Townclerk
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Townclerk is a noun meaning Alternative form of town clerk.
Meaning
Alternative form of town clerk.
Example Sentences
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.
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 :
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 ;
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?
Word Forms
- townclerks
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