A WillIam III eight-day longcase clock movement, Jacob Wallis, London, circa 1695-1700 The five finned pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement for regulation by a seconds pendulum, the 11 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and scroll border decorated calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes to outer track and signed Jacob Wallis, London to lower margin, with scroll pierced steel hour hand and twin winged cherub and foliate scroll cast spandrels to angles with foliate scroll engraved infill to margins between, (no pendulum, weights or minute hand). Jacob Wallis is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born in 1649. He was a member of the saddlers’ Company and gained his freedom of the Clockmakers’ Company by patrimony in 1697. At this time he worked from Dean Street off Fetter Lane remaining there until at least 1716; he died in 1726.