{"id":111830,"date":"2017-11-28T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:14:18","slug":"francis-waring-vicar-in-hurry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/francis-waring-vicar-in-hurry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Waring the Vicar in a Hurry."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the early 18th<\/sup> century Francis Waring was vicar of Heybridge in Essex. He liked to get through a service as quickly as possible. Having set up a small clock on a ledge, he sped through the lessons, delivered a quick fire sermon consisting of two aphorisms and a proverb, ran down the aisle, jumped onto his horse and galloped off to repeat the performance at two neighboring churches. <\/div>\n
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He was noted, too, for an idiosyncratic dress sense, appearing in church in hats of his own devising, and on one occasion being loudly rebuked by his bishop for wearing purple at important ecclesiastical functions. The bishop was handed a card \u2013 kept in readiness for just such a purpose- on which was written, \u201cHow very good of you to notice. Do let me recommend my tailor.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the early 18th century Francis Waring was vicar of Heybridge in Essex. He liked to get through a service as quickly as possible. Having set up a small clock on a ledge, he sped through the lessons, delivered a quick fire sermon consisting of two aphorisms and a proverb, ran down the aisle, jumped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t