A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE WELSH CLERGY CIRCA 1662-1939 - Tecno-Libro

Part Three of A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE WELSH CLERGY contains two sections, on the domestic position of the clergy and on the parsonage house. The study relates to the four Welsh dioceses of the Church of England then in the Province of Canterbury. The first section notes how clerical duty changed over the centuries, becoming more pastorally orientated, and using case studies notes how clergy ?worked? their parishes. Reference is made to the numerous visitation charges and sermons which addressed this issue. Note is made of the idle, neglectful and unworthy clergy, and another chapter describes their external lifestyle, noting the sporting, masonic, academic clergy in particular. Further chapters describe the clerical families, their wives, including those who controlled their husbands? parishes, their children and their servants. The final section relates to the parson?s house, noting the lack of or deplorable state of much of the housing in the 18th century, the concerns expressed about this state of affairs, especially by bishops, as the lack of a house often led to pluralism and absenteeism, and the remedi