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ˌtown-ˈclerk
The clerk or secretary to the corporation of a town, who has charge of the records, correspondence, and legal business, the conduct of municipal elections, etc.
1343Inq. ad q. d. 268/18 in List (1904) 399 [Si concedamus Thome de Legh de Oxonia] tounclerk. 13..S. Eng. Leg. (MS. Bodl. 779) in Herrig Archiv LXXXII. 419/17 Þey him made toun-clerke..Alle aȝen his wille. 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 476/1 Charged bi the Toun Clerk for the tyme beyng. 1526Tindale Acts xix. 35 When the toune clarcke [Gr. γραµµατεύς] had cessed the people he sayd: Ye men of Ephesus [etc.]. 1631High Commission Cases (Camden) 198 This cause was prosecuted by some of the towne of Stamford, of which the towne clarke was one. 1835Act 5 & 6 Will. IV, c. 76 §58 That the Council of every Borough..shall appoint a fit Person..to be the Town Clerk of such Borough, who shall hold his Office during Pleasure.
b. = parish clerk. dial. rare. Cf. town n. 3.
1597Min. Archdeaconry of Essex lf. 237 (MS.), He willfully deniethe the paiment of the vsuall clerk's wages to father God our towne clerk. 1597–8Min. Archdeaconry of Colchester lf. 186 b (MS.), Great Chishill..Richard Watson..allegavit that he is towneclerk there. 1879D. J. Hill Bryant 55 [Bryant] being himself at the time, the town-clerk, he was placed in the embarrassing position of having to proclaim his own nuptials.
Hence ˌtown-ˈclerkship, the office of town-clerk.
1439Coventry Leet Bk. 192 They ordeyne that Symkyn Birches enjoy and haue off the office off Toun-clerkship terme of hys lyffe. 1521Maldon, Essex, Liber B. lf. 57 b (MS.), The office of towneclerkshipp for this yere followynge. 1817W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXIII. 496 The town-clerk-ship having become vacant. |