THE
USE AND ABUSE
OF
THE CHURCH BELLS,
WITH
Practical Suggestions concerning them.
BY
WALTER BLUNT, A.M.,
A PRIEST OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH.
LONDON:
JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET.
MDCCCXLVI.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS,
ALDERSGATE STREET.
THE USE AND ABUSE
OF
THE CHURCH BELLS.
It has fallen to the writer’s lot, in the Divine dispensation, to be entrusted with the care, or joint care, of very many parishes in various parts of England: and he knows not any one external matter, common to them all, and to the neighbourhoods surrounding them, which has caused him more pain than the ordinary use, and the almost utter neglect for their own proper purposes, of the Church Bells.