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BEP(F.738.001
9 Jan 1738:11,12 (126)
London. Octob. 13. On Monday last the Society of London
youths rang at West-Ham in the County of Essex, a complete
peal of 11088 bob-major, or all eight in, which was
completed by eight men only, in seven hours and eleven
minutes, being the longest peal that ever was rung, and is
allow'd by all judges to be the greatest performance ever
done in that exercise, the tenor weighing 2500lb. The bells
were cast by Mr. Samuel Knight, and hung by the famous Mr.
Robert Catlin, the most ingenious man of his age.
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