Subjects: Church seating

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By the sixteenth century the majority of local churches had seats and the right to occupy a specific seat was often hotly contested and could lead to violence.

Disputes involving the right to sit in a seat understood to belong to a specific house.

EDC 5/1566/13 – Richard Clive, esquire, contra Joan Calkin, wife of Peter Calkin
EDC 5/1582/11 – Richard Massey contra John Brereton

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