CHAPTER XIX

. PROVISION FOR OLD AGE.

Assistant chaplain, 290--Coadjutor assigned, 291--A leprous vicar, 294--Retirement on a pension, 295--A retiring vicar builds for himself a “reclusorium” in the churchyard, 295--Parish chaplain retires on a pension, 296--Death and burial, 296.

## CHAPTER XX . THE PARISH CLERK.

Ancient office, 298--Its duties, 299--Stipend, 301--Sometimes students for orders, 302--Gilds of parish clerks, 303--Chaucer’s parish clerk, 304.

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