[Bell Historians] One N or two?

[David Bryant]

> Actually when your message arrived (message #10903) the following were

Messages arrive in my inbox in a rather random order - something to do with 
hotmail addresses.

> non members but thoroughgly reliable on this matter include
> Rev Ellacomb (dec)
> the editors of the OED (dec)
> the author of The Tintinnalogia (dec)

Reliable in what sense? 'cannons' seems to have been the most usual spelling 
amongst published Victorian and early C20 bell historians. However, since 
Fred Sharpe virtually all published work has used the spelling 'canons'. The 
only obvious exception to this is Paul Cattermole.

David