Note 1105 — CLOCKS AND WATCHES1089 (ADDITIONAL).
William Johnston translation
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.
The diameter of the clock is nine inches three-fourths, and the height five inches.
[I have transposed the words, as I find them in the original; but war seems to have stood in the place of bar, at least Barrington has translated it by is true, and we must read,
Da man zält 1525 jar Da macht mich Iacob Zech zu Prag ist wahr.—I. B.]