pricking and ringing
Courses; the first and third for directing you in Pricking them, and the
first and second in Ringing them.

There is one _Difficulty_ to be removed e're I can come to prick down
those _Peals_ I design to be the Subject of the Discourse of this
_Epitome_, and that is, _How to make the first Changes at the beginning
of each Peal_; I mean to make the _Second_, _Third_, _Fourth_, &c.
_whole Hunts_; and this in short is thus directed: In any _Cross-Peal_
the _Whole Hunt_ may move either up or down at the beginning; and the
Motion of the _Whole Hunt_, in the first Course of each of the following
Peals, will direct the first Motion of any _Cross-hunt_, and by
Consequence of making the first Changes in that Peal. Taking along with
you this Observation.

That whensoever the first Change of any Peal happens to be _single_, it
must be made at the back-stroke, to prevent _cutting Compass_; and the
like when a double Change happens first in a Peal of _Triples and
doubles_: But when it happens, that the first Change is made at the
Back-stroke, then Consequently the Bells at the end of the Peal will
come round at a Fore-stroke Change.

I shall omit speaking to any of the several _Peals_ on _four or five
Bells_; for that in my Opinion little _Musick_ is heard, though much
_practical Observation_ is made, from them; and therefore shall begin
with _Grandsire-Bob_, as having mentioned it but just before in my
general View I made of _Cross-Peals_.

_Grandsire Bob._

_Bob_ Changes take their Name from this, _viz._ When the _Treble_ leads
in the _Second_ and _Third_, and the _Fifth_ and _Sixth_'s places, then
they are called _Bob-Changes_. In Ringing which you are to observe these
Rules, _viz._

Whatsoever Bells you follow when you _Hunt up_, the same Bells in the
same order you must follow in _Hunting down_; as in the Changes here
prickt, where the _Treble_ hunting up _First_ follow _Second_, then
_Fourth_, and then _Sixth_; when it comes behind, _First_ follows
_Second_, in hunting down _Fourth_; and when hunted up follows _Sixth_
in the same Order: The like may be observed in Ringing any other Bell,
with this Difference betwixt the Whole-hunt and the rest, _viz._ Every
time the Whole-hunt leaves the _Treble_'s place, and hunts up, it
followeth different Bells from what it did at its first hunting up.

In the ensuing Peal here prickt are _Eighteen-score_ Changes, wanting
one. It may be Rung with any _Hunt