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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Clouston's "Flintshire" gives the
basics</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">From my own delvings I can add that the
weights and diameters of the two bells are 47" 19-0-22 (Taylor 1947) and 53.25"
25-1-6 (Mears 1848).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">The Browne Willis papers include a letter
dated 28 August 1758 saying "they are going to have a peal of six of eight Bells
at St.Asaph Cathedral; at present they have but two, tho' there is a frame in
the Tower for no less than eight". A later letter of 30 March 1759 says that
proposals for a ring of eight had been sent, but he had "no interest from the
Dean & Chapter of St.Asaph"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">John Harris (papers at Devizes Museum)
noted that in 1793 two bells were exchanged for one from Gloucester. The Rudhall
catalogue of 1804 refers to one bell for St.Asaph Cathedral.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">When Mears supplied the two new bells in
1848 (the smaller 17-3-14 and the larger, as noted above, 25-1-6), they took a
bell of 26-2-6 in part exchange (presumably the Rudhall bell of
1793)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">This doesn't answer David Kelly's
question, but does show that there hasn't been a ring at St.Asaph since well
before 1758.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">CJP</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>