Mock Epic entitled ‘Remains of the Provicecomiad of The Groans of the Proctors’ written by Jos Munby, sen., solicitor and Under Sheriff of Yorks. Based on the encroachment by the Proctors in York on the business of the legal profession by preparing warrants on writs, the making of which belonged entirely to the Under Sheriff, or by his permission to gentlemen in the profession 79 p.p. manuscript.
Inscribed by Arthur J Munby, Clifton Holme, Aug 1879: ‘The work, singular as it is, has much merit and shows its author to have been a lettered and cultivated man: and the smoothness of the verse suggests a practised hand.’