The parish clerk

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ditchfield, P. H (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Methuen, 1907
London : [1907]
Series:ATLA Historical Monographs Collection
ATLA monograph preservation program ; ATLA fiche 1988-0347
ATLA monograph preservation program ATLA fiche 1988-0347
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Old-time choirs and parsons
  • The antiquity and continuity of the office of clerk
  • The mediaeval clerk
  • His duties of reading and singing
  • The clerk in literature
  • Clerks too clerical
  • smuggling days and smuggling ways
  • The clerk in epitaph
  • The Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks
  • The clerks of London: their duties and privileges
  • Clerkenwell and clerks' plays
  • The clerks and the parish registers
  • The clerk as a poet
  • The clerk giving out notices
  • Sleepy church and sleepy clerks
  • The clerk in art
  • Women as parish clerks
  • Some Yorkshire clerks
  • An old Cheshire clerk and some other worthies
  • The clerk and the law
  • Recollections of old clerks and their ways
  • Curious stories
  • Longevity and heredity
  • the deacon-clerks of Barnstaple