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  1. Hi, Thanks for your research. I also did some digging to try and find out just how great of a position Mr. Collins held with Lady Cat. I got the catagories but not the percentages. Thanks again! ~Jen Red~

    • I was surprised at how difficult some of these details were to track down. That’s why I decided to start sharing these on my blog. Next week I have an article of livings and the details surrounding them.

      thanks Jennifer!

  2. Reblogged this on and commented:
    A rather intriguing post by an excellent author and friend. I learned a lot about the Regency era clergy. Cannot recommend highly enough.

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  4. Thank you for this. I’ve always been a bit hazy about the differentiation between them all. You always hear about younger sons etc. or those of the upper middle class going to the rector for part of their education. I knew the curates were chronically short of money and now I know why!

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  6. Thank you so very much for the article on Rectors and Vicars and Curates. It helps me to understand the
    stories from that era. I appreciate the great effort of the research involved. We thank you again and your
    assistants. Bless you! mljones

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  8. I believe the difference between a rector and a vicar goes back further than the time mentioned here. A vicar (one who works for another) was sent to a parish by a monastry or other religious house receiving the tithes of the parish. He received a stipend. A rector was the spiritual director of a parish independent of a religious house. He received the tithes.

    • One of the challenges in sorting all this out is that these things started well before the regency era and evolved over time. There aren’t a lot of fixed dates for when things changes and the changes happened in different places at different times. I can see how what you described could have evolved into what I understood a Rector to be in the Regency era. Thanks, Liz!

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  10. Pardon my ignorance of this, but is the term “parson” a general term for any clergyman, or is it specific, as in another term for vicar?

    • The 2nd entry in my dictionary says, “A vicar or any beneficed member of the clergy,” so basically the vicar or rector of a parish. The dictionary goes on to a 3rd entry saying that coloquially it’s any member of the protestant clergy.

  11. Thanks for sharing! I believe that the father of the Bronte sisters was a rector. If not please correct me. I think that he would have to be because he sent his daughters to a private school. He would have to be able to afford it.

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