One Bell

Can any of your readers favour me with a reference to some authority for the following, which may be found in Southey's *Book of the Church* (vol. ii. p. 121.)? "Somerset pretended that one bell in a steeple was sufficient for summoning the people to prayer; and the country was thus in danger of losing its best music." What follows is so beautiful and appropriate, that I may perhaps be excused for lengthening my quotation: "—a music, hallowed by all circumstances, which, according equally with social exultation and with solitary pensiveness, though it falls upon many an unheeding ear, never fa…