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&w Account of fyt (Block antr Cfmucs of tfjc 

 Parish £f)ttvd) of &\l Saints, Ecxbg. 



By W. H. St. John Hope. 



HE notices of the clock and chimes of All Saints' 

 Church, are by no means so full as those relating 

 to the bells ; but as they contain many interesting 

 facts, and as the sources from which they are obtained are 

 inaccessible to most people, no apology is necessary for laying 

 them before the members of our Society. 



We are quite as much in the dark as to when the clock 

 first existed, as we are about the bells, the first entry being 

 one simply for " mendinge the clocke " about 1575; and those 

 that follow, for the next hundred years, are chiefly charges for 

 oil, wire, etc., for keeping the machinery in order. This 

 earliest mentioned clock differed from the present in one ex- 

 ternal particular, that whereas we now see two clock faces, 

 the old one boasted but one, and, in addition, conveyed the 

 time to the people in the Church by an interior dial. It is 

 also doubtful whether our ancient friend, in its early days, 

 struck the hours, as an entry in 1631 runs — 



Itm a litle rope for the clocke plumme — o — 2 — ■ 4 



and one clock weight could only drive the going part ; still a 

 charge " ffor wier for ye clocke" in 1639, ar >d succeeding 

 years, and an item in 1670, in Josiah Wheeldon's bill,* 



ffor makinge y e Clocke hammer 00=04= °° 



shows that this was not always the case ; but the absence of 

 any decisive entry leaves the question an open one. 



* Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society, vol. i., p. 59. 



