The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-02-16
PARSONS.
STORES OF ENGLISH cLeRGYNeN
WITH ODD WAYS.

Rector Who Had Mania For Col
iecting-A Curatc who Made q Coat
Last Forty-three Years rs-Rem0rkn-
iii Die Savings From Meager Incomes
Many stories are told of an eight
fenth century Leicestershire parson,
v.aS Rev. Mr.. Hagemore OF Calthorn,
80 had mania for collecting. says
he London Tit-Bits. When he died he
pert behind him 30 gowns and cassocks,
100 pairs OF boots. 400 pairs Of shoes,
80 wigs mot one OF which he had ever
worm and 100 pairs Of breeches. In
lddition 10 this extensive wardrobe lie
pad accumulated 30 wheebarrows. 200
pickaxes. 200 spades, "A ladders. 81
Hogs, so wagons AMI carts, so plows
Lhe never used one OF them. 240 raxors
Wpd an enormous number of walking
hcks, for which toy man gladly Of.
Tered rs.
Mr. Hagcmore had two servants, one
IILf each sex. both of whom he locked In
|-jheir bedrooms every night, and II was
through this precautionary measure
E. hat he lost his life As he was walk.
Iong in his garden very early one morn.
|Rlg his dogs leaped OH him and threw
|9{m into pond. The servants heard
|oheir masters cries for help, but as
obey were locked i'm they could not go
- his assistance, and the reverend gen
Pemnn was drowned, his hoardings GO
LShg TO his next OF kin, a London porter.
n Ut Is good many years now since
|Ohe Rev. John Trueman of Daventry
|Departed this life. leaving behind him
|0he snug fortune OF $4,000, the accu-
|9,ulation OF niggardly lifetime Some
Shmarkable stories are told OF Mr..
Erueman's miserly habits - how he
LIQUID take turnips from his parish
|0,ners' fields and then beg pieces OF
Oacon 10 boil with his purloined veg
Stables and how he would invite him
elf as guest to the houses OF his flock
turn and pull the worsted out OF the
|Sprners Of the blankets to darn his
&ockings.
= A more remarkable clerical mlser
|(3 was the Rev. Morgan Jones, .
|~9frkshire curatc OF century or So
|Sgo. During the whole of Mr.. Jone.'
|Srty-three years curacy Of Blewhury.
is said, a single coat and hat served
m. When his coat showed too pal
|~hble signs of wear he would cut out
~ece of Its tails and patch the torn or
|Oorn part with ii until In process OF
fne the tails vanished altogether, and
Se quondam coat was converted into
mol ynt MI a tpl, 10
TAy In the year. When his hat similar
showed the ravages of time he APP
Iopriated the head covering OF n scare
Aow and used II for repairing the dam
-Ge. His one and only shirt underwent
-me same patching and renovation, its
~0ls following those Of the coat, while
fe curate's stockings underwent so
Many processes of darnlng that not a
\Nstige Of the original and only pair
manned by the time he had no further
e for them.
ESS For the last twenty years Of his life
Mr. Jones household expenses never
|SSN ceeded half n crown week. He in
|H> iriably retired at sunset TO save the
|}SXst OF candles and in the coolest
~ eather never allowed himself the lux
|my of fire except on Sundays. and
|SSy IN the fire was made from sticks
|SN cked up in the roads aud church
|8N nd. His menu was limited to bread
ia d bacon and tea, and half quartern
|XHIf lasted him a week. For little
Ia ort of half century this old clergy.
X8ln lived on his fees and saved his In
(NMme OF $50 year, while subscribing
~ orally to religious societies and CIV
|@ many pound to his needy parish
|D1ers.
What n thrifty parson can do on
serly small income was shown by a
! time curatc of Thulkeld, in Cum
rland, Alexander Naughley, whose
tire income was rs 15s. year, Mr..
ughley lived absolutely alone, slept
bed OF straw and cooked his own
lnty food, but he never failed to
sent respectable appearance to the
rid, while not word Of complaint
sr passed his lips.
very eccentric parson was the Rev.
ngton Freeman, an old time rector
Billion, in Warwickshlrc, who left
following strange Instructions for
funeral: "For four or five days
er my decease | would not be re-
we'd out of the place or bed | shall
on, and then would be carried or
| in the same bed I'm the summer
b lse in my garden, to be laid in the
ne bed there and to be wrapped in
ong double winding sheet, the door
windows TO be locked and bolted,
building to be planted around with
rgreen plants and fenced off with
or oak pales and painted of dark
u color. and for the due perform
g OF this and FOR keeping the build
etc, always in repair give to my
hew, Thomas Freeman. the manor
Wilton" etc.
hortly before Dr. Donne's death he
e instructions for large wooden
70 ho pnada and then summoned nm