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BELLS OF ST. CLEMENTS.
MUTE PEAL IN A FAMOUS" CHURCH TOWER.
ORANGES AND LEMONS,"
The famous peal of bells of St. Clement Danes, in the Strand has been mute this Easter, writes a Citizen in the Daily Telegraph. London people are not observant. Thousands hurry by each working day
into Fleet street and beyond, but amid the rush of traffic and with the moisy hum of the city all round them, probably very few have missed tho clang of the bells, though they have been silent now for some weeks. Up in the belfry the long ropes dangle, untouched by any hand.
Consternation has been among the bell- ringers. The stout oaken frame which bears the immense weight of this swinging metal, that has vibrated over the city with so much melody, might seem to an unskilled eye strong enough to resist anything short of he crack of doom. But the plain fact is that the constantly- swinging have worked the
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Sorrowfully the rector told the present writer that he dare not ring the peal for fear of bringing the bells down upon the ringors' heads.
IN NURSERY LAND.
St. Clement's bells belong to no single parish, not even to great London. They have rung for untold centuries through the whole realm of nursery-land, whose boundaries only the most distant oceans encompass...
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"Oranges and lemons,"
Bay the bells of St. Clement's. who is there alive, with English blood in his veins, who does not remember, the And rhyme since earliest childhood ? who wrote those lines 7 Someone has missed inimmortality by not leaving is his No one knows their date. I am prone to suspect that they are Elizab than, a product. of that great age greater poetry than the jingle lay claim to be, which has given many rhymes that live in nursery litera- ture. The calch saying with which our youngest hopefuls seek to untrap their. elders, forgetting that they themselves were once children, are, for the most part of still earlier date.
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"How many cows tails would it take to reach the moon? "One-if it were long enough.17 been left to learned bibliophiles, grey- beards with strained eyes poring through gold-rimmed spectacles over the earliest productions of the English printing press, to discover that this little quip was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in his Demaundes Joyous, a nursery book of the Four centuries have not year 1510.
blunted its point, and still it in potest to produce shouts of infantile laughter.
"Lend me five farthings," Say the bells of St. Martin's.
the be When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey": "When I am rich," and Say the belle of Shoreditch.
When will that be?"
Say the bells of Stepney.
St. Martin's, the bells of Old Bailey, Shoreditch, Stepney-they are all identi fied in their proper names and places, and so is "the big bell of Bow," which, with its "I'm sure I don't know," closes
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doubt be admitted. What liave oranges and lemons to do with St. Clement Danes, unless it be to serve the need of a some what halting rhyme f The association is not obvious. St. Clement's bells sead their message over Drury-lane, which is within the parish, and the orange girls of Drury-lane have their place in history. Was not Sweet Nell of Old Drury herself JOINT. SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS TO AND FROM JAPAN PORTS. And en Fixed Deposite at rates which may
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But to pierce a King's favourite! mystery one must go deeper than such superficial explanations, and the solution was probably found by the Rev. Septimus Pennington, whose long and devoted labours as rector of St. Clement Danes will never be forgotten. recalled that at old Clement's Inn--the lawyers inn near by-it was the custom at the New Year for the servants to go to all the chambers, presenting oranges
The cargo of Raw Silk shipped on board the M.M. str. Atlantique, which Jeft this port on the 21st April, was delivered at Lyons on the 22nd May. and lemons to the tenants, while from the
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Lawyers of note have been there. Justice Shallow was of Clement's Inn, boasting the braggart that often he had heard the chimee at midnight.
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The tenor weighs 24 cwt. Eight of these metal. St. Clement Danes stood outside "Sancte, Sancte, Sancte, Domine Deus to St. Clement Danes. Perchance the old
Babaoth,
horologist who made this clook, wily in were cast by William and Philip Wight the area of the fire, which stopped on the
the Sanctus was rung, and sent its his day, determined to give himself two man, in 1698, eleven years after the city area of the Temple Bar St. Clemont present church was built
of "Robertus Mot fecit" is moulded in essage over the whole of the parish, that chances of accuracy in timekeeping.
A joyful peal from St. Clement Danes sickness or on the bed of death might belfry, standing at the very gate of the English was an Anglo-Saxon church standing better, with the date 1598.
a direct link with the days before the humbly kneel or how in supplication with city, has rung to welcome every
through to his corona- hore when William the Conqueror and
You may from the wide their fellow worshippers within the Sovereign
tion at Westminster or returning to honour the city of London with a visit. his host landed near Hastings The fac reformation.
To-day the belfry is mute, as though a high overhead, where through the pierced
Shakespeare must have heard this samt bit of Old I London's long history and Few people know that St. Clement tower the flagstaffs bear their weight of Daned still preserves its original Sanctus streaming hunting on festival days. The bell, for it rang in Shakespeare's
the high tower sweeps the dust from the Bell, which rightly is regarded as the same note, silvery, clear, and
when Brida's passage, Fleet-street; Dr. Samuel most treasured possession of the church that to-day it gives out and penetrating London; Milton, when he lived in St. tradition had passed out of it. Wind in they hang listlessly, no one daring, Many others, no doubt, survived the ass was calebrated within the walls of Johnson, who regularly attended this bells; their note is as true as aver, but reformation, and were hanging in the this now Anglican church. The hear is church, where his pew in the north because of the shaking frame, to give a beffries when the Great Fire of 1606 swept struck upon it by the clock-a simple a gallery is marked by a tablet. Still every turn to the wheels which would release FIXED DEPOSIT received for 1 year or Bergh houden, destroying in ita path but in tarlor times the Saints Blour through the night and day you may all this melody. The rector of St. shorter periods of rates which will be quoted thrower than eighty-nine of the ninety-played a part of no mean in Colic hear the note, for the clock-strike first Clement Danos is the Rev. W-Pennington en application
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Who will help the rector to Bickford. seven City churches. In that tremendous the gorgeous ritual of the Roman Catholic on the great tenor bell, and then
service moment later the note is repeated on the conflagration the belle, great and small, Church. At the point in the
Sanctus.
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