ng form
occasionally.

In Meivod Church, Montgomeryshire, a bell (the "great" bell, I think)
has the inscription--

"I to the church the living call,
And to the grave do summon all."

The same also is found on the great bell of the interesting church
(formerly cathedral) of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire.

E. DYER GREEN.

Nantcribba Hall.

I beg to forward the following inscription on one of the bells in the
tower of St. Nicholas Church, Sidmouth. I have not met with it
elsewhere; and you may, perhaps, consider it worthy of being added to
those given by CUTHBERT BEDE and J. L. SISSON:

"Est michi collatum
Ihc istud nomen amatum."

There is no date, but the characters may indicate the commencement of
the fifteenth century as the period when the bell was cast.

G. J. R. GORDON.

At Lapley in Staffordshire:

"I will sound and resound to thee, O Lord,
To call thy people to thy word."

G. E. T. S. R. N.

Pray add the following savoury inscriptions to your next list of
bell-mottoes. The first disgraces the belfry of St. Paul's, Bedford; the
second, that, of St. Mary's, Islington:

"At proper times my voice I'll raise,
And sound to my _subscribers'_ praise!"

"At proper times our voices we will raise,
In sounding to our _benefactors'_ praise!"

The similarity between these two inscriptions favours the supposition
that the ancient {110} bell-founders, like some modern enterprising
firms, kept a poet on the establishment, _e.g._

"Thine incomparable oil, Macassar!"

J. YEOWELL.

A friend informs me, that on a bell in Durham Cathedral these lines
occur:

"To call the folk to Church in time,
I chime.
When mirth and pleasure's on the wing,
I ring.
And when the body leaves the soul,
I toll."

J. L. S.

* * * * *

ARMS OF GENEVA.

(Vol. viii., p. 563.)

Your correspondent who desires the blazon of the arms of the "town of
Geneva," had better have specified to which of the two bearings assigned
to that name he refers.

One of these, which I saw on the official seal affixed to the passport
of a friend of mine lately returned from that place, is an instance of
the obsolete practice of _dimidiation_; and is the more singular,
because only the dexter one of the shields thus impaled undergoes
curtailment.

The correct blazon, I believe, would b