------=_NextPart_000_0037_01C566CD.011B1C90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 Found these descriptions in the manuscript of John Aubrey=92s Wiltshire Collections: =20 The great bell at Westbury is one of ye biggest in the county [of Wiltshire]. Diameter ...[notgiven!] =20 The great bell at Westminster in the clock at the new palace 3,600lb weight= . See Stowe=92s =91Survey of London=92. It was given by Jo. Montecute Earle = of Salisbury (I think) part of the inscription thus =91annis ab abcuto monte Johannis=92. =20 The great bell at Musco is one hundred and seventy six tunnes fifteen hundred and one quarter; the circumference is seventeen yards and =BD the thickness is two foot English the height of this bell is eight yards and 1/3. =20 There is more, but I ran out of time. =20 Anne =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0037_01C566CD.011B1C90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

 

Found these descriptions in the manusc= ript of John Aubrey’s Wiltshire Collections:

 

The great bell at Westbury is one of y= e biggest in the county [of Wiltshire].  Diameter ...[notgiven!]

 

The great bell at Westminster in the c= lock at the new palace 3,600lb weight.  See Stowe’s ‘Survey of London’.  It was given by Jo. Montecute Earle of Salisbury (I th= ink) part of the inscription thus  ‘annis ab abcuto monte Johannis= 217;.

 

The great bell at Musco is one hundred= and seventy six tunnes fifteen hundred and one quarter; the circumference is se= venteen yards and ½ the thickness is two foot English the height of this bel= l is eight yards and 1/3.

 

There is more, but I ran out of time.<= o:p>

 

Anne

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