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The Making of Oxford
The office of bells was constituted to keep the moving observances, reckoning when the season-runs begin and when the movable feasts fall; at its foundation, clerical housekeeping of no obvious importance. Importance came unplanned. In a country without reliable communication, a country of silence, the body that declares the season is the body that coordinates the agricultural year; whereby housekeeping grew into an authority nobody thought to grant.
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