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Of one of these the Bishop himself tells us that it consists of 34 , 000 acres . At the same period , it also appeared there were in the diocese of Cork and Ross 107 parishes united into 77 benefices , with only 43 incumbents resident near enough to perform the duties . In the diocese of Cloyne , there were also 123 parishes united into 77 benefices . In 18 tS , the Bishop of Cork , instead of breaking a union of parishes , gave to his son that of Moviddy , &c 5 worth in the whole £ 1178 . 95 . yearly , without valuing near 100 acres of glebe land , and besides a large prebend in the diocese of Ross , and
a vicar choralship in the Cathedral . Many similar cases might be mentioned . So late as the year 1826 , the parish of Breolich , worth at least £ 400 a year , was united with four others producing upwards of £ 700 per annum . This was done for the benefit of a very near relation of the Archbishop . In Cork , the rectory of Christ Church , which is a sinecure , was attached to the prebendary of the Holy Trinity . The income of this rectory arises chiefly from lands , and the present holder received not long since from his tenants £ 10 , 000 by way of fine , besides an annual stipend of £ 400 . The Rector of St . Ann ' s , Shandon , in Cork , who pays one of his curates
3 s . 9 hd . a day , and another 2 s . 9 ± d . a day , receives £ 700 per annum . Archdeacon Cotton was presented by the Archbishop of Cashel , his fatherin-law , with two unions of four parishes each to hold with an archdeaconry . The Primate knowing that each of these unions was adequate to support several separate clergymen , refused a faculty for the plurality . The Archbishop then filed a bill in Chancery , to compel him to grant what he had refused ; in which he succeeded . The Rev . Mr . Darby holds two unions ,
one consisting of eight parishes , the other of seven . The parishes composing these unions are situated widely from each other . These wealthy rectors , as might be expected , consider it beneath them to visit the sick , baptize the children , to marry a couple , nay , to bury the dead , because they are poor . And if asked the cause of this neglect reply , " I keep a curate , let him attend them . " As to the lives of the clergy , the Earl of M .
declares , " I could mention facts which would astonish and shock . These things are still tolerated , and if called on in my place in Parliament , I pledge myself to perform the painful duty of stating them *"— " The innumerable well-founded complaints of existing abuses , of clerical oppression , of neglect , of immorality , of a want of churches , and of extensive unions , which reached me since the commencement of this correspondence , prove more and more the impotence of your Lordship ' s vain attempt to uphold the
defects of the present system . " Even the Bishop of Ferns himself has a word of defence for a young clergyman convicted of lending to a young lady , one of his parishioners , Don Juan , with a request that she should conceal it from her mother .
The public welfare has been sacrificed to the interest of a favoured body ; churches have been suffered to sink into a heap of ruins ; congregations have disappeared , whilst the oppressed curate and his family have endured every privation . The law made in his favour is evaded incessantly , and the only meritorious part of the Church subsists on the very edge of starvation . la the city of Cork , per ann . a day . & , s . d . s . d . The Curate of Holy Trinity receives 70 0 0 or 3 10 of St . Paul ' s 69 4 71 or 3 9 J of St . Aim ' s , Shandon .. f > <) 4 7 | or 3 «)§ Another to ditto 50 0 0 about , or 2 i )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/38/
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