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David Yeandle, « 10. Conclusions », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.ehy40c
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John Hunt wrote Clergymen Made Scarce in order to highlight negative aspects of his career that he hoped might be rectified in future especially by an enlightened Bishop of London and afterwards, no doubt, by the Church more generally. As well as setting forth his personal woes, frequently with humour and irony, he hoped to provide a stimulus for reform. Indeed, the Church was in the midst of a slow process of reform, change, and upheaval. In the ensuing decades, some of the ills described by...