" " " by Thurston Lassell (Liverpool), 1745 225 " " " by Henry Higginbotham (Macclesfield) 227 " " " by Heywood (Northwich), 1790 231 " " " by Thomas Wall (Birmingham), _c._ 1795 233 Copper Token, Joseph Knibb, Clockmaker in Oxon 236 Long-case Clock by Joseph Knibb (Oxon), _c._ 1690 237 " " " Georgian, Spanish mahogany, by Cockey (Warminster) 239 Brass Dial of Welsh Clock by Shenkyn Shon (Pontnedd Fechan), 1714 243 Iron Dial of Sussex Clock by Beeching (Ashburnham) 243 Long-case Clock, with oval dial, by Marston (Salop), 1761 245 Dials of Clocks by Marston (Salop) and Thomas Wall (Birmingham) 249 CHAPTER IX.--SCOTTISH AND IRISH CLOCKS Brass Lantern Clock by Humphry Mills (Edinburgh), 1670 259 " " " do. showing movement 259 Long-case Clock by Patrick Gordon (Edinburgh), 1705-15 263 Dial of Long Pendulum Clock by Jos. Gibson (Ecclefechan), _c._ 1750 267 " " " " enlargement, showing maker's name 267 Wall Clock, decorated in marquetry, by George Graydon (Dublin), _c._ 1796 269 Musical Clock by George Aicken (Cork), 1770-95 273 Regulator Clock, mahogany case, by Sharp (Dublin) 275 CHAPTER X.--A FEW NOTES ON WATCHES Old English Watches (Elizabethan, James I, Cromwellian, and Charles II) 283 " " (eighteenth-century examples) 287 Calendar Watch (seventeenth century) by Thomas Chamberlaine de Chelmisforde 291 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY NOTE Time and its measurement--Day and night--Early mechanism--The domestic clock--The personal clock--Rapid phases of invention--The dawn of science--The great English masters of clockmaking--The several branches of a great art--What to value and what to collect--Hints for beginners. The dictionary definition of "clock" is interesting. _Clock._--A machine for measuring time, marking the time by the position of its hands upon the dial-plate, or by the striking of a hammer on a bell. Probably from old French or from Low Latin, _cloca_, _clocca_, a bell. Dutch, _klok_. German, _glocke_, a bell.