Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Mercenary Preacher

By ARUN.

I think mercenary here is used in its primary signification, and in the sense in which we still apply it to troops in the pay of a state foreign to their own; to designate one who, having no settled cure, was at liberty to be "hired" by those who had occasion for his services.

Topics: Mercenary Preacher, Historical Customs