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<BODY background="" bgColor=#ffffff><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">I have
replied to Richard offline - too much detail for the list - but the basics about
Ely are in the article that I did with Paul Cattermole in the <EM>Ringing
World <BR></EM>1 May 1998 pp.425-6 - ""Ely bells: an update". And the essence of
the weight discrepancy is that Raven got his Latin and his maths pretty
hopelessly wrong - something that Paul was able to establish very
clearly<BR><BR>As it happens, I'm about to write it all up properly for a
learned journal - an unfinished project that Paul left instructions that I was
to complete!<BR><BR>CJP</FONT></BODY></HTML>