Campanalogia - Fabian Stedman

Second down, fourth up.

12345	31524	34125	43512	35412	Extre.
	31254	34215	43521	35421	53142
21345	32154	32415	43251	35241	53124
21354	23154	23415	42351	32541	53214
12354	23145	24315	24351	23541	52314
13254	32145	42315	23451	23514	25314
13524	31245	43215	32415	32514	25341
13542	31425	43125	34251	35214	52341
Extre.	31452	43152	34521	35124	53241
31542	34152	Extre.	34512	35142	&c.

In ringing terms the hunts are named in short, as in the peals here prickt. The first which is named is here understood to be the whole-hunt, and the last the half-hunt. For instance, Treble is the whole-hunt, and fifth the half-hunt; and treble is the whole-hunt, and fourth the half-hunt, &c.

The Changes on six Bells.

There are seven hundred and twenty changes to be rung of six bells. But the Learner may first practice some shorter peals.

The twenty four changes are thus rung. The treble must continually hunt through the rest of the notes, and every time it leads or lies behind them, an extream change must then be made between the two farthest notes from it. The treble hunts up (a). A change is made betwixt the two farthest notes from it, which are 2.3 (b). The treble hunts down (c). An extream change is made betwixt 5.6 (d), which method must be continued to the end. Any note may be made a hunt at pleasure, and the extream changes may as well be made betwixt the two nearest notes to the hunt. The Thirty-all-over are rung according to the method of the Twelve all over upon four bells, to which I refer.

	123456
a	213456
	231456
	234156
	234516
	234561
b	324561
c	324516
	324156
	321456
	312456
	132456
d	132465

The thirty six changes are thus rung. The treble hunts up into the third place, and then the two first notes make a change. The treble hunts down again to lead, and then the two notes in the 3d and 4th places do make a change, except the 2 lies next the treble, and then the two hindmost notes. The treble hunts up (a). The two first notes make a change (b). The treble hunts down (c); the 2.4 make a change (d). In which manner the changes are to be made untill the treble leads, and the 2 (which may be term’d the half-hunt) lies next it, and then the extream change is made behind, as in the last change of this example, there being but two of these changes in the peal.

	123456
a	213456
a	231456
b	321456
c	312456
c	132456
d	134256
e	314256
e	341256
f	431256
g	413256
g	143256
h	142356
i	412356
i	421356
k	241356
l	214356
l	124356
m	124365
	&c.

In the Twelvescore long-hunts, (otherwise called the Esquire’s twelvescore); the 6th and 5th are hunts, and 1234 do make the twenty four changes. The 6th and 5th do hunt down by turns, and when either of them leads, one of the twenty four changes must then be made. The course and method of this is the same with that of the forty eight changes on five bells, to which I refer the Learner.