Season if Maggots a great encrease of the Fruits of the Earth if spongy and hollow without any thing in them scarcity of the Fruits of the Earth the ensuing Year if early Ripe the Winter will soon advance very sharp if dry a dry Winter if very Moist much Wet drisling Snow Rain and Cold Moist Winds ensue if the inner part between both fair and clear then a plentyful Summer will ensue the Weather Fair and Temperate Another Observation is made on the Beech Tree which note on this manner On All-hallows-day Cut off some of the Bark and after that a Chip or little piece of Wood cut it if it be very dry then the ensuing Winter will be dry but pretty warm and temperate if moist a wet Winter If on St. Andrew's day in the Evening much Dew or Wet remain on the Grass it betokens a wet season to follow if dry then the contrary If the Nutt Trees Flower much it betokens great plenty of Corn that Year yet a sickly season in Autumn and a cold Winter Infallible signs of Weather in all seasons throughout the Year by the Planets Elements Creatures c. SInce many have made Conjectures of weather and frequently failed in their Predictions I have now thought fit for the advantage of the industrious Husband Man and others to lay down unerring Rules and Observations whereby the various sorts of Weather with their suddain Changes may be known at all times not only for one Year but for Ever viz. Rain Wind excessive Heat or Cold snow Hail Frost Thunder and Lightning sudden Whirlwinds and Tempests c. and of these in their order Infalliable signs of Rain and drisling wet Weather taken by Observation of the Planets and other stars Elements Creatures c. MArk the Sun Rising and if it looks broader than usual then many moist Vapours are gathering from the Sea the Air is thickening and the Sun-beams diffused in it makes the Face of that Planet show greater than usual and in a little time you will see the Clouds muster and spread the face of the Heavens and the Air densing into a watery Body and if this happen in Hot Weather viz. summer or autumn violent showers will fall but not of long continuance But if in Winter or Spring setled Rains but more moderate If the Sun Rises with a blewish Circle enclining to white the Air is gross and Rain will soon ensue The Sun setting in a black Cloud and diffusing or spreading its Beams pailish to the North and South Prognosticates a Rainey Night and Morning The Sky of a Dusky-red in the Morning and the Sun Rising pale an Over-casting will soon Ensue and Rain quickly follow upon it attended with whisking Winds and Florreys The often shifting of the Wind is a sign of Rain especially in Winter and Spring Many small Clouds at North-West in the Evening show that Rain is gathering will suddenly fall The Moons Horns blunt at its Rising Three Days after the Change denotes Rainy Weather for that Quarter but the other Quarters seasonable Weather The Stars seeming bigger than usually pale dull and not twinkling show the Air is thickening to Rain which will soon fall Many Stars appearing in the Night seeming a greater Number than usual the Wind at East in Summer fore-shows sudden Rain The signs of Rain by Creatures c. WHen the Heron or Bitron flys low the Air is Gross and thickening into showers When Kine view the Sky stretching up their Heads and snuffing the Air moist Vapours are Engendring and the cause of their doing so is their sensibleness of the Airs sudden alteration from Dry to Wet and sudden Rain will ensue though at that time the Sun may shine out The Chattering of Swallows and their Flying low about Pounds and Lakes denotes Rain The Froggs much Croaking in Ditches and Pools c. in the Evening fore-tell Rain in little time to follow Also the sweating of stone Pillars or Tombs denotes Rain The Ants Removing their Eggs denotes Rain for by a secret Instinct in Nature finding the Air changed into much Moistness they carry them to a place of dryer security The Crows flocking in large Flights holding their Heads upward as they Fly and Crying louder than usual is a sign of Rain as also their stalking by Ponds and Rivers and sprinkling themselves The often Doping and Diving of Water Fowles fore-shows Rain is at hand The Peacocks much Crying denotes Rain Cattle leaving off to Feed and hasting to shelter under Hedges Bushes Trees Out-houses c. show sudden showers of Rain are coming And of this to conclude Rainy weather I shall tell you a pleasant but true story A Gentleman who Travelled much seeing a Sheepherd by the Road side tending his Flocks and other Cattle demanded of him if it would continue that Day as it then was for the Sun shown out The Sheepherd looking on his Cattle told him it would Rain very much in an Hour and extreamly Wet him unless he got shelter The Gentleman smiled at this and would not believe him but as he said so it proved for immediately a little Cloud Rising at South-West came driving on with the Wind and spread it self so that the Sky was covered with prodigious blackness and tho' the Gentleman Rid hard to get to a Town about five Miles from him the Rain e'er he reached it poured down so prodigiously that he was Wet to the Skin and remembering what the Sheepherd said upon his Return finding him in the same place he Requested he would tell him how he came so precisely to know the Change of the Weather the Sheepherd at first Refused it but for Half a Crown after much Importunity consented and when the Gentleman expected he should Express himself in Astrological Terms he only said Sir do you see yonder Py'd Colt pointing to him well said the Gentleman and what of that why says the Sheepherd when he Runs his Head into the Hedge and Turns his Arse to the Weather-gage then it will certainly Rain though the Weather promises at that time otherways to those that are Ignorant of Skill in Prognosticating This may be says the Gentleman but what will it signify to me on my Journy seeing I can't carry such an Almanack as your Colt in my Pocket however the Gentleman was highly pleased and concluded his Mony well laid out But here I have Out-done the Sheepherd in giving so many Prognosticks that be where you will you cannot miss of some of them to Inform you Signs of Wind and sudden Storms arising Prognosticated by the Planets Elements Creatures c. in all seasons of the Year for ever Iâ— the Moon blushes and is Redder than usual Winds are engendering and storms will arise If at Sun-Rising pale spots seem to appear in its Orb and dazle there strong Winds will ensue from the South the Wind soon shifting thither in what ever Quarter before it was Meteors or as some call them Stars shooting swiftly and spreading a
Refracted Sun Beams are weak in their Operation and this appears by a Curling or Curdling in the Clouds as they Rise and in appearance Expand themselves Signs of Snow and Drisly sleet c. CLouds like Woolly Fleeces appearing high and moving heavily the middle a darkish pale and the edges white carry Snow in them that in winter Frozen in Sheets by Cold East North East or North VVest Winds pressing hard on the Air no longer able to bear them up shiver in the Fall and break into Flakes resembling many Figures as Stars Leaves of Trees Flowers c. If the Clouds be pressed nearer the Earth the Vapours so Frozen is Grosser and the Flakes are Larger but more Remote thiner and so fall in a Sleet or little Flakes The Suns looking pale at Rising the much Lowing of Cattle in the field the Croaking of Ravens and Birds flaging their Wings fore-show it Drisle is a kind of a Ryme or Mists Ascending and Freezing and to be foreseen as the aforegoing Prognosticks of Forsty Weather by the Planets Elements Creatures c. THE Stars looking bright and twinkling much shows a Cold Air Engendering Erosts The Sky seeming fuller of stars than usual and the wind suddenly shifting to the East or North East after the Change of the Moon in the Winter denotes a setling Frost of long continuance The Owles Hooping often with a louder Note than usual denotes a Frost at hand The Suns setting Red in a Mist and a white Fogg creeping low in Marshy and Moorish Ground shows the Air is Condensing into Cold. The Seacole Fire Burning Blue that is a great part of the Flame and scorching more than usual foretells a frost at hand or if it be begun its continuance The Moon shineing bright with sharp Horns after the Change denotes the Air is Rarefying and Cold winds will soon set in to freeze the Earth A Hoarey Ryme sticking on Trees Bushes and Pales in the Morning foretells sharp bleak winds will soon set in and contract a bitter frost Little Clouds hovering low in the North when none any where else appear fore-runs Cold freezing Winds and Snow Signs of a Thaw in any great hard frost c. THE Suns looking waterish at its Rising is a sign the frost will break The wind having held long and extream sharp in one Point suddenly shifting brings a Relenting if not a thorow Thaw The Suns setting in Blueish Clouds and casting Refracted Beams into them bids the frost prepare to be gone The stars looking dull and the Moons Horns blunted foretells a Change in this Nature Of wonderful signs in the Heavens and on the Earth whence they Proceed and what they Prognosticate of strange Events I now come to treat of Meteors and strange sights and Impressions in the Air and on the Earth Prognosticating many Wonderful Amazing Things to ensue so far I conceive Proper to the Subject in Hand Comets or Blazing-stars with Astrological Observations what they are and Prognosticks on them A Comet or Blazing-star is formed of an Exhalation hot and dry being a great quantity of Unctious Vapours drawn up into the highest Region and there by their own Agitation and the Heat they meet with approaching the Region of fire are Kindled appearing when the Sun Beams are of it like a real star with a Blazing Tail though it be many Thousand Miles beneath the stary Region and sometimes it moves after the motion of the Air which is Circular but it never goeth down out of the Compass of sight and so continue till the matter that feeds them is Consumed and then Expire the time of their Generation is oftenest in Harvest or Autumn for in the spring there is too much Moisture and too little Heat to Generate them In summer there is too much Heat that will Disperse and consume the matter that it cannot be Joyned together and in winter the Cold and Moisture contrary to the Nature of a Comet opposes it These fore-run many Calamitys and the Reason is this 1st Great Droughts ensue because the Comet cannot be Generated without great Heat and much Moisture is Consumed in the Burning of it 2d Barrenness of the Earth because the fatness of the Earth is drawn up where of the Comet chiefly consists so that the Earth wanting that Oyly substance grows sterile and produces not as other times 3d. Pestilence for as much as this kind of Exhalation in long Burning Expiriug or going out Diffuseth it self and Corrupteth the Air with a Poysonous Infection and that drawn in by us as our common Breath Infecteth the Bodys of Men with Plagues Violent Feavours or other Excessive Hot Diseases and the like Effects they consequently have on the bodys of Beasts that suck in the same Airs working on them by Murrens swellings Breakin gs out of Boiles Blaiues and the like proceeding from Poysonous Infection The Learned have Noted that after the appearing of Comets other great Calamitys befall as Wars Seditions Changes in state the Death of Princes Noble Men And thus Virgil As in moist Night a Blazing Comet streams With Bloody Omens Red and Syrius beams Brings to sad Mortals Sicknesses and Thirst And Heaven in Mourning hangs with Influence Curst For say they at what time the Comets do shine there be many Hot and Dry Exhalations in the Air which Influence the Natural Temper of the Hot Dry and Cholerick Persons whereby they are quickly stirred to Anger to Raise Wars Tumults or Contentions Also those Nice Bodys Living at Ease are of a soft delicious Temper so the Infection seizes them sooner than Labourious hard-fareing Bodys for in Plagues it has been Observed that the most delicate Fed and Tender Bodys are soonest Infected and swept away I mighs enlarge on this but my proposed Brevity constrains me to Desist and proceed to other Matters Many Suns appearing in the Heavens at once the Cause and what they Predict OFten to the Appearance of Men two or many times three Suns have appeared in the Firmament at once though in reality but one real Sun the other being the Images or Impressions of it indensed Air or watery Clouds for they are nothing but the Idols or Image of the real Sun that daily enlightens the World Represented by its Beams Impressing in an equally thick and smooth gross Air or Cloud placed on the side of the sun and sometimes on both sides into which the sun-beams being Received as into a Glass expresseth the likeness fashion of Light which is in the sun so appearing to us who are a vast distance beneath it as if there were many suns This thick and watery Air or Cloud is not directly under the sun for when it is it makes the Circle about it called the Crowns or Garlands or if it were opposite to the sun it would form the Rainbow of which I shall speak hereafter but on the sides where the Images may be best Reflected and Represented These are oftnest seen in the Morning and Evening
or Moon reflecting Light on them The Light in this case is instead of white and the dark shadow sets off the Figures such Apparitions seem terribly to represent and diversly mixed accordingly to the divers dispositions of the Exhalation they cause variety of colours according to the thickness or thinness of the Exhalation presenting to the imagination of fond fanciful Mortals Armies in Battel Seas and Navys engaging on them spacious Fields Houses Castles and the like though indeed but Airy Phantoms However they fore-run Storms and are accompanied with flashes of Lightning very often and in the hotter weather with prodigious claps of Thunder if the Clouds are gross and full of water looking a greenish dark in the middle tho' about the edges the Light may as in the thinner parts paint various Colours being composed of hot and moist Exhalations and though these are looked on as supernatural causes they are no more than the effect of Nature The Kinds of Earth-Quakes their cause and signs fore-running them and what they pontend IN this Treatise I cannot but make some Observation on the Causes of Earth-Quakes considering of late Years we have been so much alarumed with their prodigious Effects and so few people know what natural Effect produces them for wonderful Things are related by Historians concerning them but the best Opinions given of their Causes and the most probable is That extraordinary quantities of heat and cold shut up in the vast Caverns of the Earth contending for mastery and pressing violently to get out but find Opposition by the too much dryness or moisture of the Porus parts of the Earth seek a way to vent themselves by force and break their way through all Opposition The Signs of an Earth-Quake being at hand is the much tosing of the Sea or other great Waters when no visible cause is seen to occasion it for then the Vapours labouring to force their way to open Air first finding a more easy passage there than on the firm Land first make their way and boyl up the Waters as it were to force through them Also a cold Calmness of the Air is another Sign for then the Exhalation that should be abroad is forcibly pent up in the Earth and struggling to get out with violence Others Observe that when the Sky is as it were Clear some long strakes of Clouds are however seen but the most certain is a rumbling murmuring Noise in the Earth and a kind of whistleing Wind whisking about the Air being troubled for then the fore-runner or thinest part of the Vapour is spining out to make way for the greater Shock and more violent gross shock of it yet however the Cause is the same notwithstanding the manner of shaking the Earth is different as I shall briefly Note The First is when the Earth is shaken Laterally or to one side which is when the whole force of the enclosed Vapour driveth to one side or place and there is no contrary Motion to Let it if the Vapour be weak it only makes a Rocking or Trembling but if violent breaks out overthrowing the mightiest Buildings from their Foundations and by such an Earth-Quake in the Reign of Tyberius the Roman Emperor twelve great Cities in Asia were levelled in one and most of their Inhabitants buried in their Ruins and sad have those been of late at Naples in Italy also in the Island of Scicily at Lima and Jamaica in the West-Indies I will not mention what happened in England lately which was rather a Trepidation than an Earth-Quake Yet it caused much Consternation and the excessive quantity of Vapours that then effused in all probability have occasioned the Climate to be the Colder to this day A second kind of Earth-Quake lifts up the Earth so that falling on a sudden and lets it fall again this happens when the Wind in a great Mass struggles on a sudden to Evaporate but the Opposition is too strong and forces it down again The Third is that which breaks its way violently through causing openings and gaupings of the Earth so that Towers Cities Mountains and huge standing Waters have been swallowed up and lost All these are very Terrible and are in the hot season accompanied with prodigious Thunders and Lightnings the Vapours pressing too much infection upon the Air before it can be refined and purged it Infects the Bodies of Men and Beasts causing mortal Diseases and the Earth having spent so much that it cannot in a plentiful manner assist to produce fertility a scarcity ensues not only for the present but for some Years after till the Recruit comes to make the Ground more fertil c. Signs fore-running Thunder Lightning c. MEteors shooting in the Night in summer time denotes the Air Inflamed with much Heat and that Thunder and Lightning will ensue Many Clops and Clefts in the Ground signify that the fiery Vapours are Ascended from the Earth and have so Dryed and Parched it in their passage so that the fire being mounted so soon as thick Clouds Over-cast the Sky the grosser part of the fire Descending and strugling with the watery Clouds to get a passage through is that which is called the Lightning If no Clouds appear in sultry Weather and the Sun sets Red and Fiery great Flashes will appear in the North North West which is called Fulgetrum and is Lightning but not meeting with Opposition it carrys no Thunder with it though springing from the same Cause but wanting Opposition the Noise is not heard Of sudden Whirl-winds and surprizing Tempests VVHirl-winds are Vapours suddenly Rising out of the Earth and gathering in the Air imbodyed in Clouds and stretching them break forth Violently so forcing their way to the Earth with much Fury in a Narrow Compass as it were inclosed they Circle Round and Hurry things about Violently often Over-turning Houses Barns Sheep Cots and Lifting People and Cattle into the Air letting them Fall again many times to their Destruction though in these Countrys they are not so Violent as others nearer the Line where Vapours are carryed up more violently by the Heat The sings that fore-run them is a troubled Sky the Whisking and Circling Light Things about when as yet there appears little or no Wind a Murmering heard in the Air the Air beating down right as it were upon the Water and making it Wrinkle Trees Whisking in one place and not in another Approved Rules for Manageing Husbandry or Rural Affairs during the Twelve Months of the Year for ever In JANUARY LAY Warm Dung to the Roots of your Young Choice Trees and Plants Lop and take off Superfluous Branches in the New Moon if the weather be Open set Beans sow Pease Parsnip Seeds dig and trench your Ground especially in Gardens give your Cattle gentle Drenches and to the more Sickly and Weak warm Mashes of Bran and Mault sodden in Water keep them warm Housed if the weather be extream Cold and Cover your Choice Plants and Flowers In
by it they are on all hands concluded to be creatures of much hardiness but not long Lived they much delight to Earth themselves in a Loamy Ground mixed with Sand so that it is very well binding and no Springs in it to hinder their working or earthing themselves for wet is a great enemy to them and moist Burrows with their Dampness or Mustiness cause the Rot amongst them which soon thins the Warren by sweeping them away in great Numbers though in a Clay mixed with a little Gravel Exempted from such Wet or Dampness they thrive best and are the Largest and Fullest fine short sweet Hay in Winter layed near the mouths of their Holes is a great comfort to them both to preserve them from Diseases by drying up the over much moisture they contract and making them feed the better so Exempted from Sickness The cause of Madness is caused by wind and wet which getting in great quantity into the porous parts of the Body arises by Vapours to the Brain and causes a Frenzy or Madness in the Creature which is known by its tumbling and rowling about when out of the Burrow and particularly tumbling over its Head and bouncing about in an unusual posture and this Kills many of them therefore when this Sign appears apply the following Remedy and the Distemper will cease A Cure for Madness in Coneys TAke Sweet Hay cut it a little but not too short let it be as dry as possibly you can get it mix with it Hare-Thistle an Herb so called and scatter a little fine dry Bran amongst it and lay it near their Burrows if it be in Winter Snowey weather sweep the Ground clean where you lay it or put it into the mouth of the Burrows lightly so as not to stop them up that they may come to it without coming abroad to Expose themselves to the Cold Air and this will restore them from this Distemper A Cure for the Rot in Coneys THe other Disease Incident to these Creatures is the Rot the more dangerous of the two because it sweeps more fatally This comes when it is very Moist and Rainey in the Spring or Autumn for then much water hanging on the Grass in their feeding they suck it in which softening their Flesh with a kind of a Dropsical Watery Humour which also gets between the Skin and the Flesh putrefying the Liver c. and so causes them to dye of the Rot to Remedy this give them Parsley dryed Hay and Hare-Thistle lay warm Litter near their Holes with Boughs over it to shelter themselves in at pleasure against the wet and fogs or moist winds c. and renew it as often as it grows wet or musty and when the Snow lyes on the ground Shovel and sweep it from their Burrows that they may come at the Grass And thus have I briefly shewed you how to manage these profitable Creatures to keep them in good case cause them to Breed well and to be free from the sickness incident to them which cannot but prove profitable to one or other of my Readers though not to all To keep and order Hares in Warrens or Tame them in all respects as the Coney AS for Hares if kept Tame or in Warrens they may be ordered in all respects as the Coney they being much of the same nature and their Diseases the same but seeing many are desirous to find them wild in the Fields for their Sport and advantage of getting them and are Ignorant of their haunts and there forms whereby they lose much labour in a fruitless fearch and are often disappointed I thought in convenient to say something as to this particular a thing desired of me by so many When you goe about to find a Hare that you may not lose your Labour but be more certain in the Event If you attempt to do it go not into the thickest of the Cover but to be more certain beat the Bushey close or Shruby Ground Adjacent For if you should find a Hare in a close Woody Cover you will hardly bring her out to shew you Sport and consequently lose her but if you find her in the Shrubs she will when Started or Chased immediately take to the Champion ground because a Hare naturally delights not in Cover till she is tired and therefore the Champion grounds are the most likely places to find them and Run them down and in such grounds resort to the Goss Brakes low Brambles or Broom and if they afford no such shelter repair to the Stubble at the beginning of Hunting time and about Christmas to the Fallows and in March to the Green Corn and in these places the best Hares haunt and are usually to be found and many times you may find a Form when the Hare is absent or gone abroad a feeding and if you would know whether she haunts it or has left it take these Directions To know the New or Old Form whether Retained by a Hare or left her Shifts c. THis is a main point to be Discovered therefore mark in your search very narrowly the following Directions to know if it be New or Old observe if the form or seat be plain and smooth the Pad before it flat and worn and the Pricks of her feet so New and Plain to be discovered that the Earth appears black or so Newly broken that the Hare cannot be long gone then the Form is new she is not far from it nor will delay long returning unless frighted away by some Accident but the contrary appearing it is old and if you expect any advantage by it you will in all likelyhood lose your labour and another thing is worthy of Remark and that is the Hare has divers Slights and Shifts to avoid pursuit as her Windings and Doublings you must also when she is pursued observe her Leaps and Skips before she Squats and beat the places most likely to give her shelter for being reduced to these hard shifts she is tired come to her last cast and can hold out but a little longer for she never uses them till she finds her strength so failing her that she grows heartless and has but this way to hope avoiding the pursuers To know whether a Coney or Rabit be Old or Young or New or Stale Killed c. THis is a Nice point and many have been deceived in it and therefore having treated of these Creatures in other matters this as very useful will be convenient enough to set down in the close of it If a Coney be old her Claws are very long and rough and long greyish hairs will stand out amongst the wool but young and a right Coney or Rabit it will have a small gristly knot on the out side of the Foot a little above the Joynt the Claws middleing and smooth and no grey hairs appearing pinch the inside of the Belly and it will break tender but if it be old in pinching it will be tough ruckle up If stale
strucken viz. From the leading to the striking behind and so thence to the Lead which Motion up and down is reckoned the compleat Course though some Peals on Five Bells as the old Doubles c. consist only of single Courses every single Course admitting to Changes and twelve Courses are a compleat Peal Other Peals on five Bells as the London Paradox c. consists of Double Courses 20. Changes going to every Course and 6 double Courses to the Peal but on 6 Bells there are double and single Courses viz. 12 Changes in every single Course as in Grandsire Eob c. The Change wherein the Hunt leaves Leading is properly the first Change in every Course and in Cross Peals all the Courses agree in three Respects 1 in the Motion of the Hunt 2 in the Motion of the remaining Notes 3 in making the Changes which being exactly taken Notice of may serve as a certain Guide to the Rest some few Changes in each Peal Excepted The Example IN this Example I present the Learner with a Peal of New Doubles only on 5 Bells they being First Course Second Course Third Course 12345 13524 15432 21354 31542 51423 23145 35124 54132 32415 53214 45312 23451 35241 54321 32541 53421 45231 23514 35412 54213 32154 53142 45123 31245 51324 41532 13254 15342 14523 13524 15432 14253 the 3 First Courses of the Peal wherein observe that the last Change of the first Course viz. 1. 3. 5. 2. 4. is set down again at the Top of the second Course and likewise the last Change of the second Course 〈◊〉 1. 5. 4. 3. 2. takes place at the top of the third Course so that Note the lower-most Changes are the ten Changes of eace Course and as to the Motion properly the first the Hunt directly moves up behind where twice lodging it proceeds down again to lead and there also lodges twice as in the 3 Courses is demonstrated also throughout the Peal as the second third fourth and fifth Bells move through the first Course so those Bells that are lodged in the second third fourth and fifth places in the last Change of every Course moves in like Manner as through the next following Course and by Moving Change Places as to the Rest not so well to be showed in Words as Practice for you must consider in every cross Peal the Courses equally agree viz. first in the Motion of the Hunt secondly in that of the rest of the Notes and thirdly in the making the Changes Of Doubles and Singles on four Bells TO Ring 24 Doubles and Singles on 4 Bells take Notice the Peal Consists equally of Double and Single Changes the one Change double and the other single throughout the Peal the first is the Hunt to the remaining 3 Extream Bells the double Change is every time likewise made of the two first the two last Bells every single Change of the two Midle ones except when the first Leads then we term the Bells that are behind the Extreams All these Bells have direct Hunting Courses up and down till the first Leads then whilst the two hindermost make a Dodg the Second lies still and by this Method all the Bells proceed again in their Hunting Course there being after this Manner 3 Extream Changes made That is to say the first every time the Hunt leads the second always when it lies behind and the third every time it leads and lies behind The Peals called the Old Doubles and Singles on Five Bells IN performing this observe that one Change must be Double the next Single and so in their Turns till the Treble has the Direct Hunting Course as in Case of the Plain Changes every Double Change struck on the Four First Bells considering the Treble to be One of the Two that makes every single Change unless when it Leads then the single is in the Third and Fourth Place but when the Two Bells lie next to the Treble you must consider that behind to be the single Bell which is called the Extream and observe that every time the Treble leaves Leading the Two first Bells are to continue Slow Dodging till it be altered by the coming down of the Treble which displaces them and the Treble Moving down out of the Fifth Place the Bell that comes into it must Remain Silent till the Treble Hunts up to it again except when the Extream Change is made behind every Bell lys twice together in the Third and Fourth Place except upon the Trebles Leading and likewise when it hinders them in Hunting The Old Trebles and Doubles on Six Bells HERE Mark that one Change is Treble and the other Double and so in Order except One single at the End of every sixth Change every Treble Change being made on the Two First Two Middlemost and the Two Last Bells and every Double on the Four Middle Bells except in Case when the Hunt Leads for then it must be upon the Four hindermost the Treble here being the Hunt making a Direct Hunting Course up and down as in plain Changes as likewise must be considered in the Rest unless when the Treble Leads and then such Bells as were Hunting up except that in the Second Place makes a Dodg with the next Bell beneath it and so again proceeds forward in its Course up and every Individual Bell that at the same time was Hunting down makes a Dodg with the next Bell that is above it and then proceeds downward in its Course and such a Method carrys on the Peal five Courses of the Hunt which makes 60 Changes And thus having briefly given you the Ground Work of Ringing with a little Variation and Practice you may Frame your self to any sort of Ringing and carry the Matter as high as you will upon 7. 8. or 9. Bells having a Musical Ear and a Steady Hand and being Circumspect in what you are about and Marking those that are Expert in it how they Order the Management of it So the Bells Sound oft Reaching distant Ears Seems to them as the Musick of the Sphears For pressing on the Air 't is Mounted High And in Rebounding Ecchos from the Sky Harmonious Numbers Tuned by Aires that Beat Upon the Sounds as they to Hills Retreat And so Deceiv'd they give a Story Birth They Heavenly Musick hear when 't is from Earth How a Country-man may know how much Hay or Corn his Barn will hold before it be put in THIS has been desired by many especially upon taking Barns and Out-houses where they desire to know how they will Answer the Stores Desinged to be lay'd up in them and for their Satisfaction I have here found out an Easy way to Inform them if they know never so little of Arithmatick To be Satisfied herein Multiply the Hight to the Beam into the Breadth and that Product by the Length the whole Divided into 20. and so the Quotient readily shews the Loads to the Beam and then for the Roof Multiply half the Depth