Eastry, Kent:
"One bell inscribed with the names of the churchwardens and the maker;
a shilling of William III., and other coins are let into the rim."
Erith, Kent:
"A tablet in the belfry commemorates the ringing of a peal of 726
changes in twenty-six minutes."
S. Clement, Sandwich, Kent:
"In the ringing chamber of this noble tower is a windlass for lowering
the bells in case of repairs becoming necessary, with a trap-door in
the floor opening into the church."
S. Mary, Sandwich, Kent:
"This bel was bought and steeple built, A.D. 1718. J. Bradley, R.
Harvey, Ch. wardens. R. P. F."
S. Andrew, Histon, Camb.:
"Coins of Queen Anne in the rim of one bell; but dated 1723."
S. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster (Weever, _Fur. Mon._, p. 491., edit. fol.
1631):
"King Edward the Third built in the little sanctuarie a clochard of
stone and timber, and placed therein three bells, for the vse of Saint
_Stephen's_ Chappel. About the biggest bell was engrauen, or cast in
the metall, these words:
'King Edward made mee thirtie thousand weight and three:
Take mee downe and wey mee, and more you shall fynd mee.'
But these bells being to be taken downe, in the raigne of King _Henry_
the Eight, one writes vnderneath with a coal:
'But _Henry_ the Eight will bait me of my weight.'"
If any farther extracts may interest you, they are very much at your
service.