<div dir="ltr"><div>Suggest:</div><div><br></div>Gloucester - Christiana la Belyutare (daughter of Hugh the Bellfounder) 1303-04 - CB Gloucestershire p32<div><br></div><div>Worcester - Agnes le Bellyeter (or le Seynter) (wife of Simon le Bellyeter) 1274-75 - CB Herefordshire p747. Also article in RW 4 July 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Pete Dyson</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 00:28, Richard Smith <<a href="mailto:richard@ex-parrot.com" target="_blank">richard@ex-parrot.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Jonathan Dickenson via Bell-historians wrote:<br>
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> I believe the Tenor at Basildon, Essex claims to be the <br>
> first bell to be cast by a woman. <br>
<br>
This claim was made on the front cover article of The <br>
Ringing World, 20 June 1997 (p 625). A month late (p 724), <br>
John Eisel disputed it:<br>
<br>
"[A] number of bells cast during [Johanna Hill's] time in<br>
control survive. I think that it would be difficult to<br>
substantitate that the bell to be hung at Basildon was the<br>
first of those bells. Even if it was, it cannot be the<br>
first bell cast by a woman bell-founder, for there was one<br>
such at Worcester in the 13th century and another at<br>
Gloucester in the early 14th century."<br>
<br>
I cannot work out which bells at Worcester and Gloucester <br>
John is referring to. I can't immediately see anything in <br>
Dove, or George Dawson's NBR spreadsheets, or Bliss and <br>
Sharpe's /Church Bells of Gloucestershire/, or Walters' <br>
/Church Bells of Worcestershire/. I would be interested to <br>
know the answer if anyone can work out which bells he was <br>
meaning.<br>
<br>
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