. Book of the Royal blue . HOUSE, IN THE CITYOK , and underneath IMiO(\IM ■rllKOUfllloUT .\, TIIKI,.\M> UNTO THE INII.\l{rr.*NTS THEHEOK.—T>evit- icus .xxv: 10. .\s we have experienced thy readiness to servethis Province on all occasions, we desire it maybe our excuse for this additional trouble fromthy assured friends. Is.\.\C F/EECII, Thomas Leech,ICdwahi) Wahhen. The bell thus ordered was forwardedfrom England by the ship Matilda, andarrived at Philadelphia in August, K.) appeared to t)e satisfactory in allrespects toits purchasers, with the ex
. Book of the Royal blue . HOUSE, IN THE CITYOK , and underneath IMiO(\IM ■rllKOUfllloUT .\, TIIKI,.\M> UNTO THE INII.\l{rr.*NTS THEHEOK.—T>evit- icus .xxv: 10. .\s we have experienced thy readiness to servethis Province on all occasions, we desire it maybe our excuse for this additional trouble fromthy assured friends. Is.\.\C F/EECII, Thomas Leech,ICdwahi) Wahhen. The bell thus ordered was forwardedfrom England by the ship Matilda, andarrived at Philadelphia in August, K.) appeared to t)e satisfactory in allrespects toits purchasers, with the exceptionthat its price was £198 instead of £100. Lpon being hung and tested, however,at the first stroke of the clapper, the bellcracked and had to be taken down forrecasting. It was at first decided to returnthe bell to London for this purpose, but alocal firm of founders, Pass & .Stow, wereemployed instead, and the bell was brokenup and recast in March ;. This firmadded a certain amount of copper to the. L^M INDEPENDENCE HALL. PHIL.\DELPHIA. THE OLD LIBERTY BELL. original alloy, wiiich made the bell unsatis-fiictory in its tone, so that a third castingbecame necessary, this time with perfectsuccess. The bell was placed in its restinj; placeearly in June, 1753, and was used to markthe hour at which the courts convened : tocall the Assembly togetiier, and later onwhen the first mutterings of that greatstruggle for equal and just rijjhts wereheard, its mutHed tones gave note to theresentment of an angry populace, as they,in the siiadow of the old State House, gaveto the flames the burning stamps of a for-eign potentate. On .luly .!0, I7ti8, the old sentinel againcalled together the freemen of the city toconsider what instructions should be givento their representatives, and it was thenand there resolved that the colonists arereduced to the level of slaves. Fromthis time forward the old bell spoke freelyin the cause of freedom, and the sentimentengraved upon it becam
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