The Rectory, Clyst St. George, Topsham,
Jan. 2, 1852.
SIR,--You are publishing, in your "Current Notes," some nice little
cuts of interesting relics of antiquity, for which all who delight in
such things must feel thankful to you.
May I ask you to put into your cutter's hands the rough sketch which I
send with this; and will you allow it to be introduced to the notice of
your readers, as an illustration of the Bawdrick, or Baldrock, which
is the leather gear, with its appurtenances of the upper part of the
clapper in old black-letter bells, and about which your readers may
have seen a discussion, with extracts from old Churchwarden's accounts,
in another valuable periodical of like character to your own, but in
which at present no illustrations of any kind are admitted. You will
oblige one of your subscribers.