Under-sexton

(UNDER-¹ 6 a.)

c. 1450.  [see UNDER-CHAMBRESS].

1722.  De Foe, Plague (1756), 105. Under-Sexton of the Parish of St. Stephen…. By Under-Sexton, was understood at that Time Grave-digger and Bearer of the Dead.

1829.  Lytton, Devereux, II. ii. I was … the under-sexton of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden.