Faithfulness of clerks, 23 Fairfield, 80 Fasting Communion, a tradition, 237 Faversham, 28, 45, 50 Feckenham, 318 Feudal customs, 284 Fewson, Richard, a curious clerk, 208 Fielding's clerics, 11 Fighting in church, 49, 279 Finch, Betty, "bobber," 204 Flore, carol by the clerk of, 167 Ford family of King's Norton, 102, 318 Foster, Joshua, of Caistor, 227 Foston-le-Clay and Sydney Smith, 216 Fressingfield, clerk's house at, 34 Frith's Vicar of Wakefield, 199 Funerals, London clerks at, 116 Funerals, old time, 218, 222 Furness, Richard, clerk of Dore, 164 Gadara, swine of, 238 Gainsborough's portrait of Orpin, 195 Gargrave, York, 157 Gay's allusion to clerks, 72 George IV and Queen Caroline, 183 Ghost story, 313 Gill, Mrs., recollections of, 170, 278 "God speed 'em well," 215, 230 Goldsmith's _Vicar of Wakefield_, 12 Goose in the pulpit, 266 Grafton Underwood, 152 Gray, John, clerk at Eton College, Green, Rev. W.F., recollections of, 293 Gregory IX, decretals of, 17 Gregory Smith, Rev. Canon, recollections of, 315 Grindal, Archbishop, injunctions of, 54, 80 Grosseteste, Bishop, 17 Guild of Clerks, 18, 104, etc. Guinea-fowls, disturbing congregation, 261 Gunpowder Plot, 161 Haddon, West, 91 Halls of the Clerks' Company, 107, 110, etc. "Harmun," a Christian name, 263 Hartlepool, clerk of, 59 Harvey, Christopher, 63 Haw of Halton Holgate, 236 Hawker, Rev. R.S., recollections of, 85, 313 Hayes, disgraceful scenes at, 187 Hebrew scholar, a, 323 Hemmans, Rev. Canon, recollections of, 281 Herbert, George, on responding, 68 Herbert, George, clerk of Eye, 93 Heredity of the clerk's office, 318 Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims, 17 Hinton, William, a Wilts clerk, 239 Hobbes, William, clerk at Plymouth, 25 Hobby, a matrimonial, 315 Hogarth's _Sleeping Congregation_, 131 Holy loaf, 38, etc. Holy water, 27 Hone's _Year Book_ and _Book of Days_, 87, 99 Hooker, the Judicious, 24 Hopkins, John, clerk at Salisbury, 162 Houses for clerks, 33 How, Bishop Walsham, recollections of, 298 Hust, Richard, portrait of, 111 Hutchinson, F., a Yorkshire clerk, 302 Hutton, William, verses by, 73 Huyk, John, of Hull, 35 Hymn in praise of William III, 160 Illuminated MSS., 197 Ingenious clerk, an, 259 Ingham, James, of Whalley, 236 Jachin, the story of, 66 Jenkins, Rev. M.E., recollections of, 302 Jenner's "Mount Sion," 185 Jerry and the "Northern Lights," 218 John of Althon, 32, 49 Johnson's definition and opinion of clerks, 66 Kennicott, Dr., a clerk's son, 326 Kent, John, clerk of St. Albans, 87 Kenwyn, dogs fighting in church, 85 Kilbrogan, Ireland, 159 King's Norton, the Fords of, 102, 318