_Did St. Paul's Clock strike Thirteen?_ (Vol. iii., p. 40.).--Yes: but it
was not then at St. Paul's; for I think St. Paul's was then being rebuilt.
The correspondent to the _Antiquarian Repertory_ says:
"The first time I heard it (the circumstance) was at Windsor, before
St. Paul's had a clock, when the soldier's plea was said to be that Tom
of Westminster struck thirteen instead of twelve at the time when he
ought to have been relieved. It is not long since a newspaper mentioned
the death of one who said he was the man."
About the beginning of the eighteenth century this bell was removed to St.
Paul's, &c.--Can any of the readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" supply the
newspaper notice above referred to. The above was written in 1775. The
clock tower in which the bell was originally (and must have been when the
sentinel heard it) was removed in 1715.