1. "Thomas Norris made me. 1689."
Cuthbert Bede, B.A.
At Bedale, in Yorkshire, is a bell weighing by estimation twenty-six hundredweight, which is probably of the same date, or nearly so, as the Dyrham bell. It measures four feet two inches and a half across the lip, and has the following inscription round the crown:
"
IOU : EGO : CUM : FIAM : CRUCE : CUSTOS : LAUDO : MARIAM : DIGNA : DEI : LAUDE : MATER : DIGNISSIMA : GAUDE;"
the commencement of which I do not understand. There are five smaller bells belonging to the peal at Bedale, and a prayer bell. They bear inscriptions in the following order:
The prayer bell:
"Voco. Veni. Precare. 1713."
"Voco. Veni. Precare. 1S.S.
The first, or lightest of the peal: