Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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included in:-	St Mary, Kirkby Lonsdale
	St Mary, Kirkby Lonsdale: bell ringing
	BQY60.jpg  Notice about the bells. (taken 1.7.2009)
	"Kirkby Lonsdale"
	"Peal of Six Bells"
	"Thomas Mears. Londini. fecit"
	": cwt :"
	"Tenor : 10 approx. : G"
	"V : 8 approx : A"
	"IV : 6 approx : B"
	"III : 5½: C"
	"II : 5 approx : D"
	"Treble : 4½approx : E"
	"Cast at Whitechapel Bell Foundry. LONDON"
Dove data:-	scale:-
	F sharp, G sharp, A sharp, B, C sharp, D sharp
	First 6 notes; intervals TTSTT; F sharp major.
	Bells cast by Thomas Mears, 1825.
	Dove 2009 www.dove.cccbr.org.uk
photocopy:-	Church Bells in the Deanery of Brampton:-
	vol.6 p.83
	t1006083.jpg
	Godfrey, Robert: 1881: Westmorland Bells: TransCWAAS: vol.6: pp.83-85
notes:-	Painted on the wall of the ringing chamber is:-
	"The Ringing Orders If to Ring you do come here You must ring well with hand &Ear Kep stroke & time &go not out Or else You forfeit Without doubt He that a Bell doth overthrow Must pay his Groat before he go He that rings with his Hat on Must pay his Groat &so begone He that rings with spur on heel The same penalty he must feel If an Oath you chance to swear You forfeit Each two Quarts of beer These lines are old they are not new Therefore the Ringers must have their due N.B Any ringer entering a peal of six pays his shilling"

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