Saint Nicholas' clerk

Definitions

A highwayman.

obsolete

Examples

“And like⟳ the Saint Nicolas Clarkes on Salsburie plaine (I vse the si∣militude, for that Martin loues Sarum so well) stept out before vs in the high waie, and bidde vs stand⟳.”

“Sirrah, if they meet⟳ not with Saint Nicholas' / clerks, I'll give⟳ thee this neck.”

“The théefe that commits the Robbery, and is the chiefe clerke to Saint Nicholas, is called the High Lawyer.”

“And now hur prattle of Davie, I think⟳ yonder come⟳ prancing down the hills from Kingston, a couple of hur t'other cozens, Saint Nicholas' clerks.”

“Next it is decreed, that the receivers of our rents and customes, to wit divers Rookes, and Saint Nicholas Clearkes shall certainely use⟳ no more slights to get⟳ more then they can clearely come⟳ off with, under penalty of being carried up Hol∣borne in a cart, and at Tiburne executed, which may tend⟳ to the dissolution of our whole fraternity.”

“I was t'other night upon the randan, and who should I meet⟳ with but our old gang, some of St. Nicholas' clerks?”

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