To collect the inscriptions from nearly two thousand bells, distributed amongst seven hundred churches, was a task which, with my limited leisure, I could not have accomplished unless I had received great assistance.<br><br>At a very early stage of my labours, John Eobert Daniel-Tyssen, Esq., and Amhurst Daniel-Tyssen, Esq., the Rev. J. J. Eaven, D.D., and the Rev. John Henry Sperling placed their collections, not only for Norfolk but for other counties, at my disposal. The Rev. J. A. Ogle of Sedgeford copied for me the inscriptions on the church bells of his rural deanery, and the Rev. Morton Dulley of Barnby, a number of those in his neighbourhood. To these and to other gentlemen who communicated the inscriptions on the bells of their own parish churches my hearty thanks are due, as likewise in a very special manner to Mr. T. E. Tallack, who devoted the summer of 1869 to obtaining the inscriptions from the bells of a large number of churches which, on account of the difficulty of access, had been passed over by previous collectors.