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 St. Albans, clerk of, 87 St. Columb Minor, Cornwall, 320 St. Nicholas, patron saint of clerks, 105 Salehurst, wages of clerk, 249 Salisbury, St. Edmund, clerk's house at, 34 Salisbury, John Hopkins of, 162 Saltwood, Kent, clerk's house at, 34 Sapiston and the Duke's hare, 177 Scarlett, Old, of Peterborough, 98 Schoolmaster, clerk as, 44 Scothorne, Blackburn's epitaph, 103 Selwyn, Rev. W., recollections of, 279 Sermon forgotten, 287 Sexton and clerk, 22, 64, 253 Shakespeare's allusion to clerks, 63 Shenley, Rogers of, 92 Sherlock, F., recollections of, 308 Shoes in church, 226 Sidbury, clerk of, 59 Singing, duty of, 48, etc. Singing, efforts to improve, 121 Skinners' Well, 131 _Sleeping Congregation_, by Hogarth 181 Sleepy church and sleepy clerks, 179, etc. Sluggard-waker, 187 Smuggling days and smuggling ways, 79, 83, etc. Smoking in church, 228, 295, 303 Snell, Peter, of Crayford, 97 Soberton, Hants, smuggling at, 84 _Social Life as told by Parish Registers_, 142, 148 Solomon Daisy of _Barnaby Rudge_, 72 Song during the sermon, a, 292 _Spectator, The_, 64, 65 Spoliation of Clerks' Company, 108 Sporting parsons, 171, 269 Sporting clerks, 211 Squire's pew, the, 2 Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, 40 Staple-next-Wingham, 101 Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalter, 3 Stoke, 300 Story, Robert, poet, 157 Stoulton, epitaph at, 103 Stratfieldsaye, 300, 305 Surplices objected to, 118 Swanscombe, Kent, 8 Swift on old pews, 2 Swift and his clerk Roger, 180 Syntax, Dr., 14 Tait, Archbishop, on old services, 8 Teeth, story of "artful," 174 Tennyson's allusion to clerks, 72 Tenterden, John Hopton of, 80 Thame, curious banns at, 316 Thirza, a Christian name, 282 Tingrith and its potentate, 283 Totnes, Devon, 326 Tourists' queries, 321 Town crier as clerk, 293 Tunbridge Wells, Jenner's "Mount Sion," 185 Uffington, Salop, 299 Upton, near Droitwich, 179 Venables, Rev. Canon, recollections of, 267 Verney, Lady, _Essays and Tales_, 74 Vickers, Rev. W.V., recollections of, 255 Visitation of the sick, 46