the nineteenth century also brought insreasing criticism of a practice known as patronge . The right to appoint a priests belonged to the person who controlled the living , usually a bushop or large landowner. only young men with connections in high places could hope to win the favor of such a patron.A squire or aristocrat with a living at his disposal might give it to relative ,a former schoolmate or a friend of the family . If he needed money, he might even sell the living. The gentleman priests who owed his living to a patron was families of the parish . One pamphlet aimed at farm laborers described the anglican clergy as "prudent people" who were" to a certain extenet slaves of their rich patrons , the lords and squires , and therefore have stood by them as they hardly dare stand up for you".