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Unlike chaplains, priests were not funded by a wealthy patron and they had to depend on their parishioners for their livelihood.
Priests were appointed to a particular church, either in a town or rural parish. Their financial income depended largely on the number of people in their congregation.
People in England paid a kind of tax to their priest, known as circe-sceat in Old English (now called Church-scot). They also made a donation "to the altar" at weddings, baptisms and funerals (normally a single penny). One-tenth (a tithe) of all their produce or income was also collected each year by the local priest, who was responsible for ensuring that it was correctly assessed and collected. Cereal crops would then be stored in a "tithe barn"; a portion of this produce could be kept by the priest himself, the rest belonging to the Church as an institution.
It follows that the size of this income depended on the number of people involved, so a priest in a small, rural parish would often be living in extreme poverty, while a priest in a town parish could be far better off.
Priests also had a small plot of land for growing their own food crops. They might farm this themselves or employ someone to farm it for them.
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