The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . as amember—in trust for certain pious and charitable uses—andby them the greater part of it is still owned and administered,some premises in the parish of Seynt Brigide in FfleteStreete in the subberbes of London alone having passedfrom their possession. It is interesting to note that in thosedays Fleet Street extended eastward as far as Ludgate {,half-way up the present Ludgate Hill), for the abuttals ofthe premises in question show them to have occupied the siteof the public-house now standing at the north-wes
The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . as amember—in trust for certain pious and charitable uses—andby them the greater part of it is still owned and administered,some premises in the parish of Seynt Brigide in FfleteStreete in the subberbes of London alone having passedfrom their possession. It is interesting to note that in thosedays Fleet Street extended eastward as far as Ludgate {,half-way up the present Ludgate Hill), for the abuttals ofthe premises in question show them to have occupied the siteof the public-house now standing at the north-western cornerof Ludgate Hill. Towards the close of the fifteenth century, and for some years in the following one, there flourishedin London a bell-founder namedThomas Bullisdon, no doubt a rela-tion of Robert Billesdon, who wasSheriff in 1743, and Mayor in 1483.*J ordans stamps, or at all events someof them, came into his hands, andwe have a specimen of his laboursin the 2nd bell at Cudham, withthe trade-mark Fig. 28. It has noFig. 28. initial cross, but the capitals are. * Thomas Bullisdon, merchant of the Staple of Calais, who was forthe City in 1492, had property in Portsoken Ward. I hardly think he canhave been the bell-founder in question, but I have little doubt all three wererelated. Chronological Account. 47 those of the 2nd set mentioned in connection with Jordan,and originally belonging to John Walgrave. There is a verypretty ring of five bells by him at the interesting old priorychurch of St. Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield. Theybear his trade-mark, the same capitals as above, and the crossFig. 14. We are now approximating to the commencement of thesixteenth century, when we come upon the traces of localKentish foundries. In the parish accounts of St. Dunstans,Canterbury, the following entry occurs under date 1500 : Item payde to Rychard Kerner for new making of the same belle ... iij^. viijV. The same bell being the Wakerell, or Sanctus we have
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