[1100] See Dugdale’s Origines Jurid. Lydgate, therefore, who wrote before the time of Henry VIII., says,
I will myself be your orologere
To-morrow early.—Prologue to the Storye of Thebes.
[1101] Leland de Script. Brit. [The translation of this passage will be found at p. [350].]
[1102] Froissart, vol. ii. ch. 127.
[1103] Falconet, Mémoires de Litt. vol. xx.
[1104] See Carpentier, art. Horologiator.
[1105] Mr. Peckett, an ingenious apothecary of Compton Street, Soho, hath shown me an astronomical clock which belonged to the late Mr. Ferguson, and which still continues to go. The workmanship on the outside is elegant, and it appears to have been made by a German in 1525, by the subjoined inscription in the Bohemian of the time:
Iar. da. macht. mich. Iacob. Zech.
Zu. Prag. ist. bar. da. man. zalt. 1525.
The above Englished:
Year. when. made. me. Jacob. Zech.
At. Prague. is. true. when. counted. 1525.