In Halifax parish churchyard is a tombstone to the memory of R. Duckworth, clockmaker, 1677. John Mason was a maker about 1760, and his father, Timothy Mason, was a clockmaker before him. At Rotherham some years ago there were some Mason clocks on exhibition, and there were eight generations of Masons as clockmakers, the later branch having settled at Rotherham. Such is the record of many provincial makers. Emanuel Hopperton, of Leeds, made clocks with marquetry cases. One bore the proud motto, _Non mihi sed mundo._ Henry Brownhill, of Briggate, Leeds, watchmaker and clockmaker, was sufficiently prosperous to issue several tons of halfpenny copper tokens in 1793. By the courtesy of S. H. Hamer, Esq., of Halifax, an illustration of one of these tokens is given. [Illustration: HALFPENNY, 1793.] This was the year when the Reign of Terror began and when Marie Antoinette was executed. In England great commercial distress was felt. Banks issued notes in excess of their capital. Gold was scarce, and the Bank of England restricted its issues. A panic ensued and several banks failed. Pitt issued Exchequer Bills to the extent of five millions. Other local clockmakers are Thomas Liston, of Luddenden, 1718-79, and his son Thomas, of Halifax, 1745-1815. It is reported that this latter Thomas Lister travelled by coach from Halifax to London to regulate and keep in order the clock at St. Paul's Cathedral. There is an orrery by him in the Glasgow University Museum. [Illustration: LONG CASE CLOCK. Maker, Gilbert Chippindale (Halifax). ENLARGEMENT OF HOOD. Showing fine fretwork and maker's name in lunette. (_By courtesy of Surgeon-Major W. Savile Henderson._)] [Illustration: LONG-CASE EIGHT-DAY CLOCK. Maker, John Weatherilt (Liverpool). Date, 1780-85. (_Reproduced by courtesy of George H. Hewitt, Esq., J.P._)] William Lister is another member of the same family who made long-case clocks. In his dials a noticeable feature is the absence of the hour circle as being separate from the rest of the plate. The dial was made in one piece and attached to a back-plate of brass. Pattison, another Yorkshire maker, made long-case clocks similar to those of William Lister. John Hartley, of Halifax, about 1770, was the maker of a thirty-hour grandfather clock in oak case with brass square dial and moon and date lunettes. Titus Bancroft, of Sowerby Bridge, 1822, a church-clock maker, also made grandfather clocks. John Hallifax, of Barnsley, who died in 1750, made a fine long-case clock now at Wentworth House. Gilbert Chippindale, of Halifax, 1781, is another maker of fine clocks. A fine example of his work is illustrated (p. 219). R. Henderson, of Scarborough, early eighteenth century, is another Yorkshire maker. Richard Midgley, 1720-40, of Halifax, made a number of clocks still treasured locally. Samuel Pearson is known about 1790, and John Stancliffe, of Bark-island, is another local maker.