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THE WARDEN
Anthony Trollope

CONTENTS
I. Hiram's Hospital II. The Barchester Reformer III. The Bishop of
Barchester IV. Hiram's Bedesmen v. Dr Grantly Visits the Hospital VI.
The Warden's Tea Party VII. The Jupiter VIII. Plumstead Episcopi IX.
The Conference X. Tribulation XI. Iphigenia XII. Mr Bold's Visit to
Plumstead XIII. The Warden's Decision XIV. Mount Olympus XV.
Tom Towers, Dr Anticant, and Mr Sentiment XVI. A Long Day in
London XVII. Sir Abraham Haphazard XVIII. The Warden is very
Obstinate XIX. The Warden Resigns XX. Farewell XXI. Conclusion

CHAPTER I
Hiram's Hospital
The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed
clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---; let us call it Barchester.
Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester,
it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this
tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the town in question,
we are anxious that no personality may be suspected. Let us presume
that Barchester is a quiet town in the West of England, more
remarkable for the beauty of its cathedral and the antiquity of its
monuments than for any commercial prosperity; that the west end of
Barchester is the cathedral close, and that the aristocracy of Barchester
are the bishop, dean, and canons, with their respective wives and
daughters.
Early in life Mr Harding found himself located at Barchester. A fine
voice and a taste for sacred music had decided the position in which he
was to exercise his calling, and for many years he performed the easy
but not highly paid duties of a minor canon. At the age of forty a small
living in the close vicinity of the town increased both his work and his
income, and at the age of fifty he became precentor of the cathedral.
Mr Harding had married early in life, and was the father of two
daughters. The eldest, Susan, was born soon after his marriage; the
other, Eleanor, not till ten years later.
At the time at which we introduce him to our readers he was living as
precentor at Barchester with his youngest daughter, then twenty-four
years of age; having been many years a widower, and having married
his eldest daughter to a son of the bishop a very short time before his
installation to the office of precentor.
Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his
daughter, Mr Harding would have remained a minor canon, but here
probably Scandal lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon
no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close

than Mr Harding; and Scandal, before she had reprobated Mr Harding
for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed
the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr
Harding. Be this as it may, Susan Harding, some twelve years since,
had married the Rev. Dr Theophilus Grantly, son of the bishop,
archdeacon of Barchester, and rector of Plumstead Episcopi, and her
father became, a few months later, precentor of Barchester Cathedral,
that office being, as is not usual, in the bishop's gift.
Now there are peculiar circumstances connected with the precentorship
which must be explained. In the year 1434 there died at Barchester one
John Hiram, who had made money in the town as a wool-stapler, and in
his will he left the house in which he died and certain meadows and
closes near the town, still called Hiram's Butts, and Hiram's Patch, for
the support of twelve superannuated wool-carders, all of whom should
have been born and bred and spent their days in Barchester; he also
appointed that an alms-house should be built for their abode, with a
fitting residence for a warden, which warden was also to receive a
certain sum annually out of the rents of the said butts and patches. He,
moreover, willed, having had a soul alive to harmony, that the
precentor of the cathedral should have