(f) Deanery of Wetherby. BARDSEY (All Saints). Three bells. IN IVCVNDITATE SONI SONABO TIBI DOMINE I. (lower) 1671 2. MY. SOVND. THE. MEANE. YET. DOTH. ASPIRE. HIRE. 1622. R. K w o [(58) without R O] 18 in. dia. The stop between the words of the inscription is intended for a chess rook, the badge of the Rouclyffs. This is a most interesting bell. Sir Bryan Rouclyff, who commemorates himself on it, was the son of Guy Rouclyff, Recorder of York, by Joan, daughter of Thomas Burgh, of Kirtlington, Notts. Sir Bryan Rouclyff was made a Baron of the Exchequer in 1458. He married Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Hamerton, of Wigglesworth-inCraven. In 1455 he petitioned Archbishop Booth for leave to (e) Rev. John Fentiman, instituted 22 March, 1661; afterwards vicar of Irby. (f) Our Lord in glory. (g) Arms of Rouclyff:-Arg. on a chevron between three lions' heads erased gu. a mullet or pierced of the second. (h) The Blessed Virgin and Child. (i) Arms of Hammerton :-Arg. 3 hammers, 2 and 1, sa. (j) Probably a founder's mark. (Sec Plate xix.) rebuild Cowthorpe Church, and by August, 1458, it was ready for consecration. This bell may therefore be taken as of the latter date, and is the earliest English inscription I have found. Further particulars as to Sir Bryan, and a full account of his most interesting memorial brass in Cowthorpe Church, will be found. in the Yorkshire Archæological Journal, xv, 10. HAREWOOD (All Saints). Four bells. KIRK DEIGHTON (All Saints). Six bells. These are by Messrs. Taylor & Co., of Loughborough, and were cast in 1863. They weigh 40 cwt 2 qrs. 20 lbs. The three old bells taken down in 1863 had no inscriptions, but only "small crosses, &c.," as I am told. They weighed 5 cwt. 2 qrs. 10 lbs., 6 cwt. 3 qrs. 23 lbs., and 9 cwt. 3 qrs. 20 lbs. respectively. KIRKBY OVERBLOW (All Saints). Three bells. This church is said to have received three bells from Fountains Abbey, but of course not any of the above three. 2. 3. 4. (77) GOD SAVE OVR CHVRCH 1609 (lower) WL IW TB GAR WO (32) (77) NON FORMAM SPECTAS DOMINO SED SUPLICE FLECTAS [CLAMITO TE TEMPLUM QUOD VENERERE DEUM [w w WI L W TB WR RB RE CAR 1609 In the moulding of this bell at least three sorts of letters were used-plain Roman, English text, and a sort of hybrid; and many of the letters are upside down. By his will, dated 6th July, 1521, James Holyngley bequeathed"To the byeng of a grete bell at Spofford vjs. viijd." (Test. Ebor., v, 249.) When the Trinitarian Priory at Knaresborough was dissolved it is said to have had twelve bells, of which four were given to Spofforth. The death-bell is here rung, ending with 8 strokes for a man, 9 for a woman, and 10 for a child. (g) Deanery of Whitkirk. BARWICK-IN-ELMET (All Saints). Three bells. The old bells had I. Fac tibi Baptista sit ut acceptabilis ista Possibly this was a similar bell to No. 1 at Kirk Fenton. 2. (Weight, 11 cwt. 3 qrs. 19 lbs.) 3. En Jucunditate soni sonabo tibi Dne et in dulcedine Nos. 1 and 2 were recast in 1844 by Messrs. Mears, and now weigh 8 cwt. o qrs. 6 lbs. and 12 cwt. I qr. 14 lbs. respectively. GARFORTH (St. Mary). Three bells. 3. THOS MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1794 30 in. dia. In ringing the death-bell it is customary here to give very elaborate differences, as follows: Age. Minute bell rung. 5 Bells. First. Second. Third. 5 minutes, followed by strokes on 1 I I KIPPAX (St. Mary). Three bells. FILI DEI MISERE MEI 13 I. 1638 1638 1636 It is the custom here to ring a peal on 29th May. In ringing the death-bell, after tolling the tenor bell, the bells are struck as follows:— At the Survey of 1552 there were three bells. There is a tradition that when, in the early part of the seventeenth century, the Savile family removed from Stainland to Methley, the bells from Stainland chapel were also removed to Methley. ROTHWELL (Holy Trinity). Eight bells. In 1837 six bells were procured from Mr. John Taylor, of Oxford. After a few months' use the tenor was cracked, and in 1838 it was recast and the trebles added. The tenor now bears the inscription TO SPEAK WITH MELLOW TONE AND NEVER SWEAR The weights of the bells are : A bell is rung here on Sundays at eight a.m., except on Easter Day. On Easter Day and Christmas Day the bell is rung at six a.m. In ringing the death-bell they end with three threes for a man and three twos for a woman. THORNER (St. Peter). Six bells. These were cast cast in 1864 by Messrs. Taylor, of Loughborough. The tenor is 6 ft. 7 in. in circumference, and the bells weigh as WHITKIRK (St. Mary). Three bells. THOMAS MEARS OF LONDON FECIT 1803 By her will, dated 10th July, 1454, and proved the same year at York, Lady Johanna Wombwell, daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam, of Sprotborough, and second wife of Thomas Wombwell, of Wombwell, but described in her will as a widow, late of Whitkirk, bequeathed "facturae campanarum de Whitekirk, xls." (Test. Ebor., ii, 177.) (2) Henry Robinson, died about 1663. |