Parish clerk
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In English law
An officer, in former times often in holy orders, and appointed to officiate at the altar; now his duty consists chiefly in making responses in church to the minister. By common, law he has a freehold in his office, but it seems now to be falling into desuetude.
2 Steph. Comm. 700; Mozley & Whitley.