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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=171104115-03072012>Maybe the sixth bell was a sanctus, or at least
something unconnected with the ring? </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=171104115-03072012>My experience
of the Victoria County Histories is that although its authors try very hard
to be accurate they are not generally complied by people with
detailed knowledge of bells. At Whittington in Lancashire they get
the dates of the bells rights but give them the wrong way round, so that the
tenor is recorded as the treble.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=171104115-03072012>Peter
Rivet</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Mike Chester<BR><B>Sent:</B> 03 July 2012 15:37<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Re: Great
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<P>I have found that most of what he says is lifted from:-<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66144">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66144</A><BR><BR>"There
are five bells, inscribed: (1) T.C. [or T.G.] 1670. (2) Taylors bellfounders
Oxford 1839.(3) Taylor . s founder . s Oxford: 1839. (4) J. Taylor & Co.:
founders Loughborough 1873. (5) Conjugium partus mysteria festa decoro anno
Domini 1756. The first is by Tobias Norris III and the fifth by Joseph Eayre.
In 1709 there were six bells, (fn. 79) but by 1724 there were only
five."<BR><BR>Not sure if this helps or hinders!<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR></P></DIV><!-- end group email --></BODY></HTML>