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King Edward's clocks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
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Although both short and tentative, this paper must begin formally with acknowledgements and apologies. The acknowledgements are for help generously given by our Fellows, Mr. A. J. Taylor of the Ministry of Works, and Mr. Claude Blair of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and also by Mr. H. M. Colvin of St. John's College, Oxford. The apologies turn upon the central and fundamental fact that, though I have an ill-informed interest in clocks, and own rather more clocks than my house has room for, I am not a horologist. It follows that I shall not deal with the mechanics of early clocks, with verge and foliot escapements, going and striking trains, and all the other technicalities which horologists love to discuss. And if I mention, here and now, the name of Giovanni de Dondi, this is only to emphasize that I have at least tried to read up the subject before having the temerity to write upon it.
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page 283 note 1 Conveniently reproduced, for example, in Alan Lloyd, H., Some Outstanding Clocks over Seven Hundred Tears, 1250–1950 (London, 1958), pl. 2.Google Scholar
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page 285 note 6 An entry on the Foreign Account Roll of 42 Edward III, rot. 4d, seems to suggest the king's personal interest in his clocks: John of Derby, king's clerk, is paid his expenses in transporting the king's personal plate and other things between the castles and manors visited by the king during the year, and the expenses ‘per ipsum Iohannem fact[as] circa orlogios domini regis’.
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