A WILLIAM III WALNUT EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK William Wright, London, circa 1695 The five finned and latched pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 11 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, scroll border engraved calendar aperture and ringed winding holes to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes to outer track ad signed W'm Wright, London to lower margin, with scroll-pierced steel hands and winged cherub mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles, in a case with ogee moulded cornice and fine scroll pierced fret to frieze above hinged glazed dial aperture applied with Doric three-quarter columns with gilt brass caps and bases to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns applied to bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with convex throat moulding over 42 inch rectangular door centred with a brass bordered oval lenticle and veneered with three pairs of book-matched panels within cross grain half-round moulded border, the crossbanded sides veneered with three triple-line ebony and box bordered panels, the base with ogee top moulding and conforming quartered veneered panel within further crossbanded surround over moulded skirt. 210cm (82.75ins) high, 40.5cm (16ins) wide, 23cm (9ins) deep. William Wright senior is recorded in Loomes, Brian The Early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain as born circa 1670 and apprenticed to Henry Brigden in 1684 but not Freed. He worked just outside of the City of London in Crown Street, Southwark (probably to place himself just beyond the jurisdiction of the Clockmaker's Company), and was involved with Richard Street with taking over of the maintenance of the clock at St. Pauls from Langley Bradley in 1716. He died by 1719 but was succeeded by his son of the same name who is thought to have died in 1758.