’Tis observable, that here the Treble made down-changes all the way, which of necessity it must do, because every note with which it was to make a change, lay before it: and because it made down-changes, therefore it is said to have hunted down. This is the manner of the motion of the hunting notes in all peals of plain changes; for they hunt up and down through their assigned number, as the 1 here has done. This example is plain and full to instruct the Learner in the hunting of any bell, therefore he ought to peruse it diligently, that he may understand the true scope and meaning of it; and as a help he may apply himself to practice by taking a Treble, and attempt to hunt it up and down as this Example directs; which he may the more readily do, if he understand the _5th Observation_ before set down, which guides him to make a change in ringing. So that partly by reading and well considering of what I have here wrote, and partly by practice, he may in a short time become perfect in the hunting motion of any note; which when he rightly apprehends, he will then presently be capable of understanding the following methods; and therefore I shall be the more brief in my directions to them. _The Changes on four Bells._ Twenty four changes may be rung upon four bells: but the Learner may first practice the twelve changes, and the eighteen changes. In the twelve changes the notes are all to be hunted up after one another, which may be called the Twelve all over. First the treble-note must be hunted up, letter (_a_); then the second note must likewise hunt up, letter (_b_); next the third note must hunt up, letter (_c_); and lastly the _4th_ note also, letter (_d_). │_1234_ ───┼────── _a_│ 2134 „ │ 2314 „ │ 2341 ───┼────── _b_│ 3241 „ │ 3421 „ │ 3412 ───┼────── _c_│ 4312 „ │ 4132 „ │ 4123 ───┼────── _d_│ 1423 „ │ 1243 „ │ 1234 The four notes may also hunt down one after another. First, the _4th_ note must hunt down to lead: then the _3d_ note likewise, and so the _2d_ and Treble one after another, which may be term’d the Twelve all under.