His leg got entangled in the rope

A singular accident happened at the new church, Dagenham, Essex. The society of Cumberland youths were invited to open the new peal of bells, which they performed in the morning, by ringing 7008 changes of Oxford treble-bob-royal, in four hours and forty nine minutes; but, in the evening, Mr. Channon, master of the society, wished to oblige the inhabitants of the village with another peal, when, unfortunately, his leg got entangled in the rope, which drew him up to the next loft, and falling thence on his head, he was killed on the spot, the upper part of the skull being beat in so, that the brains oozed out through the cavities.