Wished to get rid of priest and have a country dance (7)
I believe the answer is:
hoedown
'a country dance' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'wished to get rid of priest and have' is the wordplay.
'wished' becomes 'hoped' (hoping is a kind of wishing).
'to get rid of' is a deletion indicator.
'priest' becomes 'p' (ecclesiastical abbreviation).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'have' becomes 'own' ('own' can be a synonym of 'have').
'hoped' with 'p' taken away is 'hoed'.
'hoed'+'own'='HOEDOWN'
(Other definitions for hoedown that I've seen before include "Barn-dance" , "Square dance" , "US country dance" , "US folk dance gathering" , "Boisterous American folk dance" .)