Provocative inscriptions

[Philip Denton]

Here is an Essex example, rather more subtle than the Bilbie variety!
   
  The former ring of 6 at All Saints Maldon, recast and augmented in 1922, had the following message on the front 4 bells, which were by Henry Pleasant of Sudbury, 1707:
   
  1. WHEN THREE THIS STEEPLE LONG DID HOLD
  2. THEY WARE THREE EMBLEMS OF A SCOLD
  3. NO MVSICK THEN * BUT NOW SHALL SEE 
  4. WHAT PLEASANT MVSICK * SIX WILL BE 
   
  (I have omitted details unimportant to the meaning of the verse.) 
   
  PD

       
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