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These accounts, too, like all others, are full of items for the repairs of the bells and bell-ropes, confirming what may be found in the narratives of old French and Italian travellers concerning our English passion for bell-ringing. The following looks very much like cause and effect:—

The "King's day" was that on which the King ascended the throne. Again, to show the mixed and varied contents of the Churchwardens' Books, we will once more go back to those of Ellingham. Under the date of 1556 we find:—

Under the head of "Layinges out in the secunde yere," meaning 1557, we meet:—

And, again, under the "Layinges out in the thyrdde yere," we find:—

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