[Bell Historians] Article on Preston by F H Cheetham

[Richard Smith]

I am trying to locate a newspaper article by F H Cheetham which Trollope 
refers to on several occasions in his unpublished manuscript on London 
ringing.  He variously describes it as an 'article on Preston bells in 
Preston newspaper', 'a contemporary MS printed in a local newspaper
by F H Cheetham', and 'the orders for ringing at Preston' (this likely 
refers to the quoted manuscript rather than Cheetham's article).

Based on Trollope's quotes, the manuscript that Cheetham transcribed was 
evidently written in 1587 and included quite detailed instructions on 
the circumstances in which ringing was allowed, and how many bells were 
to be rung in each circumstances.  This would sounds like it would make 
very interesting reading, but Trollope's citations of it are 
frustratingly vague, and a search in the British Newspaper Archive fails 
to find anything.

Is anyone familiar with either Cheetham's article or the manuscript he 
transcribed?  I can't find anything in the relevant part of Cheetham's 
Church Bells of Lancashire (Trans Lancs & Ches Antiq Soc, vol 38, 
pp.87–95; or pp.395–403 in Alan Ellis's reproduction), nor in T Harrison 
Myres's 'Bells & Bell Lore: Church Bells of the Amounderness'.

RAS