UNDERPAID CLERGYMEN.
INCOME OF £3O A YEAR. A wife and five children to |, e pr and clothed ; a rectory to be maintain ed in good repair; all upon an i IK . O . ’ -t' of £SO a year. 0 That was the hard ease of a coimtr parson whose application, for ij ie u was among the long list considered bv the English Poor Clergy Relief Cor- -\ poration in December. The £»(j Wag the only assured income he had on which to live and present a' respectable appearance to the world. ]'fj\ fj ve children vary in age rom two* to M fifteen, so that ail depended on ])j rfu The following were three other casaSr mentioned on December 11 bv .MrMandoville B. Phillip:-;, secretary of the corporation : Incumbent, in Kent: stipend cqpcr'annum, four children, wife :mfiV. r _ mg from consumption. Clergyman, aged sixty-two, down with serious illness: stipend ejpj. wife and two children. Curate, aged sixty-six; stipend £150: six children, wife recently Wr ill. ' ‘
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2431, 20 February 1909, Page 4
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164UNDERPAID CLERGYMEN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2431, 20 February 1909, Page 4
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