This is adopted, but not improved, by later founders, as by Henry Farmer of Gloucester, who, on a bell of 1623, at Throckmorton, in Worcestershire, proclaims—
BE IT KNOWNE TO ALL THAT SHALL VS SEE
THAT HENRIE FARMER MADE WE 4 OF 3.
Ancient Sanctus Bell (Fourteenth Century).
In its Original Cot over the Chancel Arch of Idbury Church, Oxfordshire. (See page [88]).
Worse depths are reached by Richard Keene of Woodstock on two bells at Brailes, Warwickshire. On one is—
IME NOT THE BELL I WAS BUT QUITE ANOTHER
IME NOW AS RIGHT AND TRUE AS GEORGE MY BROTHER.
On the other—
I’LL CRACK NO MORE NOW RING YOUR FILL
MERRY GEORGE I WAS AND WILL BE STILL.