The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . e this last on a set of three bells atAythorp Roding, Essex, cast by one John Tonne, a Londonbell-founder of about the third or fourth decade of the sixteenthcentury. I do not, however, think the Down bell can be his ;the date is, I consider, too early, and the cross, stop andlettering are not those used by him, so far as I know. ButI do think it is by the founder from whom John Tonnelearned his trade, and I trust one day to be able to drop uponhim at Guildhall. The style of his work rather points to hisbeing a fore
The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . e this last on a set of three bells atAythorp Roding, Essex, cast by one John Tonne, a Londonbell-founder of about the third or fourth decade of the sixteenthcentury. I do not, however, think the Down bell can be his ;the date is, I consider, too early, and the cross, stop andlettering are not those used by him, so far as I know. ButI do think it is by the founder from whom John Tonnelearned his trade, and I trust one day to be able to drop uponhim at Guildhall. The style of his work rather points to hisbeing a foreigner, probably a Frenchman. H 50 Chronological Accotmt. There are two bells, Boughton Aluph 3rd and Graveneytreble, which are the work of William Culverden, citizen andbrazier of London ; they have his trade-mark (Fig. 32), whichhas frequently been engraved before, although bells by himare not very common. His date is 1513-23. Of the twobells under review, that at Graveney has an inscription whichis decidedly a puzzle. It is as follows: ^ancfe + O IE T? ? (Fig- zz) ^ O ^.
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