The vocal Powers here let us mark Of Philip our late Parish Clerk In Church none ever heard a Layman With a clearer Voice say "Amen!" Who now with Hallelujahs Sound Like Him can make the Roofs rebound? The Choir lament his Choral Tones The Town--so soon Here lie his Bones. "Sleep undisturb'd within thy peaceful shrine Till Angels wake thee with such notes as thine." Also of SARAH his wife who departed this life on the 24th of January 1817 aged 51 years. Our genial friend, Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," tells us, "As a boy I often attended the service at Belbroughton Church, Worcestershire, where the parish clerk was Mr. Osborne, tailor. His family had there been parish clerks and tailors since the time of Henry the Eighth, and were lineally descended from William FitzOsborne, who, in the twelfth century, had been deprived by Ralph FitzHerbert of his right to the manor of Bellem, in the parish of Belbroughton. Often have I stood in the picturesque churchyard of Wolverley, Worcestershire, by the grave of its old parish clerk, whom I well remember, old Thomas Worrall, the inscription on whose monument is as follows:-- Sacred to the Memory of THOMAS WORRALL, Parish Clerk of Wolverley for a period of forty-seven years. Died A.D. 1854, February 23rd. Aged 76 years. "He served with faithfulness in humble sphere, As one who could his talent well employ. Hope that when Christ his Lord shall reappear, He may be bidden to his Master's joy." This tombstone was erected to the memory of the deceased by a few of the parishioners in testimony of his worth. April, 1855. Charles R. Somers Cocks, vicar. It may be noted of this worthy parish clerk that, with the exception of a week or two before his death, he was never once absent from his Sunday and weekday duties in the forty-seven years during which he held office. He succeeded his father, James Worrall, who died in 1806, aged seventy-nine, after being parish clerk of Wolverley for thirty years. His tombstone, near to that of his son, was erected "to record his worth both in his public and private character, and as a mark of personal esteem--h. l. F. H. & W. C. p. c." I am told that these initials stand for F. Hurtle and the Rev. William Callow, and that the latter was the author of the following lines inscribed on the monument, which are well worth quoting:--