Absolon, Chaucer's portrait of, 26 David, clerk of Great Yarmouth, 185 "Acts," a Christian name, 264 Addison, on clerks, 64 Advent, a carol for, 168 "Ales," clerk's, 42 Allington, Kent, 230 Alnwick, Turner, clerk of, 232 "Amen" epitaph, 97 _Ancient Mysteries_, 137 Andrews, W., _Curious Epitaphs_, 100 _Curiosities of the Church_, 188 Antiquity of clerk's office, 16, etc. Apostles, complimenting the, 265 Appointment, the right of, 246 _Aquæbajalus_, 27 Arms of the Company of Clerks, 111 _Art of Politicks_, 184 Art, the clerk in, 195, etc. Ashford, Isaac, the story of, 68 Aston, Yorks, 5 Astronomical clerks, 209, 258 Atchley, Dr. Cuthbert, 49 Atkinson, Rev. Canon, 302, 303 Atkins, Thomas of Chillenden, 236 Augustine of Canterbury, St., 16, 35 Avington, female clerk at, 202 Badger, H.W., of Mallow, 319 Baker, Anthony, deacon-clerk, 329 Bakewell, the Roe family of, 93 Barkham, 143, 312, 331 Barnet, East, clerk of, 60 Barnstaple, clerks of, 61, 327 Barrel-organs, 5 Barton Turf, Norfolk, dog-whippers land at, 34 Beating the bounds at Ringmer, 34 Bede Roll of the Company, 113 Bede, Cuthbert, 91, 161, 201, 317, 327 Bells to warn travellers, 83 Belbroughton, 96 _Belts Life_, in the pulpit, 231 Belton, Suffolk, Noah Pole, clerk of, 311 Bennet, John, of Woodstock, 163 Beresford Hope on old services, 8, 170 Besant, Sir W., description of old clerk, 21 Bilby, Thomas, author of hymn, 154 Bills of Mortality, 123 Bingley, Hezekiah Briggs, of, 100 Bletchley, clerk of, 59 Bly, Sarah, sexton, 201 "Bobber," or sluggard-waker, 204 Bond family of Worcester, 318 Boniface, Archbishop, constitutions of, 30 Borne, Hooker's parish, 24 _Borough, The_, by G. Crabbe, 66 Bradford-on-Avon, 158, 194 Bramwells of Chapel-en-le-Frith, 319 Bristol, St. Nicholas, 28, 50 Broadway, the Tustins of, 318 Bromfield, Salop, 280 Bromham, the clerk of, 190 Bromsgrove, Rose family of, 318 Burrows, Mrs., recollections of, 283 Buxted, clerk of, 55