Clerical Poverty in Early Sixteenth-Century England: Some East Anglian Evidence

The economic standing of the English parochial clergy in the early sixteenth century has been re-examined recently by Michael Zell, and the evidence at his disposal suggests that many of them were poverty-stricken in the extreme. He points to the large surplus of unendowed curates, chaplains and the...

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Main Author: Pound, John (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1986
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1986, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 389-396
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