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Many wealthy landowners had it within their rights to grant a living to the local vicar or parish priest. This person would be entitled to all or part of the local tithes and possibly even some income from the glebe, that is the farmed land that went along with the parsonage, if any.

Interestingly, as the duties of vicar could be very light and the deacons did all the work, some vicars (for instance, Jane Austen’s father) held multiple livings.