Parish churches [ Institutions ]
… account of Myddle in Shropshire by pew order. 17 Immediately after the construction of a new church at Sulzbach near Frankfurt a.M. in 1729, ‘the whole commune’ with the consent of parson and wardens agreed a seating order for 25 pews … White, 1713); Thomas Clarke, A Sermon on the Injustice of the Slave Trade (Hull: Printed by J. Ferraby, 1792). 23 . Frank Albert Abbott, The body or the soul? Religion and Culture in a Quebec Parish, St-Joseph-de-Beauce, 1736-1901 … (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), 43; Eastwood, Community, 38. In summary, therefore, parish churches ranked among the foremost sociability sites in pre-modern communities, attracting men and women not just for religious …
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