sentences:  Around 1,000 parish cures were unprovided with any resident priest.One consequence of the Napoleonic Wars was a series of Acts of Parliament giving bishops powers to compel absent incumbents to reside in their parishes; but it was acknowledged that this would create hardship amongst displaced assistant curates deprived of access to the more attractive cures.In this context, the status of perpetual curate began to appear less as a historical anomaly, and more as a potential solution.