rvations being first perfectly
understood.

There are two ways of _Ringing Changes_, viz. By _Walking_ them, as the
Artists stile it; or by _Whole Pulls_ or _Half-pulls_: _Walking_ is,
when in one _Change_ the _Bells_ go round, _Four_, _Six_, or _Eight_
times; which is a most incomparable way to improve a Young Practitioner,
by giving him time to consider, which two _Bells_ do make the next
succeeding _Change_, and in making it, what _Bell_ each is to follow; so
that by this means (by his Industry) he may be capable of Ringing at
_Whole pulls_; which is, when the _Bells_ go round in a _Change_ at Fore
and Back-stroke; and a New _Change_ is made every time they are pulled
down at Sally: This was an Ancient Practice, but is now laid aside,
since we have learnt a more advantageous way of hanging our _Bells_,
that we can manage a _Bell_ with more ease at a _Set-pull_ than
formerly: So that Ringing at _Half-Pulls_ is now the modern general
Practice; that is, when one _Change_ is made at Fore-stroke, another at
Back-stroke, _&c._

He that Rings the slowest _Hunt_, ought to notify the _extream Changes_;
which is, when the Leading _Bell_ is pulling down, that he might make
the _Change_ next before the extreme, he ought to say, _Extreme_. By
this means, betwixt the Warning and the Extreme there will be one
compleat _Change_.

_Of Changes_, &c.

There are _two kinds of Changes_, viz. _Plain Changes_, and
_Cross-peals_; which Terms do denote the _Nature_ of them; for as the
first is stiled _Plain_, so are its methods easy; and as the second is
called _Cross_, so are its Methods cross and intricate: The First have a
general Method, in which all the Notes (except Three) have a direct
_Hunting-Course_, moving gradually under each other, plainly and
uniformly: _Plain_ are likewise termed _single Changes_, because there
is but one single Change made in the striking all the Notes round,
either at Fore or Back-stroke. But the Second is _various_, each _Peal_
differing in its Course from all others; and in _Cross-peals as many
changes may be made as the Notes will permit_. In short, as to
_Plain-changes_, I shall not dilate on them here, it being so _plainly_
understood by every one that lately have rung a _Bell_ in peal; all
therefore I shall add is this, that any two Notes that strike next
together may make a Change, which may be done either _single or double_,
as you list. The _single_, by changing two Notes; and the _double_, b