Possible Clues:

• Small sum of money received in post as payment
• Minister's salary
• Lash out having received it: back pay
• Money given in coin to deacon, initially?
• Payment for the cloth
• Send a gratuity in regular payment
• Head of school to finish on peak salary
• The hole is up at last for the Church
• Initially servants are liable to receive minimum amount as payment
• They get dug up at last if it pays the Church