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Excerpt from The Church Bells of Bedfordshire: Their Founders, Inscriptions, Traditions, and Peculiar Uses, With a Brief History of Church Bells in That County, Chiefly From Original and Contemporaneous Records ON the completion Of my endeavour to place upon record a careful account Of the Bells at present hanging in the churches Of Bedfordshire, I have to acknowledge, with pleasure and with gratitude, much kind help received from many friends and from many courteous correspondents. TO Mr. Edwin Ransom, I am specially indebted for (without any solicitation on my part) placing in my hands a collection Of copies Of the inscriptions on, and the measure ments Of, many bells in the county, carefully made under his direction some years ago. To Mr. D. G. Cary-elwes, and to Mr. Charles Herbert, I am also very much indebted for spending much time, and making long journeys, in order to procure for me rubbings from many of the more ancient bells in the county. And further, I beg to acknowledge the ready help I received from the other gentlemen, whose names are in the following list, towards the completion Of this work by sending me rubbings, etc., Of the inscriptions on, and other particulars relating to, the bells in the different parishes appended to their names. The Rev. W. G. Dimock Fletcher very kindly gave me some assistance in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The Rev. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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