CHURCH BELLS.
There is no common metal • which will not give a musical sound of some kind, yet bells from the earliest times seem to have been made of pretty nearly the same materialcommon bronze (says the Ave Maria). At first, however, they were not cast, but hammered into shape; and, of course, nothing like music could possibly be got out of them. The present-mode of casting bells is much the same as that made use of centuries ago. About the year 1000 there must have been a great many, bells in England. Some of the inscriptions on them were very amusing there was one on ; a bell in Ickworth Church, made by a man named Pleasant, at Sudbury, which was rather a puff: " Henry Pleasant has at last Made as good as can be cast.'-* Another was: , '' Henry Pleasant • did me run In the year seventeen hundred and one." Other inscriptions were historically valuable, as for instance, this: "I was cast in the year of plague, war, and fire—--1666.- -.'" :■■". -■- .;•...'■'. '•- ■..■ v-.*^-.,..
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New Zealand Tablet, 13 February 1919, Page 30
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171CHURCH BELLS. New Zealand Tablet, 13 February 1919, Page 30
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