Clergymen of the Church of England ANTHONY TROLLOPE CLERGYMEN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONTENTS PAGE I. THE MODERN ENGLISH ARCHBISHOP 1 II. ENGLISH BISHOPS, OLD AND NEW 16 III. THE NORMAL DEAN OF THE PRESENT DAY 31 IV. THE ARCHDEACON 42 V. THE PARSON OF THE PARISH 54 VI. THE TOWN INCUMBENT 66 VII. THE COLLEGE FELLOW WHO HAS TAKEN ORDERS 78 VIII. THE CURATE IN A POPULOUS PARISH 92 IX. THE IRISH BENEFICED CLERGYMAN 105 X. THE CLERGYMAN WHO SUBSCRIBES FOR COLENSO 119 CLERGYMEN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. I. THE MODERN ENGLISH ARCHBISHOP. The old English archbishop was always a prince in the old times, but the English archbishop is a prince no longer in these latter days. He is still a nobleman of the highest rank,--he of Canterbury holding his degree, indeed, above all his peers in Parliament, not of Royal blood, and he of York following his elder brother, with none between them but the temporary occupant of the woolsack. He is still one before whose greatness small clerical aspirants veil their eyes, and whose blessing in the minds of pious maidens has in it something almost divine. He is, as I have said, a peer of Parliament. Above all things, he should be a gentleman, and,--if it were always possible,--a gentleman of birth; but he has no longer anything of the position or of the attributes of a prince.