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Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders (1916)

Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950 · Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company · leaf 72

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es, we no-ticed a long proi f cherub boys dancing and ringingflat hand bells sl . even now rung before the Host in street processions. Some of the inscriptions are barely legible because ofthe peculiarity of the Gothic let -^mentions seeing the initials J. R. (John -^ the deep sill of the staircase… … SOME CARILLONS OF FLANDERS carefully for these initials, but I could not find them, Iam sorry to say. Bells have been strangely neglected by antiquaries andhistorians, and but few facts concerning them are to befound in the libraries. Haweis speaks of the difficulty heencountered in finding data…

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