CLERICAL INCOMES
The plight of poorly-paid clergy has been deplored by speakers at the Church Congress, but the lowest stipend of any minister today might have seemed riches to some country parsons in the eighteenth century, says the "Manchester Guardian." Even Goldsmith's vicar, "passing rich on £40 a year," was highly paid compared with fthe Rev. Robert Walker, of Leathwaite, Cumberland, who on his appointment as curate in charge of that parish in 1735, was allotted a salary of £5 per annum, and after twenty years was still in receipt of no more than £17 '10s a year. Apart from his stipepd, Walker's only financial resource was the £40 dowry on his wife, yet he contrived to rear a family of eight and maintained his eldest son at Trinity College, Dublin, while the lad was studying for holy orders. One secret of his remarkable achievement lay in the fact that, while faithfully fulfilling all the duties of his office, he contrived to ..grow nearly all his own food and even made the family clothing, weaving cloth from the fleeces of his own sheep.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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183CLERICAL INCOMES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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