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>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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%