1. "I as treble begin. 3. "I was third ring. 8. (Great bell) "I to church the living call, and to the grave do summons." Inscription suggested as being suitable for six bells, in the _Ecclesiologist_ (New Series), vol. i. p. 209.: 1. "Ave Pater, Rex, Creator: 2. Ave Fili, Lux, Salvator: 3. Ave Pax et Charitas. 4. Ave Simplex, Ave Trine; 5. Ave Regnans sine fine, 6. Ave Sancta Trinitas." Inscriptions are often to be found in Lombardic characters, and on bells of great antiquity. Can any of your ecclesiological correspondents furnish me with the date of the earliest known example? W. SPARROW SIMPSON. On bells in Southrepps Church, Norfolk: "Tuba ad Juditium. Campana ad Ecclesiam, 1641." "Miserere mei Jhesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum." J. L. SISSON. * * * * * LADIES' ARMS BORNE IN A LOZENGE. (Vol. viii., pp. 37. 83. 277. 329.) I broached a theory with a concluding remark that it would give me great pleasure to see one more reasonable take its place. I fear that, if all your readers anxious to clear up an obscure point in an interesting science take no more trouble than P. P., we shall find ourselves no {449} nearer our object in the middle of your eightieth volume than we are now in your eighth. What P. P. is pleased to term the "routine" reason is after all but one among many, and is not better substantiated than some of the others quoted by me; for though the lozenge has a "supposed" resemblance to the distaff or fusil, heraldically it is but a supposed one, and by most writers the difference is very distinctly indicated. Boyer says: "A fusil is a bearing in heraldry made in the form of a spindle, with its yarn or thread wound about it. _Fusils are longer than lozenges_, and taper or pointed at both ends." The same author thus describes a lozenge: "A Rhimbus, in geometry, is a figure of four equal and parallel sides, but not rectangular." Robson says: "Fusil, a kind of spindle used in spinning. Its formation should be particularly attended to, _as few painters or engravers make a sufficient distinction between the fusil and lozenge_." Nisbet describes a lozenge to be-- "A figure that has equal sides and unequal angles, as the quarry of a glass window placed erect pointways." He adds: "The Latins say, 'Lozengae factae sunt ad modum lozangiorum in vitreis.' Heralds tell us that their use in armories came from the pavement of marble stones of churches, fine palaces and houses, cut after the form of lozenges, which pavings the French and Italians call loze and the Spaniards _loza_." Sylvester de Petra-Sancta of the lozenge says much the same: "Scutulas oxigonias scu acutangulus erectas, et quasi gradiles, referri debere ad latericias et antiquas domus olim, viz. Nobilium quia vulgus, et infamiae sortis homines, intra humiles casus, vet antra inhabitantur."