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Tuesday, 27 February 1816 in 8h 27 (12–2–9 in F♯)

15120 Treble Dodging Minor (21m)

(21m: Evening Delight, Evening Star, Cheapside, Cambridge, Symphony, Bob Royal, Morning Exercise, Morning Star, Morning Pleasure, Primrose, Tulip, College Treble, College Pleasure, London Scholars, Oxford, St Ann's Delight, Navigation Bob, Violet, Duke of York, City Delight, Rodney's Victory)

1 Christopher Taylor

2 Joseph Blackburn

3 Joseph Myers

4 Edward Myers

5 Matthew Blackburn

6 William Blackburn (C)

(Leeds Mercury, Sat. 9 March 1816; extract kindly provided by David Cubitt)

Superior Ringing.—The following twenty-one peals were rung at Wath-on-Dearne, in the West-Riding of this County, on Shrove Tuesday, the 27th ult. by the superior and well known ringers of Wath,—each peal containing 720 changes, making in the whole 15,120 changes, which were brought round in a grand and masterly style in eight hours and twenty-seven minutes. This is the grandest number of changes that were ever rung by any six men in England—10,800 changes being the greatest amount previous to this, and which were rung by the Darton Ringers in this county. The peals were conducted by William Blackburn, without ever a man leaving his rope, or a bell being out of place.

Further details taken from The History and Art of Change Ringing (Morris, 1931, p.371), but BN 01.0162 states that Edward Rogers rang the fourth.