In the adjoining village of Halvergate, on the largest bell, is the following inscription:
"Sit cunctis annis,
Nobis avita Johs."
I suppose this must be "audita Johannes," but the inscription certainly is avita.
On the second bell:
"Intercede pia
Pro nobis Virgo Maria."
On the third bell, founder's name, and date 1653,—a solitary instance, I imagine, of an addition made to a peal of bells during the Puritan triumph of the Great Rebellion.
E. G. R.
Fisherty Brow, near Kirkby Lonsdale, supplies such an instance as J. J. S. inquires after. There is a sort of natural hollow scooped out there, where a church, parson, and all the people, were swallowed up ages since; and any one who doubts it, may put his ear to the ground on a Sunday morning and hear the bells ring!