The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . to show that Mr. Lawrence Wriehts ? commercialmorality was not of the most scrupulous kind. I pass now to another London bell-founder, Robert Mot,the first owner, so far as is known, of the Whitechapel foundry,whose trade-stamp is here given (Fig. 40). I have already( Church Bells of Herts ) given my reasons for believingthat he was a native of East Kent, and the son of one JohnMott, of Canterbury, who was very busy in 1553 buying uphand bells, organ pipes, latten candlesticks, and other lootfrom churches.* The name
The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . to show that Mr. Lawrence Wriehts ? commercialmorality was not of the most scrupulous kind. I pass now to another London bell-founder, Robert Mot,the first owner, so far as is known, of the Whitechapel foundry,whose trade-stamp is here given (Fig. 40). I have already( Church Bells of Herts ) given my reasons for believingthat he was a native of East Kent, and the son of one JohnMott, of Canterbury, who was very busy in 1553 buying uphand bells, organ pipes, latten candlesticks, and other lootfrom churches.* The name was and is still an East Kentone; I have found it myself recently, and I find it inrecords {Inquisitions Post Mortem and other) as earlyas * Arch. Cant., xiv., p. 316, etc. t Inquisitions 15 Ric. II., No. 61. Johcs Mot pro Priore and conventuecclie Sancti Grcgorii, extra Cantuar. Chronological Account. 69 However that may be, he started his foundry somewhereabout the year 1570, on the north side of High Street,Whitechapel, where Tewkesbury Court now is. This would. Fig. 40. seem to have been the first extension of the trade from theCity to the county, quite accounted for by the centrifucralforce which was then strongly operating in London. Hecarried on the foundry with considerable success until 1606,when he sold his business to Joseph Carter, of Reading, andhe died at the end of March, 1608. I cannot trace wherehe served his apprenticeship and learned his trade, unless itwas with Thomas Kempe, bell-founder, who was buried atSt. Botolphs, Aldgate, in August, 1574, the only fact that isknown concerning him. The period froni 1547 to 1570 musthave been a real bad time for bell-founders. * Church Bells of Sussex, p. 35. 70 Chronological Accotint. There are twenty-one bells by Mot still hanging in Kentishsteeples, and four more which have been recast or replacedrecently. Worthy Bryan Faussett has also note of nine more ;four at Chilham, the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th, the last b
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