Possible Clues:

• Lower reputation of church primate in start of notice?
• Put down insurgent — sent to a prison in USA
• Caught bird eating parrot? Disgrace!
• Reduce worth, degrade
• Lessen the value of
• Debase article on revolutionary writer
• Mark down each damaged by a pound
• Reduce each damaged pen
• 'E will make the peach not so dear getting to the North
• Reduce price of cheese - cut half a pound