The Parish Clerk

The Parish Clerk

Peter Ditchfield, Church of England priest, an historian and a prolific author (1854-1930)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- OLD TIME CHOIRS AND PARSONS

-04- THE ANTIQUITY AND CONTINUITY OF THE OFFICE OF CLERK

-05- THE MEDIÆVAL CLERK

-06- THE DUTIES OF READING AND SINGING

-07- THE CLERK IN LITERATURE

-08- CLERKS TOO CLERICAL

-09- THE CLERK IN EPITAPH

-10- THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF PARISH CLERKS

-11- THE CLERKS OF LONDON THEIR DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES

-12- CLERKENWELL AND CLERKS' PLAYS

-13- THE CLERKS AND THE PARISH REGISTERS

-14- THE CLERK AS A POET

-15- THE CLERK GIVING OUT NOTICES

-16- SLEEPY CHURCH AND SLEEPY CLERKS

-17- THE CLERK IN ART

-18- WOMEN AS PARISH CLERKS

-19- SOME YORKSHIRE CLERKS

-20- AN OLD CHESHIRE CLERK AND SOME OTHER WORTHIES

-21- THE CLERK AND THE LAW

-22- RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD CLERKS AND THEIR WAYS

-23- CURIOUS STORIES

-24- LONGEVITY AND HEREDITY THE DEACON CLERKS OF BARNSTAPLE

-25- CONCLUSION