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Who is Jack Godfrey from The Nine Tailors: Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals and what is their importance? The_Nine_Tailors English & Literature Jack Godfrey | The Nine Tailors: Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals

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Jack Godfrey is the verger (caretaker) of the church building and the bells, and is one of the ringers. He owns one of the sets of the keys to the bell chamber. He seems to be the most superstitious regarding the bells, as he believes Batty Thomas, the bell he rings, to be an unlucky bell, as the bell has caused the deaths of two people in the past.