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The two “sidesmen” are occupied in the two ways of shewing intelligence and contempt known as “taking a sight,” etc.

And at that moment Bertram appeared, led out by two sidesmen.

The sidesmen did not say much, but they managed, with what they did say, to convey the impression that they thought as the churchwardens thought.

Crosthwaite differed from other places in the manner of selecting and swearing the churchwardens and sidesmen, the form being settled by the Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes in Queen Elizabeth’s time.

Among other subjects of a greater or less importance, his thoughts turned upon John Musgrave, his sidesman and very good patron.