In message <102.426a13b5.2dabb423@aol.com>, GaryIvoDe@aol.com writes >About 1579 some men were listed as priests and some as parsons. >Does anyone know if there was a great difference between the two? A parson (person) should be the clergyman in charge of a parish. A priest is a general term for anyone in Holy Orders, who might be a private chaplain or a cathedral clergyman etc,.] 'Priest' also means a Catholic priest, but those would be keeping their heads down pretty carefully in 1578, unless they wished to be arrested and imprisoned, since Catholicism was illegal -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society