![]() It was work by ' a Chrystall ball, sliding on parallel Wyers'." ![]() 1655 saw and admired a similar clock belonging to Cromwell. By an order of all purchasers of those goods not disposed of to pay Charles I's debts had to restore either the property or its value to the Crown. He does not appear in the lists of the Clockmakers' Company and may have been a dealer. "In July 1660, he was forced to surrender a 'bullet clock' which had formerly belonged to Charles I and which he had bought at auction in Dec. L&M identify it as the Sun tavern not the Swan This seems to have been an attempt at the perpetual motion. This was so contrived as to discharge it at the bottom, and by means of a counter-weight was carried up to the top of the clock, where it received another bullet, which was discharged as the former. It told the hour by a little bell, and was kept in motion by a leaden bullet, which dropped from a spiral reservoir at the top of the clock, into a little ivory bucket. He invented a clock of a very peculiar construction, which, after his death, was deposited in the British Museum. Gainsborough the painter had a brother who was a dissenting minister at Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a strong genius for mechanics. The King’s clocks probably dropped bullets. Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an inclined plane, which turns every minute.Dillon’s persuasion, but so many lies I never heard in praise of anything as he told of Ireland. Butler, who was now all full of his high discourse in praise of Ireland, whither he and his whole family are going by Coll. 1 I went with him to the Swan Tavern and sent for Mr. ![]() Henson, who had formerly had the brave clock that went with bullets (which is now taken away from him by the King, it being his goods). Early in the morning rose, and a boy brought me a letter from Poet Fisher, who tells me that he is upon a panegyrique of the King, and desired to borrow a piece of me and I sent him half a piece.
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