Note 1355 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

Lecky, Eng. in 18th Century, I, 5-31; Burn, op. cit., 8; Friedberg, op. cit., 341, who quotes the following from the Weekly Journal, 1723, June 29: "Several of the above mentioned brandy-men and victualers keep clergymen in their houses at 20 shillings per week each, hit or miss, but its reported that one there will stoop to no such low conditions, but makes at least 500 pounds per annum of Divinity-jobs after that manner." Cf. also Tegg, The Knot Tied, 205, note, for the same extract.