townclerk

English

Noun

townclerk (plural townclerks)

1. Alternative form of town clerk
   • 1815, Alain René Le Sage, The adventures of Gil Blas, page 79:

     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 ;

   • 1863, Our County; or, Hampshire in the reign of Charles II., page 191:

     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 :

   • 1967, John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, 1625 [-1649]:

     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.

   • 2013, Bill Vincent, Defeating the Demonic Realm:

     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?