In Westminster Abbey
Christie audi nos.
Sometimes a letter of the inscription is found inverted; rarely a whole word. Such, however, is the case at Clapham, in Bedfordshire, where the line runs—
The prayers for the dead mark the religious changes of the country, and not less the invocations to the saints, which form one branch of bell lore. Elstead has a bell inscribed—
Sancta Paule, ora pro nobis.
Washington, in Sussex, one bearing—
O Sancte Stephane.
And Balcombe, in the same county, one—
Vox Augustini Sonat in aure Dei.