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<DIV>According to Colchester's 'Hampshire Church Bells' Anthony Bond cast=20
bells<BR>for St Lawrence Winchester in 1621; North Stoneham in 1623; and St=
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Helen's,<BR>IOW, in 1610, so somewhere in Hampshire might be a=20
possibility. Colchester<BR>classifies Bond as 'itinerant', but I don'=
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believe he is still regarded as an itinerant - his bells are rare.</FONT></=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#ff0000 size=3D2>The ring of four which he =
cast for St=20
Laurence, Winchester (subsequently augmented to five - by one of the Readin=
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founders I think) has been dispersed. The treble, 2nd and tenor (of five) a=
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now the 2nd, 3rd and tenor of six at Upper Clatford, Hants. The 3=
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remains at St Laurence, still in the 5-bell frame I believe, and the 4th is=
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the flat 8th at Winchester Cathedral.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#ff0000 size=3D2>David</FONT></DIV></BODY><=
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