Derbyshire.  Peter Bramwell, clerk of the parish, died in 1854, after having held the office for forty-three years.  His father Peter Bramwell was clerk for fifty years, his grandfather George Bramwell for thirty-eight years, his great-great-grandfather George Bramwell for forty years, and his great-great-great-grandfather Peter Bramwell for fifty-two years.  The total number of years during which the parish was served by this family of clerks was 223, and by only five members of it, giving an average of forty-four years and nine months for each—­a wonderful record truly!

Nor are these instances of the hereditary nature of the office, and of the fact that the duties of the position seem to contribute to the lengthened days of the holders of it, entirely passed away.  The riverside town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, furnishes an example of this.  Mr. H.W.  Badger has occupied the position of parish clerk for half a century, and a few months ago was presented by the townspeople with an illuminated address, together with a purse of fifty-five sovereigns, in recognition of his long term of service and of the esteem in which he is held.  He was appointed in 1855 in succession to his father, Henry Badger, appointed in 1832, who succeeded his grandfather, Wildsmith Badger, who became parish clerk in 1789.

The oldest parish clerk living is James Carne, who serves in the parish of St. Columb Minor, Cornwall, and has held the office for fifty-eight years.  He is now in his hundred and first year, and still is unremitting in attention to duty, and regularly attends church.  He followed in the wake of his father and grandfather, who filled the same position for fifty-four years and fifty years respectively.

Mr. Edward J. Lupson is the much-respected parish clerk of Great Yarmouth, who is a great authority on the history of the important church in which he officiates, and is the author of several books.  He has written an excellent guide to the church of St. Nicholas, and a volume entitled Cupid’s Pupils, compiled from the personal “recollections of a parish clerk who assisted at ten thousand four hundred marriages and gave away eleven hundred and thirty brides”—­a wonderful record, which, as the book was published seven years ago, has now been largely exceeded.  The book is brightly written, and abounds in the records of amusing instances of nervous and forgetful brides and bride-grooms, of extraordinary blunders, of the failings of inexperienced clergy, and is a full and complete guide to those who contemplate matrimony.  His guide to the church he loves so well is admirable.  It appears there is a clerks’ book at Great Yarmouth, which contains a number of interesting notes and memoranda.  The clerks of this church were men of importance and position in the town.  In 1760 John Marsh, who succeeded Sampson Winn, was a town councillor.  He was succeeded in 1785 by Mr. Richard Pitt, the son of a former mayor, and he and his wife and sixteen children were interred