Strict Rules of _true
Ringing_: And this is called _Round-ringing_. Now if you design to raise
a Peal of Bells for _Changes_, you ought to raise them to a Set-pull, as
the most proper for commanding the Notes, and he who is not well skilled
to manage his Bell at a Set-pull, will be apt to drop or overturn it, be
in a Wood, and fruitlessly toil and moil himself. Therefore in
practising the Setting of a Bell, cast your Eye about the other
Bell-Ropes, during your managing your own, that you may accustom your
self to manage it according to the _Change_.

2. For _Ringing at a low Compass_, is thus observed: By keeping a due
_punctum_ or beat of time, in the successive striking one after another
of every Bell; the best Ringer being set to the _Treble_, that may guide
and direct the rest of the Notes in their due Measure.

3. _For Ceasing a Peal of Bells_; let them fall gradually from a set
Peal, checking them only at Sally, till the low Compass renders it
useless; and when so low, that for want of Compass, they can scarce
strike at Back-stroak; then let the _Treble_-Ringer stamp, as a
Signal, to notify, that the next time they come to strike at the
Fore-stroke, to check them down, to hinder their striking the
Back-stroke; yet Fore-stroke continued, till brought to a neat and
graceful Chime, which may be the Finis to that Peal.

Thus much in short, for _Raising_, _Round-ringing_, and _Ceasing a Peal_
of Bells; I come next to lead you forth into that spacious Field of
Variety of _Changes_, and present you with Instructions that may be
meerly necessary, for the right Understanding the several kinds of them.

Now in _Ringing Changes_, two of our best Senses, are to be employed,
_viz._ The Ear, and the Eye: The Ear, hearing when to make a _Change_;
and the Eye directing the Bell in making it: The Bells being the Object
of the Former, and the Bell-ropes the Object of the Latter: And to
render both the Eye and Ear Useful in Ringing _Changes_, these Five
things are throughly to be Understood.

_First_, Endeavour to distinguish the _Notes_ of a _Peal_ of _Bells_,
one from another while Ringing.

_Secondly_, Learn to apprehend the places of the _Notes_.

_Thirdly_, Understand the Precedency of _Notes_.

_Fourthly_, How to make a _Change_ in _Ringing_.

_Fifthly_, and _Lastly_, How to Practice the four fore-going Notions, in
General.

1. _To know the Notes of a Peal of Bells asunder_ (which is easy in
_Round-Ringing_) in _C