. The church bells of Rutland: their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses; with chapters on bells and bell founders. who was casting bells in the fourteenthcentury, were identical.* If so the foundry at Nottinghamwas of ancient date. Richard Mellour of Nottingham, Belyetter, wasliving in 1488, was Mayor of that place in 1506, and diedbefore 1509. Robert Mellour, Alderman of Nottingham, and bell-founder (son of Richard) died in 1525. From RobertMellour the foundry probably passed intq the hands of theQuernbies and the Oldfields. Thomas Owefeld of Nottingham cast the sanctusbell at Melton
. The church bells of Rutland: their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses; with chapters on bells and bell founders. who was casting bells in the fourteenthcentury, were identical.* If so the foundry at Nottinghamwas of ancient date. Richard Mellour of Nottingham, Belyetter, wasliving in 1488, was Mayor of that place in 1506, and diedbefore 1509. Robert Mellour, Alderman of Nottingham, and bell-founder (son of Richard) died in 1525. From RobertMellour the foundry probably passed intq the hands of theQuernbies and the Oldfields. Thomas Owefeld of Nottingham cast the sanctusbell at Melton Mowbray in 1553. Henry Oldfield, bellfounder ov the Longe Row inNottingham, was living in 1574-5.! The Oldfields seldomplaced their names upon their bells. This Henry Oldfields * Church Bells of Norfolk, p. 84. Eliz.) for allowing immorality in his house, f He was prosecuted in that year (17th Sessions Roll of the Town of Nottingham. The Founders of the Rutland Bells. 77 stamp (and a similar one was used by other members of hisfamily) was a cross calvary between his initials, with acrescent and a star above (fig. 7).. 7This stamp is upon the following bells sent by him to thiscounty:—Ketton 2nd, North Luffenham 5th, Whissendine2nd and 4th, and Cottesmore 2nd ; in all cases, exceptingthe two last, accompanied by the cross, fig. 34. He also used a stamp (fig. 8) upon the 4th bell at Seaton, dated 1597, which stamp ap-pears to ])e identical in form with one used at a later date by Thomas Norris of Stamford, and found upon some ofhis bells remaining in Northampton-shire. This points to the probability
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