That there should pass a moment of the year
When in their land the Almighty's service ceased."
Any communication of interest of the above subject will much oblige
JARLTZBERG.
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.
Handbell before a Corpse (Vol. ii., p. 478.).—It is usual, at the funeral of any member of the University of Oxford, for the University marshal and bellman to attend in the character of mutes. As the procession moves along, the latter rings his bell at about half-minute time. I have witnessed it also when the deceased has been one of the family of a member of the University, and when he has been a matriculated person. I have never considered it as anything but a cast of the bellman's office, to add more solemnity to the occasion.
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