Transcriber’s Note:
New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.
CAMPANALOGIA:
OR THE
ART
OF
RINGING
Improved.
With plain and easie Rules to guide the Practitioner in the Ringing all kinds of Changes.
TO
Which is added, great variety of
NEW PEALS.
LONDON,
Printed by W. Godbid, for W.S. and are to be sold by Langley Curtis in Goat-Court on Ludgate-hill. 1677.
TO
THE HONOURED
AND TO
His much Esteemed FRIENDS,
The Members of the Society of
COLLEDG YOUTHS.
Gentlemen,
As your Society even ab origine hath deservedly acquired an eminency in many respects above others of this kind; so more especially for the pregnancy of its Members in the composing of Peals. For when the Art of Cross-pricking lay enveloped in such obscurity, that it was thought impossible that double Changes on five bells could be made to extend farther than ten, and triple and double Changes on six farther than sixty; then it was that a worthy and knowing Member of your Society, to dissipate those mists of Ignorance, and to usher in the bright morn of Knowledg, prickt those much applauded Peals of Grandsire and Grandsire Bob; which for their excellency have for many years together continued triumphant in practice amidst all others whatsoever; and which indeed have been a great light in the production of that great variety of new Peals herein contained; the greatest part of which being also the offspring of your Society, I therefore thought fit to usher them into the world under the wings of your Protection.