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PC.773.141
22-29 Nov 1773:1781 (359)
A correspondent assures us, that he knew a Clergyman, in
Wales, who did duty, every Sunday, at two different
churches, for 10L 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 workdays he sold ale, played on the fiddle, and
mended his parishioners shoes; and thus, between fiddling,
cobbling, ale-selling, and preaching, made a shift to earn,
in all, about 20L per annum.
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