Pennington, Thomas. Directions for casting and hanging of bells

Folger bibliographic ID: 235209
Folger call number: V.a.423
Folger holdings ID: 288696
Accession Number: MS Add 445

Directions for casting and handing of bells found in Part I: leaves 24-45, 110-118. The author, Thomas Pennington, came of a family of bell founders and appears to have lived in Exeter. He lists, year by year, the bells he cast in southwest England and gives particulars of their weights and dimensions. He has added a few notes on his family. Most of the volume is filled with miscellaneous information compiled ca. 1762-ca. 1772, on politics and personages of the day, including a note of the encaenia at Oxford in honour of the Peace of Paris and the 3 Handel oratorios given, as well as comments on some of the provisions of this Peace in North America, the plight of the American Indians, a review of the contemporary sovereign states, political and other poems, epitaphs, such as Benjamin Franklin's on himself, epigrams, proverbs, ways to forecast the weather, form letters, medical and household recipes, one for the smallpox having been used by Mrs. Stewart in North Carolina, religious questions and reports of sermons

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Part I: 199 leaves; Part II: 40 leaves. Several gatherings were added to the original book Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines Partial list of contents tipped into volume. Little order in arrangement of contents This record contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email HamnetHelp@folger.edu for assistance

Extended title: Directions for casting and hanging of bells 1665-1707

Bell founders Indians of North America Weather forecasting

author: Pennington, Thomas
associated with: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
associated with: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759