<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Certainly not Cambridge. I reckon the position there in 1660 was as shown in the attached pic which I produced some while ago. There is an error with regard to Holy Trinity which had 4 at the time (I have shown it as 0) and the 2 at St Andrew the Less is not shown. There is some doubt about how the bells at King’s College were rung.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gareth<img apple-inline="yes" id="5AC67F95-2433-4C79-87DE-2E6D744477CB" src="cid:869AA367-8B47-44A8-A2FF-84036D10AD34" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Jan 2022, at 15:41, Richard Smith <<a href="mailto:richard@ex-parrot.com" class="">richard@ex-parrot.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">By my reckoning, there were at least three rings of six and five fives in Oxford by 1650. The sixes were at Christ Church, St Mary the Virgin and Magdalen, while the fives were at Merton, New College, St Martin (now Carfax), All Saints (now Lincoln) and St Peter in the East. [Source: Sharpe's Oxfordshire]<br class=""><br class="">Aside from London, did any other city have such a high number of rings of five or more at so early a time?<br class=""><br class="">RAS<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Bell-historians mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" class="">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><br class="">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>