'Nine Tailors maketh a man in God' is thought also to refer to the 'tellers' or passing bells which were rung when a death occurred in a parish. In rural Lincolnshire the pasiing bell was 9 rings or a man, 6 for a women or 3 for a child, followed by one bell for every year they had lived. In close communities that would usually tell you who had died.

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