Machyn’s Diary, 117
Maldon, Essex, a curious letter, 309
Mangotsfield, Bamford, clerk of, 230
Marlow, Bucks, 319
Marriage Act of 1653, 81
Marriages by clerks, 81
Matthew Paris, 43
Maundy Thursday, 37
Maybrick, William, and his sons, 308
Mediaeval clerk, 31, etc. 
Milston, clerk at, 64
Milverton, Somerset, 41, 59
Moody, clerk at Redbourn, 172
More, Sir Thomas, 32, 109
Morebath, dispute at, 29
Mortality, Bills of, 123
Morwenstow and its ghost story, 313
Myre, John, instructions to parish priests, 45

New Remarks of London, 127
Newport Pagnell, Bucks, 285
Northampton, All Saints, 69
“Northern Lights,” 217
Notices, the clerk giving out, 169, etc.
  curious, 270

Oldswinford, the Orfords of, 318
Orchestra, village, 4, 213
Orpin, portrait by Gainsborough, 195
Osbornes of Belbroughton, 96
Overy, St. Mary, 80

Pageantry of clerks, 119 Pall used as horsecloth, 295 The Parish Clerk, a new comic song, 73 Parish Clerk’s Guide, The, 46, 57 Parish Clerk, by Hewett, 6, 58, 162 Parish Clerks, Some Account of, by J. Christie, 107 Parish Register, The, by Crabbe, 67 Parish registers and the clerks, 140, etc. Parish Registers, History of, 148 Parsons, old-time, 1, 10-15 Parson and Clerk, rocks so named, 86 Pattishall, clerk’s register of, 145 Perquisites of clerks, 41 Pews, old-fashioned, 2 Pierce, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 43 Plague in London, 125 Playford, John, 56 Plays performed by clerks, 131, etc.  Pluralism, evil effects of, 14
Plymouth, St. Andrew, 25
Poet, the clerk as a, 154, etc. 
Poor rates levied on the altar, 268
Pope, Alexander, Memoir of P.P., 75
Portraits in the hall of the Company, 112
Prideaux, Dr., 327
Priestly, Peter, clerk of Wakefield, 86
Printing press, the clerks’, 125
Pup wanted, a, 317
Puritanism, effects of, 7

Radcliffe, Lancashire, 304
Radcliffe-on-Sour, 100
Railways, the advent of, 242
Raw, Frank, of Selby, epitaph of, 100
Rawsley, Miss, recollections of, 236
Rawsley, Canon, story told by, 313
Reading, duty of, 48, etc. 
Reading, St. Giles, 19, 33, 45
Reading, St. Lawrence, 21, 39
Reading, St. Mary, 33, 39
Rectores chori, 36
Recollections of old clerks, 255, etc. 
Redbourn, Herts, 172
Reeve, Rev. E.H.L., recollections of, 286
Reformation changes, 51
Rempstone, wages of clerk at, 248
“Responding inaudibly,” 307
Revival of office of clerk, 334
Rex v. Erasmus Warren, 251
Richard I as rector chori, 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