horicudium

horicudium [cf. CL hora+cuderes] , clock which strikes the hours. 1412 oricudium (Ac. Bailiff Staff) MS Lord Stafford, Swynnerton R. 1230; 1442 de ij s. pro custodia horacudii clerico et de xx d. Johanni S. pro reparacione horacudii per annum (Ac. Churchw. Wimborne) Dors Nat. Hist. & Ant. Field Club Proc. XLVIII 93; 1445 solut’ custodi ~ii et le chyme ecclesie S. Cedde ‥ custodi ~ii ecclesie S. Alkemundi MS Shrewsbury Corporation, Bailiffs’ account rolls, box VIII no. 379; 1449 sol’ Johanni O. pro emendacione oricudii ‥ prioris (DC Cant.) Arch. Cant. LIII 15; a clokke, orologium, †horecium [? l. horecudium] CathA; 1501 Thomas C. ‥ electus est aquebajulus ‥, tam pro ‥ sacramentalibus quam pro campanis et horecudio, capiendo pro vadiis suis ut preantea cepit MS Oxon R. O. dd. Henley MS Oxon RO dd. Henley V vol. 4 f. 6v.

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