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The Old Church Clock

by Richard Parkinson

A fictional "history" of Robert Walker, a dedicated clergyman in the English Lake District, this work, which started as a short magazine 'tale', examines how the lower echelons of the church produces dedicated, religious men, while those who head the church are self-serving and power hungry.

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English

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English

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1843

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Richard Parkinson was an English clergyman, known as a canon of Manchester Cathedral, college principal, theologian and antiquarian. The son of John Parkinson, by his wife Margaret Blackburne, he was...

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