Old clocks and watches & their makers : being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 294
theRoyal Exchange, and appears to have died prior to 1673, when Mr. Marquet (Markwick ?) advertises himself in the London Gazetteas the successor of Mr. Samuel Betts, deceased. In 1656 Bettsattested the genuineness of Jas. Lellos masterpiece to the Clock-makers Company. The watch here shown dates… … Fig. 423.—Watch by SamuelBetts, about 1640. 278 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers to the same trade ; but the first rehable record shows him to havebeen in business as a clockmaker at Water Lane, Blackfriars, whenquite a young man. Water Lane was a long, tortuous thoroughfare, the western…
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