, 2, 3. 
 No sale of bells in certif. of 1547. 4 in 1553. See p. 146. 
 
 467. THEBERTON ^. P^/^r. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mears & Stainbank, Founders, London, 1875. 
 J^acfi Suwiis In Honorem Domini. 
 " One in 1553. 
 I, 2 I E. L D. 1614. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1663. 
 
 4 Nos sumus instruct! ad laudem Domini 1594 (Arms, France and 
 England) E. R." Davy, Oct. 8, 1S06. (He says L A. on i, 2, but of course 
 he means I. E.) Diameters, 2 ft. 2f in. ; 2 ft. 4 in. ; 2 ft. 5^ in. ; 2 ft. 7a in. ; 
 2 ft. 10 in. Weights, 4 cvvt. o qrs. 12 lbs. ; 4 cwt. i qr. ; 4 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lbs. ; 
 5 cwt. 2 qrs. 19 lbs. ; 7 cvvt. o qrs. 11 lbs. See p. no. 
 
 468. THELNETHAM .S. iWV//^Aw. 5 Bells 
 
 1 T. L. made me 1748. 
 
 2 T L 1748. 
 
 3 Thomas Lester of London fecit 1748. 
 
 4 John Draper made me 1603 \ □ 83. 
 
 5 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1729. 
 
 " ffeltham... Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy, 27 July, 1S24. 5, 
 1722. al. sim. Sperling says, "Tenor A, 8| cvvt." See pp. in, 144, 149. 
 
 469. THETFORD ^. J/<7rj'. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1765. 
 
 2 John Draper made me 16 15. 
 
 3 Thomas Lester & Tho\ Pack of London made me 1753. 
 
 4 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1725. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1664 IT 
 Orsburne Clarke Burrage Martine CW. 
 
 6 Sa Maria John Goldsmith fecit 17 11. 
 Isaac Fawkes Churchwarden. Sa Maria. 
 
 No Suffolk return in 1553. Davy, 26 July, 1824, notes 6 bells. See pp. 
 in, 123, 144, 146.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 243 
 
 470. THORINGTON 5. Peter. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. ( A pentacle) iamtocU— ©tocn D i*lat)c D iWf 
 D foi" D feanstcD. 1596. 
 So Davy, Aug. 17, 1S06. The Terrier, 19 June, 1801, says, "weighing 
 about I cwt" ! 
 
 Ao. 1547 Thoringhtonne. Thes be the pcells yt hathe been solde wtjn the 
 pishe of Thoryngton in .Suff. Itm sold by the holle pysche ij bells for the 
 prce of vj. iiij. iiij. One in 1553. See p. 104. 
 
 471. THORN DON ^// &/;//j. Tenor F. 6 Bells. 
 
 I C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1856. 
 2, 3, 4 John Darbie made me 1667. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1667. Isaac Wellvm Gent. C.W. 
 
 6 En mea campana qvam belle sonas Ex parte donvm 
 
 Isaaci Wellvm Rectoris 167 1. John Darbie made. 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 18 June, 1809, notes the old treble, Isaac Wellvm Gent: 
 Ch: Warden I. D. 1669. See his note. See p. 123. 
 
 472. THORN HAM, GREAT, .S. J/«/7. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Charles Newman made mee 1701. 
 
 3 IJ 65 thrice. 
 
 4- ^ancta Q iitacia Q ©ra D ^ro D f^o^JiS. 
 
 4 Charles Newman made mee 1701. John Govch C.W. 
 
 5 U 50 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 J2o0 ^f)omc i«eriti5 D 62 iJHcrcamuc ffiautiia 2Luci3. 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 22 April, 18 19, calls 5 4, and omits John Govch. See 
 pp. 56, 136. 
 
 473. THORN HAM, LITTLE, .S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Newmman (sic) of Norwich made me 
 1727. 
 3 in 1553. Davy, 22 April, 1829. "Charles . . 1707." See p. 137. 
 
 474. THORPE-BY-ALDRINGHAM S. Mary. 
 Ecclesia dcstntcta. No return in 1553, 
 
 475. THORPE-BY-ASH FIELD S. Peter. 
 Ecclesia dcstrticta. " Grete bells iij."' Return of 1553. 
 
 " The steeple contains only one bell, thus inscribed, i Charoli Framling- 
 ham Mihtis 1592." Davy. Vid. Little Ashfield, No. 13. 
 
 476. THORPE-BY-iXWORTH All Saints. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Edmund Whaites Ihon Howlet Church Wardens. 
 John Stephens fecit 1723. 
 "Yexforthe Thorpe. ..Great bells ij." Return of 1553. 
 Davy, 25 July, 1832, " One bell in a cupola." See p. 139. 
 
 477. THORPE MORI EUX 6". J/.?0'- 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Cheese made me 1632. 
 
 2 n 81 Thomas Q 82 Cheese made me 1629. 
 
 3 J. Thornton made me 17 13. 
 R. Santy L Burton CWds. 
 
 " Thorpe Moresse... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See p. wo, 
 Martin, 5 July, 1741, by mistake says that they are modern ones.
 
 244 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 478. T HR AND EST ON S. Margaref. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Brcnd made me 1654. 
 
 2 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 4-61 Jfac ^argavrta □ 62 {lohii ?i?cc i^uncra JLtta. 
 
 3 Miles Graie made me 1608. 
 
 4 George Clay Esq. and Osborn Roper Churchwardens 1813. 
 
 5 Christopher Graye made me 1678. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 17 June, 1809, crosses 2 and 3, and records 4, Katherin 
 Cliittocke John Brend made me 1650. Sperling (c. i860), "Tenor G." See 
 PP- 57, 117, 121. 134. 
 
 479. THURLESTON 5. Bofo//>/i. 
 Ecclesia destnicta. No return in 1553. 
 
 480. THURLOW, GREAT, All Saints. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 3 Miles Graye made me 1660. 
 
 2 Recast by I. Taylor & Co., Founders, Loughborough, 1880. 
 
 4 C. & G. Mears, founders, London. This bell recast at 
 
 the expence of Lady Harland, Lady of the Manor 
 of Great Thurlow, 1849. 
 
 5 A. Gardner & W. Eagle, C.W. 
 John Briant Hertford fecit 1781. 
 
 Clock bell. Tho^ Mears of London fecit 1794. 
 
 " Great bells iiij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. " Five bells," Davy. 
 See p. 121. 
 
 481. THURLOW, LITTLE, 5. T'.'/^/'. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4 John Draper made me 162 1. 
 5 T. Crick Rector, W. Burch C.W. John Briant Hertford 
 fecit, 1807. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. "Five bells," Davy. See p. 112. 
 For " Great" read " Little." 
 
 482. THURSTON ^. /'.^^r. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 John Draper and Andrew Gvrny made me 1630. 
 3, 5 Thomas Newman made me 17 14. 
 4 Charles Newman made mee 1699. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy notes " 3 bells." See pp. 112, 
 136. 
 
 483. THWAITE S. George. ' i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. New when the church was re- 
 stored in 1846. 
 
 3 in 1553. The old bell, inscribed "Miles Graye made me 1626," was 
 sold to McUis c. 1846. See No. 335. 
 
 484. TIMWORTH .S. ^;/^m<:'. 4 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 John Darbie made me 1675. 
 
 3 Charles Newman made mee 1698. 
 
 4 John Draper made me 1626. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. " 4 bells," Davy. See pp. 112, 124, 
 136.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 24.5 
 
 485. TOSTOCK S. Ajidrew. 4 Bells. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 U 66 -{- fattct cpctrc bra pro nobtg. 
 
 3 -[- 67 ^anrta iitaria ova pro nobis U 65. 
 
 4 1671 ^ R ^ G ^ 
 " Great bells iiij." Returns of 1553. 
 
 Davy calls the tenor " blank," but notes two inscriptions as 2 and 3. 
 
 486. TRIM LEY 6". Martin. 1 Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 
 "Great bells j." Return of 1553. From Davy, 16 July, 1829, "very 
 small." 
 
 487. JRmLEy S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Lionellus Tolmach comes de Dysart banc de novo 
 fundi C. 1736. (Coronet and crest of Tollemache.) 
 (Arms of Tollemache.) 
 Davy, 16 July, 1829, inaccessible. No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 
 1549. "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. See p. 148. 
 
 488. TROSTON S. Mary. Tenor, Diam. 28| in. Wt. 6 cwt. 
 
 6 Bells. 
 I, 2, 3 Robert Stainbank, Founder, London, 1868. 
 
 4 -(- Stefanus Tonni de Buri Sante Edmonde me fecit 1567. 
 Recast by Robert Stainbank, London, 1868. 
 
 5 -|- Subveniat Dingna. Donantibus Hanc Katerina. 
 Recast by Robert Stainbank, London, 1S68. 
 
 6 -|- Dona Repende Pia. Rogo Magdalena Maria. 
 Recast by Robert Stainbank, London, 1868. 
 
 So T. Martin. Davy says, " with 2 bells " ! 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See p. 151. 
 
 These inscriptions were reproduced from the old bells. I saw them in 
 Jan., 1859. The 2nd and tenor bore shield No. 51 thrice each; and the 
 usual cross and rhyme stop, Nos. 61 and 62. The treble bore Tonni's 
 usual marks, Nos. 81 and 82. 
 
 489. T U D D E N H A M .9. Marthi. 5 Bells. 
 
 I John Darbie made me 1685 R. C. 
 2) 3' 4) 5 John Darbie made me 1665. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. T. Martin, 23 April, 1725, 5. See p, 
 125. 
 
 490. TUDDENHAM 6". Mzry, 5 Bells. 
 
 1 R. G. 1672. 
 
 2 R. G. 1666. 
 
 3 Thomas Draper made me 1591. 
 
 4 y 65 thrice. 
 
 -j- .Sancta n ^""^ D o'^a Q P'^o glalxi. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1675. William Baker C.W. 
 So Davy with a mistake or two, 22 Aug., 1S28. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. See pp. 69, 100, 124, 132. 
 
 49L JUHSTkLL S. Michael. 6 Bells. 
 
 I This bell was added to the former five by the subscrip- 
 tion of the Rector and parishioners 1823.
 
 246 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 2 T. Mears of London 18 r4. 
 3, 5 T. Mears of London fecit 1S14. 
 4 T. Mears of London fecit 1833. 
 6 Rev. Jos. Gerrard Ferrand Rector. 
 
 T. Flatt C*^. Warden. 
 
 W'n. Dobson fecit 1823. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. The old six. 
 " I, 2, 3, 4, 5 Anno Domini 1721. 
 
 6 George Cutting, Joseph Green, Churchwardens. John Stephens made 
 me 1720." Davy. 
 
 492. UBBESTON 6". P.'/.^r. The larger cracked. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 ^ancta Sluna ©ra ^^ro ilobis O U 45- 
 
 2 De Bvri Santi Edmondi Q 82 Stefanvs Q 82 Tonni □ 
 
 me □ 82 fecit Q 81 1573 D 81. 
 So Davy, i Aug., 1806, save that he dates 2 1567. Terrier, 16 June, 1801, 
 "Three bells, one of which is cracked." 3 in 1553. Pits for three. See 
 PP- 37> 96. 
 
 493. UFFORD S. Mary. Tenor F. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 John Taylor & Son, Founders, Loughborough, 1848. 
 
 2 U 52 thrice. 
 
 + 61 jfac iitargarcta n 62 i^obb ?i?cc i^uncca Seta. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 16S6. 
 
 4 -|- 14 5um O 16 iiosa O 16 ^ulsata O 16 iHuntit O 16 
 
 iWaita O 16 SJotaia. 
 
 5 Tho^. Simpson Gent. Churchwarden. 
 
 T. Osborn founder Downham Norfolk 1798. 
 
 6 IJ 50 thrice. 
 
 4- 61 In i*lultig ^nnis Q 62 jacsonct Campa 3roK«. 
 No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. "Great bells v." Return of 
 1553. The old treble was inscribed "RevJ. Jacob Chilton, D.D., Rector, 
 John Hill C. Warden 1727." Davy, 7 June, 1806. The rest of his account 
 mainly agrees with the above. See pp. 17, 57, 59, 125. 
 
 494. U GGESH ALL S. Mary. In B3. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. U 52 thrice. 
 
 -1- 61 ^ac In ©onclabc n 62 CSabttcl J^imc ^angc ^uabe. 
 . So Davy, 3 Sept., 1807. "There were formerly mrire bells, which were 
 sold for the repairs of the church" (Mr. Sheriffe, R. 17S6 — 1S42). 3 in 1553. 
 Pits for three, this probably being the old 2nd. The other two are said to 
 have been taken to Stoven and Sotherton. At the base of the unfinished 
 tower is the following inscription: — ©rate p"o auimabs lol&is jflnlc ft manoiie 
 ur' etus, with two shields bearing emblems said to be those of a Free Mason 
 and a Mark Mason. See p. 53. 
 
 495. WALBERSWICK .S. A;idre7c>. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Lester & Pack of London fecit 1767. 
 
 Diam. 2 ft. o^ in., badly cracked in three or four places across the crown. 
 Davy, 22 June, 1809, "i Bell." Terrier, 8 June, 1791, "One bell with a 
 frame, weight about three hundred." 
 
 See Ellacombe's Church Bells of Gloucestershire, Stipplement, p. 150, 
 and extracts from Gardiner's Diinwich. No sale of bells recorded in certif. 
 of 1547. 2 and a Sance bell in 1553.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 247 
 
 496. WALDINGFIELD, GREAT, 5. Laurence. Tenor Fij:. 
 
 Diam 42 in. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Canite Jovce Laudes novo Carmine. 
 
 John Briant Hartford fecit An: Dom: 1800. 
 
 2 Omnes incote audite. John Briant Hartford fecit 1800. 
 
 3 Sit Nomen Domini Benedictum. 
 
 John Briant Hartford fecit An: Dom: 1800. 
 
 4 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1876. 
 E. W. Downs & Son, Glemsford, hung me. 
 
 5 Supremis Locis Jovam laudate. John Briant Hartford 
 
 fecit An: Dom: 1800. 
 
 6 Adeste. Rev"'^. Thomas Royce Rector, John Lott & 
 
 Ed. Prior C: W: Adeste. John Briant Hartford 
 fecit An: Dom: 1800. 
 
 "Great Bells iiij " Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy, Aug. 18, 1826. 4 "John Briant Hattford fecit 1800. Laudate 
 Deum" (tympanis?) 
 
 Entry in the Vestry book that 5 old bells were recast into 6 in iSoo. See 
 p. 152. 
 
 497. WALDINGFIELD, LITTLE, 5. Laurence. Tenor Fff. 
 
 Diam. 40 in. 6 Bells. 
 
 1, 4 T. Osborn fecit 1785. 
 
 2 Jeames D 81 Edbere □ 82 16 12 (arabesque). 
 
 3 Jeames (arabesque) Edbury □ 81 1612 □ 82. 
 5 Miles Graye made me 161 7. 
 
 So Davy, Sept. 10, 1827. "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 498. WALDRINGFiELD ^// &/V;/i-. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Stephen Brame Churchwarden T. G. 17 14. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 21 May, 181 1, gives 2, 3, 4, 
 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury me fecit 1714, but on 2 Jan., 1824, notes but one 
 bell left. See p. 143. 
 
 499. WALPOLE S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 BelL 1786. 
 So Davy, 26 June, 1806. T. Martin, 13 Sept., 1760, "They tell me there 
 was once a good steeple with 5 Bells." 3 m 1553. 
 
 500. WALSHAM-LE-WILLOWS 6*. J/«ry. 6 Bells. 
 
 X Charles Newman made mee 1700. 
 
 2, 3 Charles Newman made mee 1699. Johannes Hunt 
 
 Esq. 
 
 4 □ 81 De Bvri Santi Edmondi Stefanvs Tonni me fecit 
 
 1576. 
 5, 6 Thomas Newman made me 1704. John Hunt Esq. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy, 7 July, 1843, " 6 Bells." See 
 pp. 96, 136, 137. 
 
 501. WALTON 5. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. 4- SADGTG JOHAKIIGS 01\A PP^O 
 nOBIS. 
 
 Davy, 15 July, 1S29, SAIIGTA JOHAODIS. 
 
 " The steeple . . . has long been down." No sale of bells recorded 
 in certif. of 1547. " Great bells ij." Return of 1553.
 
 248 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 502. WANG FORD 5. Denis. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Robard .^_ Gvrney made me 166S. 
 
 •' Waynforde... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, 23 Aug., 1829, 
 notes " one small bell." There were certainly two, for I found two not very 
 small ones in 1849, ^"d no one would have brought in a bell in the interim. 
 
 The larger of these two weighed 1 1 cwt., and bore -[- 24 IJ 23-(-24 ^it 
 iEomcn Domini 33cuclltftum. It was taken down in 1871, and weighed 
 before being recast into the present Brandon treble. That lamented ringer 
 and campanologist, the late Rev. A Sutton, Rector of West Toft, gave me 
 the weight. Pits for three. See pp. 24, 132, 169. 
 
 503. WANGFORD S. Pder. Tenor in G. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Slnno Somtni 1624 WIB. 
 
 2 Cast by John Warner and Sons, London, 1863. 
 (Royal Arms) Patent. 
 
 3 John Darbie made me 1668. 
 
 4 John Stephens made mee 1721. 
 John Sayer Church Warden. 
 
 5 ^nno Domini 1625 AB 
 
 W 
 Davy, 3 Sept., 1807, notes the old 2nd of the same date as the 4th. 
 Terrier, 1827, 5. No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. 4 in 1553. 
 See pp. 114, 123, 139. 
 
 504. WA N T ! S D E N 6'. John Baptist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Pack & Chapman of London fecit 1773. 
 So Davy, July 31, 1810. "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 505. WASHBROOK 6". J/^rj'. Diam. 39.V in. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. U 23 + ^n iWultis llnnts i^csonct CFampana 
 3)oIjannis. 
 3 in 1553. Davy was unable to reach this bell in 1S24. See p. 23. 
 
 506. WATTIS FIELD S. Margaret. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 5 John Darbie made me 1685. 
 4 WIJ Tb in □ 84 T-HG □ 84 l\AYnG □ 84 
 OB □ 84 QYGne □ 84 GIJSG □ 84 BGT-H □ 84 
 BIS □ 84 XIII □ 84. 
 
 " Great bells iij.'' Return of 1553. Davy, 6 Jan., 1810, as this. Sperling 
 (i860), "Tenor G|." See pp. 98 — 100, 125. 
 
 507. WATTIS HAM S. Nieholas. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 John Gardiner Church Warden T G fecit 17 19. 
 
 2 y 66 thrice. 
 
 4- 67 ^ancta Q 68 /ttada D 63 iH:igt)aIcna D 68 (Dra 
 D 68 ^ro D 68 i^obis. 
 So Davy, 24 Oct., 1826. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See p. 69. 
 
 508. WELNETHAM, GREAT, 6". r/ww7^. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. H. P. made 1695. R- G. Churchwarden. 
 
 "Great bells ij." Return of 1553. "The steeple is down, but on the 
 roof, at the west end of the nave hangs i small bell." Davy. See p. 140.
 
 iNscRimoNs. 249 
 
 509. WELNETHAM, LITTLE, S. Mary Magdalene. Tenor G. 
 
 Diam. 33^ in. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 □ me : mAr;GAi\GTG :^GAmPAnAm : 
 
 DIGin:iG : LrGTG Q 
 
 2 R. B. IT IE ? 1614 ID. 
 
 3 R. #G. 4 i67i#0 
 
 "Burlingham" lettering on treble, but Au5ten Bracker's cross. Ca/nbs., 
 No. 71. 
 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. " 2 bells," Davy. See pp. 62, 132. 
 
 510. WEN HAM, GREAT, 5. >////. 3 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 No inscription. 
 
 3 Richardus Bowler me fecit 1592. 
 
 So Davy. No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. 3 in 1553. See 
 p. 104. 
 
 511. WE N HAM, LITTLE, ^// .S-^w/A-. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Gardiner Sudbury me fecit 17 14. 
 
 3 in 1553. "In the steeple there is but one bell, inscribed ' John Club 
 Rector of Horham 1672.'" Davy. See Horham, No. 264. See p. 143. 
 
 512. ^EHHkSTOH S. Feter. Tenor C^. Diam. c. 40 in. 
 
 6 Bells. 
 I, 2 Jn". Ellis & Robt. Tallant Ch. Wardens. 
 
 W. & T. Mears, late Lester, Pack & Chapman, London 
 fecit 1787. 
 
 3 T. Mears of London fecit 1823. 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 5 Lester & Pack of London fecit 1767. 
 
 6 IJ 51 thrice. 
 
 ^61 ®uc5umu5 "^ntitca n 62 iFamulorum Susftpc VoXti. 
 
 So Davy, 3 June, 1808. Old 3rd, " W^. Fiske, John P'iske, Anno 
 Domini 1629." A clean little ring. 
 
 No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. 4 and a Sancts bell in 1553. 
 
 513. WESTER FIELD 6'. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 iH thrice U 9- 
 
 2 IB.QX Hugufiini Sionct Irn '^urc 53ri XJ 9. 
 
 3 C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1852. 
 
 " Itm bells in the Stepyll iij." Return of 1553, with the Ipswich churches. 
 Davy, 7 Aug., 1829, "3 inaccessible." See p. 17. 
 
 514. WEST HALL 5. Alary. Tenor is a rather sharp F, slightly 
 
 flattened, vibrates a minor third. 5 Bells; 
 I, 4 Slnno Domini 1616 AB 
 W 
 
 2 C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1875. 
 
 3 No inscription. 
 
 5 Omuis tSonus Saitlirt Sominum. 
 Slnno 33omint 1626 AB 
 \Y 
 So Davy, 2 June, 1808. Old 2nd, "John Darbie made me 167S." 
 
 4 in 1553. On the screen, S. Antony's pig with a crotal. See p. 114. 
 
 2G
 
 250 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 515. WESTHORPE 5. Margaret. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 John Osborne Gent. Simon Hunt Churchwardens. 
 1702, H. P. 
 
 3 Tho. Gardiner Norwich fecit 1740. 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 -|- 5'nncta D 68 il^l^rta D 68 roa (sic) D 68 i^ronobis. 
 
 5 William Grimwood and Jeremiah Hayward Church- 
 
 wardens 1808. 
 4 in 1553- Davy, 22 July, 1831, 5. See pp. 140, 145. 
 
 516. WESTLETON S. Pda: i Bell. 
 
 Bell. C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1849. 
 
 S. A. Woods, iun. Esq'" ) ,-,, , , 
 T) r^- r -n r f Churchwardcns. 
 
 R. Girhng, Esq"^ ) 
 
 Davy, 22 June, 1809. Sattcta ,{Vtarta ora pro nobis. See his note. 
 No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. 3 in 1553. 
 
 517. WEST LEY S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Mears of London fecit 1803. 
 "Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, Aug. 18, 1828, notes it as 
 inaccessible. The present church was built in 1836. 
 
 518. W£STON S. Pdcr. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 _|_ : Dominus : SIT : ADiuToi\ : meus : 
 
 2 -f- SGG ; PGTI^G : PI^O : mG : DGU ; inTGI^- 
 
 GGDG : 
 
 3 -|- missus : UGI\0 : PIG : GABI\IGIf : 
 
 BGI\T : ItGTA : mAI\IG. 
 
 So Davy, i June, 1808. ''Great bells iij. Sawnce bells j." Return of 
 1553. See p. 63. 
 
 519. WESTON, CONEY, S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. John Barnes Rector, John Alderton Thomas 
 Lanchester Church ^^'ardens. Coney Weston, 
 Suffolk, 1S02. 
 
 "Great bells iij. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. A bell sold in 1690. 
 Eastern Counties' Collectanea, p. 240. T. Martin noted one bell inscribed, 
 ?fear En Conclabc ©abriel i^uc ^angc suabc. 
 
 The tower fell in 1690. 
 
 520. WESTON MARKET 5. J/.?;t. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Thomas Gardiner Sudbury me fecit 17 12. 
 
 2 IJ 66 thrice. 
 
 -[- ^anctc Bttt)rca '^postolt ©ta ^ro ilobts. 
 
 3 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -]- iios ^ocict Sianctts □ temper /licljolaus In ^Itta, 
 
 4n^ninsnennninsn««D 
 
 5 Charles King, Thomus (sic) Peck Churchwardens. 
 John Stephens made mee 1725. 
 
 " Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Tenor according to Sperling 18 cwt. 
 
 Davy, 27 July, 1824. He noted 2, erased ... ora pro nobis; 3. erased; 
 
 4. chipped oft"; 5, " Stephenson " for '" Stephens," of course wrong. Sperling,
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 251 
 
 in i860, noted a defaced inscription on single letters with a leopard's head 
 and a fleur-de-lis alternately separating them. My own notes, however, 
 show an initial cross, No. 47 ; and the pot No. 46, at the end of ffllSGI^IS. 
 The leopard's head is probably No. 48. There has been barbarous mutila- 
 tion in this tower. See pp. 41, 58, 69, 143. 
 
 521. WETHERDEN ^. ^/«ry. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2 Miles Graye made me 1673. 
 
 3 Mears & Stainbank, Founders, London, 18S6. 
 
 C. J. Goodhart Rector. 
 
 S. W. Hunt ) ^,, , , 
 
 P. C. N. Peddar | Churchwardens. 
 
 4 T. Osborn Downham fecit 1786. 
 
 5 Ralph Rouse Warden. Henry Pleasant made me 1703. 
 4 in 1553. Old 3 as i and 2, says Davy. See p. 140. 
 
 522. WETHERINGSETT ^// 6"^/;//.^. Tenor. Diam. 43.Un. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1660. 
 
 2 John Draper made me 1636. 
 
 3 G. Mears & Co., Founders, London, 1864. 
 
 4 Wm. Dobson, Founder, 1824 William Grimwade & 
 
 John Cobbald Churchwardens. 
 
 5 Lester & Pack of London fecit. ]a\ Keen & Thos. 
 
 Edwards Ch. Wardens 1765. 
 
 3 in 1553. Davy, 23 May, 1828, crosses 2 and 3, and notes the inscription 
 on the bell recast in 1864, dLcU M muiius qui regnat CErtnus ct <Hiius. 
 See pp. 112, 122. 
 
 523. WEYBREAD 6". Andreiv. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 IJ (Moore, Holmes and Mackenzie). 
 
 See also East Anglian IL, 6. 
 
 3 in 1553. The old three noted by me, 12 March, 1862. 
 
 1 No inscription. 
 
 2 -\- AYG mAP^IA G:^AGIA PLtGRA. 
 
 3 John Brend made me 165 1. 
 
 So Davy, 13 Oct., 1806. Mr. John Calver says that No. i, a very rough 
 bell, is said to have been cast in Weybread, that Mr. Robert Bond, Church- 
 warden, knew this, and that some knew the very field where it had been cast. 
 See pp. 62, 154. 
 
 The " greate bell" had a new baldrick in 1599, at a cost of ■>i\]d. 
 "Brande" the bellfounder received for casting it in 1651, " wth some charges 
 spent with him," ^3 2^. The parish book is full of small items about the 
 bells. 
 
 524. \NHATF\ELD S. Margaret. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me 1678. 
 
 2 □ 81 Omnia Q 82 Jovam D 82 lavdent. D 82 ani- 
 
 mantia D 81 1575. S. T. W. L. T. I). 
 
 3 Miles Graye made me 1634. 
 
 So Davy, 26 Oct., 1826. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. See p. 98. 
 
 525. \N HEPST EAD S. Fefromlla. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 4, 5 E^ Arnold, S'. Neot's, 1774. 
 "Great bells j." Return of 1553. Church notes about 1724 (Tom
 
 252 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Martin's). "Church leaded, chancel tylcd. steeple lowered. 4 bells." 
 " Five bells." Davy, Aug. 26, 183 1. 
 
 The old leaden spire is said to have been blown down in the tremendous 
 storm of Sept 3rd, 165S, the night on which Cromwell died. See p. 153. 
 
 526. \N H ERST E AD S. Mjrj. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1675, Richard Goodinge C.W. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1622. 
 
 3 U 50 thrice. 
 
 -f- 61 4'los ^i)omc iHcritis n 62 il^crcamuc GauDta 2Luct«. 
 
 3 in 1553- Davy notes two bells, but does not give the inscriptions. See 
 pp. 56, 118. R. Gooding was buried 27 Nov., 1682. Zincke's Wherstead, 
 p. 9. 
 
 527. WHITTON i Bell. 
 
 Bell. <2> 72 abc a 72 marta & 72 gracia & 72 auo & 72 
 mctct A J 2 xli, 
 
 I in 1553. Inscription quite close up to shoulder of bell. Diameter 22 J 
 inches. Height to shoulder 21 inches. Height to top of cannons 28 inches ; 
 square shouldered (Pearson, W.C. 15 May, 18S7). 
 
 Davy, 9 Sept., 1827, " i Bell." No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. 
 See p. 74. 
 
 528. WICKHAM MARKET A// Saints. Tenor F. Diam. 41 in. 
 
 6 and Clock bell. 
 
 1 John Brend made me 1657. 
 
 2 The monvment of Gray 
 Is past awaie 
 
 In place of it doth stand 
 
 The name of John Brend, 1657. 
 
 3 A. D. 1S83. 
 
 Gulielmus Thomas Image A.M. Aul : SS : Trin : Cantab: 
 Vicarius. Johannes Cracknell et Gulielmus Nathaniel 
 Whitmore hujus Ecclesice custodes. 
 
 4 U 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67 <Ss\i D 68 Cct D 68 munus D 68 qui Q 68 rcgnat 
 D 68 et D 68 unus. 
 
 5 l\CHGSDnAICI\Sl/V^C^W7CIB. I60I. 
 1\ICAP^DYS BOWIJGl\ mG EGGIT-. 
 
 6 Anno Domini 1613 WIB. 
 Clock bell. Inaccessible. 
 
 " Great bells v. Sancts Bells j." Return of 1553. 
 
 Davy crosses 5 and 6 and 3 and 4, and records the bell recast in 1S83 as 
 inscribed, "John Darbie made me 1672." 4 Nov., 1805. 
 
 John Sawer and Tho. Gyrling C.W. of Wykh^m record no sale of bells in 
 their certif., 1547. It may be Wickham Skeith. 4 honeycombed. The 
 chime-barrel machinery was in the tower in 1S73. The Clock bell, now on 
 the outside of the spire, appears to be the old Sance bell. There is an old 
 30 hy clock, without nut or screw in it. See pp. 69, 104, 113, 121. 
 
 529. WICKHAM SKEITH S. Andrew. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Osborn fecit 1780. 
 
 2 Tho\ Osborn Downham fecit 1780.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 253 
 
 3 I D I G 1615 B B 
 
 DG QYATVOP^ QYinQVG inVITO DIYOI\G 
 
 SYPGi^BO 
 YT^ TGmPLfA BOHA SIOT IHYIOErATA DGI. 
 
 pp. n G 
 
 I G 
 
 4 John Darbie made me i66g. 
 
 5 The Lord to praise 
 My voice I raise. 
 
 Tho^. Osborn founder 1797; 
 
 6 John Draper made me 1627. 
 
 4 i" 1 553- Martin in 1724 could not read the 3rd, and Davy in 1819 only 
 succeeded imperfectly. 
 
 The initials on the 3rd (besides I. D. and I. E., which are those of John 
 Driver and James Edbury, of Bury, the founders,) appear to be those of 
 Benjamin Boaden, bapt. 1598, Peter Fryer or Frere, whose son George was 
 baptized in 1597, Nicholas Goddard, bapt. 1591, and John Goddard, who 
 married Anne Fryer, or Frere, in 1584, and was Churchwarden in 162S. 
 Will of Henr. ffryer of Wickham in Ipsvv. Registry between 1444 and 1455. 
 The inscription on the 3rd points t© resistance by "village Hampdens" to 
 some " little tyrant of their fields." See pp. 1 10, 1 12. 
 
 530. WICKHAM BROOK ^// ^^r/;//^. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 Miles Graye made me 1641. 
 
 2 Charles Newman made mee 1695. 
 
 3 William Dobson 1823. 
 
 4 Miles Graye made me 161 1. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1663. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. "Five beUs," Davy. See pp. 117, 
 119, 123, 135. The date on the 4th is doubtful. 
 
 531. VJILBY S. Mary. 6 Bells. 
 
 I John -[- Goldsmith -|- fecit -)- 1 7 1 3 D + D 
 2, 3 Anno Domini 1606. W. B. 
 
 4 Robt. Coates C^. Warden. Tho^. Osborn Downham 
 
 fecit 1789. 
 
 5 Miles Graye made me 16 15. 
 '6 17 65 thrice. 
 
 + 67 Otigo n 68 ©oroitata D 68 Bxic Q 68 ilo5 D 
 aD D 68 licgna D 68 13cata. 
 So Davy, 16 June, 1809. See some quaint lines on xxxviii score of Crown 
 Bob, March xxviii mdccxxxiv in his note. 4 and a Sance bell in 1553. 
 3rd cracked, but hardly perceptibly so- See pp. 67, 117, 146. 
 
 532. WILLINGHAM S. Mary. 
 Ecdesia destriicta. No return in 1553. 
 
 The church is alluded to in Davy's MSS. as standing in 1529. 
 
 533. WILLISHAM S. Mary. i Belh 
 
 Bell. 1777. 
 2 in 1553. Davy, 19 May, 1829, i inaccessible. 
 
 534. WINGFIELD 6". J/^?rj'. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Tho\ Newman of Norwich made mc. 
 Mr. Daws C. W. 1742.
 
 254 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 2 AB U 86 U 52 
 W. 
 
 <Dmui5 ^onus UnutJct Sominum itcjfc 1596 q<iv n 
 
 3 Anno Domini 161 3 W. B. 
 
 4 Anno Domini 1613 W I B. 
 
 5 Anno Domini 1602 AB 
 
 W. 
 
 6 Anno Domini 16 13 AB 
 
 W. 
 
 4 and a Sance bell in 1553. Davy, 24 Sept., 1S27, crosses i and 2 and 
 4 and 5. See pp. 113, 138. 
 
 535. \N\NSTON S. Andre7o. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1662 R. M. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1662 T D. 
 3, 5 Miles Graye made me 163S. 
 
 4 Tho^ Gardiner Sudbury fecit 1737. 
 So Davy, except the initials. "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. See 
 pp. 118, 123, 144. 
 
 536. WISSETT ^. An^re7C'. 5 Bells. 
 
 I T. Mears London fecit 18 18. 
 
 2, 3 Thomas Gardiner Benhall fecit 17 18. 
 
 4 D UIl\GO □ mAI\IA. 
 
 5 Tho. Gardiner fecit 17 18. Rob*. More CW. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 15 May, 1806, notes 2 and 3 as i and 2, 4 as 3, 5 as 4, 
 and an old tenor, flos STfjonie... 
 
 The tenor was clearly recast for a treble. See pp. 11, 143. 
 
 537. WISTON 6'. Mary. 3 Bells. 
 
 1 W. L. T. D. 1574. Nicolas Grice Benefacter. 
 D 82 Fear ^ God Q 81. 
 
 2 Miles Graye made me 1664. 
 
 3 John Thornton Sudbury fecit 17 19. 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. Davy, Oct. i, 1828, " A cupola which 
 contains three small bells." See pp. 98, 133, 142. 
 
 538. WITHERSDALE S. Mary Magdalene. 2 Bells. 
 
 1 W. B. 
 
 2 No inscription. 
 
 2 in 1553. "Two " Terriers ; and Davy, 10 Jan., 181 1. Seep. 115. 
 
 539. WITH E RS FIELD 6-. ^/^ry. 5 Bells. 
 
 I, 3, 5 Robert Taylor, St. Neot's, 1S04. 
 2 Richard Bowler made me 1603. 
 
 4 John Thornton Sudbury fecit 17 18. 
 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. "Five tuneable bells," Davy. See 
 pp. 104, 142. 
 
 540. WITNESHAM S. Mary. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner & Son, London, 187 1. 
 
 2 John Darbie made me 1660. 
 
 3 Thomas Gardiner made me 17 17.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 255 
 
 4 John Darbie made me 1660 C W 
 
 5 John Uarbie made me 1660. John Hcttridges C. W. 
 
 6 John Darbie made me 1660. Daniel Meadows C. W. 
 "Great bells iiij." Return of 1553. Davy, 28 May, 1827. See pp. 122, 
 
 143, where "tenor" is a mistake for "third." 
 
 541. WIXOE 6". Leonard. Diam. 28 in. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. U 25 O 18 U 26 ^anctc iiccolac C5ca 4^ro iiobts 
 So Davy. " Great bells ij." Return of 1553. See p. 25. 
 
 542. "HOO^^^X^Q,^ S. JoIm-the-Evanc^elist. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. Thomas Mears, London, founder, 1843. 
 
 543. WOODBRIDGE 6". J/rt-r)'. Tenor 27 cwt. 8 Bells. 
 
 1 The Lord to praise my voice I'll raise. 
 
 Tho^ Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1799. 
 
 2 Hear me when I call. 
 
 Tho^ Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1799. 
 
 3 Strike me and Fll sound sweetly. 
 
 Thos. Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1799. 
 
 4 Peace and good neighbourhood. 
 
 Tho^ Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1799. 
 
 5 Our voices shall with joyful sound 
 Make hills and valleys echo round. 
 
 Tho^. Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1799. 
 
 6 In wedlock's bands all ye who join 
 
 With hands your hearts unite 
 So shall our tuneful tongues combine 
 
 To laud the nuptial rite. 
 Tho\ Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1799. 
 
 7 We to the church the living call 
 And to the grave do summon all. 
 
 Tho\ Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1799. 
 
 8 John Hammond, Robert Allen Churchwardens. 
 Tho^ Osborn Downham Norfolk Founder 1799. 
 
 "Great bells v. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. No sale of bells re- 
 corded in certif. of 1547. 
 
 An older tower seems to have become ruinous by the beginning of the 
 15th century. Hawes has collected the following items from old wills : — W. 
 Foder, 1444, 3J. \d. Joh. Newport, 1444, ;^6 \y. 4^. Joh. Allrede, 1448, 
 20 marks. Joh. Spicer, 1453, £j. Galfr. Kempe, 1450, £■]. W. Berard, 
 145 1, 3 J-. 4(/. Walt. Doft, 1448, 40^. Rob. Parterick, 1459, 135. 4^. Joh. 
 Kemp, 1458, ;^I4. Rob. Barfoot, 40J. 
 
 The expression in Foder's will, "Ad fabricationem campanilis cum fuerit 
 inceptum," shows that the work had been already in project, perhaps for 
 some time; " de novo faciend," in others points to the existence of a 
 previous belfry. 
 
 By 1612, according to Hawes, the bells were increased from 5 to 6. 
 Towards the end of the seventeenth century these had all been recast. 
 Martin's note (1712) is as follows : 
 
 " I John Darbie made me 1669. 
 
 2 Miles Grey made me 1638. 
 
 3 Miles Grey made me 1638. 
 
 4 Miles Grey made me 1676. 
 
 5 John Darbie made me 1679. 
 
 6 John Darbie made me 1677."
 
 256 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 From notes in Davy, taken at the time of the removal of the bells for 
 recasting, Nov. 10, 179S, it appears that "Grey" on 4 is a mistake for 
 " Darbie," and that the date on 5 should have been 1676. The octave was 
 completed by the addition of two trebles, and the old 2nd, which thus became 
 the 4th, recast by Phelps in 1721 ; but Phelps's new 2nd went to the furnace 
 again at the hands of Pack and Chapman in 1779 The old 3rd, which had 
 become the 5th, had already visited VVhitechapel in 1751, during Lester's 
 days. 
 
 Mr. Robert Allen, Churchwarden, caused the weights to be taken, with 
 this result : — 
 
 I 
 
 Cwt 
 
 5 
 
 Old Bells. 
 Received. 
 . qrs. 
 I 
 
 lbs. 
 14 
 
 New Bells. 
 Founders' Weight. 
 Cwt. qrs. lbs. 
 
 8 I 17 
 
 Weighed at 
 Woodbndge 
 Cwt. qrs. 
 
 8 I 
 
 lbs. 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 I 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 -3 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 
 25 
 
 5 
 
 8 
 
 I 
 
 9 
 
 II 
 
 I 
 
 17 
 
 II 
 
 I 
 
 14 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 7 
 18 
 
 '7 
 26 
 
 3 
 3 
 
 8 
 I I 
 
 17 
 26 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 1 1 
 
 Mr. Osborne's bill for the whole was ^376 17^-. 6d. 
 
 544. WOOL PIT .S. Mary. Tenor G^. Diam. 37 i in. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3 C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1844. 
 4, 5 John Darbie made me 1658. 
 6 C. & G. Mears, founders, London, 1855. 
 Davy seems in this case to have counted from the treble. His notes are : 
 
 1 John Darbie made me 1658. Thomas Hudson, K. C. (.') 
 
 2 John Draper made me 161 6. 
 
 3 S'ancta Jilaria ©ra l3vo i!?olu3. 
 4, 15 John Darbie made me, 1658. 
 
 " Great bells v." Return of 1553. See p. 122. 
 
 545. \hJ OOLy ERST OHE S. Michael. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. C. & G. Mears, founders. London. Recast 1847. 
 I in 1553. Davy notes one bell inscribed " Miles Grave made me 1610." 
 East Angliaji N. S. III., 112. See pp. 92, 117. 
 
 546. WOR DWELL y^// Saints. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. No inscription. 
 "Great bells ij." Return of 1553. Davy, 18 Aug., 1829, "A small bell in 
 a cupola, which I could not get to." See p. 2. 
 
 547. WORLINGHAVl .-i// .W//A-. Tenor. Diam. 37^ in. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 
 1 U 52 U 86 AB 
 
 W. 
 Slnno Domini 1622. 
 
 2 Anno Domini 1621. W. A. B. 
 
 3 'Enno Domini 1608. 
 4, 5 U 52 U 86 AB 
 
 ^v. 
 
 flnno Domini 162 t. 
 
 So Davy, 12 Aug., 1809. " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. See pp. 113, 114. 
 
 548. WORLINGHAM S. Peler. 
 Ecclesia dcstructa. No return in iSij-
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 257 
 
 549. WORLINGTON All Saints. 5 Bells. 
 
 1 ^crcutc Hulcc cano. THG P^GY. JAmGS GIBSOn 
 
 I\GCTOP^. EI^GDGP^^IG JOHO GI[AI\I^ 
 AllD JArWGS BOOTY CHUI^GH^iTAI^DGnS. 
 
 1S50. 
 I ^agloc ant) ^on ipounticrs Sougljljoro'. 
 
 2 Robard Gvrney made me 1665. 
 
 3 John Draper made me 1635. 
 
 4 + Omnts : sonbs : lauDet : DOminum 
 
 •THIS BGDLr WAS P^GCAST AUD A TP^GBLG 
 
 ADDGD BY SUBSGI^IPTIOH. 1850. 
 $ ^ai)lor anD Son .-jfounticvs iLougftboro. 
 
 5 D I'jOHAnnGS : GODYIIGG i DG i LtGnUG ; 
 
 mG i BGCIT. 
 
 " Wrydlynton... Great bells iij." Return of 1553. 
 
 Till 1850 there were four (as noted by Davy, 24 Aug., 1829), and the old 
 3rd was inscribed "I. E. 1614 I. D." These bells are now the first five of a 
 six. See pp. 7, no, 112, 132, 153. 
 
 550. WORLINGWORTH ^. J/«;7. Tenor 13 cwt. 6 Bells. 
 
 I, 2, 3, 5 Thomas Mears of London fecit 1804. 
 
 4 Mears & Stainbank, Founders, London. 
 
 Restaur. 
 
 In Memoriam 
 
 Elizabeth Jesser French 
 
 A.D. 1887. 
 
 6 Cast by subscription A.D. 1804. 
 
 Patrons : the Duchess of Chandos and Lord Henniker, 
 Emily Lady Henniker. 
 
 The Rev^. Charles Buckle Rector, Henry Cupper Samuel 
 Wardley Church Wardens. Jn°. Jessup a sub- 
 scriber Treasurer. Thomas Mears of London fecit. 
 
 4 in 1553. Davy, 23 July, 1808, notes the 4th as like the rest, as I noted 
 it in 1874. 
 These lines are on Jessup's tomb (ob. June 19th, 1825, set. 80) : — 
 " To ringing from his youth he always took delight, 
 Now his bell has rung and his soul has took its flight ; 
 We hope to join the choir of heavenly singing 
 That far excells the harmony of ringing." 
 
 The Tenor "Tolled xii Hours aho D. 1821 And A Funeral Peal Rang 
 after as a Token of Hearthlt Grief At The Death of Her Majesty Queen 
 Caroline." 
 
 551. WORTH AM ^^.S. Thomas and Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. T. Osborn Downham Norfolk fecit 1785. Cum 
 Voco Venite. 
 3 in 1553- 
 
 552. WRATTING, GREAT, S. Mary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell. W. H. 1625. 
 
 So Davy. "Great bells iij. Sancts bells j." Return of 1553. 
 Evidently WiUiam Harbert's, for the letters are those of JNliles Grave's 
 larger alphabet. 
 
 211
 
 258 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 553. \NRATT\NG, LITTLE, S. Afary. i Bell. 
 
 Bell, n 74 sanctorum D 76 more D 75 i"oDo D 76 
 pulfo □ 75 la\ii)ii □ 76 l)onorc. 
 
 Soljanncs tonne me fecit 
 O 
 
 " Great bells iij." Return of 1553. One bell. Davy. 
 
 Through the kind perseverance of Mr. Deedes this interesting bell has 
 been added to our list. It is in a turret, and was long regarded as inacces- 
 sible, and thus has received no notice in the Dissertation. In the medallion 
 under the founder's name is a sitting figure, and on the opposite side of the 
 bell is a design enclosed in a pear-shaped figure, point upwards. 
 
 554. \NRENTHAM S. J^ic/io/as. Tenor G. Bells not in tune. 
 
 5 Bells. 
 I Thomas Gardiner fecit 1723. 
 
 ? (Pentacle) JOHH GDAI^I^ mADG THIS BGDEr 
 1606. 
 
 3 Thomas Gardiner me fecit 17 14. 
 
 4 Thomas Newman made me. Mr. John Bardwell C.W. 
 
 1745- 
 
 5 C. & G. Mears, founders, London. Recast 1847. 
 
 Thomas Girling Esq"". Church Warden. 
 Davy, 31 Aug., 1809, notes the old tenor, "Anno Domini 1620 I B B." 
 No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. 4 and a Sance bell in 1553. 
 See pp. 108, 138, 143, 144. 
 
 555. WYVERSTONE 6'. (Pr^/^^^. Tenor. Diam. 36 in. 
 
 3 Bells. 
 
 1 U 52 (Arms of England with C. R.) Henry XJ Yaxle 
 
 made me 1674. 
 
 2 Tho. Gardiner fecit 17 19. 
 
 3 U 52 thrice. 
 
 -[- 61 ^etius Sill 0tctnc n 62 i3iicat iio0 l^ascua iJFitc. 
 
 So Martin gives the tenor. Davy notes three. 3 in 1553. Seep 144. 
 
 The shield between "Henry" and "Yaxle" is Vax/ej, of Yaxley, er//i., 
 a chevron sa. between three mullets pierced, ^«. The family appears to 
 have been of great antiquity. Henry Yaxley's bells are very rare, and of 
 poor quality. I think it possible that some of the Horham bells are from 
 him. One by him, bearing the family arms, is at Fritton, Norfolk. From 
 his use of Brasyer's shield it seems that he may have been at work in Nor- 
 wich. There is here a vacant pit, larger than those occupied. 
 
 556. YAXLEY S. Mary. 6 Bells. 
 
 1 Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, 1857. 
 (Royal Arms) Patent. 
 
 2 William Dobson, Founder, Downham, Norfolk, 182S. 
 3, 4 John Brend made me 1658. 
 
 5 U 65 thrice. 
 
 + Uirgo n Coronata D Sue n i^o^ D ^l> D J^fS"^ □ 
 S^eata.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS. 259 
 
 6 Thomas Draper made me at Thetford 1594- 
 Celi solamen nobis det Deus. Amen. 
 Davy, 17 June, 1809, notes the 2nd spht, and the 3rd, 'Firgo Coronata Due 
 Nos aii Kfgua Urata. 
 
 4 in 1553. On the old treble, T. Lester made me R. Jacob, D. Tripp, 
 1746. Sperling (c. i860) "Tenor G." See p. loi. 
 
 557. YOXFORD S. Peter. 6 Bells. 
 
 I) 3) 4) 5 John Brend made me 1655. 
 2 I. B. made me 1656. Richard Hayle. 
 6 John Darbie made me 1685. C. R. 
 
 So Davy, 17 May, 1806, No sale of bells recorded in certif. of 1547. 3 
 in 1553. See pp. 121, 125.
 
 |nirc^^ |l!0mmitm« 
 
 As the parishes are arranged alphabetically, and under them are 
 frequent references to the Dissertation, there is no necessity for an 
 Index Locorum. The Table of Contents renders an Index Rcruvi 
 superfluous. 
 
 The names of Bell-founders and County Historians occur so con- 
 stantly in the list of inscriptions that the Index contains no reference 
 to either, save where they occur in the Dissertation. 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 rage 
 
 
 Page 
 
 A 
 
 
 Atherold ... 
 
 ... 199 
 
 Bayman ... 
 
 ... 216 
 
 
 
 Atthills, by found 
 
 er's 
 
 Beacher ... 
 
 ... 97 
 
 Adair 
 
 ... 191 
 
 mistake Althills 229 
 
 Backet Thomas a 
 
 55. 148 
 
 Adams .. 
 
 130, 171 
 
 Ay ton 
 
 ... 232 
 
 Bell 
 
 ... 184 
 
 Affleck ... 
 
 ... 1S2 
 
 
 
 Belle van 
 
 ... 76 
 
 Alcock, Bishop . 
 
 . 87, 88 
 
 
 
 Belleyettir 
 
 8 
 
 Alderton ... 
 
 ... 250 
 
 B 
 
 
 Belton 
 
 8 
 
 Aldreg 
 
 ... 163 
 
 
 
 Belyetere . . . 
 
 ... 61 
 
 Aldrich ... 
 
 ... 232 
 
 Backler ... 
 
 ... 183 
 
 Berard 
 
 ... 255 
 
 Aldrick ... 
 
 ... 156 
 
 Badham ... 
 
 141, 240 
 
 Bernard ... 
 
 ... 67 
 
 Aid ridge ... 
 
 ... 214 
 
 Baker 
 
 199. 245 
 
 Bethell ... 
 
 149. 223 
 
 Aldous 
 
 ... 238 
 
 Baldry ... 
 
 ... 164 
 
 Bewicke .. 
 
 ... 171 
 
 Alexander 
 
 .... 192 
 
 Banyard ... 
 
 ... 236 
 
 Bigg 
 
 .. 195 
 
 Aleyn 
 
 9, 216 
 
 Barber 
 
 ... 187 
 
 Bigsbe 
 
 .-• 235 
 
 Aleys 
 
 4J, 181 
 
 Barclay ... 
 
 . . . 202 
 
 Billeyetti, 
 
 8 
 
 Allen, 147, 168, 
 
 185, 232, 
 
 Bard well... 
 
 ... 258 
 
 Billes 1 on 
 
 ••• 34 
 
 240, 255, 256 
 
 
 Baret 
 
 85, 86 
 
 Bingley ... 
 
 ... 168 
 
 Allrede ... 
 
 ••■ 255 
 
 Barett 
 
 97. 198 
 
 Bird 
 
 • • 237 
 
 Almack .. 
 
 ... 217 
 
 Barfoot ... 
 
 .- 255 
 
 Bisbie 
 
 ... 217 
 
 Alston 
 
 ... 220 
 
 Barker ... 51 
 
 , 60, 159 
 
 Bixby 
 
 ... 120 
 
 Ambrose . . . 
 
 ... 172 
 
 Barnardiston 
 
 ... 210 
 
 Bixon 
 
 148 
 
 Andrew . . . 
 
 102, no 
 
 Barne 
 
 185, 19S 
 
 Blackburn, Lord 
 
 ... 46 
 
 Andrews ... 
 
 40, no 
 
 Barnes ... 194, 
 
 216, 250 
 
 Blews and Son 
 
 ... 154 
 
 Archer 
 
 240 
 
 Barrett ... 
 
 ... 97 
 
 Blinco 
 
 ... 227 
 
 Arden 
 
 240 
 
 Barry 
 
 ... 196 
 
 Blithe de ... 
 
 ... 14 
 
 Armstead 
 
 ... 177 
 
 Barthroope 
 
 ... 179 
 
 Blocke ... 
 
 ... 197 
 
 Arnold ... 
 
 153. 238 
 
 Bartlett ... 
 
 ... 147 
 
 Blois 
 
 ... 231 
 
 Arundel ... 
 
 ... 87 
 
 Barton 
 
 ... 46 
 
 Blomefield 
 
 22, 60 
 
 Arthy 
 
 ... 219 
 
 Bateman ... 
 
 ... 181 
 
 Blomfield 
 
 ... 236 
 
 Aspland .. 
 
 ... 138 
 
 Bates 
 
 165. 192 
 
 Bloomfield 
 
 ... 214 
 
 Asplin 
 
 ... 162 
 
 Ba.xter ... 
 
 41. 43 
 
 Blower 
 
 ••• 93 
 
 Asteley . . . 
 
 ... lOI 
 
 Bayly 
 
 ... 71 
 
 Bloys 
 
 ... 196
 
 INDEX NOMINUM. 
 
 201 
 
 Page 
 
 Boaden ... ... 253 
 
 Boby ... ... 238 
 
 Boggis ... 171, 172 
 
 Boldero ... ... 209 
 
 Bond ... ... 251 
 
 Booty ... .. 257 
 
 Borrett ... i8o, 214, 238 
 
 Botson ... ... 192 
 
 Bowell ... ... 208 
 
 Bowier ... 104, 116, 120 
 
 Bracker, 62, 179, 248, 249 
 Brakelond, Jocelyn de 
 
 3, 17^ 
 
 Brame ... ... 247 
 
 Brampton .. 189 
 
 Bramston ... 93 
 Brasyer, 41 — 46, 48 (2), 
 
 49—51, 60, Tz, 146, 
 
 152 
 
 Brend, 102, 103, no, 113, 
 
 115, 116, 121, 14S, 
 - 187 
 
 Brereton ... ... 127 
 
 Breton ... ... 164 
 
 Brett ... ... 160 
 
 Brewster ... ... 194 
 
 Briant ... 97, 154. 
 
 Bridge ... ... 199 
 
 Brightly ... ... 171 
 
 Brook ... 178, 208, 224 
 
 Brooke ... 34, 174 
 
 Brooks ... 162, 204 
 
 Bromey ... ... 165 
 
 Brothers .. ... 2IO 
 
 Broun ... 43, 74, 187 
 
 Brown 162, 164, 170, 21 1 
 
 Broven ... ... 164 
 
 Bryant ... ... 189 
 
 Buchanan ... 173 
 
 Buckle ... ... 257 
 
 Budaeus ... ... 84 
 
 Bugg ... ... 160 
 
 Bull ... ... 199 
 
 Bulling ... ... 164 
 
 Bullisdon ... 34 
 
 Bunistead ... 236 
 
 Banyan ... ... 121 
 
 Burch ... ... 244 
 
 Burford ... II, 14 
 
 Burgess ... ... 186 
 
 Buriey de ... 19 
 
 Burney ... 129, 130 
 
 Burrage ... ... 242 
 
 Burssor ... ... 210 
 
 Burton ... ... 243 
 
 Bury ... ... 192 
 
 Butcher ... ... 171 
 
 Butts ... ... 195 
 
 Buxton ... ... loi 
 
 Byrde ... ... 72 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 C 
 
 
 Cooke 
 Cooper 159, 2 
 
 160, 201 
 [7, 221, 2^9 
 
 Cade 
 
 
 ... 38 
 
 Coote 
 
 ... 86 
 
 Calle 
 
 
 ... 48 
 
 Copinger .. 
 
 ... 174 
 
 Calver .. 
 
 
 ... 251 
 
 Coppinge 
 
 ... 198 
 
 Calverley 
 
 
 19 
 
 Corbet 
 
 no 
 
 Cambridge, 
 
 Sir Ralph 
 
 Corder 
 
 ... 225 
 
 of ... 
 
 
 II 
 
 Cornell ... 
 
 ... 194 
 
 Camell ... 
 
 
 ... 171 
 
 Cornwaleys 
 
 ... 91 
 
 Camper ... 
 
 
 ... 176 
 
 Cornwall is 
 
 19, 105 
 
 Candlar ... 
 
 
 ... 215 
 
 Cottingham 
 
 •■• 195 
 
 Carnsewe 
 
 
 ... 38 
 
 Cotton 
 
 93 
 
 Caroline, Q 
 
 ieen 
 
 ... 257 
 
 Cracknell 
 
 ... 252 
 
 Carr 
 
 154 
 
 2 '2, 221 
 
 Cragg 
 
 ... 222 
 
 Carss 
 
 
 ... 173 
 
 Crampin ... 
 
 ... 230 
 
 Cartare ... 
 
 
 ... 26 
 
 Cranmer ... 
 
 91 
 
 Carter 
 
 
 109, 190 
 
 Crevnr 
 
 ... 163 
 
 Carthew ... 
 
 
 148, 175 
 
 Crick 
 
 . . . 2J.4 
 
 Casburn ... 
 
 
 ... 219 
 
 Crickmore 
 
 ... 130 
 
 Cason 
 
 
 ... 199 
 
 Cromwell 40, 119, 2';2 
 
 Caster, Van 
 
 
 ... 76 
 
 Cross 
 
 ... 196 
 
 Cat on 
 
 
 ... 205 
 
 Crowfoot ... 
 
 ... 211 
 
 Catchpole 
 
 
 ... 2C9 
 
 Crystall ... 
 
 ... 240 
 
 Catlin 
 
 
 147, 182 
 
 Cubytt ... 
 
 ... 232 
 
 Cawnteler 
 
 
 ... 234 
 
 Culham ... 
 
 .. 218 
 
 Cawston ... 
 
 
 ... 220 
 
 Culpeck ... 
 
 142, 1S5 
 
 Chainley, alias Rainse 105 
 
 Culverden, 37, 
 
 38, 40, 79, 
 
 Chamberley 
 
 T 
 
 ... 218 
 
 236 
 
 
 Chamberlin 
 
 
 195, 196 
 
 Cupper ... 
 
 ... 257 
 
 Chandos, Duchess of 
 
 Curteys . . . 
 
 ... 172 
 
 150, 257 
 
 
 Cutting ... 
 
 196, 246 
 
 Channell ... 
 
 
 ... 41 
 
 
 
 Chapman 
 
 47 
 
 150, 178 
 
 
 
 Charles I. 
 
 
 ... 122 
 
 D 
 
 
 Charles II. 
 
 
 164, 2JI 
 
 
 
 Charles VI. ( 
 
 3f France 
 
 Dacon 
 
 ... 241 
 
 19, 20 
 
 
 
 Dade 
 
 ... 242 
 
 Chaucer ... 
 
 
 ... 44 
 
 Dale 
 
 ... 90 
 
 Cheese 
 
 
 109, no 
 
 Dallas ... 
 
 ., 214 
 
 Chenery ... 
 
 
 ... 239 
 
 Danby 48 
 
 , 49. 51, 52 
 
 Chevez 
 
 
 . . . 206 
 
 Danyell, 22, 2 
 
 3. 25, 27, 
 
 Chilton ... 
 
 
 ... 246 
 
 34, 47 
 
 
 Chirche 69, 
 
 70, / 
 
 I. 72, 73 
 
 Darbie. 121, 122, 132, 134, 
 
 Chittocke 
 
 
 ... 244 
 
 136 
 
 
 Choke 
 
 48, SO, 52 
 
 Darbye . . . 
 
 ... 120 
 
 Churton ... 
 
 
 2 
 
 Darcye of Cheche, 
 
 Clarence ... 
 
 
 77, 236 
 
 Lord 
 
 ... 91 
 
 Clark, 27, 
 
 63, 
 
 203, 209, 
 
 Dashwood 
 
 . . . 240 
 
 257, 258 
 
 
 Davie 
 
 183, 236 
 
 Clarke, 104, 
 
 108, 
 
 109, 210, 
 
 Davy 
 
 loi, 233 
 
 221; 242 
 
 
 
 Dawe. 18, 19, 
 
 20, 25, 37, 
 
 Clay 
 
 
 ... 244 
 
 58,73 
 
 
 Clubb 183, 
 
 204, 
 
 246, 249 
 
 Dawes 
 
 ... 127 
 
 Coates 
 
 
 ... 253 
 
 Daws 
 
 ... 253 
 
 Cobbald ... 
 
 
 ... 251 
 
 Dawson ... 
 
 196, 229 
 
 Cobbold ... 
 
 
 ... 217 
 
 Day and Son, 
 
 156, 164, 
 
 Cobytt ... 
 
 
 ... 232 
 
 16S, 169, 
 
 183, 1S5, 
 
 Cocksedge 
 
 
 ... 184 
 
 214, 230, 
 
 239, 241, 
 
 Coe 
 
 
 217, 226 
 
 242 
 
 
 Cok 
 
 
 8 
 
 Daynes ... 
 
 ... 161 
 
 Coke 
 
 
 22, 106 
 
 Dearesle ... 
 
 ... 221 
 
 Col mar ... 
 
 
 ... 82 
 
 Death 
 
 ... 194 
 
 Cook 185, 
 
 189, 
 
 236, 238 
 
 Debenham 
 
 ... 177
 
 262 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Deedes, 132, 167, 
 
 184,217, 
 
 F 
 
 
 Glemham... 
 
 ... 171 
 
 258 
 
 
 
 
 Gloucester Sandre de 14 
 
 de Grey ... 
 
 ... 182 
 
 Fairfax 
 
 ... n9 
 
 Godard ... 
 
 ... 238 
 
 de la Pole 
 
 ... 44 
 
 Farrow . . . 
 
 ... 165 
 
 Goddard ... 
 
 •■ 253 
 
 Dennaunt 
 
 ■■• 93 
 
 Fawkes ... 
 
 ... 242 
 
 Godewyne 
 
 ... 162 
 
 Denton ... 
 
 ... 212 
 
 Felix S. ... 
 
 2 
 
 Godfrey ... 
 
 ... 199 
 
 Derby ... 
 
 12, 14 
 
 Fellget ... 
 
 ... 210 
 
 Godynge ... 
 
 7, 8, 257 
 
 Derlyngton 
 
 ... 29 
 
 Felton 
 
 ... 231 
 
 Golde ... 
 
 ... 107 
 
 d'Ewes ... 
 
 ... 127 
 
 Fenton 
 
 ... 180 
 
 Golding ... 
 
 i65, 234 
 
 Deye 
 
 ... 98 
 
 Ferrand . . . 
 
 ... 246 
 
 Goldsmith 145 
 
 , 146, 226 
 
 Dick 
 
 ... 46 
 
 Festus 
 
 ... 84 
 
 Goldyngham 
 
 ... lOI 
 
 Dickins ... 
 
 ... 180 
 
 ffeavyear ... 
 
 91, 227 
 
 Gooch 
 
 ... 228 
 
 Dier 103, 104 
 
 108, 177 
 
 ffoundor 16 
 
 18, 19, 20 
 
 Gooche . . . 
 
 ... 218 
 
 Dobede ... 
 
 ... 1S9 
 
 ffu.x 
 
 ... 196 
 
 Goodhart 
 
 ... 251 
 
 Dobson ... 
 
 ... 154 
 
 Ffyncham 
 
 ... 29 
 
 Goodinge 
 
 ... 252 
 
 Doft 
 
 •■■ 255 
 
 Fieldgate 
 
 ... 203 
 
 Goodrich 
 
 ... 209 
 
 Dou 
 
 ... 201 
 
 Fisher 
 
 ... 1S8 
 
 Goslin 
 
 ... 150 
 
 Downs ... 176, 
 
 217, 247 
 
 Fiske 
 
 180, 249 
 
 Gowing . . . 
 
 ... 189 
 
 Dowsing ... 
 
 ... i8i 
 
 P'itzlewes ... 
 
 15, 214 
 
 Grant-Francis 
 
 ... 38 
 
 Draper, loo, loi, 
 
 102, no, 
 
 Flack 
 
 ... 238 
 
 Graye, 104, no. 
 
 113, 116, 
 
 III, 112, II 
 
 5, 116 
 
 Flatt 
 
 ... 246 
 
 118, 119, 
 
 120, 121, 
 
 Drake ... 182^ 
 
 197, 226 
 
 Fiory 
 
 ... 180 
 
 125, 133. 
 
 134, 135, 
 
 Drew 
 
 ... 176 
 
 Foder 
 
 - 255 
 
 140, 141, 142 
 
 Dring 
 
 ... 180 
 
 Fogossa . . . 
 
 ... 52 
 
 Gregory ... 
 
 ... 47 
 
 Driver 
 
 100, no 
 
 Foppe 
 
 ... 71 
 
 Green 95, 166 
 
 203, 246 
 
 Drummond 
 
 ... 197 
 
 Ford 
 
 ... 236 
 
 Greene 
 
 ... 120 
 
 Dudley ... 
 
 ... 105 
 
 Fox 
 
 120, 178 
 
 Grey 
 
 ... IDS 
 
 Dulley ... 
 
 ... 176 
 
 Foxe 
 
 ... 40 
 
 Greyse 
 
 ... 166 
 
 Durrant ... 186, 
 
 192, 216 
 
 Framlingham 102, 158, 243 
 
 Grice 
 
 ... 254 
 
 Dyer 
 
 ... 120 
 
 Franclin ... 
 
 ... 218 
 
 Griggs ... 
 
 ... 174 
 
 Dysart, E. of, 1 
 
 50, 192, 
 
 Freeman, 135, 228, 233. 238 
 
 Grimsbye 
 
 ... 164 
 
 200, 245 
 
 
 French 
 
 ... 257 
 
 Grimwade 
 
 197.251 
 
 
 
 Freston ... 
 
 .. 218 
 
 Grim wood 
 
 227, 250 
 
 
 
 Frewer . . . 
 
 ... 163 
 
 Guddine ... 
 
 8 
 
 E 
 
 
 Frost 
 
 ... 236 
 
 Gull 
 
 ... 178 
 
 
 
 Froude 
 
 94 
 
 Gullifer ... 
 
 ... 164 
 
 Eade 
 
 210, 230 
 
 Fryer 
 
 •■• 253 
 
 Gurdon ... 
 
 ... 172 
 
 Eagle 
 
 ... 244 
 
 Fuller 
 
 174, 212 
 
 Gurney ... 
 
 131. 132 
 
 Elton 
 
 ... 160 
 
 Fyson 
 
 189, 194 
 
 Gyrling ... 
 
 ... 252 
 
 Eayre ... 152, 
 
 «53, 199 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ebdon 
 
 ... 199 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ecclestone 149, 
 
 178, 236 
 
 G 
 
 
 H 
 
 
 Edbury ... 
 
 109, no 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eden 
 
 ... Ill 
 
 Gage 
 
 172, 173 
 
 
 
 Edmund, King 
 
 ... 62 
 
 Gardiner, 138, 
 
 140, 142, 
 
 Hale 
 
 ... 127 
 
 Edmunds 
 
 ... 152 
 
 143. 145. 
 
 184, 204, 
 
 Hall 
 
 ••• 239 
 
 Edward L 
 
 7 
 
 233, 234, 2 
 
 46 
 
 Hamilton, Duke of i8j; 
 
 Edward HI. 
 
 2, 126 
 
 Gardner ... 
 
 ... 241 
 
 Hammond 
 
 • 255 
 
 Edward IV. 
 
 ... 49 
 
 Garnhain 
 
 . . . 209 
 
 Hamond ... 
 
 72 
 
 Edward VI., 30, 
 
 52, 84, 
 
 Garrard . . . 
 
 171, 172 
 
 Hanbury ... 
 
 ... 171 
 
 106 
 
 
 Garrett ... 
 
 »5.3. 214 
 
 Hanmer ... 
 
 ... 188 
 
 Edwarde ... 
 
 ... 232 
 
 Gawdy 
 
 158, 182 
 
 Hanney ... 
 
 20 
 
 Edwards ... 
 
 233> 251 
 
 Gellius, Aulus 
 
 ... 84 
 
 Hanse 
 
 ... 180 
 
 Ellacombe 
 
 ... 246 
 
 Genney 48, 49, 
 
 50. 52. 72 
 
 Harbert ... 
 
 ... 257 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 
 
 38, 80, 
 
 George II. 
 
 ... 143 
 
 Hardy ... 
 
 ... 120 
 
 99, 235, 248 
 
 
 Gerbertus Scholasticus 5 | 
 
 Harington 
 
 ... lOI 
 
 Ellis 130, 215, 
 
 223. 249 
 
 Gerne 
 
 III, 165 
 
 Harland ... 
 
 ... 244 
 
 Elmy 
 
 ... 228 
 
 Gibbs 
 
 ... 238 
 
 Harleton ... 
 
 25, 26 
 
 Emerys . . . 
 
 . . . 206 
 
 Gibson .. 
 
 ... 257 
 
 Harris ... 1 72, 
 
 217, 223 
 
 Kvered . . . 
 
 ... 229 
 
 Gillingwater, 184, 193, 205 | 
 
 Harvey ... 156, 
 
 172, 220 
 
 Everett ... 
 
 ... 202 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 ... 171 
 
 Haryson ... 
 
 ... 220 
 
 Evesham, Walter 
 
 of 3 
 
 Girling 
 
 250, 258 
 
 Hasted ... 
 
 . . . 204 
 
 Eyer 
 
 ... 106 
 
 Glasscock 
 
 ... 70 
 
 Haweis . . . 
 
 55,76
 
 INDEX NOMINUM. 
 
 263 
 
 Page 
 
 Hawes, 169, 173 174, 182, 
 
 189, 197, 230, 232, 
 
 25s 
 
 ... 68 
 109, 225 
 ... 29 
 ... 259 
 161, 196, 250 
 ... 178 
 
 Hawke 
 
 Hawkes ... 
 
 Hayes 
 
 Hayle 
 
 Hayward 
 
 Haywarde 
 
 Headley ... 
 
 Hebert . . . 
 
 Hele 
 
 Henniker 
 
 Henry I. ... 
 
 Henry H. 
 
 Henry HI. 
 
 Henry V. 
 
 Henry Vni 
 
 Herbert ... 
 
 Hettridges 
 
 Heyhaixi ... 
 
 Heylin 
 
 Hieronymus Magius 
 
 ... 221 
 ... 216 
 
 ... 156 
 
 150, 2S7 
 
 ... 88 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 20 
 
 93 
 
 ... lOI 
 
 ••• 255 
 
 ... 197 
 
 36 
 
 Hill 
 Hille 
 Hills 
 Hindes 
 
 Hobart 
 Hod son 
 Hoggar 
 Holdtield 
 Holies ... 
 HoUingworth 
 Hollon ... 
 HoUwell ... 
 Hopton ... 
 Hormesby 
 Horner 
 Horth ... 
 Houghton 
 Howard ... 
 Howes 
 Howlet ... 
 Hudschyd 
 Hudson ... 
 Huggan .. 
 Hugh, .S. 
 Humfrey . 
 
 107, 246 
 23, 24, 26, 47 
 ... 205 
 ... no 
 ... 210 
 
 121, 132, 133 
 
 ... 221 
 104 
 
 ... 236 
 
 ... 238 
 
 ••• 235 
 
 ■•- 134 
 
 ... 91 
 
 ... 212 
 
 152, 212 
 
 ... 179 
 
 ... 163 
 
 ... 212 
 
 ... 163 
 
 ... 243 
 
 ... 216 
 
 ... 256 
 
 ... 48 
 
 ... 236 
 
 94 
 
 Hunt 171, 247, 250, 251 
 
 Hurnard ... ... 241 
 
 Hurry ... ... 186 
 
 Hybard ... ... 218 
 
 Hyell ... ... 197 
 
 Hynes ... ... 194 
 
 Image 
 
 Infield 
 
 Ingulph 
 
 Isaacke 
 
 252 
 
 220 
 
 22 
 
 Pase 
 
 acob ... ... 259 
 
 acquemart ... 89 
 
 ames II. ... 134 
 
 ames ... ... 193 
 
 armin .. ... 217 
 
 a.xe .. ... 215 
 
 ealous ... ... 211 
 
 efferys ... ... 195 
 
 eftVey ... ... 242 
 
 efrey ... ... 163 
 
 enings ... ... 211 
 
 enkins ... ... 130 
 
 ennings ... 132, 212 
 
 ennison .. ... 176 
 
 entylman ... 233 
 
 ermyn ... 184, 188, 193 
 
 ernegan ... ... 91 
 
 essup ... ... 257 
 
 etu"" ... ... 216 
 
 ewell ... ... HI 
 
 ewers ... ... 226 
 
 ewle ... ... 246 
 
 ohn V. of Portugal 143 
 
 ohn XXII , Pope 8/ 
 
 ohnson, 2, 77, 145, 196, 
 
 212 
 
 ones ... 224. 241 
 ordan, 23, 25, 26, 27, iS, 
 
 29. 30. 31. 32, 34. 37. 
 
 47. 94 
 
 oselyn ... ... 208 
 
 owars ... ... 177 
 
 ulius II., Pope ... 40 
 
 Kebyll ... ... 36 
 
 Kecble ... ... 238 
 
 Keen ... ... 251 
 
 Kennball ... ... 203 
 
 Kembell ... ... 210 
 
 Kemp ... ... 25s 
 
 Kempe ... ... 255 
 
 Kenyon ... ... 177 
 
 Kerington ... 156 
 Kerredge, Kerridge, 
 
 230, 231 
 
 Kerry ... ... 159 
 
 Kersey ... ... 183 
 
 Kett ... 105, 215, 222 
 
 Killett ... ... 172 
 
 King, 194, 203, 212, 223, 
 
 250 
 
 Kingsbury ... 171 
 
 Knight ... 142, 147 
 
 Knox ... ... 197 
 
 Lacroix 
 
 97 Lanchester 
 
 250 
 
 
 
 
 Pa^e 
 
 Land 
 
 97, 98, 
 
 99. 
 
 100 
 
 Lapeg 
 
 
 
 210 
 
 Larke 
 
 
 
 SO 
 
 Last 
 
 2 
 
 30, 
 
 236 
 
 Latimer, 
 
 Bishop 
 
 
 106 
 
 Laud. Archbishop 
 
 
 III 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 
 40, 41 
 
 Lawson 
 
 
 
 155 
 
 Leach 
 
 
 
 164 
 
 Leake 
 
 
 
 197 
 
 Leman 
 
 .. 148, 
 
 75 
 
 J83 
 
 Lemon 
 
 
 
 185 
 
 le Kous 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 Lester 
 
 ] 
 
 49, 
 
 150 
 
 Lester and Pack 
 
 27, 
 
 149 
 
 L'Estrang 
 
 e, 8, 60, 
 
 J^z 
 
 , 73. 
 
 III, 
 
 113, II 
 
 5, 
 
 134. 
 
 141, 
 
 154. 193. 
 
 205, 
 
 239 
 
 
 
 
 Lewis 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 Li ft on 
 
 
 
 190 
 
 Lines 
 
 
 
 218 
 
 Liverpool 
 
 Bishop of 
 
 153 
 
 Lluyd 
 
 
 
 157 
 
 Lockes 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 Loder 
 
 
 
 230 
 
 Longe 
 
 
 97. 
 
 178 
 
 Lord 
 
 
 
 2^5 
 
 Lott 
 
 
 
 247 
 
 Lynam 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 Lynde 
 
 
 
 163 
 
 Lyttleton 
 
 :: 48 
 
 50 
 
 . 52 
 
 Mackay ... 
 Mackenzie 
 Mackerell 
 Maddocke 
 Maggs ... 
 Mainprice 
 Malet 
 
 Mallyng ... 
 Mals:er ... 
 Manchester, Earl of 
 Maning ... 
 Mann 
 
 Mannock ... 
 Mannynge 
 Manthoipe 
 Marck 
 Margerom 
 Marlborough, 
 of 
 
 46 
 
 212 
 60 
 
 93 
 192 
 192 
 
 41 
 225 
 220 
 
 "5 
 228 
 171 
 236 
 229 
 211 
 89 
 163 
 
 Martin 
 
 Martyn 
 
 Mason 
 
 Mathew 
 
 Matthew 
 
 Maude 
 
 Mayhew 
 
 Mayo 
 
 Duke 
 
 141, 209 
 
 146, 228, 232 
 
 217 
 
 86 
 
 224 
 
 198 
 
 221 
 
 196 
 
 94
 
 264 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Fage 
 
 Meadowe . . . 200 
 
 Meadows 223, 255 
 
 Mears ... 150, 151, 154 
 Mears and Stainbank 154. 
 
 Mechel ... ... 164 
 
 Meller ... ... 229 
 
 IMethold ... ... 236 
 
 ]Mevtas ... ... ic6 
 
 Michel ... ... 39 
 
 Middleditch ... 217 
 
 Middleton ... 178 
 
 Midson ... 201 
 
 Mildmay ... ... 90 
 
 Millard ... ... 93 
 
 Mills ... ... 217 
 
 Milton ... i2f, ijS 
 
 Mirrld (sic) ... 198 
 
 Moody ... ... 1 49 
 
 Moore ... 71, 130, i8.i 
 Moore, Holmes and 
 
 Mackenzie, 63, 154, 
 203, 233 
 
 More ... ... 254 
 
 Moreto ... ... 209 
 
 Morris ... 39, 75 
 
 Moseley ... ... 223 
 
 Moss ... ... 158 
 
 Mothersole ... 215 
 
 Moyle ... 48, 50, 52 
 
 Mudd ... ... 100 
 
 Mulliner ... ... 192 
 
 MulJinger ... 210 
 
 Mumford 196, 212 
 
 Munns ... ... 226 
 
 Murrell ... ... 220 
 
 Muskett ... ... 91 
 
 N 
 
 Needen ... ... 229 
 
 Needham 48, 50, 52 
 
 Newcombe ... 152 
 
 Newman, 29, 135, 136, 137, 
 
 .139, 141, isi 
 Newport ... ... 255 
 
 Newstead ... 177 
 
 Newton ... 147, 210 
 
 Nicholson ... 220 
 
 Noone ... 93, 233 
 
 Norden ... ... 226 
 
 Norman ... 43, 194, 210 
 North 37, 94, 108, 152 
 Northampton, M. of 105 
 Norwich, Sir John de 218 
 Nottingham, Brasiere 
 
 de ... ... 41 
 
 Nunn ... 201, 234 
 
 Nufhall ... ... 00 
 
 Nuttall ... ... 216 
 
 Nutting ... ... 1S5 
 
 O 
 
 Fa^e 
 
 Oakes ... 217, 222 
 Odyngton, Walter of 
 
 3, 4, 5, 6, 154 
 
 Okes .. ... 222 
 
 Oliver ... 151, 2^8 
 
 Orford ... ... 183 
 
 Orwell ... ... 225 
 
 0.sborn ... ... 155 
 
 Osborne ... ... 250 
 
 Osburnd ... ... 238 
 
 Ostler ... ... 173 
 
 Ottewell ... ... 167 
 
 Owen, 104, 105, 106, 108, 
 
 243 
 
 Owers ... ... 219 
 
 Oxnedes, John of ... 2 
 
 Pack ... 149, 150 
 Pack and Chapman 151 
 
 Packard ... ... it;9 
 
 Page ... 130, 172 
 
 Paley ... ... 157 
 
 Palmer ... ... 227 
 
 Pannell ... ... 235 
 
 Pargeter ... ... 94 
 
 Paris ... ... 3 
 
 Parker, 3, 106, 163, 170, 
 
 184, 217, 222, 228 
 
 Parlet ... .. 212 
 
 Parr ... ... 105 
 
 Parsley ... ... 212 
 
 Parson ... 169 
 
 Parterick ... ... 255 
 
 Partridge .. ... 202 
 
 Pascal ... 77j 174 
 
 Pascall ... ... 78 
 
 Paston ... 44, 48 
 
 Patrick ... 153, 203 
 
 Peach ey ... ... 219 
 
 Peake ... ... 164 
 
 Pearson .. ... 252 
 
 Peck ... ... 250 
 
 Peddar ... ... 251 
 
 Peek ... ... 241 
 
 Peele ... 147, 210 
 
 Perfey ... 88 
 
 Perrers ... ... 12 
 
 Perry ... ... 198 
 
 Pettit ... ... 199 
 
 I'eyton ... ... 67 
 
 Phelps ... ... 1^8 
 
 Phillips ... 160, 180 
 Pigot 48, 49, 51, 52, 72 
 
 Piicearn ... ... 172 
 
 Plampin ... ... 224 
 
 Plant ... ... 239 
 
 Pleasant ... 140, 141 
 
 Plot ... ... 20 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Plume 
 
 ... 184 
 
 Plowden ... 
 
 ... 52 
 
 Pond 
 
 ... 201 
 
 Poole 
 
 ... 220 
 
 Pooley 
 
 159, 180 
 
 Poope 
 
 195, 196 
 
 Pope 
 
 ... 50 
 
 Porter 
 
 ... 228 
 
 Postle ... 
 
 ... 234 
 
 Poer 
 
 ... 179 
 
 Potter 
 
 41, 43 
 
 Pouiter ... 
 
 ... 219 
 
 Powell ... 
 
 . . . 202 
 
 Power 
 
 ... 71 
 
 Pratt 
 
 ... 240 
 
 Preston ... 
 
 ... 40 
 
 Prior 
 
 ... 247 
 
 Pritty 
 
 ... 163 
 
 Prockter ...- 
 
 ... 165 
 
 Pycot 
 
 10 
 
 Pye 
 
 ... 68 
 
 Pyrson 
 
 ... 22s 
 
 Quivil, Bishop 
 
 Radcliffe ... 
 
 ... 84 
 
 Rainbird ... 
 
 ... 209 
 
 Kainse 
 
 ... los 
 
 Ramsden 
 
 ... 196 
 
 Rand 
 
 ... 197 
 
 Randale ... 
 
 ... 199 
 
 Ransomes and Sims 146 
 
 Rant ... ... 218 
 
 Raven ... ... 214 
 
 Rawlinson ... 6 
 
 Ray ... 176, 232 
 
 Rayment ... ... 173 
 
 Read ... ... 219 
 
 Reede ... ... 199 
 
 Reeve, 193, 197, 201, 202, 
 
 204, 214, 215, 216 
 
 Reniger ... ... 52 
 
 Reve 72, 73, 69, 70, 72, 95, 
 
 183 
 
 Revel ... 10, n 
 
 Re veil ... .. 192 
 
 Revett ... 168, 1C9 
 
 Reynolds 17 1, 229 
 
 Rice ... ... 158 
 
 Richard II. 19, 20 
 
 Riches ... ... 193 
 
 Richmond ... 207 
 
 Rickit ... ... 231 
 
 Rider ... ... 9 
 
 Riping ... ... 161 
 
 Ripyng ... ... 60 
 
 Riston ... ... 8
 
 INDEX NOMINUM. 
 
 i6s 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Rivett 
 
 ... 168 
 
 Slater ... 
 
 .. 130 
 
 T 
 
 
 Rohers 
 
 ... 192 
 
 Smith, 60, 130, 167, 169, 
 
 
 
 Roberts ... 
 
 151, 160, 195 
 
 171, 181, 182, 
 
 201; 
 
 Tallant ... 
 
 249 
 
 Rod well ... 
 
 ... 170 
 
 Smyth. 68, 97, 99, '180, 
 
 Tamplin ... 
 
 ... 195 
 
 Roff.rde ... 
 
 ... 14 
 
 181, 199 
 
 
 Tapsell . . . 
 
 103, 104 
 
 Roger 
 
 ... 158 
 
 Sone 
 
 - 93 
 
 Taylor 
 
 153, 236 
 
 Rogers 
 
 ••■ «73 
 
 Southgate 
 
 .. 162 
 
 Teverson . . . 
 
 ... 205 
 
 Rokewood 
 
 ...3,88 
 
 Southwell 
 
 .. 90 
 
 Theobald 
 
 ... 160 
 
 Rolfe 
 
 ... 176 
 
 Spaiding ... 
 
 130, 66 
 
 Thomas of Canterbury, 
 
 Romeneye 
 
 II 
 
 Spark 
 
 .. 188 
 
 S. ... 
 
 ... 148 
 
 Rope 
 
 ... 165 
 
 >parke 
 
 .. 178 
 
 Thompson 40, 
 
 156, 211 
 
 Roper 
 
 236, 244 
 
 Sparrow ... 176, I 
 
 99, 211 
 
 Thorn 
 
 ... 236 
 
 Rose 
 
 14, 162, 179 
 
 .Spencer ... 
 
 .. 152 
 
 Thornhill 
 
 ... 224 
 
 Rous 14, 
 
 182, 232, 233 
 
 Spenser ... 
 
 40 
 
 Thornton 140, 
 
 142, 159 
 
 Rouse 
 
 ... 251 
 
 Sperling, 161, 169, 189, 
 
 Thruston ... 
 
 ... 205 
 
 Rouwenhale 
 
 20 
 
 202, 204, 224, 226, 
 
 Thurkill ... 
 
 ... 70 
 
 Rowley ... 
 
 ... 236 
 
 244, 250, 259 
 
 
 Thurston 
 
 91, 227 
 
 Royce 
 
 ... 247 
 
 Spicer ... i 
 
 8g, 255 
 
 Tippell ... 
 
 ... 239 
 
 Kufford ... 
 
 14, 15 
 
 Spilling ... 
 
 .. 130 
 
 Toller ... 
 
 ... 165 
 
 Russe 
 
 ... 14 
 
 Spinke 
 
 .. 192 
 
 Tollemache 192, 
 
 200, 245 
 
 Russell ... 
 
 88, 223 
 
 Spmluf ... 
 
 .. 160 
 
 Tomson .. 
 
 .. 195 
 
 Rust 
 
 185, 189, 205 
 
 Spinny 
 
 .. 232 
 
 Tonne, 41, 78, 7c 
 
 ), 80, 94, 
 
 Rye 
 
 ... 19 
 
 .Sporll 
 
 .. 188 
 
 95> 97, 98, ' 
 
 100, 102, 
 
 Ryle 
 
 ■■ «53 
 
 Stahlschmidt, 8, 10 
 
 II, 12, 
 
 109, 258 
 
 
 Ryon 
 
 ... 40 
 
 14, 18, 19 20, 
 
 22, 23, 
 
 Tony 
 
 ... 79 
 
 
 
 26, 37, 61, 6 
 
 2, 108, 
 
 Tooke 
 
 132, 223 
 
 
 
 109, 133, 147, 
 
 152 
 
 Tool 
 
 ... 166 
 
 
 S 
 
 Stainbank 
 
 .. 151 
 
 Topsel ... 103, 
 
 104, 181 
 
 
 
 Stanard . . . 
 
 .. 205 
 
 Torry 
 
 ... 131 
 
 S., H. ... 
 
 67, 68, 69 
 
 Sianby 
 
 .. 195 
 
 Tottington, Samp- 
 
 Sacheverell 
 
 148, 175 
 
 Stanesby ... 
 
 29 
 
 son, de 
 
 3, 172 
 
 Sacker 
 
 ••• 239 
 
 Stanley 
 
 .. 151 
 
 Trimnell, Bishop 
 
 175 
 
 Sallows ... 
 
 ... 197 
 
 Staples ... 
 
 .. 194 
 
 Tripp 
 
 ... 259 
 
 Salmon ... 
 
 ... 211 
 
 Starlinge ... 
 
 .. 120 
 
 Trusse 
 
 ... 192 
 
 Samson . . . 
 
 60, 202 
 
 Stebbing ... 
 
 .. 168 
 
 Truston ... 
 
 ... 218 
 
 Sampson ... 
 
 ... 210 
 
 Stedman ... 127, I 
 
 28, 130 
 
 Turage 
 
 ... 252 
 
 Sancroft ... 
 
 ■•■ 193 
 
 Steggall ... 
 
 .. 228 
 
 Turke 
 
 ... 29 
 
 Sandiver ... 
 
 ... 221 
 
 Stephens ... 
 
 .. 139 
 
 Turner ... 
 
 212, 222 
 
 Santy 
 
 •■• 243 
 
 Sterne 
 
 97 
 
 Tweed 
 
 ... 174 
 
 Sawer 
 
 ... 252 
 
 Stevenson 
 
 .. 46 
 
 Tweedy . . . 
 
 . . . 209 
 
 Sayer 
 
 169, 184, 248 
 
 Stollery ... 
 
 162 
 
 Tylls 
 
 - 233 
 
 Schofield... 
 
 ... 108 
 
 Strickland, Bishop 
 
 9 
 
 Tymms ... 
 
 ... 85 
 
 Schot 
 
 . . . 209 
 
 Strong 
 
 .. 216 
 
 Tynny 
 
 41, 79 
 
 Scolding ... 
 
 ... 163 
 
 Strutt ... I 
 
 66, 225 
 
 Tyrrell 
 
 ... 194 
 
 Scott 
 
 II, 97, 148 
 
 Strype 
 
 91 
 
 Tyssen, 34, 37, 49, 62, 77, 
 
 Sekole 
 
 ... 122 
 
 Stuart 
 
 •• 133 
 
 79, 98, 109 
 
 
 Seme 
 
 ... 158 
 
 Stubbin ... 
 
 .. 202 
 
 
 
 Sewell 
 
 ... 189 
 
 .Sturdy 
 
 24, 26 
 
 u 
 
 
 Shakespeare 
 
 38, 89, 105 
 
 Sturt 
 
 .. 172 
 
 
 
 Sharman 
 
 ... 181 
 
 STuteville. Stutfilde 
 
 182 
 
 Udall 
 
 ... 127 
 9, 14 
 
 Sheffield, Lord .. 105 
 
 Stuttesbury 
 
 .. 94 
 
 Ufford, de 
 
 Sheldrake 
 
 ... 130 
 
 Suckling ... ] 
 
 79, 227 
 
 Underbill 
 
 15 
 
 Shelford ... 
 
 .. 228 
 
 Suffock, W. de. 
 
 9, 14 
 
 Underwood 
 
 ... 179 
 
 Shepherd 
 
 ... 189 
 
 Suffolk, A. de 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Sheppard 
 
 ... 171 
 
 Sudbru ... 
 
 ... 196 
 
 
 
 Sheriffe ... 
 
 ... 246 
 
 .*^udbury ... 
 
 ... 81 
 
 V 
 
 
 Sheringe ... 
 
 ... lOI 
 
 Suidas 
 
 ... 84 
 
 
 
 Sherwood 
 
 ... 214 
 
 Sutherland 
 
 .. 233 
 
 Vacher ... 
 
 ... 201 
 
 Shrive 
 
 ... i65 
 
 Sutton 
 
 41, 248 
 
 Ven'oe, Van 
 
 ... 75 
 
 Simpson .. 
 
 . . . 246 
 
 Sydnor 
 
 - 193 
 
 Vergil, Polvdore 
 
 ... 87 
 
 Singleton 
 
 ... i7i 
 
 Syer 
 
 ... 209 
 
 Victoria, Queen 
 
 ... 155 
 
 Skimming 
 
 ... 192 
 
 Sylverne ... 
 
 .. 217 
 
 Viollet le Due 
 
 4 
 
 Skytte ... 
 
 ... 206 
 
 Sylvester 11., Pope 
 
 5 
 
 Votier 
 
 ... 172
 
 266 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 W 
 
 
 Wentworth, 
 
 Lord 
 
 ... 91 
 
 Woolner ... 
 
 ... 223 
 
 
 
 
 West 
 
 
 72 
 
 Woolnough 
 
 ... 214 
 
 Wade ... 
 
 92 
 
 -, 177, 236 
 
 Weston, P, 
 
 de 
 
 10, II 
 
 Wray 
 
 ... 120 
 
 Waghevens, 
 
 7S> 
 
 76,77,170 
 
 Westley ... 
 
 
 ... 226 
 
 Wright 36, 173, 
 
 210, 233 
 
 Wakeham 
 
 
 151, 207 
 
 Westrop ... 
 
 
 ... 192 
 
 Wulf.ed ... 
 
 2 
 
 Waldegrave 
 
 
 ... 91 
 
 Whaites ... 
 
 
 ■■■ 243 
 
 Wymbis ... 
 
 .. 167 
 
 Wal grave 
 
 
 20 
 
 White ... 
 
 91, 
 
 176, .98 
 
 Wymbish 
 
 10 
 
 Walker ... 
 
 
 . . . 206 
 
 Whitmore 
 
 
 225, 252 
 
 Wydmrpole 
 
 ... 31 
 
 Wallace ... 
 
 
 ... 217 
 
 Whittingtori 
 
 
 126 
 
 VVynier ... 
 
 ... 93 
 
 Walsingham 
 
 , A. 
 
 de 8 
 
 Wigson ... 
 
 
 . . . 204 
 
 Wynkfield 
 
 ... 156 
 
 Ward 
 
 
 ... 199 
 
 Wigston ... 
 
 
 ... 229 
 
 
 
 Ward ley ... 
 
 
 ... 2Sl 
 
 Wilkinson 
 
 
 223, 241 
 
 
 
 Warne 
 
 
 ... 186 
 
 Willett ... 
 
 
 ... 169 
 
 Y 
 
 
 Warner . . . 
 
 
 162, 206 
 
 Williams, 
 
 70, 216, 217, 
 
 
 
 Warr^-n ... 
 
 
 191, 217 
 
 236 
 
 
 
 Yale 
 
 ... 238 
 
 Washington 
 
 
 ... 94 
 
 Wilshere ... 
 
 
 ... 199 
 
 Yare 
 
 109 
 
 W'aters ... 
 
 
 ... 94 
 
 Wilson ... 
 
 
 194, 237 
 
 Yaxle Yaxley 
 
 ... 258 
 
 Watson . . . 
 
 
 ... 218 
 
 Wimbis ... 
 
 
 10 
 
 York 
 
 ... 162 
 
 Watts 
 
 
 152, 153 
 
 Winchelsey, 
 
 Arch- 
 
 Yorke 
 
 ... 196 
 
 Waylet ... 
 
 
 ... 179 
 
 bishop 
 
 
 81,84 
 
 Young 
 
 ... 167 
 
 Waylett ... 
 
 
 141, 142 
 
 Wingfield, 90, 94 
 
 214, 242 
 
 Youngman 
 
 ... 219 
 
 Waynflete, Bishop 1 8 
 
 Wulferston 
 
 
 • •• 93 
 
 
 
 Wedge 
 
 
 ... 194 
 
 Wood ... 
 
 
 ... 171 
 
 
 
 Weekes ... 
 
 
 ... 160 
 
 Woodard . . . 
 
 
 ... 167 
 
 Z 
 
 
 Wehincopp 
 
 
 .. 231 
 
 Woods 
 
 
 198, 250 
 
 
 
 Wellum ... 
 
 
 ... 24? 
 
 Woolley . . . 
 
 
 ... It)4 
 
 Zincke 
 
 ... 252 
 
 Walton ... 
 
 
 ... 198 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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