<div>Here is an Essex example, rather more subtle than the Bilbie variety!</div> <div> </div> <div>The former ring of 6 at All Saints Maldon, recast and augmented in 1922, had the following message on the front 4 bells, which were by Henry Pleasant of Sudbury, 1707:</div> <div> </div> <div>1. WHEN THREE THIS STEEPLE LONG DID HOLD</div> <div>2. THEY WARE THREE EMBLEMS OF A SCOLD</div> <div>3. NO MVSICK THEN * BUT NOW SHALL SEE </div> <div>4. WHAT PLEASANT MVSICK * SIX WILL BE </div> <div> </div> <div>(I have omitted details unimportant to the meaning of the verse.) </div> <div> </div> <div>PD</div><p>
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