Possible Clues:

• How the miserable brute swallowed one good man
• Preacher
• His egg is said to be good in parts.
• That's the one the brute chewed up in the church
• The brute got his teeth into the one in the church
• The brute made a meal of him
• Churchman copper brought before judge
• How the beginning of 6 down was fed in church
• What has the church to do with illness, by the sound of it?
• The brute took him as a matter of course in church