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CJ-NH.773.052
24 Dec 1773:32 (323)
A correspondent assures us, that he knew a clergyman, in
Wales, who did duty every Sunday at two different churches
for 10 l a year. This labour he very chearfully went
through with; but having a wife and six children to maintain
on that scanty allowance, and finding it impossible to
procure them even the common necessaries of life, cheap as
they are there, by attending solely to the duties of his
function, on work-days he sold ale, played on the fiddle,
and mended his parishoners shoes; and thus, between
fiddling, cobling, and ale-selling, and preaching, made a
shift to earn in all, about 20 l. per annum.
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