. The Archaeological journal. 4.—CnABDSTOCK. The symbolism of his hrst shield indicates an unusualmixture of avocations, the dolphin and keys beingemblems of the Fishmonger; the bell and the laver, of theFounder, while the wheat-sheaf is a charize in the arms of ox SOME DORSET BELLS. 3GI Harleton, the maiden name of Margaret Jordan, who lieswith her husband Giles in Loughboroufjh Church. InHenry Jurdens will the description of his house and shop,in the lane called Billiter (liellezetter) lane in the p\ysheof Seynt Katheryn Crechurche w^in, Aldgate of London,has led to its identification with t
. The Archaeological journal. 4.—CnABDSTOCK. The symbolism of his hrst shield indicates an unusualmixture of avocations, the dolphin and keys beingemblems of the Fishmonger; the bell and the laver, of theFounder, while the wheat-sheaf is a charize in the arms of ox SOME DORSET BELLS. 3GI Harleton, the maiden name of Margaret Jordan, who lieswith her husband Giles in Loughboroufjh Church. InHenry Jurdens will the description of his house and shop,in the lane called Billiter (liellezetter) lane in the p\ysheof Seynt Katheryn Crechurche w^in, Aldgate of London,has led to its identification with the site at the north-west corner of Billiter Street, fronting on LeadeidiallStreet, while his foundry was on the west side of BilliterStreet, on a space partially occupied by the East and WestIndia Dock-house. At Steeple we find a bell marked with the rebus ofWilliam Culverden (5), a later mediseval citizen and. 5.—STEEPLE. founder, educated, as his will tells us, at Westminster,The Culver, or dove, with be above it, gives his name,and there are the usual insignia of his craft. Lastly, I mention a very remarkable find, made by myfriend Judge Clarence and myself at Ford Abbey in theparish of Thorncombe, on July 5th, 1860. There wefound, used as a chapel bell, I believe, a very beautifulspecimen from the Norwich foundry, far separated fromall its fellows, the only Norwich bell known to any of uswest of London. Its note is C, and its diameter 28 inscription is *i* £^i iilargarcta . jEobis fjcc iiHuncrn the shoulder thrice repeated is the sprigged shield of 2 B 2 362 ox SOME DOESET BELLS. tlie Bras3ers (No. 6) and the initial cross (No. 7). Ehyme-stop (No. 8) and lettering deserve all that has been saidabout them by East Anglian campanists. From whichof the family this bell proceeded it is impossible to date is about the middle of the fifteenth century, andif any lig
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