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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Somersetshire

From time immemorial a muffled peal has been rung on this festival at Leigh-upon-Mendip. At Wells, also, on this day, the bells of the cathedral ring out a muffled peal in commemoration of the martyrdom of the Innocents.—Kalendar of the Church of England, 1866, p. 194.

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