. The history and antiquities of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham; containing the whole of Thoroton's account of that place, and all that is valuable in Deering. ive, but few are folicitous; however, as lomereaders may be bell inclined, I have copied his account in the next page. A Table (a) Kow «-c are upon the bell fubjccl, I may juft obfcivc, that this year, 1795, a Gentleman of confiderable fortune, camelo Leiccfter. purpolely to Ice an old bell brought to Mr. Arnold, I,cll-lounder, to be recall. On it was the head of Henry theThird, King of England, in the time of Po^e lieiie
. The history and antiquities of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham; containing the whole of Thoroton's account of that place, and all that is valuable in Deering. ive, but few are folicitous; however, as lomereaders may be bell inclined, I have copied his account in the next page. A Table (a) Kow «-c are upon the bell fubjccl, I may juft obfcivc, that this year, 1795, a Gentleman of confiderable fortune, camelo Leiccfter. purpolely to Ice an old bell brought to Mr. Arnold, I,cll-lounder, to be recall. On it was the head of Henry theThird, King of England, in the time of Po^e lieiiedift. Round the crown this : — .fiaunfte ConfcfTor lilriQi 23cncQiae ora pro mh\i ©cum. O KOLY Benedic r Confessor or Christ beseech Gou eor hiftoi-y of this bcU is this : That when Church, in Nonhamptoiilhire, was knocked down by Cromwell, theUll WJ-, taken lo the church of Moujton, near Noithampton, thence brought to Leicefter, in 179!;, to he recall with the reft ofIhcchurrh bells. Its wcisht 27 cwt. Mr. Smith, the ^enUeman noticed above, as a curiofo in ancient bells, fav--, that there. IS only one more of the .age, as he knows of in S . PET E RS.
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