BellBoard
St Mary
Tuesday, 15 October 2013 in 41m (7–0–12)
1260 Primrose Bob Doubles
Composed by Fabian Stedman
1 Angela Brown
2 Michael Hurst
3 Ben Waller
4 Mark Robins
5 Joanne A Waller (C)
6 Roy Pratley
Believed to be the first quarter peal in the method, Primrose Bob Doubles: 5.145.125.1.5 le 125 (3524), first described in Stedman's Campanalogia in 1677 (and composed by 'F.S.').
'The treble hath a direct hunting course as in Plain Changes. And when it hunts up out of the 2d place it makes two singles together, and the like when it hunteth down. When it leads, the single is in the 3d and 4th places... Every bell (except the treble) leads four times, and lies still behind until the treble displaceth it...'
