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 on it, according to Oldfield, "Wainfleet and the Wapentake of Candleshoe, 1829," "Catarina vocata sum rosa pulsata mundi" (I am called Catherine, the beaten rose of the world); and on another is the rhyme— "John Barns churchwarden being then alive Caused us to be cast 1705:"   The Roman Bank at Winthorpe.

At Partney a bell has the same Catarina legend, but with dulcata (= sweet) instead of pulsata. S and C are often interchanged. and I think the 'p' is really a 'd' upside down on the Ingoldmells bell, especially as the bell is of about the same date and was also cast by the same man—Penn of Peterborough. I must admit, however, that pulsata on a bell with a clapper has something to be said for it; still, dulcata (sweet) is the obviously proper epithet for rose.

From this church the road runs to the sea bank near Chapel, and gets quite close to it. You can walk up the sandy path amongst the tall sand-grass and the grey-leaved buckthorn, set with sharp thorns and a profusion of lovely orange berries, till from the top you look over to the long brown sands and the