to ring bells (see attestations)
"cali 1683 .... sa otlaocoltlatzilintimania yhuan choquistli omania ynsihuahuan yn caxtilteca ypanpa muchin yasquia yn intlahuicalhuan yn yaotitihui yhuan aocac ypan caballo onenemnia ypanpa muchi quintecuiliyaya...." = "House (year) 1683 .... There was just the ringing of bells and the crying of the women of the Spaniards because all of their associates were going to go to fight. And no one went about on horses because all of them had been taken away from people...." (Códice Gómez de Orozco, 1524–1691)
niman nohuiyan otlaocollatzilin yn teopan = Then everywhere in the churches the bells were tolled.