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Watch & enforcement

Proctors (Oxford)

Also called proctors

Officers of the chapter whose ground is rite, burial, clergy discipline and the chapter courts; the schools also have proctors rather than soldiers. They reach laymen only through the parish.

Named with it

  • Proctor Hugh Danvers

Ties

  • officers of the Oxford chapter

At the table

A proctor may not enter a valley household, so a proctor wanting something done unrecorded has it done by someone who is not a proctor. Country practitioners stop talking for good if what they said reaches one.