The English name clock is supposed to be derive«! Irotu. ib ’ I r-u Ii ' ‘
bell. A clock of the fifteenth century has already been given i&'.one of the
wood-cuts to the present work* 1 Several clocks'" of the same period are still
preserved in England. A curious table-clock German manufacture, which
appears to be of the time' of our Queen Elizabeth, is in the rich museum oftSir
Samuel Meyrick; at Goodrich Court. . These early ^dock's -. jyent^by weights,
without pendulums. The pendulum clocks were invented towards the middle
of the seventeenth century. ’ “ - ' - ' ; ;
' The dock represented in our engraving is interesting, both from its ^Angularity
and from its connection with English history.- It was presen||a by
King Henry VIII. to his-second wife, the accomplished^ Anne lBoleynr ori;
the occasion of their marriage in 1533^ We know nothing further of. its
history, until it was given to Horace Walpole_ by Lady Elizabeth Germaine^
and by him was placed among the curiosities1 of his villa^at Strawberry Hill,
It was bought, at the recent sale
of his collection, by the Keeper
of the National Gallery for Her
Majesty the Queen, for the sum
uf one hundred and ten pounds
five shillings. This clock is
made of silver gilt, richly chased,
and engraved. It is orhamented
with fleurs-de-lys, miniature
heads, &c. On the top sits a
bon, bearing the arms of Eng*
land, which are also on the sides.
On the weights, one of which is
represented ixi the wood-cuts on
the- preceding page, are_ the
initial letters of. Henry and
Anne, with true-lovers’ knots.
On the band above is the royal
motto, and on the one below
'iu The most happye.”
Our initial letter, of the beginning
of the sixteenth century,
is taken from a collection of
drawings and illuminations in
the possession of William Howard,
Esq., of Hartley House,
Devon. The figure in the pre-
sent page represents an elegant
chandeber, taken from a painting
by Lucas van Leyden, in
the Louvre at Paris. .