Some parents waited months and years before having their children baptised by a passing clergyman of their own faith.
Like other members of society, clergymen became more prosperous, a fact which, in turn, drew a higher class of person to the profession.
After all, clergymen could take part in their capacity as individual citizens.
Links with clergymen employed by the convent or friars from a nearby male community, although proscribed, provided female religious with an obvious source of company.
The plot in the north-eastern part of the block was inhabited by clergymen.
And why, when the clergyman (often justifiably) thought of himself as working unstintingly in his parishioners' interests, was he so often heartily despised by them?
Most towns had a full complement of clergymen, lawyers and doctors, all jostling for position and status.
Some of the part-time clergymen are particularly known to be engaged in non-clerical occupations with less favourable health risks.
