The Twelve Score Long Hunts: Or the Esquire’s Twelve-score
This Peal is to be Rang on six bells, having two whole hunts, and one half hunt; the common way of Ringing, it is to make the fifth and Tenor the whole hunts, and the Treble the half hunt. The Tenor and fifth does each hunt down by turns, and when either of them comes down before the bells, it leads twice, and then hunts up again.
The Treble, second, third, and fourth, makes the Twenty-four changes, one of which is made every time either of the whole hunts leads: For instance, the Tenor is first to be hunted down, thus.—
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
The tenor being hunted down, and lying before the bells, there is one change in the Twenty-four now to be made between treble and second, thus.—
6 2 1 3 4 5
The tenor is to be hunted up into its place, and the fifth hunts down.—
| 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
The fifth being now before the bells, there is another change in the Twenty-four to be made between the treble and third, as in this change.—
5 2 3 1 4 6
The fifth is now to hunt up, and the tenor to hunt down again, in which course they continue to the end of the Peal, observing to make an extream change, when the treble (which is the hunt in the Twenty-four) comes before or behind the extream bells.
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
This Peal may be Rang by making the Twenty-four changes Doubles and Singles, in the place of the Twenty-four plain Changes, and many other wayes, which I leave to the Learner to practise.