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By Robert Lee
The behavior of divine provider used to be just one merchandise at the time table of the nineteenth-century clergyman. He may need to sit down at the magistrates' bench, or quandary himself with enterprise as a farmer or landowner, or attend a gathering of the negative legislation guardians. He could, almost certainly, be heavily concerned with the day by day working of the neighborhood university, and he could potentially be the main administrator of the parochial charities. whereas a few of these roles have been essentially predestined to deliver him into clash with convinced individuals of his flock, others appear ostensibly designed to function of their pursuits. None, notwithstanding, appear to have earned him a lot within the means of devotion and appreciate: as an alternative, every one of them at one time or one other attracted the direct hostility of parishioners, such a lot fairly these connected to dissenting and/or radical teams. This publication is an in depth exploration of the connection among Anglican monks and the population of rural parishes within the 19th century. Taking Norfolk as a spotlight, the writer examines the various and profound ways that the Victorian Church affected the day-by-day lives and political destinies of neighborhood groups.
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34 Collett’s tactic of ‘naming and shaming’ represented a clerical counterattack against the farmer–labourer alliance. It called the farmers’ bluff: if they were prepared to submit tithes in kind they could not object to the produce being given directly to the poor. On 28 December the farmers named by Collett struck back. In their letter to the Norfolk Chronicle they described the impossibility of dealing with a rector who insisted upon communicating exclusively through his agent. Furthermore, Collett had stubbornly refused to abate tithes that were much higher than in neighbouring parishes, thereby limiting their scope for increasing wages to labourers: When [on 4 December] we paid our tithes to his agent, we enquired what terms we might expect for the next year, and received for 33 34 Evans, Contentious Tithe, pp.
Canon W. H. Marcon, The Reminiscences of a Norfolk Parson (Holt, 1927), p. 6. 6 Rev. A. Jessopp, Arcady: For Better, For Worse (London, 1890), pp. 20–1. 7 Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, Vanishing England (London, 1910), p. 375. 31 ENCOUNTERING THE POOR some of their most potent encounters with the ‘new’, it is feasible that the restored church on the parish skyline came to be seen by many as a symbol of Cultural Revolution. Encountering popular culture: Witches, wise-men and ‘closed communities’ ‘The nineteenth century has not produced universal knowledge,’ wrote the Rev.
C. N. 68. 32 RESTORATION: ENCOUNTERS WITH POPULAR CULTURE Even when its expression was not remotely political, popular culture and its associated knowledge-system posed a threat because it evoked a time when the lot of the agricultural labourer had supposedly been rather better. In the tiny Broadland parish of Irstead the Rev. 13 To men like the Rev. George Crabbe of Merton, the task of liberating the uneducated mind from the fallacies of popular culture fell to the clergyman and was straightforwardly an issue of parochial leadership.