St. Dunstan’s Doubles. 1 and 2.
The changes are all double except one single every 2d time the treble leads, there being six in the peal. The treble is a perfect hunt; and every time it goeth to lead and leaves leading, the double is made on the two first and two last bells, at which changes the bells in the 3d place lie still and then move down, and the two hind-bells at the same time dodg: but at other times all the bells have a direct hunting course. When the treble leads, and the 2d lieth either in the 2d or 3d places, then a single must always be made betwixt the two next extream bells to the 2d.
| 12345 | 13245 | 12453 |
| 21354 | ||
| 23145 | 15423 | 13542 |
| 32415 | 14532 | 15324 |
| 34251 | ||
| 43521 | 12354 | 14235 |
| 45312 | extre. | single. |
| 54132 | 12534 | 14253 |
| 51423 | ||
| 15432 | 14352 | 13524 |
| 14523 | 13425 | 15342 |
| 41532 | ||
| 45123 | 15243 | 12435 |
| 54213 | single. | Extre. |
| 52431 | 15234 | 12345 |
| 25341 | ||
| 23514 | 14325 | |
| 32154 | 13452 | |
| 31245 | ||
| 13254 | 12543 | |
| single. | extre. |
Church Doubles. 1 and 2.
The changes are all double except six singles as the former. The treble is a perfect hunt; and every time it moves up into the 5th place, and also out of it, the double is then made on the two first and two last bells, at which time the bells in the 3d place do lie still and then move up; and the two first bells at the same time dodg. When the treble leads, and the 2d lieth either in the 2d or 3d places, then a single must always be made betwixt the two next extream bells to the 2d.
| 12345 | 13254 | 14325 |
| 21435 | single. | |
| 24153 | 13245 | 12543 |
| 42513 | Extre. | |
| 24531 | 14532 | 12453 |
| 42351 | 15423 | |
| 24315 | 15324 | |
| 42135 | 12354 | 13542 |
| 41253 | Extre. | |
| 14523 | 12534 | 14235 |
| 15432 | single. | |
| 51342 | 13425 | 14253 |
| 53124 | 14352 | |
| 35214 | 15342 | |
| 53241 | 15243 | 13524 |
| 35421 | single. | |
| 53412 | 15234 | 12435 |
| 35142 | Extre. | |
| 31524 | 13452 | 12345 |
In this and the former peal the singles may be made in another manner, viz. when the whole-hunt leads, and the half-hunt lieth either in the 4th or 5th places, a single must then be made betwixt the two next bells to the half-hunt; but at other times a double change to be made when the whole-hunt leads, as in the former way.
Stedman’s Principle.
The changes are all double, two singles excepted. One double is made on the two first and two last bells, the next on the four last, and so by turns successively; excepting every sixth change, which is double on the four first bells, and for distinction is called a Parting change. All the bells have a like course. The general method is this; the three first bells go the six changes, and the two hind-bells in the mean time dodg; then a Parting change is made which parts the two hind-bells, moving that in the fourth place down into the 3d, and that in the 3d place up into the 4th, and then the three first bells go the six again, the two hind-bells in in the mean time dodging as before; and then another Parting change is made, and so successively on. Every bell that comes behind continues there dodging six changes with one bell and six with another, and then in course the Parting change brings it down. One six cuts compass, the next doth not, and so by turns successively. In the six which cut compass the two first bells of the three makes the first change of it, but in the other the two last of the three. By this method the peal will go sixty changes, and to carry it on farther extreams must be made. An extream is made by the lying still of two bells when in course they should make a change, as before I have shewed more fully in the Introduction, page [90]. but withall observing, that whereas in this peal the bells have all a like course, therefore they may all be termed extream bells, and consequently the extreams to be made according to this general rule, viz. the first extream may be made by any two bells that are in course to make a change within the compass of the first sixty changes of the peal; and the second extream must be made according to this rule. Whatsoever two bells are dodging behind at the first extream, when the same two bells come to dodg there again, is a certain warning for the second extream to be then made. And observe, how many changes the first extream is made from a parting change; so many likewise must the last extream be made after a Parting change also. And the single and extream comes in course each of them to be made in the same place and by the same bells at the last extream, as they were at the first. Here the singles are made behind, and the extreams in the 2d and 3d places; and as the 4th and 5th bells do dodg behind at the first extream, so likewise when they come to dodg there again, the second extream is then made, the treble leading at both of them, as appeareth in the peal here prickt.