The name Collis occurs amongst those who held the office of parish clerk at West Haddon. The Rev. John T. Page, to whom I am indebted for the above information[44], has gleaned the following particulars from the parish registers and other sources. The clerk who reigned in 1903 was Thomas Adams, who filled the position for eighteen years. He succeeded his father-in-law, William Prestidge, who died 24 March, 1886, after holding the office fifty-three years. His predecessor was Thomas Collis, who died 30 January, 1833, after holding the office fifty-two years, and succeeded John Colledge, who, according to an old weather-beaten stone still standing in the churchyard, died 12 September, 1781. How long Colledge held office cannot now be ascertained. Here are some remarkable examples of long years of service, Collis and Prestidge having held the office for 105 years. [Footnote 44: cf. _Notes and Queries_, Tenth Series, ii., 10 September, 1904, p. 215.] In Shenley churchyard the following remarkable epitaph appears to the memory of Joseph Rogers, who was a bricklayer as well as parish clerk: Silent in dust lies mouldering here A Parish Clerk of voice most clear. None Joseph Rogers could excel In laying bricks or singing well; Though snapp'd his line, laid by his rod, We build for him our hopes in God. A remarkable instance of longevity is recorded on a tombstone in Cromer churchyard. The inscription runs: Sacred to the memory of David Vial who departed this life the 26th of March, 1873, aged 94 years, for sixty years clerk of this parish. At the village church of Whittington, near Oswestry, there is a well-known epitaph, which is worth recording: March 13th 1766 died Thomas Evans, Parish Clerk, aged 72. Old Sternhold's lines or "Vicar of Bray" Which he tuned best 'twas hard to say. Another remarkable instance of longevity is that recorded on a tombstone in the cemetery of Eye, Suffolk, erected to the memory of a faithful clerk: Erected to the memory of George Herbert who was clerk of this parish for more than 71 years and who died on the 17th May 1873 aged 81 years. This monument Is erected to his memory by his grateful Friend the Rev. W. Page Roberts Vicar of Eye. Herbert must have commenced his duties very early in life; according to the inscription, at the age of ten years. At Scothorne, in Lincolnshire, there is a sexton-ringer-clerk epitaph on John Blackburn's tombstone, dated 1739-40. It reads thus: Alas poor John Is dead and gone Who often toll'd the Bell And with a spade Dug many a grave And said Amen as well.