Note 199 — JUNE.
Reading edition
Sussex paper.
[200] This bell is said to weigh 3 tons 5 cwt., and to be the treble of a ring of bells brought from Tournay by cardinal Wolsey, whereof one is at St. Paul’s, one at Oxford, one at Lincoln, and one at Exeter. The motto on the crown of this bell, which is called the great bell, is said to be—
“By Woolsey’s gift I measure time for all; For mirth, for grief, for church I serve to call.”
R. T.
[201] For the “Curfew Bell,” and ‘curfew,’ see vol. i. p. 242, &c.