R. W. ELLIOT.

Clifton.

[Footnote 6: This custom of three tolls for a man, and two for a woman, is

thus explained in an ancient Homily on Trinity Sunday:--"At the deth of a

manne, three bells should be ronge as his knyll in worship of the Trinitie.

And for a woman, who was the second person of the Trinitie, two bells

should be ronge."]

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