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Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850 by Various
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[14] _Harnes_, or armour, which perhaps hung over some of the
monuments in the church.

[15] It was about this time that clocks began to be generally
used in churches (although of a much earlier invention); and in
subsequent years we have several items of expenditure connected
with that above mentioned. In 1595:--

"Paid for a small bell for the _watche_ iiij's

"Paid to the smith for Iron worke to it xx'd

"Paid for a waight for the Clocke wayinge
36'lb and for a ringe of Iron v's."

Still, however, the hour-glass was used at the pulpit-desk, to
determine the length the parson should go in his discourse; and
xij'd for a new hour-glass frequently occurs.

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QUERIES.

COLLEGE SALTING.

Mr. Editor.--If your very valuable work had existed in October, 1847,
when I published in the _British Magazine_ a part of Archibishop
Whitgift's accounts relative to his pupils while he was Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge, I should certainly have applied to you
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