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 INDUSTRIES The next change in the ornaments on bells from this foundry is the disappearing of the original lion's head (Fig. i), and the substitu- tion of a new and very inferior copy (Fig. 6). FIG. 6. STAMP OF LION'S HEAD SUBSTITUTED FOR FIG. i. This, I suggest, shows the death or retire- ment of Roger Landen, and the advent of a successor, probably some years past the middle of the fifteenth century. This suc- cessor appears to have been John Michell, for whose name we are indebted to the Corpora- tion Records 1 of Henley( Oxon.), where, under date 4 January, 1493, there is an entry of a payment to John Michell of Wokingham for making a big bell. Berkshire has two bells by Michell, one at Stanford Dingley, inscribed, ijt TE DEUM LAUDAMUS, and one at Warfield with the invocation to SANCTA KATERINA ; both have the coin and ' R.L.' shield, and the newer lion's head. There is one bell by him in Buckingham- shire with invocation to SANCTA MARIA, and one in Sussex, and apparently one in Bedford- shire with the Stanford Dingley inscription ; the Bedfordshire bell, however, may be by Roger Landen, as Mr. North, who records it, does not notice the change in the lion's head. Michell appears to have been the last of this line of founders who worked at Woking- ham, and he seems to have either died or retired before Ascension, 1495, and the business was then transferred to Reading. That this business was a continuation of the Wokingham one is shown by the use of Wokingham stamps by subsequent owners of the Reading foundry, though the first man to work there provided himself with a complete stock of new stamps. The link between the two localities and the approximate date of the change, are recorded in the Thame Churchwardens ' Accounts, where there are entries referring to a bell cast by ' le Belle- maker de Okyngham ' in 1487-8, which broke and was taken down before Ascension, 1495, and two men were sent on horseback to Wokingham, but they apparently found on arrival that the foundry had been removed, and later there is an item of the expenses of two men riding to Henley, which might be on the way either to Wokingham or Reading, from Thame. There are then items showing the carriage of the cracked bell to Reading, and that two men rode there to see it recast ; and lastly, an item of zd. for the expenses of writing an indenture between the church- wardens and William Hasylwood, which gives the name of the Reading founder. William Hasylwood's new letters were a large bold set of capitals averaging about i inches in height, with an initial cross pattde, and a larger set of smalls than had hitherto been used, the ' n ' being reversed, and a shield charged with the cross of St. George. There is no bell, so far as is yet known, by Hasylwood in Berkshire, but there are two in Buckinghamshire and one in Hampshire, all having the invocation form of inscription and bearing his initials. Mr. H. B. Walters has told me of one by him at Broadwell (Oxon.), but I do not know what the inscrip- tion is. The treble at Baddesley Clinton (Warwick) is similarly inscribed to his bells, and bears his initials ; but the orthography is so much blundered that it is very likely by his successor. Two other bells bearing his initials in Hampshire, and one in Somerset, nray also, perhaps, from the mixture of letterings used, be assigned to his successor rather than to him. His will 2 is dated 8 March, 1507, and was proved 10 December, 1509. The Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Law- rence, Reading, have : 1509-10. It. rec* of Hasylwood is weyff for ringing of the grett bell. . . xijd. It. rec d of Hasylwood is weyff for hir husbond is grave, and for couyng of the same. . . vijs. ijd. These accounts contain several other refer- ences to him. His will shows that his first wife's name was Margaret ; the accounts show that she died in 1502-3 ; two or three years afterwards he married his second wife Elizabeth. Entries of payments for a seat for both wives appear in the accounts. In 1507-8 he made for St. Lawrence's ' a new holy water stok of laton,' the price being ' ijs. viijd.' One entry in these accounts seems worth quoting here in full, for al- Burn, History of Henley-on-Tbam.es, p. 214. Given in full in Church Bells of Bucks, p. 60. 415