Possible Clues:

• Payment for the cloth
• Money given in coin to deacon, initially?
• Send a gratuity in regular payment
• Head of school to finish on peak salary
• The pay? It's up, and the writer began drinking!
• Remuneration derived from southern extremities
• 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
• Payment for clergy