- Aldbourne, Wilts, foundry at, 112;
- bell at, 120.
- Alfred the Great introduces Curfew, 98.
- Angelus bell, 98.
- Bagleys (founders), 37.
- Bartlets (founders), 40.
- Belfries and bell-turrets, 6, 8, 62 ff.;
- condition and care of, 75, 139 ff.;
- and see Campanile, Tower.
- Bell, Derivation of word, 1.
- Bell-founders, 8, 21 ff.;
- monastic, 21;
- in London, 22, 24, 28, 40;
- of 14th century, 24 ff.;
- of 15th century, 28 ff., 106;
- Elizabethan, 33, 111;
- of 17th-18th centuries, 34 ff., 111;
- itinerant, 37;
- modern, 41, 44 ff., 150, 154, 155.
- Bell-founding, see Casting.
- Bell-metal, Composition of, 10.
- Bells, Introduction into Church, 2;
- earliest use in England, 4, 8;
- early methods of ringing, 5;
- dedication of, 6, 117;
- earliest existing, 9;
- early dated, 9, 30, 32;
- methods of casting, 10 ff.;
- decoration of, 14, 28 ff., 49, 50, 52, 105 ff.;
- tuning of, 18; foreign, 32;
- of exceptional size, 43 ff.;
- inscriptions on, 45, 48, 50, 55, 114 ff.;
- modern methods of hanging and ringing, 68, 75;
- ancient uses of, 81;
- modern uses of, 82 ff.;
- for Church services, 28, 33, 34;
- and see Oldfields.
- Oldfields (founders), 34, 46, 111, 112.
- Oxford, Bells and ringing at, 48, 97, 98, 101.
- Pancake bell, 93.
- Passing bell, 95.
- Phelps, Richard, (founder), 40, 53.
- Prayer Book, Mention of bells in, 82.
- Purdues (founders), 36, 45, 124.
- Raven, Dr., quoted, 53, 57.
- Reading, Foundry at, 28, 33, 34;
- see also, 151.
- Reformation, Effect of, on bell-founding, 32, 109, 121, 122, 124.
- Ringers, Guilds and Societies of, 67, 74;
- clerical, 68;
- behaviour of, 75, 79;
- rules for, 78.
- Ringing, Methods of, 5, 43;
- early mention of, 5, 8;
- modern, 67;
- and see Change-ringing.
- “Rings of bells,” 4, 5.
- Rudhalls (founders), 38, 134.
- Rylstone, Yorks., Bells of, 124.
- Sacring bell, 88.
- Salisbury, Foundry at, 28, 36.
- Sanctus bell, 86.
- Sermon bell, 85.
- Signa, 43 ff.
- Stedman, Fabian, 72, 74.
- Sundays, Ringing on, 84 ff.
- Taylor & Co. (founders), 41, 44, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 114, 155.
- Tellers, 96.
- Tennyson, quoted, A. R. MOWBRAY AND CO. LTD., PRINTERS, OXFORD
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