Martyria: A Legend, Wherein Are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Martyria: A Legend, Wherein Are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

And always, when a ghostly customer came, whether he were a favourer of the old or of the new learning, would Thomas Erpingham hint at his own, as remotely allied to the clerkly profession, using the while, reve rential and becoming speech, as it were beseeching his listener's assent. In a turret, on the roof of his house, the horologist had placed a clock, in part to publish his craft, but mainly for the spiritual edification of his neigh hours. By his inquiries from the city-sextons he had ascertained the daily mortality of the metropolis and very diligent he was in disseminating the information - ao that all his friends might understand the precise intensity of the warning, which his clock struck through the neighbourhood every hour.

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