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Title: Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing
Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all
sorts of Plain Changes

Author: Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman

Release Date: June 12, 2006 [EBook #18567]

Language: English

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TINTINNALOGIA:

OR,

THE ART OF RINGING.

Wherein
Is laid down plain and
easie Rules for Ringing
all sorts of _Plain Changes_.

Together with
Directions for Pricking and
Ringing all _Cross Peals_; with
a full Discovery of the Mystery
and Grounds of each Peal.

_As Also_
Instructions for _Hanging of Bells_,
with all things belonging thereunto.

_by a Lover of that ART._

A. Persii Sat. V.
Disce: sed ira cadat naso, rugosaque sanna,

LONDON,
Printed for _F.S._ and are to be Sold by
_Tho. Archer_, at his Shop under the _Dyal_ of
St. _Dunstan's Church_ in _Fleet-street_, 1671.

TO THE NOBLE SOCIETY OF COLLEDGE-YOUTHS.

GENTLEMEN,

I have seen a Treatise intituled, _de Tintinnabulis_--that
is, of little Bells, the Language Latin, but pen'd by a
_Dutchman_, being a Discourse of striking tunes on little
Bells with traps under the feet, with several Books on several
Instruments of Music, and Tunes prick't for the same; Then
considering that the Well-wishers to either of them, took
great pains to make plain the use of them, I thought it worth
a Dayes labour, to write something on this Art or Science,
that the Rules thereof might not be lost and obscured to some,
as the _Chronicles_ before _William_ the Conqueror, being given
only by Tradition from Father to Son. Wherefore I humbly intreat
you favourably to accept this small Treatise, as a foundation
whereon may be raised a famous Structure; and if any one objects
a fault, excuse it with the Ringing term--He was Over-bell'd--So
you will much oblige him