[SEL] OT - Church bells

[Dave Croft]

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Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: [SEL] OT - Church bells


> This is completely OT but brings you down to earth a bit:
> We had a phone call today from Shelton Parish Church, who we rent one
> of the horses' fields from. After the usual exchanges of pleasantries
> (Heather Wells has been our contact there for the past 12 years) she
> mentioned that they were going to get their Church clock repaired, and
> had also found out that their Church bell had been appropriated by a
> neighbouring village (Hargrave) in the 1500's, and she had found
> documentary evidence in the parish records of the event!
> Now, we are pretty used to 'old' things related to the 1700's up to
> the 1900's, but finding ordinary everyday records that date back 500
> years is something which we found pretty special.
> Peter

Hi Peter, I hope a solicitor doesn't get to hear about this 
and try to start proceedings for the church.
If he does offer him the 1500's rates of pay!
Dave Croft
Warrington
England
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