Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society . (Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 21012, ) in black Idler. The inscription on Rudhalls re-casting, as shown in a rubbingpreserved in Mr. Norths collection,1 is as follows : — HENR1CVS VERNON MILES 1 ST AM CAMPANAMFIERI FECIT 1518 AD LAVDEM DEI OMNIPOTENTiS BEAT/E MARI/E & BARTHOLOM/ElSANCT1. Wbder Fig. 2.)Below—Border Fig: 5 all round. On Ihe sound-bow QUAM PER DVELLION VM RABIEFRACTAM SVMPT1BVS PAROCHI/E REFVDITABR : RVDHALL GLOVCESTR ANNO 1720L PIETIER M1N: T: WOODSHAW&T: PEYNTON/ED1TVIS [border, Fig. j.\ Mr. Auden has pdi
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society . (Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 21012, ) in black Idler. The inscription on Rudhalls re-casting, as shown in a rubbingpreserved in Mr. Norths collection,1 is as follows : — HENR1CVS VERNON MILES 1 ST AM CAMPANAMFIERI FECIT 1518 AD LAVDEM DEI OMNIPOTENTiS BEAT/E MARI/E & BARTHOLOM/ElSANCT1. Wbder Fig. 2.)Below—Border Fig: 5 all round. On Ihe sound-bow QUAM PER DVELLION VM RABIEFRACTAM SVMPT1BVS PAROCHI/E REFVDITABR : RVDHALL GLOVCESTR ANNO 1720L PIETIER M1N: T: WOODSHAW&T: PEYNTON/ED1TVIS [border, Fig. j.\ Mr. Auden has pdinted out to me that the inscription of 1720and its successor contain two probable inaccuracies. In the firstplace, Sir H. Vernon died in 1515,- so that he could not have given 1 The rubbing is incomplete, but I have fortunately been able to fill in theyap from a copy ot the inscription made by the late Mr. C. A. Ldyell ofShrewsbury in ii>yo. ? His V\ill was proved on May 5 in that year ; it contains no mention of thebell or any provision of money Icr THE CHURCH BELLS OF SHROPSHIRE. 33 the bell in his lifetime if its date was 1518. I think a possibleexplanation may be, that the date, if in Arabic numerals, was really[514, the old form of 4, or G, being used, and that this was misreadas Secondly, there appears to be no evidence that the• rabies perduellionum did any harm to the bell ; and if, asMr. Auden thinks, the entry in the Churchwardens Accounts for[635 (see below) implies that the bell was broken in that year, anysuch iconoclastic efforts on the Parliamentarians part would havebeen a work of supererogation. In any case, there is nothing butvague tradition in favour of the story. The Rev. Lewis Pietier was Minister of Tong 1695 to 1745? andthe Rev. John Henry Courtney Clarke was Vicar 1890 to original bill for the re-casting in 1720 (see below) is in theShrewsbury Free Library, and a copy of it was given by the lateArchdeacon Lloyd to the prese
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