parrator

Updated: June 1, 2025

There is a very interesting contemporary ballad entitled "A new Ballad of the Parrator and the Divell," attributed by its modern editor to not later than 1616, which throws much light on the proceedings of certain unscrupulous apparitors, and reflects also the strong dislike entertained for the whole tribe of apparitors by people of the time.

Sedley Lynch Ware - The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects