[1094] III. Inst. p. 72.
[1095] IV. Inst. p. 255.
[1096] p. 55, in his Additions to Stow. This clock-house continued in a ruined state till the year 1715.—Grose’s Antiquarian Repertory, p. 280.
[1097] Dart’s Canterbury, Appendix, p. 3.
[1098] Chaucer was born in 1328, and died in 1400.
[1099] To the time of queen Elizabeth clocks were often called orologes:
He’ll watch the horologe a double set,
If drink rock not his cradle.—Othello, act ii. sc. 3.
by which the double set of twelve hours on a clock is plainly alluded to, as not many more than twelve can be observed on a dial; and in the same tragedy this last time-measurer is called by its proper name:
More tedious than the dial eight score times.—Ibid. act iii. sc. 4.
The clock of Wells cathedral is also, to this day, called the horologe.