[Bell Historians] Dissenting bell founders

[David Cawley]

Waners, for a start. The whole family were members of the Society of 
Friends. In true Quaker manner, Andrew Warner wrote to The Times newspaper 
during the Big Ben I controversry adressing the Editor as "Respected 
Friend". Watch out, Robert...

DLC
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From: "Anne Willis" <zen16073 at 3xJm4jTDwiH_cqGDtde_qcB3epdM7mww7OBy0DBdalLLcJEOADpTawGXqTMXfqxRk8XPX9MQ7DM.yahoo.invalid>
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Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 1:19 PM
Subject: [Bell Historians] Dissenting bell founders


>I have just read an article on the Cockey family as pewterers and I see 
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> Mordecai Cockey I, the bell founder of Totnes, was probably a dissenter. 
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> know the Lott family of Warminster was closely associated with dissent
> (their foundry became the site of one of Warminster's Congregational
> Chapels) and they certainly knew the Cockey family.  The dissent doesn't
> surprise me; it was/is endemic in this part of the world.   John Wallis of
> Salisbury was not a dissenter but he was churchwarden at St Edmunds, the
> 'puritan' church in Salisbury.
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> Are there any other bellfounders who were known to be dissenters?
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> Anne
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