Meaning of townclerk | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“What ! do you think ( for example) that your horse has been restored to the right owner ? not at all ; I assure you , he is now actually in the stable of the townclerk , where he has been deposited as a proof of the robbery ;”

“This was duly forwarded to the townclerk, who, retaining the document in his own hands, artfully set forth, in public conversation or otherwise, only such portions of the charter as would be palatable to the public :”

“The complaint made against Robert Brerewood, their townclerk, and some others of the city, they think too mean a business to “ interturb” the weightier affairs of the Council.”

“And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?”

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