Scope and Content
Contains (page-by-page):
0. Loose cutting re erection of a tablet in St.Paul’s belfry to commemorate the peal of 5003 Grandsire Caters rung on 9 November 1896 to mark the election of George Wells as mayor for the third time
1. Address for P. Howard in Johannesburg, 1896, and ringing jottings
2-7. List of subscribers for two peal boards for St.Paul’s recording six peals, late 1890s, and accounts for the boards
8-9. Composition for 8064 Double Norwich Court Bob Major (A. Knights, 1897), pencil list of names and sums
10-11. Notes on the line for London Surprise Major
12-13. Composition for 5003 Grandsire Caters by A. Knights, rung at Bedford (ringers listed) 16 September 1897, and for 5120 Double Norwich Court Bob Major (A. Knights)
14-15. Composition for 5021 Grandsire Caters by A. Knights, rung at Bedford (ringers listed) for the Jubilee on 22 June 1897 , and Grandsire Triples (Parker’s 12-part) rung at Higham Ferrers (ringers listed) for the Jubilee, 20 June 1897
16-18. Composition for 10,097 Grandsire Caters by A. Knights, an extract of 5723 rung at Bedford (ringers listed) on 7 June 1897
19. Composition for a peal of Stedman Triples (Thurstans)
20. Composition for 5219 Grandsire Caters (Charles Clarke)
21. Composition for 500o Treble Bob Royal by A. Knights, rung at Bedford (ringers listed) on 21 October 1897
22. Figures for Stedman Triples (untitled)
23. Peal of Grandsire Triples (Holt’s Original), rung at Finedon (ringers) 9 October 1897
24-25 Untitled figures (Stedman) and pleas composition
26. Composition for 5088 Double Norwich Court Bob Major by N.J. Pitstow, rung at Higham Ferrers (ringers listed) 15 June 1897
27. Composition for Grandsire Triples (Carter’s 12-part), rung at Huntingdon (ringers listed) 18 December 1897
28-29. Compositions for two peals of Kent Treble Bob Major rung at Bedford on 24 May 1897 and Dunstable on 5 June 1897 (ringers listed)
30-31. Untitled jottings
32-33. Compositions for two peals of Bob Major by C.W. Clarke
34-37. Compositions for Superlative Surprise Major (J.S. Wilde, N.J. Pitstow and H. Dains), one rung at Irthlingborough (ringers listed) on 27 March 1897 and another (ringers listed) also at Irthlingborough on 3 July 1897
38-39. Composition for 10,007 Grandsire Caters by John Carter
40-41. Compositions for Superlative Surprise Major (H. Dains) and Double Norwich Court Bob Major
42-43. Composition for 5003 Grandsire Caters by A. Knights, rung at Bedford (ringers listed) on 23 February 1897
44-45. Composition for Grandsire Triples (Hollis’s 5-part), rung at Higham Ferrers (ringers listed) on 13 February 1897
46-47. Composition for 5088 Kent Treble Bob Major by A. Knights, rung at Bletchley (ringers listed) on 27 January 1894, and composition for 2688 Double Norwich Court Bob Major
48. Composition for 5072 Double Norwich Court Bob Major by Gabriel Lindoff, rung at Belgrave, Leics (ringers listed) 6 February 1897
49. Composition for 5184 Double Norwich Court Bob Major by Arthur Knights rung at (bands listed) Higham Ferrers on 13 March 1897 and Irthlingborough on 4 July 1897
50-51. Record of a peals of 5040 Minor (seven methods) at St.Peter’s, Bedford, on 6 June 1895, 14 May 1896, 18 June 1896, 21 November 1896 and 10 December 1896
52. Composition for 5008 Double Norwich Court Bob Major rung at (ringers listed) Irthlingborough on 23 January 1897
53 etc. Loose gathering, mainly blank but with Ringing World cuttings with composition for 5040 Cambridge Surprise Minor by the Rev. E. Bankes James, first rung at Grendon on 6 October [1923]
54 etc. Loose gathering, recording 5009 Stedman Cinques by the Royal Cumberland Youths at St.Leonard’s, Shoreditch, on 26 March 1927 (Clarke’s first peal on 12 bells), 5017 Stedman Caters at St.Giles, Northampton, on 28 May 1927, and 5040 Grandsire Triples at Newport Pagnell, Bucks, on 11 June 1927
55 etc. Loose sheet (not in Clarke’s handwriting) with Thomas Thurstans’ 4-part peal of Stedman Triples, rung at Newport Pagnell on 9 July 1904. Pencil notes on six-bell methods on the back
56 etc. Loose sheet (not in Clarke’s handwriting) with peal compositions, and another with Bulwer’s 5040 Stedman Triples
57 etc. Six-bell methods, including Bacup, Bamborough, Lincoln, Kelso, Annable’s London, Norwich, Ipswich, Primrose, Cambridge, Stamford, Wearmouth, Durham, Netherseale and York Surprise Minor
58 etc. Notes on handles, harrow tines, hooks etc
59 etc. Loose gathering (pages used both ways up), addresses etc 1921; callings for 720s; line for London Surprise Major; composition for Carter’s 12-part Grandsire Triples; line for Cambridge Surprise Royal; composition of 5039 Grandsire Caters by Bernard Jealous; Peals of Double Norwich Court Bob Major (J.W. Barker, H. Dains and J. Jaggar); rules for ringing London Surprise Major; Composition for 5183 Grandsire Caters by A. Knights; composition for 5152 Double Norwich Court Bob Major by J.W. Barker, rung at Cardington 5 June 1920; compositions for Double Norwich Court Bob Major (A.P. Haywood and G. Lindoff), the Lindoff peals rung at Dunstable 11 September 1920 and Raunds 19 June 1920; Composition for 5056 Treble Bob Major y C.H. Hattersley, rung at Biggleswade 26 July 1919; Composition for 5056 Superlative Surprise Major by A. Knights
60 etc. Composition for 5040 Stedman Triples; Middleton’s peal of Cambridge Surprise Major; rules for ringing an unspecified method; dimensions for some smithwork; Double Stedman Slow Course; Figures for six-bell methods, Kent delight, Old Oxford, College Bob IV, Chelsea, Rochester, Morning Star, Kingston, Norbury, Wragby, Willesden, Sandal, Duke of York, Buxton, London, Huddersfield, Woodbine, Hexham, Southwark, Lincoln, Westminster, Chichester, Warkworth, Bedford, Worcester, Beverley, Berwick, Lancashire, Lightfoot, Hull, Bourne, Superlative, Norfolk etc; St.Peter’s Surprise by W. Stapleton, rung at St.Peter’s on 5 July 1914