Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
down as a fact not to be disputed, that hardly one per cent. of the country clergy ever _touch_ the full amount which theoretically they are entitled to receive. In the case of parishes where the land is much subdivided, and where there are a number of small tithepayers, it wo...
the country parson is that to which he has to submit because the churchyard is technically part of his freehold. In many parts of the country a fee is charged for burying the de...
2. ii. For be it known it is with the surveyor or rate-collector thatthe parson’s first and most important concern lies. Whatever he may receive from his cure, however numerous may be the defaulters among the tithe-payers, however large the expen...
1. i. With regard to the income of the country parson, it may be laiddown as a fact not to be disputed, that hardly one per cent. of the country clergy ever _touch_ the full amount which theoretically they are entitled to receive. In the case of...