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(Berrow's Worcester Journal, Thurs. 8 Jan. 1789; extract kindly provided by John Eisel)

On Monday 29th December last was rung at St. John's Church Bromsgrove by a band of junior performers of the union society of that place, a musical true and complete peal of Bob Majors containing 12000 changes with the tenors dodging at home the last six by course ends [sic] the above performance was compleated in seven hours and thirty eight minutes at the first attempt.

BN 03.0401 (list) gives the conductor as Charles Ravenscroft