Possible Clues:

• Achieve victory, pushing back border around state
• Overcome quiet clergyman with worry
• Virginia, in terrible peril, is overcome
• Churchman facing trouble, under pressure to get the upper hand
• Can vicar inside come out on top?
• Clergyman in vessel to succeed
• In impudence, maintain one's returning to take control
• Persuade religious type to enter vessel
• Overcome
• Be victorious (over)