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Twenty four changes may be rung upon four bells: but the Learner may first practice the twelve changes, and the eighteen changes. In the twelve changes the notes are all to be hunted up after one another, which may be called the Twelve all over. First the treble-note must be hunted up, letter a; then the second note must likewise hunt up, letter b; next the
third note must hunt up, letter c; and lastly the 4th note also, letter (d).
The four notes may also hunt down one after another. First, the 4th note must hunt down to lead: then the 3d note likewise, and so the 2d and Treble one after another, which may be term'd the Twelve all under.
Courteous Reader, in my directions to the course of each peal, I do there re∣fer by letters to the examples; which I am forced to do, to prevent those con∣fused breaks, and unhandsome spaces, which otherwise would have happen'd both in examples and precepts. What∣ever letter I mention in my directions, refers to the like at the figures. For in∣stance; in my directions to the twelve changes next before, I there directed the treble-note to be first hunted up, letter a; which letter refers to the the like letter at the first three changes of the twelve, where the Treble hunted up, as 'tis here again re∣presented, and the like of the rest.
In the Eighteen changes, the Treble is a
hunting note, but never hunts up farther than the 3d place; and when it lies there, the two first notes must make a change; and every time it leads, the two hindmost notes. First it hunts up into the 3d place, letter a; the two first notes, which are 2. 3, make a change, letter b; the Treble hunts down c. The two hindmost notes make a change d, the Treble hunts up e. The two first notes, which are 3.4, make a change f; the Treble hunts down g; the two last notes, which are 3.2, make a change h, i k l m which method being continued, will bring the bells round at the end of eighteen changes. The Eighteen changes may also be rung by hunting the 4th note down into the 2d place, and then a change to be made behind: the 4th note to be hunted up again into its own place, and then a change to be made before, which course being continued, will produce Eighteen changes.
The Six changes on three are the ground of the Twenty four changes on four; for one of the four notes hath a constant hunting mo∣tion
through the other three, in the same manner as in the preceding Example, pag. 50. and the three notes are to make the six chan∣ges in the same manner as I have before shewed in the changes on three bells; one of the six changes being always made every time the hunt lies either before or behind the three bells: therefore if the Learner do but rightly apprehend the course of the six changes, and also the manner of the motion of the hunting note, he will presently under∣stand the method of the twenty four chan∣ges. The six changes in the twenty four, ac∣cording to the terms of ringing are called Extream changes, and the three bells which makes them, Extream bells. So that in the twenty four changes, there is a hunt and three extream bells. Every time the hunt lies either before or behind the extream bells, an extream change must then be made. The extream changes may be made two ways, viz. either betwixt the two farthest extream bells from the hunt, or else betwixt the two nearest extream bells to it. In this Example every extream change shall be made betwixt the two farthest extream bells from the hunt, and the treble shall be the hunting note, which must first
hunt up a; then the two farthest notes from the hunt, which are 2.3, must make an extream change b. The Treble must hunt down c. The two farthest notes from the hunt, which are 2.4, must make an extream change d. The treble must hunt up e; the two farthest notes from the hunt, which are 3.4, must make an extream change f. The treble-note must hunt down g. The two farthest extream bells from the hunt, which are 3.2, must make an extream change h. The treble must hunt up i. The two farthest notes from the hunt, which are 4.2, must make an extream change k. The treble must hunt down l. The two farthest extream bells, which are 4.3, must make an extream change m, which con∣cludes the peal. Now the Learner for his sa∣tisfaction may take out the extream changes in the same order as they were made, as first at b, then d, and so f. h. k. m. and they will stand as they are here set down; where 'tis evident, that 2.3.4 have made the six changes according to the method of the first six changes on three bells, before set down,
(pag. 48.) where the first change of that six was 213, and this being 324, is the same in course though the figures differ, and the rest of the changes in this six, are likewise the same in course and method with those.
In the preceding twenty four changes, e∣very extream change was made betwixt the two furthest extream bells from the hunt. I will therefore here set down an example, where they shall be made between the two nearest bells to it. First, the tre∣ble hunts up a. The two next notes to the hunt, which are 3.4, must make an extream change b. The Treble must hunt down c. The two nearest notes to the hunt, which are 2.4, must make an extream change d. The Tre∣ble hunts up e. The two nea∣rest extream bells to the hunt, which are 2.3, must make an ex∣tream change f. The Treble hunts down g. The two next extream bells to the hunt, which are 4.3, must make a change h. And the like extream changes being made as at k and m, i concludes the peal.
The six extream changes, viz.
( b. d. f. h. k. and m.) being set down by themselves, l will stand in this order, as here you see; where 'tis plain, that 2 3 4 have made the six changes, according to the me∣thod of the last six changes on three bells, pag. 49. where the first change of that six is made between the last two notes thus, 1 3 2. So in like manner is the first here thus, 243, which is the same method with that, though not the same figures.
So that the making of the ex∣tream changes two ways in the twenty four, proceeds from the two ways of making the six changes on three bells. This last way of making the extream changes, may, for di∣stinction from the other way, be called me∣diums; which term is very proper, in regard that the two middlemost of the four notes do always make the extream change. The ex∣tream changes in one peal must all be made alike, that is, either betwixt the two farthest notes from the hunt, or else betwixt the two nearest notes to it; but the most usual way is to make them between the two farthest.
Any note may be made a hunt at pleasure, and its first motion at the beginning of the peal may be either up or down. The twenty
four changes may be rung sixteen ways accor∣ding to the aforesaid method, yet the chan∣ges in each are still one and the same; but by making each note a hunt, and moving it ei∣ther up or down at the be∣ginning, and also by making the extream changes two ways, the course of the changes will be so altered, that the same changes shall not come all along together in any two of those sixteen ways. With the hunting of one note it may be rung four ways; for the note may move either up or down at the beginning of the peal; then in its motion either way the extream changes may be made two ways, as before: so that to make each note a hunt, and with each hunt to ring it four ways makes sixteen in the whole. Wherein 'tis ob∣servable, that the treble∣note cannot be moved down at first, nor the 4th up; therefore an extream change must first be
made, which is as effectual as if either note had moved at first. I have here prickt the twenty four changes three ways, wherein the extream changes are all made betwixt the two farthest notes from the hunt.
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| 2d. down. | 3d. up | 4. up. |
| 1234 | 1234 | 1234 |
| 3134 | 1243 | 2134 |
| 2143 | 2143 | 2143 |
| 1243 | 2134 | 2413 |
| 1423 | 2314 | 4213 |
| 1432 | 3214 | 4231 |
| 4132 | 3241 | 2431 |
| 4123 | 2341 | 2341 |
| 4213 | 2431 | 2314 |
| 2413 | 2413 | 3214 |
| 2431 | 4213 | 3241 |
| 4231 | 4231 | 3421 |
| 4321 | 4321 | 4321 |
| 4312 | 3421 | 4312 |
| 3412 | 3412 | 3412 |
| 3421 | 4312 | 3142 |
| 3241 | 4132 | 3124 |
| 2341 | 4123 | 1324 |
| 2314 | 1423 | 1342 |
| 3214 | 1432 | 1432 |
| 3124 | 1342 | 4132 |
| 3142 | 3142 | 4123 |
| 1342 | 3124 | 1423 |
| 1324 | 1324 | 1243 |
| 1234 | 1234 | 1234 |