Possible Clues:

• Regular allowance
• It pays the church to have the holes up on end
• Dispatch including suggestion for an allowance
• Fixed salary
• Salary and courtesy fee enclosed in mail
• Small sum of money received in post as payment
• Minister's salary
• Because it's so little pay one may send around for a little extra
• Lash out having received it: back pay
• If the South comes to the point, that's what keeps the clergy