[Bell Historians] Canewdon John Waylett bell.

[Anne Willis]

>Does anyone know approximately how much bell metal £3 would have
>purchased in 1707? 
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>Brian Meldon

>In 1735 William Cockey of Frome cast two new trebles for Holy Trinity
>Bradford (on Avon), and charged 13d per pound of bell metal; viz

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>Anne



I should have added that John Wallis of Salisbury charged 1/- for bell metal
in the early 17th century, so the price seems to have been fairly stable.

Anne