The second clause is four lines long and it is written in a lawyer's clerk's hand and it has never been challenged in a court.

CorvinaWhoever holds the rope when the bell stops is of the house. Those are the words. Of the house.

MalfoidIt means employed. It means the ringers were staff and the bequest paid their wages.

CorvinaIt meant that in 1861. Then in 1998 it meant something else and we found out what by accident, and I have been ringing it myself ever since.