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Sacring-bell, n. Also: -yng-, -yn(e)-, -ane-, secrrind- and -bel. [ME and e.m.E. sacrynge (1395), saccaring (1584), sacring bell (1598), f. ME (1297) and e.m.E. sacring, etc. consecration, vbl. n.; Sacre v.] A bell rung at the elevation of the host in the mass. c1453–4 Coll. St. Salvator 161 n.
A sacryn bel of siluer weyand sevyn owns [etc.] c1500 Ib. 161.
Tua sacryn bellis of siluer … for the he altar 1502 Treas. Acc. II 343.
For tua small sacryne bellis, tane at ane cremar c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 160 (B).
Quhen thow heiris ane guse cry in the glenis Thow thinkis it swetar than secrrind [M. sacryne] bell of sound Ib. (OUP) 162/50.
Sacring bell 1519 Edinb. Hammermen 98b.
Gevin to Jaspart for mending of the sacrane bell & makin of ane new toung to it xij d. 1530 Ib. 130b.
For ane sacring bell weand iiij pund wecht … x s. vj d. 1540 Maxwell Mem. 409.
Sacryng bell c1559 Innes Rev. XVI 130.
Sex sacryne bellis