Author: Henry Thomas Ellacombe

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Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781332180325

Excerpt from Practical Remarks Belfries and Ringers Reared in a country parsonage, and close to a peal of eight bells, as musical and as well rung as any in the kingdom, it has been my lot from childhood to have seen much of the practices in a country belfry. They had better, I grieve to say, be passed over in silence; for such things as I remember to have seen and heard would hardly be tolerated in a village alehouse; and yet the ringers were considered respectable, honest men in their way, and had the honour - many of them - of being the ringers of the Cathedral bells in the adjoining city, where fifteen men were required; and it was a well-known fact that, as a body, a more drunken set of fellows could not be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.