Chapter 17

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


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