"Robert Forman collected the money for casting this bell Of well-disposed people, as I do you tell." At Bath Abbey, on the tenth bell, is,-- "All you of Bath that hear me sound, Thank Lady Hopton's hundred pound." On the fifth bell at Amesbury is,-- "Be strong in faith, praise God well, Frances Countess Hertford's bell." And, on the tenor,-- "Altho' it be unto my loss, I hope you will consider my cost." At Stowe, Northamptonshire, and at St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, we find,-- "Be it known to all that doth me see, That Newcombe, of Leicester, made me." At St. Michael's, Coventry, on the fourth bell, is,-- "I ring at six to let men know When to and from their work to go." On the seventh bell is,-- "I ring to Sermon with a lusty bome, That all may come and none can stay at home." On the eighth bell is-- "I am and have been called the common bell To ring, when fire breaks out to tell." At St. Peter's-le-Bailey, Oxford, four bells were sold towards finishing the tower, and in 1792 a large bell was put up, with this inscription:-- "With seven more I hope soon to be For ages joined in harmony." But this very reasonable wish has not yet been realized; whereas at St. Lawrence's, Reading, when two bells were added to form a peal of ten, on the second we find-- "By adding two our notes we'll raise, And sound the good subscribers' praise." The occasion of the erection of the Westminster Clock-tower, is said to have been as follows:--A certain poor man, in an action for debt, being fined the sum of 13s. 4d., Radulphus Ingham, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, commiserating his case, caused the court roll to be erased, and the fine reduced to 6s. 8d., which being soon after discovered, Ingham was amerced in a pecuniary mulct of eight hundred marks, which was employed in erecting the said bell-tower, in which was placed a bell and a clock, which, striking hourly, was to remind the judges in the hall of the offence of their brother. This bell was originally called Edward; "but," says a writer in the "Antiquarian Repertory," "when the Reformation caused St. Edward and his hours to be but little regarded; as other bells were frequently called Tom, as fancied to pronounce that name when stricken--that at Lincoln, for instance, and that at Oxford--this also followed the fashion, of which, to what I remember of it before it was hung up, I may add another proof from a catch made by the late Mr. Eccles, which begins-- "'Hark, Harry, 'tis late--'tis time to be gone, For Westminster Tom, by my faith, strikes one."