Crossword-Solution: SEXTONS 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

They could only be the sextons and vergers and such-like, who got up at night, and put on the robes of deans and bishops, and called each other grand names, as the foolish servants he had heard his father tell of call themselves lords and ladies, after their masters and mistresses.

The people who chiefly spoke against it, as she informed me, were soldiers disbanded upon pensions, the sextons of village churches, and excisemen.

Wool-carding in Barchester there was no longer any; so the bishop, dean, and warden, who took it in turn to put in the old men, generally appointed some hangers-on of their own; worn-out gardeners, decrepit grave-diggers, or octogenarian sextons, who thankfully received a comfortable lodging and one shilling and fourpence a day, such being the stipend to which, under the will of John Hiram, they were declared to be entitled.

And it was estimated that the parish of Stepney alone lost one hundred and sixteen gravediggers and sextons within that year.

When the contribution plate was passed, the sexton always began at the right-wing pews, as all the sextons before him had done for a hundred years.