There were 2 "classes" of clergy. Certainly early on an Oxbridge degree was the only way to get there, but then in the early 1800s there were colleges set up to train "working" clergy. And horrors, some of them even took married men!
I have a vague memory that the working type colleges were mainly in the north, but that may be because St Bees is the one that comes to mind.
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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were
and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells
(Marcel Proust)
Christine
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