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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 1109 — CLOCKS AND WATCHES1089 (ADDITIONAL).

William Johnston translation

That distinguished antiquary Horace Walpole has in his possession a clock, which appears by the inscription to have been a present from Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn. Poynet, bishop of Winchester, likewise gave an astronomical clock to the same king.—Godwyn de Præsul.

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