. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. ngular 0 and the mixed alphabetpoint the other way, For cross and lettering see Plate XIX.,Figs. 1-9 ; the Z is reversed. This bell has large ribbed cannons. 2nd: This bell, quite the most interesting in the county, haslong been known to campanists as a beautiful example offoreign casting. The inscription is to be translated: Maria. Inthe year of our Lord MCCCC and XLVII (1447). Jan VanVenloe —not as was done by an enthusiastic and patriotic Welsh-man, who claimed it as a product of his narive tongue : A/aria iaroes m
. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. ngular 0 and the mixed alphabetpoint the other way, For cross and lettering see Plate XIX.,Figs. 1-9 ; the Z is reversed. This bell has large ribbed cannons. 2nd: This bell, quite the most interesting in the county, haslong been known to campanists as a beautiful example offoreign casting. The inscription is to be translated: Maria. Inthe year of our Lord MCCCC and XLVII (1447). Jan VanVenloe —not as was done by an enthusiastic and patriotic Welsh-man, who claimed it as a product of his narive tongue : A/aria iaroes merin [1400] ende [47] taw inn van ioe. which he rendered: When cut off from life we become dead earth ; the soul departsand proceeds through the air to eternal In partial excuseit may be urged that the bell, according to tradition, came fromValle Crucis Abbey, as did the treble at Ness Magna. On Plate XX. are giverr specimens of the cross, lettering, andornaments. The Welshman to whom allusion has been made took 1 Set; the Morris MSS. in Shrewsbury Free THE CHURCH BELLS OF SHROPSHIRE. 3 the cross for a Welsh harp, and the figure of a lion which followsthe word b;ttt for that of a goat, thus conclusively proving itsCymric origin ! |an Van Venloe is not otherwise known in Britain, where Flemishhells are exceedingly rare ; see Ravens Church Belts of Suffolk,p. 74, and Eeles1 Church Bells of Kincardineshi?e, p. 5. There isa bell at WhiLton in Suffolk, dated 1441, which is possibly also hiswork. He will receive fuller treatment in the chapter on Founders. The cannons of this bell are ornamented with a very elegantcable-pattern. Its weight is said to be 7\ cwt. 3rd: by Thomas Clibury (shield, Plate XX., Fig. 5); small thickletters between cable moulding-: ; fleur-de-lys not found on second line, with shield below it. 4th : Also by Thomas C libury ; ileui-de lys, Plate XII., Fig. 4 ;borders, Plate XIV., Fig, 6 ; a fragment ot tins border with thecabl
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