Catalogue of Brand Material.
149
Peal rung at midnight
Submerged bells thought to be heard at midnight
Christmas Day.
Peals rung - - - -
" Pye bell," between noon
and I p.m. " Plum-pudding bell " rung
by request, a month before
Christmas Twelve days of Christmas,
Curfew or " Culfer " rung
on two bells, 7 a.m. and
7 p.m. - - - - Twelve days of Christmas,
Curfew silent -
LOCALITY.
Beds. (Gt. Barford. Wo- bum), Herts. (Abbots' Langley, Ashwell.etc), Lines. (Kirton in Lindsey, 1640 ; cf. lyi Memoriam, No. xxviii. Staffs. (Bilston, 1685, etc. ; Wolverhampton, 1893)-
Salop (Bomere), Notts. (Raleigh).
Beds. (Cranfield ^ Gol- dington, Flitwood), Glos. (Ruardlean, by bequest), Hants. (St. Mary Bourne 2), Herts. (Rushden, King's Wal- den^), Lines. (Eden- ham, S. Kelsey, etc.-*), Rutland ("in most places ' ') , Yorksh. (Wen- sleydale, called Virgin's Chimes).
Worcester (St. Helens).
Worcester (St. Martins).
Leeds (i8th cent.).
Salop (Cleobury Morti- mer).
' North, Ch. Bells of Beds., p. 107.
2" At Christinas the bells had no rest" (Stevens, .SV. Mary Bourne).
=> North, Ck. Bells of Herts., p. 76.
^ Ibid, Lines., pp. 220-221, "in very many places."
