CHAPTER X

A FEW NOTES ON WATCHES 281

The age of Elizabeth--Early Stuart watches--Cromwellian period--Watches of the Restoration--The William and Mary watch--Eighteenth-century watches--Pinchbeck and the toy period--Battersea enamel and shagreen

INDEX 295

ILLUSTRATIONS

BRASS LANTERN CLOCK BY JOHN BUSHMAN, 1680 _Frontispiece_