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<body style="background-color: #fff;">Looking at the sources I think the 1706 and 1724 references relate to information from glebe terriers of those dates - and are likely to be reliable (unlike the notoriously unreliable Browne Willis lists compiled by an antiquary at a distance). Terriers were lists of church property drawn up locally by the parish officers and lodged with the Diocesan Registrar.<br/>The Dove lists of lost rings and reductions have a c1800 cut off date, though, so this one isn't a candidate for adding to the lists<br/>CP<div>Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange</div><hr/><div><b>From: </b> "Peter Rivet" <peter@plrivet.plus.com>
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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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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
Gidding<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><SPAN> </SPAN>
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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 -->
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