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Wherein
Is laid down plain andeasie Rules for Ringingall sorts of Plain Changes.
Together with
Directions for Pricking andRinging all Cross Peals; witha full Discovery of the Mysteryand Grounds of each Peal.
As Also
Instructions for Hanging of Bells,with all things belonging thereunto.
by a Lover of that ART.
A. Persii Sat. V.
Disce: sed ira cadat naso, rugosaque sanna,
LONDON,
Printed for F.S. and are to be Sold byTho. Archer, at his Shop under the Dyal ofSt. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1671.
To the Noble Society of Colledge-Youths.
On the Ingenious Art of Ringing.
Upon the Presentation of Grandsire Bob to the Colledge-Youths, by the Author of that Peal.
Of the Beginning of Changes.
Of the Changes.
The Changes on three Bells.
The Plain Changes on four Bells.
The Twenty all over.
An Eight and Forty.
Cambridge Eight and Forty.
The Plain Changes on five Bells.
The Changes on six Bells.
The Twelve score Long Hunts: Or the Esquire's Twelve-score.
The Variety of Changes on any Number of Bells.
Doubles And Singles on four Bells.
Doubles and Singles on five Bells.
Tendring's Six-score on five Bells.
Paradox on five Bells.
Phoenix. On five Bells.
London Pleasure on five Bells.
What you please. Doubles and Singles on 5 Bells.
Reading Doubles. On five Bells.
Old Doubles. On five Bells.
New Doubles. On five Bells.
Grandsire on five Bells.
The Seven-score and four on six Bells.
Trebles and Doubles on six Bells.
Grandsire Bob. On six Bells.
Changes on eight Bells.
Of Hanging Bells.
Gentlemen,
I have seen a Treatise intituled,de Tintinnabulis—thatis, of little Bells, theLanguage Latin, but pen'dby a Dutchman, being aDiscourse of striking tunes on littleBells with traps under the feet,with several Books on sev