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AWM.738.005
14-21 Feb 1738:21 (947)
London, October 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 2500 pounds. 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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