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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 41

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, stating that the clock still remained which had beenmade out of the Chief Justices fine. The engraving which I amenabled to give of this interesting erection is from the Mirror, vol. xi.,which was published in 1825. The sketch is copied from anengraving by Hollar, who was born in 1607 and died in… … Fig. 21.—Clock Tower in Palace Yard, Westminster. On the old Houses of Parhament, which were destroyed by firein 1834, a dial on the second pediment of the buildings in PalaceYard marked the site, the remarkable motto on wliich, DisciteJustitiam Moniti, may be taken to relate to its origin. The…

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