[Bell Historians] Vandalls?

[La Greenall laalaagrr@googlemail.com [bellhistorians]]

One odd thing is the two ways 18s is written. Surely xviijs would be 
paid by scholars, and 18s by everyone else? Therefore, on this alone, 
perhaps it was a mutual exchange of goodwill - could the ringing group 
have just been founded and wanted to 'bless' the bells they were to ring?

I know this doesn't answer the crucial point - sorry!

Lawrence

On 09/04/2019 15:56, gareth at charollais.co.uk [bellhistorians] wrote:
>
> I’ve been puzzling over an entry in the churchwarden accounts for 
> Great St Mary’s in Cambridge. The puzzle is that the ringers paid half 
> the cost of the work. This seems to have been a unique occurrence. All 
> earlier and later costs of work to the bells, a least up to the 20th 
> century, are paid for by the parish. What prompted their generosity? I 
> am wondering if the work involved might have been to make the 
> wheels/fittings more suitable for change-ringing, rather than the 
> usual essential repairs. The date is 1629/30 so it might fit in with 
> Tintinnalogia’s suggested timescale for the introduction of 
> change-ringing. However, I can’t really make sense of what work was 
> done. Can anyone help with an interpretation, especially of what 
> vandalls were in this context?
>
>
> The entry reads: “Item for making vandalls of all the five wheeles & 
> an Iron Rowle for the tenure and new stays to all the wheeles which 
> amounted to 36 shillings whereof the Schollers that were Ringers paid 
> 18s and the parish paid the other half which was xviijs”
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received
>
> Gareth
> 

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