E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Bible-Clerk.
A sizar of the Oxford university; a student who gets certain pecuniary advantages for reading the Bible aloud at chapel. The office is almost a sinecure now, but the emolument is given, in some colleges, to the sons of poor gentlemen, either as a free gift, or as the reward of merit tested by examination.
