ALL SAINTS CLOCK AN' I) CHIMES. 



93 



The following are from the Churchwardens' Accounts — 



1623 

 1625 

 1633 



i637 

 1639 



16 



16 



04 



00 



06 



1 1 111 Payed forffrancis Renolds winding clock 



Itm for a rope for the Clocke, & for an 100 nayles . . . 

 1 ive for raysing ..V makeing a new clockhouse * 



I" 1 Blagrave for making two wheels for clocke , 



1"' Kciht. Bagely for painting y c dial in y c Church. . . . 



Paide G. Blagrave for y e Dial! 



ffor wier for y e clocke 



1640 ffor wire for clock and chime By y e yeere 



ffor a Levy (? lever) for y c Church Clocke 



1657 ffor the clock-dyall in the Church to Ralph Risperton fo 



his worke I 02 



To Naylor for boards of Each side dyall | 00 



To John Vickers for Carpentring worke for the clock 

 house and the dyall, and shifting the stairs, all 

 stuff and workmanship by Bill | 81 



Pd Ed Robinson by Bill in ffeb* for Repairing the 

 chimes and wheele and spindles to the Dyall to 

 the Street and lock mending 



Td for 41b of Clock wire . 



1666 for clocke wire and beesoms 



From the Book of Orders : — 

 March 31. 1673. 



" Order'd that y e p'sent churchwardens make y' place up \v th boards 

 y is over y e Dyall." 



From the Accounts. 



1673. Pd Barker for whitening y e boards above y e Dyall 00 — 04- 06 



These two last entries of course refer to the inside dial. 

 The year 1679 brings us to an important addition to the clock, 

 — the machinery for striking the quarters — but, unfortunately, the 

 only entry on the subject is the following minute in the Book of 

 Orders, passed at a Parish meeting on May 12. 



"It is further ordered y e same day, that Jno. Ragg, the p'sent Sexton, 



"shall have fourty shillings paid to him by the p'sent Churchwardens for 



"his charge and paines in setting up y e quart Clock." 



Fifty-three years later we reach the next phase in the history of 



the clock, to wit, the removal of the old one, and erection of a 



successor. At a parish meeting held August 29, it was 



"Order'd that the Present Churchwardens shall Treat with proper 

 " Persons about a New Clock for the Church. It is Likewise Order'd 

 "that the present Church Wardens Do imploy proper Workmen to take 

 "Down the Clock Loft, and seat the under part of the Loft over it as 

 "they shall think proper." 



The wooden case which encloses the clock. 



