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… Britain from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries (Oxford: University Press, 2014); Allan Greer, Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840 (Toronto: University Press, 1985), p. 113 (quote); 15 . A … 16 Social gradations became equally tangible in seating arrangements. Members of the better sort – landowners, merchants, yeomen, principal officeholders – sought to secure the most sought-after locations near chancels, altars or …
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