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Chapter VIII: Provincial Clocks

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Copper Token, Leeds Halfpenny, 1793 218

Long-case Clock by Gilbert Chippindale (Halifax) 219

" " " enlargement of hood 219

" " " by John Weatherilt (Liverpool) (1780-85) 221

" " " 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

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