The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . usiness for a very short time only—as he died inthe awful Black Death year, 1349. No bells have been tracedto his hand, but I am inclined to assign this Chalk bell to him,on the strength of the variation in the initial cross. If I amright its date will be as nearly as possible 1348. I now come to a group of eight bells, all clearly by the samefounder, bearing the same foundry-stamp (P ig. 2.), the same * I find this shield depicted in Harl. MS. 6163 (a collection of armorialbearings made about the middle of the fift
The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions . usiness for a very short time only—as he died inthe awful Black Death year, 1349. No bells have been tracedto his hand, but I am inclined to assign this Chalk bell to him,on the strength of the variation in the initial cross. If I amright its date will be as nearly as possible 1348. I now come to a group of eight bells, all clearly by the samefounder, bearing the same foundry-stamp (P ig. 2.), the same * I find this shield depicted in Harl. MS. 6163 (a collection of armorialbearings made about the middle of the fifteenth century, and believed to havebelonged to Segar, Garter King-at-Arms). It is there ascribed to KingEthelrcd the Saxon. It is needless to state that armorial bearings wereunknown in Saxon times ; but it is rather curious that a badge, or supposedbadge, of a Saxon king should be used as a foundry-stamp in the fourteenthcentury. In the same MS. there is a somewhat similar shield to Fig. 3(without the arrow), and ascribed as arms to King Edmond. Chronological Account. 11. initial cross, and inscribed in the same lettering (z/Zfl^^^-Plate I.).They are : Bridge ... 3rd Canterbury, St. Dunstan 5th St. George ... 2nd St. Peter 3rd Kingstone ... ... 3rd Patrixbourne ..« ... 2nd Postling ... ... 2nd and 3rd The stop used is a double square dot. They are certainlynot London cast bells ; their location points to Canterbury astheir birthplace, and they are clearly of mid-fourteenthcentury date. Can we determine their maker ? I think wecan. Ancient records have preserved his name for us,and consequently his date. In the Pedes Finium, or (•—2 I 2 Chronological Account. Feet of Fines, of the iSth year of Edward II. (No. 807),we have the following : Hec est finalis concordia facta in Curia dni Regis apudWestin in Crastino sci Martini Anno regni Regis Edwardi filij Regis Edvvardi decimo octavo coram Wittmo de Bereford Jotine de Mutford Wittmo de Herle Joline de Stonore & Johne de Bou
Size: 1347px × 1855px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectbells, bookyear1887
