The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . executor, Richard Hille, whom we shall have tonotice presently as a London bell-founder. The part of the City which was inhabited by the bell-founders all throughthe Middle Ages. E 26 Chronolocical Accottnt. To return to William Dawe, the four bells in Kent whichbear his stop (Fig^. 8), are the ist and 2nd at Downe, the 3rdat Upper Hardres, and the 2nd at Otham. The initial cross on three of these is the well-knownFig. 9. The exception is the 2ndat Downe, which has the cross(Fig. 7) already attributed to WilliamWode

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The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . executor, Richard Hille, whom we shall have tonotice presently as a London bell-founder. The part of the City which was inhabited by the bell-founders all throughthe Middle Ages. E 26 Chronolocical Accottnt. To return to William Dawe, the four bells in Kent whichbear his stop (Fig^. 8), are the ist and 2nd at Downe, the 3rdat Upper Hardres, and the 2nd at Otham. The initial cross on three of these is the well-knownFig. 9. The exception is the 2ndat Downe, which has the cross(Fig. 7) already attributed to WilliamWodeward. It is to be noticed, too,that the bell at Upper Hardres hasalso upon the crown four impressionsof the shield with the three laver-pots(Fig. 6). The use of the samestamps, by apparently two contemporaneous founders, is verypuzzling, as will be seen when I come to deal with the nextgroup. But as to the four bells under review, there can be nopossible mistake.* It remains to note that the capital letters used on all fourare alike. I give two of them here as a specimen :. Fig. 9.

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