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In Sutherland also a flag was used as a means of announcement of
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and an old goody was paid ten shillings a year for
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Early Bells of Massachusetts, gives a full and interesting account of the church-bells of the first colonial towns in that State. Lechford, in his
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Plaine Dealing, wrote in 1641 that they came together in Boston on the Lord's Day by
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and it is thought that that bell was a hand-bell. The first bells, for the lack of bell-towers, were sometimes hung on trees by the side of the meeting-houses, to the great amazement and distress of the Indians, who regarded them with superstitious dread, thinking--to paraphrase Herbert's beautiful line--
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but more frequently the bells were hung in a belfry or bell-turret or
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and from this belfry depended a long bell-rope quite to the floor; and thus in the very centre of the church the sexton stood when he rung the summons for lire or for meeting. This rope was of course directly in front of the pulpit; and Jonathan Edwards, who was devoid of gestures and looked always straight before him when preaching, was jokingly said to have