Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne on November 17th, 1558, S. Hugh's Day, and there are many entries to be found in churchwardens' accounts for ringing the bells upon that day after this date. At Kirton-in-Lindsey there is the following statement in 1581:--"Item for mending the belles aganst Sant Hew day viij{d};" and then again in 1597:--"Item vpon Sante Hue daye viij." No doubt the first entry means that either the wooden framework, or else the cords of the bells needed some slight repairs; it could not have been the bells themselves. There is another entry in the Kirton-in-Lindsey accounts that is interesting, though of a somewhat later date. In 1630 we find:--"Item bestowed of the ringers in ayle for Joye of the younge Prince xij." This was for ringing the bells upon the birth of Charles II. In reading of these loyal payments one is reminded of the inscription upon the first bell at Witham-on-the-Hill, which evinces a very different spirit:-- "'TWAS NOT TO PROSPER PRIDE OR HATE WILLIAM AUGUSTUS JOHNSON GAVE ME; BUT PEACE AND JOY TO CELEBRATE, AND CALL TO PRAYER TO HEAV'N TO SAVE YE: THEN KEEP THE TERMS AND E'ER REMEMBER MAY 29{TH} YE MUST NOT RING NOR YET THE FIFTH OF EACH NOVEMBER NOR ON THE CROWNING OF A KING."[5] The Harvest Bell was rung in various parts of the country; at Barrow-on-Humber it was heard very early in the morning at daybreak in the eighteenth century, and then again late in the evening during the weeks of harvest. In some parishes it used to be the custom to ring a bell at eight o'clock in the morning as a signal that people might then begin to glean. In the Louth churchwardens' accounts, in 1556, is the following:--"To william east for knylling the bell in harvest forgathering of the pescodes iiij{d}." The _Daily Telegraph_, of 1st September, 1893, says:--"The 'harvest bell' is rung at the Parish Church, Driffield, at five a.m. and eight p.m. every day during harvest, the custom is a very old one."