sentences:  From this date onwards the term 'perpetual curate' dropped out of current use, although continuing as a technical category in ecclesiastical law for another 100 years.There are inescapable parallels with "The Hunting of the Snark"; which, given Lewis Carroll's birth within the vicarage of a perpetual curacy, may well not be coincidental.In Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Last Chronicle of Barset" (1866) the inviolable position of Josiah Crawley, perpetual curate of the parish of Hogglestock, is a cause of dissent between Bishop Proudie and his domineering wife; Mrs Proudie believes Crawley to be guilty of theft and urges her husband to remove him, whereas the bishop knows that he has no power to do so without the authority of the ecclesiastical courts.