1632 It spent the VIᵗʰ daye of May going the Ambulacione ijs ivd Delivered to Gilbᵗ Weatt, John Pratt, Churchwardens, the 30ᵗʰ daye of December 1632. Wᵗʰ the Church bookes. first the chalice with the cover. A pewtyer flaggine. A cerples and table clothe. A carpitte. A cushine for yᵉ pulpitte and a coveringe Clothe. One table wᵗʰ a forme and a Buffett stoole. vj coweffers (coffers) and vij keys twoe cowffers filled with leade. vj formes and moulde fraeme for castinge of leade: A moulde frame. 5 Tressells of wood. xviij deeds in a boxe xij of yem sealed and vj w’hout seales. Church books (as before, with the addittion of), One book of Homilies. A praire booke of thankesgivinge after yᵉ conspiracie. A boke of Cannons (Canons). Register boke. Dod and Cleaver. Codgers househould Government. Third part of newe watch. 1633 It given unto a Irishman and womane they having a pass to Northumberland iijd It paide for X yards of Holland to make a newe serples and for makinge of yᵗ xxvjs vjd It given to a companie of Irishe foulkes they havinge a pass allowed by Sʳ Rich Harpur iiijd 1634 It given to one having greatt losses and taken prisoner by Turrkes xiijd It paid to John Cooke for the Communion table and the frame and the wealing of it about iijli 1635 It given to a woman that had two chilren ijd CHAPTER VI. REPTON’S MERRY BELLS. “Barrow’s big boulders, Repton’s merry bells, Foremark’s cracked pancheons, and Newton’s egg shells.” Thus does a local poet compare Repton bells with those of neighbouring parishes. It is not intended to defend the comparison, for as Dogberry says, “Comparisons are odorous”! but to write an account of the bells, derived from all sources, ancient and modern. Llewellynn Jewitt, in Vol. XIII. of the _Reliquary_, describing the bells of Repton, writes, “at the church in the time of Edward VI. there were iij great bells & ij small.” Unfortunately “the Churchwardens’ and Constables’ accounts of the Parish of Repton” only extend from the year 1582 to 1635. I have copied out most of the references to our bells entered in them, which will, I hope, be interesting to my readers. Extracts from “the Churchwardens’ and Constables’ accounts of the Parish of Repton.”