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NM.774.006
31 Jan 1774:21 (804)
London, Oct. 12. 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
cheerfully 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 parishioners shoes; and thus,
between fidling, cobling, ale-selling, and preaching, made a
shift to earn, in all, about 20 L. per annum. . . .
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