Churchwardens' accounts abound with bell charges. We have before us the accounts of the churchwardens of Youlgreave, in the Peak of Derbyshire, for a period of a century and a half. Under the year 1604 we have "Item to the ringers on the Coronation Day (James I.), 2s. 6d.; for mending the Bels agaynst that day, 1s.; and for fatchinge the great bell yoke at Stanton hall, 6d." In 1605 there is "Item for a rope for a little bell, 5d." In the following year is "Item to the Ringers the 5th day of August, when thanks was given to God for the delyvering of King James from the conspiracye of the Lord Gowyre, 5s." In 1613 we find the sum of 6d. expended in purchasing "a stirropp for the fyrst bell wheele, 8d." The year 1614 is prolific in charges connected with the belfry, as the following enumeration will show: "Item for the bellefonder, his dinner, and his sonnes, with other chargs at the same time, 10d.; at the second coming of the sayd bellfonder, 9d.; at the taking downe of the bell, 6d.; for castyng the fyrst bell, L4; for the surplus mettall which wee bought of the bellfounder because the new bell waeghed more than ye old, L3 15s. 10d.; to the bellfounder's men, 4d.; for the carryage of our old bell to Chesterfield, 3s.; for carrying the great bell clapper to Chesterfield, 4d.; for carrying the new bell from Chesterfield, 2s. 8d.; to Nicholos Hibbert, for hanging the said bell, 1s. 1d.; to Nicholas Hibbert the younger, for amending the great bell yoke and wheele, 6d.; spent at Gybs house at the bellfounder's last coming, 3d.; for amending the great bell clapper, 10d." The inscriptions on church bells would make an interesting chapter. On the second bell at Aston-on-Trent appears in Lombardic capitals, the words, "Jhesus be our spede, 1590," and on the fourth bell is inscribed, "All men that heare my mournful sound, repent before you lye in ground, 1661." The fourth bell of S. Werburgh's at Derby is inscribed-- My roaring sounde doth warning geve That men cannot heare always lyve.--1605. The third bell at Allestree bears the words-- I to the church the living call, And to the grave do summons all.--1781. The second bell on the old peal at Ashbourne was inscribed-- Sweetly to sing men do call To feed on meats that feed the soul. The fifth bell at Dovebridge has the words: "Som rosa polsata monde Maria vocata, 1633." This is--according to the Rev. Dr. John Charles Cox--a corrupt reading of "Sum Rosa pulsata mundi Maria vocata," a legend occasionally found on pre-Reformation bells, and which may be thus Englished-- Rose of the world, I sound Mary, my name, around. A similar inscription--similarly mis-spelt--occurs on the third bell at Ibstock, Leicestershire, the date of which is 1632. Mr. Sankey, of Marlborough College, gives it a graceful French rendering-- Ici je sonne et je m'appelle, Marie, du monde la rose plus belle. The fourth bell at Coton-in-the-Elms has the inscription--