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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>One of the best known examples no longer e=
xists,=20
viz the 4/5 from Lea, Wilts - CD's photograph of the PoW's Feathers on this=
bell=20
is well known. The bell itself was scrapped around 1976.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>A futher lost example but where the Royal =
Arms=20
still exist is Box, Wilts, St Thomas a Becket. JT&Co recast this 1610 R=
oger=20
Purdue I bell in 1936; a condition of the Faculty was that the 5" high Roya=
l=20
Arms of James I should be cut out and preserved in the church, which they a=
re.=20
And Taylor's did a superb job in reproducing the arms on the new bell =
=20
(18-0-20 in E, CO).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Th most common example is Warner's, to acc=
ompany=20
their declaration of Patent. At least one bellfounder refuses to repr=
oduce=20
it on the grounds that the firm no longer has the Warrant (which Warner's d=
id,=20
and which entitled them to use the Arms) or the Patent. Vickers mistakenly =
used=20
them with their Patent, although they did have a Royal Warrant - but that w=
as=20
for something more lethal than even steel bells!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I will post the Jefferies lis this=20
evening.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<A href=3D"mailto:neil.tcct@v..." title=3Dneil.tcct@v...>Neil=
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Skelton</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 31, 2003 9:4=
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AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] RE:=
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Research Project</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>The fourth at Enford, Wilts is the bell featured in th=
e=20
John Taylor & Co<BR>collection of post cards 'Old bell with iron=20
headstock'. It shows the side<BR>with the Royal Arms.<BR><BR>Neil=20
Skelton.<BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Susan Dalton" <=
<A=20
href=3D"mailto:dalton.family@v...">dalton.family@v...</A>>=
<BR>To:=20
<<A=20
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Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:00 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] RE:=
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Research Project<BR><BR><BR>><BR>> Anne Willis writes:<BR>>=20
><BR>> > John Lott I of Warminster cast the 5/6 (now 9/10) for=20
Edington in 1647<BR>with<BR>> > the Royal Arms.<BR>> ><BR>>=
;=20
> A leaflet on the 10 bells suugests that this may not reflect his=20
own<BR>> > sympathies, but those of Lady Anne Beachamp who is said =
to=20
have held<BR>secret<BR>> > Royalist meetings at her home next to th=
e=20
church. [That is a pure guess<BR>on<BR>> the part of the writer =
of=20
the leaflet! CD]<BR>> ><BR>> > A 1648 bell by Lott for=
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Erlestoke, the next church along the road, has<BR>no<BR>> > such=20
ornament.<BR>><BR>> But many other Lott bells do (eg Silton, Enford=
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so do many by Richard<BR>> Purdue I and a few by other Purdues.<BR>>=
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