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.