Possible Clues:

• Bentley had a name for doggerel
• Form of comic verse
• Parson detailed to cut Bentley's jingle
• E.C.Bentley's verse form
• Parson mostly cut humorous verse
• Short man of the cloth cut a few sharp lines?
• Verse churchman cut and cut
• 'George the Third/ Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder/ At so grotesque a blunder.', for example
• Humorous bio priest cut and cut
• Minister reduced by hack’s comic verse