The sound of bells in 1170

[David Hope]

In the case of Malvern Priory, I've only scratched the surface of what's in the National Archives (I didn't translate this!):

"£72 13s. 6d. received from Philip Butteler knight and Thomas Munden gentleman of the parish of Watton apud le Stone in the county of Hertford, being the price of eight bells recently belonging to the said monastery in the county of Worcester sold to the said Philip and Thomas and the parishioners of Watton by the royal officials of the Court of Augmentations in the said county of Worcester this year, which bells weigh altogether 76 hundredweights, at a price of 19s. per hundredweight." 

In the entry above: "six bells sold from Halesowen monastery for £57 15s. 9d." (The weight isn't clear).

David

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "oakcroft13" <bill at ...> wrote:
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> Further googlization has turned up two bells at Bamberg: Cunegonde, ca. 1185, weight 3.45t and Henry, 1311, 5.2t. Clearly in Europe bells of this size and date were not rare.
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> Were records kept in the UK of monastic dissolution? Does anyone know if these still exist and have been investigated, if only to see if the total weight of bell metal removed from buildings?
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> Bill H
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