Excerpt from The Church Bells of Leicestershire: Their Inscriptions, Traditions, and Peculiar Uses, With Chapters on Bells and the Leicester Bell Founders Want of leisure, and stronger claims upon my time, however, prevented me from attempting to follow the path I have indicated. It was not until I found, in the enforced partial retirement fromthe active duties of life, consequent upon severe illness, that leisure, which calling for occasional occupation, brought to my remembrance my former desire to prosecute my enquiries into the Campanology of Leicester shire further than I was then enabled to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.