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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some years ago, when adviser on bells to the
Salisbury Diocese, I recommended refusal of a faculty to scrap a ring of six
(Mears & Stainbank 1876) Okay, look at the last entry in your copy of CB
Wiltshire by Walters.!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When asked my reason(s) for this recommendation I
replied that a future generation might want to restore them for ringing;
further, the parish would end up with rather less money than it might have
expected after lowering them and making good afterwards. Following a visit by
the Archdeacon the parish declined to pursue the matter.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Neil Skelton.</FONT></DIV>
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