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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Some family history research has turned up=
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distant ancestor in the West Country. Chap called Main Swete who had been a=
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Barbados planter but retired home to Devon. He died in 1735.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>"Maine Swete was a very ingenious man, he =
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blacksmith's shop in the orchard, <BR>he delighted in bell ringing and dres=
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as a blacksmith took the (....) in <BR>ringing the bells at Totnes. About 1=
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he constructed the celebrated Swete <BR>clock 10. 6 by 3.0. which stood in =
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hall at Traine. It had 37 bells with <BR>hands for tunes."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Does anyone know more of Swete or=20
his clock? and did the author mean it could be used to play tunes=
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why 37 bells? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Andy Russel</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>