. Church bells: their uses, their romance, and their history . ound-ringing, a rude jangling of untuned bells, though itwas surpassed, he .says, in greater variety of the beginning of the 17th ccntiu-y, Lincoln had acompany called Ringers of Our Blessed Virgin may fairly assume, from the early Rules exist-ing in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire belfries, thatchange-ringing had become general there, and fairproficiency reached. Of Yorkshire, I regret that noearly accounts of the practice of this art have reachedme, though we can hardly doubt that, abounding inbells as its capi
. Church bells: their uses, their romance, and their history . ound-ringing, a rude jangling of untuned bells, though itwas surpassed, he .says, in greater variety of the beginning of the 17th ccntiu-y, Lincoln had acompany called Ringers of Our Blessed Virgin may fairly assume, from the early Rules exist-ing in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire belfries, thatchange-ringing had become general there, and fairproficiency reached. Of Yorkshire, I regret that noearly accounts of the practice of this art have reachedme, though we can hardly doubt that, abounding inbells as its capital did, and with bright examples allarotuid it, the county of many acres, atid also of manynoble religious houses, was not behind its much ringing, indeed, was there in England at thisperiod that, in London, Stow tells us, men fabledthat it soured all the drink in the town. Nor isthis surprising when the tolling of Tom of Lincolnalone was said to turn the milk sour for several milesround the Cathedral. S05IE FAJfOUS BELLS AND BELL FOUNDERS. 15. v.—SOME FAMOUS BELLS RND BELL FOUNDERS.
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