When I doth toll pray mind your souls And in God put your trust, As may be well with you at last When you come to doust. And Backwell, in the same county-- I sound to bid the sick repent, In hopes of life when breath is spent. A bell at Stratton, Cornwall, is shorter-- I call the quick to church and dead to grave. A bell in Ghent describes the purposes for which it was used: it is not an uncommon form in the Netherlands. Translated it reads:-- My name is Roelant; When I toll it is for a fire, When I swing then there is storm in Flanders. Religious sentiments and quotations are found in thousands on bells old and new. Such are-- Te deum Laudamus. On the bell at Peterborough Cathedral Venite Exultemus Domino. In Westminster Abbey Christie audi nos. Sometimes a letter of the inscription is found inverted; rarely a whole word. Such, however, is the case at Clapham, in Bedfordshire, where the line runs-- God save the = hcruhC The prayers for the dead mark the religious changes of the country, and not less the invocations to the saints, which form one branch of bell lore. Elstead has a bell inscribed-- Sancta Paule, ora pro nobis. Washington, in Sussex, one bearing-- O Sancte Stephane. And Balcombe, in the same county, one-- Vox Augustini Sonat in aure Dei. The uses to which bells were dedicated may be further exampled from their inscriptions. S. Michael, Coventry, has a bell bearing-- I am, and have been called the common bell To ring when fire breaks out to tell. And at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, dated 1652, a bell piously says-- Lord, quench this furious flame, Arise, run, help put out the same. We may here appropriately conclude with some lines inscribed upon the tower of Batley Church, Yorkshire, in memory of a former set of bells: "The Requiem of the late three bells of Batley Church, two of which were introduced into the tower in the 17th century, and the third or last in the 18th century, and were taken down in the 19th century, at the close of the year of our Lord 1851, bearing the following respective dates and inscriptions, viz., upon the middle bell: Tho. Deighton G. O. 1658; largest bell, 1684 Gloria in Altissimis Deo. Ric. Mann, Churchwarden; last and least bell, Dalton of York fecit 1791. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Eternal glory raise. "Author of the following lines, Mr. Luke Blakeley, of Upper Batley; third of that name in the family, and nephew of Mr. Luke Blakeley of the same place, who died Jan. 17th, in the year of our Lord 1836, and was interred in Batley Churchyard. "One hundred years, yea almost two, We've hung in that turret grey, And many changes we have seen As time has fled away. We seen the bride and bridegroom gay, We've chimed their joy to tell; Alas! before the day has clos'd We've toll'd the funeral knell.