│_1 2_ │ 2 1 │ 1 2 _The Changes on three Bells._ There are six changes on three bells; which are made by this rule: the two first and two last notes must be changed by turns. │_123_ First the two first notes, which are 1 2 thus.│ 213 The two last, which are 1 3, thus. │ 231 The two first │ 321 The two last │ 312 The two first │ 132 The two last │ 123 In these six changes ’tis observable, that the two first notes, which were 1 2, made the first change of the six; but they may as well be rung by │_123_ beginning with the two last notes, which are 2, 3 thus——│ 132 Next the two first notes, which are 1 3, thus, │ 312 The two last │ 321 The two first │ 231 The two last │ 213 The two first │ 123 The six changes can be rung no more than these two ways here set down. The Six changes are sometimes rung by observing a hunt therein, which is very improper, since every note has a like course. Yet I confess in demonstrating the methods on twelve, I did there admit a Hunt into the six changes; but that was only for demonstration sake. The compleat peals of plain changes, from three to all greater numbers whatsoever, as the Twenty four changes on four, the Sixscore on five, the Seven hundred and twenty on six, _&c._ are prickt and rung by one method; all the notes having a hunting-motion, except only three in each peal, which three do make the six changes in the same manner as they are before prickt. So that the Six changes on three may be term’d the _basis_ or foundation of the compleat peals on all greater numbers.