The stability of the "grandfather" clock--The burr-walnut period--Thomas Chippendale--The mahogany period--Innovations of form--The Sheraton style--Marquetry again employed in decoration CHAPTER VI THE EVOLUTION OF THE LONG-CASE CLOCK 153 Its inception--Its Dutch origin--The changing forms of the hood, the waist, and the base--The dial and its character--The ornamentation of the spandrel--The evolution of the hands CHAPTER VII THE BRACKET CLOCK 179 The term "bracket clock" a misnomer--The great series of English table or mantel clocks--The evolution of styles--Their competition with French elaboration CHAPTER VIII PROVINCIAL CLOCKS 211 Their character--Names of clockmakers found on clocks in the provinces--The North of England: Newcastle-upon-Tyne--Yorkshire clockmakers: Halifax and the district--Liverpool and the district--The Midlands--The Home Counties--The West Country--Miscellaneous makers CHAPTER IX SCOTTISH AND IRISH CLOCKS 255 David Ramsay, Clockmaker Extraordinary to James I--Some early "knokmakers"--List of eighteenth-century Scottish makers--Character of Scottish clocks--Irish clockmakers: Dublin, Belfast, Cork--List of Irish clockmakers CHAPTER X A FEW NOTES ON WATCHES 281 The age of Elizabeth--Early Stuart watches--Cromwellian period--Watches of the Restoration--The William and Mary watch--Eighteenth-century watches--Pinchbeck and the toy period--Battersea enamel and shagreen INDEX 295 ILLUSTRATIONS BRASS LANTERN CLOCK BY JOHN BUSHMAN, 1680 _Frontispiece_ CHAPTER II.--THE BRASS LANTERN CLOCK PAGE Ship's Lantern of Silver (Danish) 47 Early Lantern Clock by Bartholomew Newsam 47 Seventeenth-century Brass Clocks, showing pendulum at front and at back 51 Brass Lantern Clock by Daniel Quare, 1660 55 " " " with two hands and anchor pendulum 55 " " " with long pendulum, chains and weights 57 " " " by Thomas Tompion (1671-1713) 61 CHAPTER III.--THE LONG-CASE CLOCK--THE PERIOD OF VENEER AND MARQUETRY Long-case Clock. Maker, Jas. Leicester 75 " " " by J. Windmills, _c._ 1705 77 " " " enlargement of dial 77 " " " by Henry Harper (1690-5) 81