[In Shropshire an _ell-rake_ means a large rake: an _ellock-rake_,
a small rake used for breaking up ant-hills.]
_Francis Clerke._--I have now before me a MS. in small folio on paper,
pp. 225., besides index, entitled--
"Pro Curatorium ac Modus postulandi in Curijs et Causis
ecclesiasticis Auct'at'e reverendissimi in Christi patris ac
D[=m]i D[=m]i Johannis providentia Divina Cantuariensis
Archiepiscopi, totius Anglie Prima'ts et Metropolitani Londoni
celebr[=a] que communiter Curie de Arcubus appellantur. Per
Franciscum Clerke, Alme Curie de Arcubus procuren' collecta et
edita."
Who was Francis Clerke; and was this collection ever published, and
when?