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The salaries and fees due to parsons for regular and special services were set by the legislature. The men were paid in tobacco, the colony’s chief crop, but the value of the commodity varied from parish to parish depending on the quality and current market value. However, the review and discipline of clergymen who were alleged to have been errant in their conduct was not fixed by law or precedent. The absence of personnel and procedures for hearing such complaints meant that the administration of timely justice was varied, complicated, and difficult.
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For John Goodbourne see R. G. Marsden, ‘A Virginian Minister’s Library, 1635’, American Historical Review, 11, 2 (1906): 328-32. For Thomas Teackle’s books see, Jon Butler, ‘Thomas Teackle’s 333 Books: A Great Library in Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1697’, W.M.Q., Third Series, 49 (1992): 462-91.
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H. R. McIlwaine, ed., Executive Journals of the Council of Virginia (Richmond, 1925) I: 465.
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Bell, J.B. (2013). Salaries and Discipline of Seventeenth-Century Ministers. In: Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607–1786. Studies in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137327925_7
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