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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Best thing is to contact David Sloman, you=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 07, 2003 8:=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Dating =
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FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF">A simple question from one who is a tyro:<BR><BR>I w=
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like to date one of our bells - or at least have an idea whether it was o=
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the four in the 1552 Return of Church Goods. (Yes, I am inter=
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in the history as well as the "go" of the bells.)<BR><BR><BR>To give you =
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background:<BR>The bell has no inscription or other marking, just the=20
wires.<BR>It is long-waisted, still with its cannons<BR>Its date is shown=
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Unknown in "The Bells of Essex"<BR>One of the other bells is by a known=20
bellfounder (pre-1552),<BR>the rest are dated explicitly=20
(post-1552).<BR><BR>Feasible?<BR>BillGJ<BR><BR><BR></FONT><BR><BR><TT>Thi=
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