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Norwich and Redenhall Company of Norfolk Ringers

Bungay, Suffolk

St Mary

Monday, 2 December 1771 in 3h 22

5040 Plain Bob Major

1 Thomas Barton (Norwich) (C)

2 John Bryant (Redenhall)

3 Samuel Bryant (Redenhall)

4 Edmund Wright (Redenhall)

5 James Whiting (Redenhall)

6 Edmund Chandler (Redenhall)

7 Edward Buckingham (Redenhall)

8 John Trowse (Norwich)

Of all the Pleasures that do please Mankind,

It is this healthful Art delight our Mond;

In Love for it, from Town to Town we roam,

And with Bells ringing when at them we come,

Sublimely triumph till at last come home.

"On MONDAY the 2d of December, 1771, was rung at Bungay in Suffolk, by the Norwich and Redenhall Company of Norfolk Ringers, a compleat Peal of 5040 Bob Majors in three Hours and twenty-two Minutes, to the Satisfaction of a Number of Spectators. We have to this Performance added our Names, which are as follow: 1. Thomas Barton, of Norwich, Treble, and call’d the Peal 2. John Bryant, of Redenhall 3. Samuel Bryant, of do. 4. Edmund Wright, of do. 5. James Whiting, of do. 6. Edmund Chandler, of do. 7. Edward Buckingham, of do. 8. John Trowse, of Norwich, Tenor. JOSEPH DYBALL, / CHARLES COCKING Churchwardens. Of all the Pleasures that do please Mankind, It is this healthful Art delight our Mond; In Love for it, from Town to Town we roam, And with Bells ringing when at them we come, Sublimely triumph till at last come home." Norwich Mercury, Saturday 7 December 1771.

(Sourced from Order and Disorder in the Eighteenth Century by John Eisel.)

— Philip D Moyse, Jan 2024