The Oldie

More glee, vicar

Edited by Justin Lovill

Bunbury Press £20

Reading this book, I was shocked to discover what had been happening in St Michael's, Cornhill, in the City of London – my old parish – in 1959, before my time there as rector:

‘Fined – John Wilkins for going about the street in women's apparel, being the parish clerk at that time. His explanation to the court was that at a marriage in a merriment he did disguise

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