. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE that parish ' old widow Oldfield's ' burial occurs on 16 May 1673, and it is quite likely that she was the reUct of the founder. His name also occurs in the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of Shillington (co. Beds.), for which he cast a bell, still existing, in 1638^; he is there described as located at Hertford. The last-named bell bears a shield with an arrow in pale and the letters , which has made it possible to identify as his work nearly eighty bells, the majority of which bear this. S
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE that parish ' old widow Oldfield's ' burial occurs on 16 May 1673, and it is quite likely that she was the reUct of the founder. His name also occurs in the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of Shillington (co. Beds.), for which he cast a bell, still existing, in 1638^; he is there described as located at Hertford. The last-named bell bears a shield with an arrow in pale and the letters , which has made it possible to identify as his work nearly eighty bells, the majority of which bear this. Stamp of Robert Oldfield Stamp. They cover the period from 1605 to 1640, and there are two in Bedfordshire, three in Cambridgeshire, one in Lincoln, twenty-four in Essex, and forty-eight in Hertfordshire, of which two have been recently recast. Thfey are inscribed in plain Roman letters, with an initial cross, of which there are three varieties—a plain one, a cross crosslet, and a floreated cross. They fall into two distinct chronological divi- sions : in the earlier (1605-16) the letters are thick and the cross crosslet is used, in the later (1616-40) the lettering is thin and somewhat larger, the plain cross being used down to 1621, and then the floreated cross. His stock of in- scriptions is somewhat limited; the favourites a nd GOD SAVE THE KING PRAYSE YE THE LORD We also find GOD SAVE HIS CHURCH lESVS BE OVR SPEDE and in Latin SONORO SONO MEO BONO DEO The seventh at Hemel Hempstead is inscribed SANA MANET CHRISTI PLEBISQVE RELIGIO VANA Four of his bells remain at Broxboume, three at Tring, and three at Kimpton. As Stahlschmidt has pointed out, the number remaining, especially in this county, clearly shows that he had a steady and profitable business. On his retire- 12 North, CA. Bells 0/Beds. 69, 190. ment in 1640 the foundry was closed, and bell- founding in the county town ceased for some 140 years. In 1656 a ring of six bells was cast for Waltham Abbey in Essex by a fo
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