Caistor, Lincolnshire, 227 Calculating clerk, a, 211 Cambridgeshire curate, a, 15 Canes in churches, 190 Canterbury, Guild of Clerks at, 105 Carley, Thomas, of Grafton Underwood, 152 Carne, James, oldest living parish clerk, 319 Carshalton, register of, 141 Catechising, 228 Catechising in church by the clerk, 59, 274 Catwick, Thomas Dixon, of, 206 Celibacy of clerks, 18 Chanter, Rev. J.F., on clerks of Barnstaple, 327 Chapel-en-le-Frith, 319 Chapple, William, of Swymbridge, 174 Charman Dean, smuggling at, 84 Charters of Company of Clerks, 106, 109 Chaucer's portrait of frivolous clerk, 26 Cheshire clerk, an old, 225 Chess in a village, 242 Chester, plays at, 134 Sir Robert, spoliator of Clerks' Company, 108 Chillenden, Kent, 236 Choirs, old-time, 1, 3, 4, 198, 213 "Chosen people," 235 Church, description of an old, 1 Churching of women, 231 Churchwardens' Account books, 19 Clark, John, the register book of, 145 Clarke, John, 111 Clarkson, David, of Feckenham, 318 Claverley, Shropshire, 188 Clergy, defective readers, 58 Clerk's ale, 42 house, 33 _Clerks Book, The_, 52, 248 Clerks, too clerical, 79, etc. Clerk's Latin, 242 Clerkenwell and clerks' plays, 130, etc. Clerkship, stepping-stone to higher preferment, 32 Coaching days, 241 Collis family of clerks, 91 Collumpton, female clerk at, 202 Company of parish clerks, 104, etc. Cornish parsons, 180 Cornish wreckers, 84 Coronation changes in the Prayer Book, 314 Council of Merida, 17 Toledo, 17 Court, George, of Wednesbury, 289 Coventry, Trinity Church, 28, 36, 50 Coventry, plays at, 134 Cowper's mortuary verses, 69 _The Sofa_, 71 _The Task_, 184 Crabbe's sketch of old clerics, 13 Crabbe's sketch of old clerks, 66 Crayford, Kent, "Amen" epitaph at, 97 Cromer, David Vial of, 92 Cropthorne, Worcestershire, 102 Crosthwaite and catechising, 277 Curious stories, 307, etc. Dagenham and its clerk, 313 Dean, West, Sussex, 233 Decline of clerks, 61 Decorating the church, 193 Deputations, 217 Descent into Hell, 136 Dickenson, Thomas, licensed to officiate, 81 Dicker, Robert, of Crediton, 257 Diggs, David, 6, 58, 162 Dismissing a clerk, 247, 250 Dixon, Thomas, a curious character, 206 Dog, an archbishop's, 189 Dogs fighting in church, 85 Dog-whippers, 34, 188 Dogs lost, notices of, 176 Dogs in churches, 189 Duke's present of game, a, 177 Dunstable, 20 Dunstan, St., 16 Easter cakes, 41 Eastham, clerk of, 55 Ecclesfield, clerks at, 298 Eccleshall's cricketing clerk, 182 _Ecclesiastical Law_, by Sir R. Phillimore, 247 Edgar, King, canons of, 16 Elliott, Rev. E.K., recollections of, 83 Elmstead, 49 Elton, Miss, recollections of, 292 Epitaphs of clerks, 90, etc. Epworth and John Wesley, 193 Ethelbert, King, 16 Evison, Thomas, of Wragsby, 281 Exeter, Synod of, 17