_Chiming, Tolling, and Pealing_ (Vol. iii., p. 339).--Though the following has not, I fear, _canonical_ authority, nor is it of _remote_ antiquity, still, as they are not lines of yesterday, they may serve as one Reply to Mr. GATTY'S late Query on _Chiming, tolling, and pealing_:-- "To call the folk to church in time We _chime_, When joy and mirth are on the wing We _ring_, When we mourn a departed soul We _toll_." I think it probable (though I have no direct proof of it) that the great bell, or tenor, was always RUNG when a sermon was to be _preached_, which was not the case when there was to be only prayers. I believe it is so at this day at St. Mary's, Oxford; it is very certain that the great bell, being so rung, is in some places called the _Sermon_ Bell, though I remember two legends on tenor bells, which seem to imply that they were intended to call to prayers, viz.:-- "Come when I call, To serve God all." "For Christ, his flock, I aloud do call, To confess their sins, and be pardoned all." The difference between ringing the tenor (or any bell for prayers), and ringing it as a knell, is, that in the latter case the bell is set at every pull or stroke, which causes a solemnity in the sound very different from that produced by the very reverse mode of ringing it. Oh! what language there is in bells. In _ringing_, the bell is swung round; in _tolling_, it is swung merely sufficiently for the clapper to strike the side. _Chiming_ is when more bells than one are _tolled_ in harmony; if this be correct, to _toll_ can be applied only when _one_ bell is sounded, and Horne Tooke's definition of the word, from _tollere_, to _raise up_, must be wrong (humiliter loquor). With regard to the present use of the old Sanctus Bell, which is called at Ecclesfield _Tom Tinkler_, the same is often called the _Ting Tang_. H. T. ELLACOMBE. Clyd St. George. * * * * *