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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
odbridge in Newbury at this same time had £ 60, and Mr. Epes preached in Salem for twenty shillings a Sunday, half in money and half in provisions. Holy Mr. Cotton used to say that nothing was cheap in New England but milk and ministers. Down to 1700, Increase Mather says, most salaries were less than £ 100, which he thinks might account for the scanty harvests enjoyed by our farmers. He and his son Cotton both tell the story of a town where two very eminent ministers were only allowed £ 30 pt much was effected, however,--divers of the elders' wives, as Winthrop lets out, being in some measure partners in this disorder. Tile use of wigs also, at first denounced by the clergy, was at last countenanced by them: in portraits later than 1700 they usually replace the black skull-cap of earlier pictures, and in 1752 the tables had so far turned that a church-member in Newbury refused communion because the pastor wears a wigg. Yet Increase Mather thought they played no small part in pro