The clergy were in many cases clergy only on Sundays, and for Sunday duty.

The rest of the week they were like their people; engaged in agriculture or horse-breeding, they lived with their servants, and were scarcely raised above the position of farmers.

To show the primitive manners of many clergymen, I may mention the case of an usher in my school, who was also curate.

He enjoyed the euphonious name of Caleb Longbottom.

I recollect his dialect--pure Yorkshire; his coat a black one only on Sunday, as I suppose he was on week days wearing out his old blue coat which he had before going into orders.
Lord Macaulay has been charged that in describing the humble social condition of the clergy in the reign of Charles II., he has greatly exaggerated their want of refinement and knowledge of the world; but really, from my recollection of my friend Mr.Longbottom and others at the time I speak of, in the reign of George III., I cannot think he has overdrawn the picture.