32
Ringmer,
34
Rival clerks,
49
,
211
,
279
Rivington family,
127
Robinson, Daniel, of Flore,
167
Rochester and its parish register,
150
Rochester, Earl of, epigram by,
3
Roe family at Bakewell,
93
Romford,
307
Roper, William, of Clerks' Company,
109
Rose family of Bromsgrove,
318
Rugby, St. Andrew,
91
Russell, Rev. J., of Swymbridge,
174
Russell, clerk of East Lavant,
260
St. Albans, clerk of,
87
St. Columb Minor, Cornwall,
320
St. Nicholas, patron saint of clerks,
105
Salehurst, wages of clerk,
249
Salisbury, St. Edmund, clerk's house at,
34
Salisbury, John Hopkins of,
162
Saltwood, Kent, clerk's house at,
34
Sapiston and the Duke's hare,
177
Scarlett, Old, of Peterborough,
98
Schoolmaster, clerk as,
44
Scothorne, Blackburn's epitaph,
103
Selwyn, Rev. W., recollections of,
279
Sermon forgotten,
287
Sexton and clerk,
22
,
64
,
253
Shakespeare's allusion to clerks,
63
Shenley, Rogers of,
92
Sherlock, F., recollections of,
308
Shoes in church,
226
Sidbury, clerk of,
59
Singing, duty of,
48
, etc.
Singing, efforts to improve,
121
Skinners' Well,
131
Sleeping Congregation
, by Hogarth,
181
Sleepy church and sleepy clerks,
179
, etc.
Sluggard-waker,
187
Smuggling days and smuggling ways,
79
,
83
, etc.
Smoking in church,
228
,
295
,
303
Snell, Peter, of Crayford,
97
Soberton, Hants, smuggling at,
84
Social Life as told by Parish Registers
,
142
,
148
Solomon Daisy of
Barnaby Rudge
,
72
Song during the sermon, a,
292
Spectator, The
,
64
,
65
Spoliation of Clerks' Company,
108
Sporting parsons,
171
,
269
Sporting clerks,
211
Squire's pew, the,
2
Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks,
40
Staple-next-Wingham,
101
Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalter,
3
Stoke,
300
Story, Robert, poet,
157
Stoulton, epitaph at,
103
Stratfieldsaye,
300
,
305
Surplices objected to,
118
Swanscombe, Kent,
8
Swift on old pews,
2
Swift and his clerk Roger,
180
Syntax, Dr.,
14
Tait, Archbishop, on old services,
8
Teeth, story of "artful,",
174
Tennyson's allusion to clerks,
72
Tenterden, John Hopton of,
80
Thame, curious banns at,
316
Thirza, a Christian name,
282
Tingrith and its potentate,
283
Totnes, Devon,
326
Tourists' queries,
321
Town crier as clerk,
293
Tunbridge Wells, Jenner's "Mount Sion,"
185
Uffington, Salop,
299
Upton, near Droitwich,
179
Venables, Rev. Canon, recollections of,
267
Verney, Lady,
Essays and Tales
,
74
Vickers, Rev. W.V., recollections of,
255
Visitation of the sick,
46
Wages of clerks,
248
Wakefield,
87
Walker, Rev. Robert, the "Wonderful,"
11
Waltham,
79
Holy Cross,
81
Walton, Isaac, story of faithful clerk,
24
Warrington and its "bobber,"
204
Way to find Sunday without an Almanack, The
,
73
Webster's
Village Choir
,
198
Wednesbury,
145
,
191
,
289
Wesley and his clerk,
193
Westbere,
79
Westhoughton,
305
Westley,
228
Whalley, clerk at,
236
Wheatley, female clerk at,
202
Whitewashed church, a,
295
Whittingdon, Thomas Evans of,
92
"Wicked man, the,"
256
Wilberforce, Bishop, on squire's pew,
2
Willoughton, Betty Wells of,
203
Wills containing bequests to clerks,
31
Wimborne Minster,
55
,
233
Windermere, clerk of,
230
Wise, Mr., of Weekley, recollections of,
292
Witch as parish clerk,
203
Woburn, J. Brewer of,
293
Wolstanton,
299
Wolverley, Worcestershire,
96
Women as parish clerks,
200
, etc.
as sextons,
254
Woodmancote, old clerk at,
233
Woodstock, J. Bennet, clerk of,
163
Wootton, Paul, clerk at Bromham,
190
Worcester, St. Michael, clerk's house at,
34
Worcester, St. Michael, the Bond family of,
318
Wordsworth, on the "Wonderful Walker,"
11
Workington and its beadle,
299
Worrall family of Wolverley,
96
Worthing, smuggling at,
83
Worth, John Alcorn of,
101
Wragby, clerk of,
281
Wren, William, of Stondon Massey,
287
Yarmouth, Great, the clerk of,
320
York, mystery plays at,
133
Yorkshire clerks,
206
, etc.,
302