What V. means is rather a puzzle.
I fear I have already extended this reply to a length beyond all fair limit. I may at some future time (if desirable) send you a long roll of legends on mediæval bells without dates, and others of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some of a devotional character, and others of the style of unseemly and godless epitaphs. But it is to be hoped that in these, as in other like matters, a better taste is beginning to predominate; and it must be a subject of congratulation that
"Jam nova progenies cœlo demittitur alto."
H. T. Ellacombe.
Rectory, Clyst St. George.
In the steeple of Foulden Church, South Greenhoe Hd., Norfolk, are six bells with inscriptions as under:
1. "Thos. Osborn fecit. 1802.
1. "Peace and good neighbourhood."
2. "The laws to praise, my voice I raise."
3. "Thos. Osborn fecit, Downham, Norfolk."