Worm is me!

[image id: the ‘sometimes you just need two men’ meme (a poster pinned up advertising two men who were willing to do odd jobs, complete with flexing arm clipart and a spiel about how they’re also best friends and how ‘you will receive not just the strength of our bodies but the strength of our emotional bond as well’) where the ‘two men’ are rosencrantz and guildenstern and some of it has been edited. their names are written underneath like in the original but in a way where it’s ambigious who is who, ‘we know hamlet’ replaces the ‘we are burly’ of ‘we are two men, we are burly, we’ll do what you want’, ‘we have been friends for over 14 years’ is replaced with ‘?? years’, and the phone number after ‘hire us’ is replaced with ‘just send a messenger’. end id.]

hamlets onto me,,, i know

what i need. 2 men

Ik I'm super late to the party but better late than never ig ✌🏼🙃

It was possible at the time for a rector to hold multiple livings, they would install a curate for about £50/year and pocket the rest of the income.

Also, it was nigh impossible to remove a clergyman once he was installed at a living. This example is from the book Fashionable Goodness, Christianity in Jane Austen's England by Brenda S. Cox (TW: violence against pregnant women):

Dr. Free seduced his housekeepers, resulting in five illegitimate children; caused one of the women to miscarry; let his pigs desecrate the graveyard, and kept cattle on the church porch; sold the lead off the church roof; cut down and sold trees not belonging to him; left the parish for long periods of time; and refused to marry and bury his parishioners. Eventually, when he offended a gentry family over a burial, they lodged a complaint. This led to seven years of expensive trials, at the Bishop of Lincoln's personal expense. Finally Dr. Free was removed from his living, eventual dying as a beggar. (Ch 10)

(And now you can see why Darcy really didn't want Wickham to be given a living!)

sculpture by chinese artist

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