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"ON SUNDAY, Oct. 28, 1770, was rung at GREAT YARMOUTH, in the County of Norfolk, a compleat peal of 5040 changes of Bob-major, by eight of the UNION SOCIETY of the Norwich Ringers, in the space of 3 hours and 20 minutes. - This performance of ours would not have been inserted had it not been for some unfriendly and ill meant expressions which have been breathed out by a company of Suffolk Ringers about 18 miles from Norwich, who declared that Norwich Ringers could not compleat a peal in any steeple where there is any considerable weight of metal. We have, to the above Performance, subscribed our Names, JOHN CHAMBERLIN - Treble and called the Peal. JOHN DIXON - 2. JOHN HAVERS - 3. JOHN KEENUS - 4. WILLIAM WARNER - 5. JOHN PEAK - 6. JAMES WATLING - 7. SIMON WATLING - Tenor. Certified by Robert Church, William Browne, Philip Scott of Yarmouth. N.B. - The Tenor weighs 25 Hundred 1 Quarter. P.S. - The above Company challenge to ring with any Company whatever, and for any Sum." Advert in both Norwich Mercury and Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 3 November 1770. (Sourced from Order and Disorder in the Eighteenth Century by John Eisel.)
