Council of Merida,
17
Toledo,
17
Court, George, of Wednesbury,
289
Coventry, Trinity Church,
28
,
36
,
50
Coventry, plays at,
134
Cowper's mortuary verses,
69
The Sofa
,
71
The Task
,
184
Crabbe's sketch of old clerics,
13
Crabbe's sketch of old clerks,
66
Crayford, Kent, "Amen" epitaph at,
97
Cromer, David Vial of,
92
Cropthorne, Worcestershire,
102
Crosthwaite and catechising,
277
Curious stories,
307
, etc.
Dagenham and its clerk,
313
Dean, West, Sussex,
233
Decline of clerks,
61
Decorating the church,
193
Deputations,
217
Descent into Hell,
136
Dickenson, Thomas, licensed to officiate,
81
Dicker, Robert, of Crediton,
257
Diggs, David,
6
,
58
,
162
Dismissing a clerk,
247
,
250
Dixon, Thomas, a curious character,
206
Dog, an archbishop's,
189
Dogs fighting in church,
85
Dog-whippers,
34
,
188
Dogs lost, notices of,
176
Dogs in churches,
189
Duke's present of game, a,
177
Dunstable,
20
Dunstan, St.,
16
Easter cakes,
41
Eastham, clerk of,
55
Ecclesfield, clerks at,
298
Eccleshall's cricketing clerk,
182
Ecclesiastical Law
, by Sir R. Phillimore,
247
Edgar, King, canons of,
16
Elliott, Rev. E.K., recollections of,
83
Elmstead,
49
Elton, Miss, recollections of,
292
Epitaphs of clerks,
90
, etc.
Epworth and John Wesley,
193
Ethelbert, King,
16
Evison, Thomas, of Wragsby,
281
Exeter, Synod of,
17
Faithfulness of clerks,
23
Fairfield,
80
Fasting Communion, a tradition,
237
Faversham,
28
,
45
,
50
Feckenham,
318
Feudal customs,
284
Fewson, Richard, a curious clerk,
208
Fielding's clerics,
11
Fighting in church,
49
,
279
Finch, Betty, "bobber,"
204
Flore, carol by the clerk of,
167
Ford family of King's Norton,
102
,
318
Foster, Joshua, of Caistor,
227
Foston-le-Clay and Sydney Smith,
216
Fressingfield, clerk's house at,
34
Frith's Vicar of Wakefield,
199
Funerals, London clerks at,
116
Funerals, old time,
218
,
222
Furness, Richard, clerk of Dore,
164
Gadara, swine of,
238
Gainsborough's portrait of Orpin,
195
Gargrave, York,
157
Gay's allusion to clerks,
72
George IV and Queen Caroline,
183
Ghost story,
313
Gill, Mrs., recollections of,
170
,
278
"God speed 'em well,"
215
,
230
Goldsmith's
Vicar of Wakefield
,
12
Goose in the pulpit,
266
Grafton Underwood,
152
Gray, John, clerk at Eton College,
Green, Rev. W.F., recollections of,
293
Gregory IX, decretals of,
17
Gregory Smith, Rev. Canon, recollections of,
315
Grindal, Archbishop, injunctions of,
54
,
80
Grosseteste, Bishop,
17
Guild of Clerks,
18
,
104
, etc.
Guinea-fowls, disturbing congregation,
261
Gunpowder Plot,
161
Haddon, West,
91
Halls of the Clerks' Company,
107
,
110
, etc.
"Harmun," a Christian name,
263
Hartlepool, clerk of,
59
Harvey, Christopher,
63
Haw of Halton Holgate,
236
Hawker, Rev. R.S., recollections of,
85
,
313
Hayes, disgraceful scenes at,
187
Hebrew scholar, a
323
Hemmans, Rev. Canon, recollections of,
281
Herbert, George, on responding,
68
Herbert, George, clerk of Eye,
93
Heredity of the clerk's office,
318
Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims,
17
Hinton, William, a Wilts clerk,
239
Hobbes, William, clerk at Plymouth,
25
Hobby, a matrimonial,
315
Hogarth's
Sleeping Congregation
,
131
Holy loaf,
38
, etc.
Holy water,
27
Hone's
Year Book
and
Book of Days
,
87
,
99
Hooker, the Judicious,
24
Hopkins, John, clerk at Salisbury,
162
Houses for clerks,
33
How, Bishop Walsham, recollections of,
298
Hust, Richard, portrait of,
111
Hutchinson, F., a Yorkshire clerk,
302
Hutton, William, verses by,
73
Huyk, John, of Hull,
35
Hymn in praise of William III,
160
Illuminated MSS.,
197
Ingenious clerk, an,
259
Ingham, James, of Whalley,
236
Jachin, the story of,
66
Jenkins, Rev. M.E., recollections of,
302
Jenner's "Mount Sion,"
185