Ringers at S. Paul’s Cathedral Ringing a Peal on New Year’s Eve on the Twelve Bells. (See page [75]).
Sometimes a bell bears a prayer for its donor, or for his soul, as at Goring, Oxfordshire—
ORATE PRO PETRO EXONIENSE EPISCOPO,
“Pray for Peter, Bishop of Exeter.”
This was Peter Quivil, Bishop about 1290. Or at Bolton-in-Craven, Yorkshire—
Sc’e Paule, ora pro a’i’abus Henrici Pudsey et Margarete consorte sue