Ringing Church Bells contains over 130 entries. The following is a representative selection.

ACTRESS: Who was the first in England?

ANGLESEY, MARQUESS OF: The curious after-life of his leg

ANIMALS: Were they put on trial in the Middle Ages?

BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE: A medieval curse

BOILING TO DEATH: A punishment for cooks?

CHURCH BELLS 1: For confession and pancakes

CHURCH BELLS 2: To ward off thunderstorms

COMBUSTION, SPONTANEOUS: Does it exist?

COVENTRY: Why are people said to be sent there?

CUSTARD: Why did the Puritans abominate it?

DANTE AND MOUSETRAPS: A query for the curators of the Bodleian Library

DAUGHTERS: Having nineteen

DRAGONS: Were they really crocodiles?

ELEPHANTS: Are they aroused by mulberry blood and human earwax?

‘FIRST CATCH YOUR HARE...’: Was this famous cookery instruction ever written?

FOOTBALL: Why was it outlawed?

FOX-HUNTING: Interrupted by the Civil War

GAME FEATHERS IN BEDDING: Do they delay death?

HARE, MAD AS A MARCH

HERMITS, ORNAMENTAL

HOUR-GLASSES IN PULPITS

HUMBLE PIE

JIB, NOT LIKING THE CUT OF

KANT’S WIG AND OTHER RELICS

LEECHES: Can they predict the weather?

LIVERS, WHITE: A sign of murderers and cowards?

LONDON STREET CHARACTERS: What becomes of them?

MARAT THE REVOLUTIONARY: Did he rob the Ashmolean?

MELANCHOLY: Does it cause waistcoat-bursting?

MONKS, MUMMIFIED

MOUSTACHES: Outlawed in Ireland

NELSON’S LAST SIGNAL

NEWTON’S APPLE: Did it exist?

NORTH SIDES OF CHURCHYARDS: The Devil’s domain?

OWLS: Do they snore?

POLPERRO: Some unusual words from

QUARRELSOME, CARELESS AND HAIRY: Some nicknames of kings and others

RHINOCEROS: The first in England?

RIDING WHIP: Found inside a fish

SALTING THE BODIES OF THE DEAD

SEDAN CHAIR: Unusually long journey in a

SLEEPERS IN CHURCH: How to waken them

TAXES: On beards et cetera

THAMES, THE RIVER: Frost Fairs upon

TRAVELLERS: Some eccentric

UNICORNS AND THE DECLINE OF WONDER

WIFE-SELLING: An English custom?

WORDS, LAST, OF THE GREAT AND FAMOUS