"One Bell"

In the sixth edition of the *Book of the Church* (I *believe* references are also given in all editions since the first), Southey gives us his authority for this, "Strype's *Cranmer*, p. 266. (edition of 1694.)" The passage occurs in book ii. chap. 26.: "The Duke of Somerset's death." I quote it from the reprint by the Ecclesiastical History Society (vol. ii. p. 345.): "He (Somerset) is generally charged for the great spoil of churches and chapels; defacing ancient tombs and monuments, and pulling down the bells in parish churches, and *ordering only one bell in a steeple, as sufficient to cal…