[Bell Historians] A wake for the bells?

[Anne Willis]

La Greenall

Maybe the bells
weren't called 'she' or 'her' (as they often were in our local
churchwardens' accounts) until after this ceremony had been performed.


A bell at Salisbury St Martin changed sex if the accounts are to be
believed.  Among their accounts for 1581 are entries for the re-casting of a
bell by John Wallis.

	It. For unhanging of him [the bell]		xviij d
	for drawing him to the bellfounders		xj d
	for carying the bell to church		xvij d
	for getting of her up and hanging of hir	iiis vj d

Anne