The Parish Clerk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500443795)

The race of parish clerks is gradually becoming extinct. Before the recollection of their quaint ways, their curious manners and customs, has quite passed away, it has been thought advisable to collect all that can be gathered together concerning them. Much light has in recent years been thrown upon the history of the office. The learned notes appended to Dr. Wickham Legg's edition of The Parish Clerk's Book, published by the Henry Bradshaw Society, Dr. Atchley's Parish Clerk and his Right to Read the Liturgical Epistle (Alcuin Club Tracts), and other works, give much information with regard to the antiquity of the office, and to the duties of the clerk of medi val times; and from these books I have derived much information. By the kindness of many friends and of many correspondents who are personally unknown to me, I have been enabled to collect a large number of anecdotes, recollections, facts, and biographical sketches of many clerks in different parts of England, and I am greatly indebted to those who have so kindly supplied me with so much valuable information.

Author: P. H. Ditchfield
ISBN-10: 1500443794
ISBN-13: 9781500443795
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2014
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.27d