At 15:16 03/06/98 GMT0BST, you wrote:
>>From the answer the Gwynedd clergy gave to Cromwell it seems not to
>have been the money these clerical wives brought with them so much as
>the work they did. Someone had to cook the rectorial tea and wash the
>rectorial cassock: and a wife generally gets paid less than a
>housekeeper! It would be a brave man who argued that Mrs Josselin was
>a financial encumbrance on her husband.
>
>Maddy
>
>Thank you - this is exactly the question that interests me. And if clergy
turn up
in these Welsh pedigrees, presumably we also find the names of some of their
wives.
This is precisely the point I have tried to impress on my own bishop: you
have to
pay a housekeeper, but a wife does it all for nothing and probably goes out to
work and brings in money as well.
And please, before I get jumped on from a great height:
Myn entente is nat but for to pleye! :-) :-) :-) :-)
Bill.
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