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… contested. Alongside religious observances, therefore, administration and politics provided further occasions for church sociability. 1 . For early developments in England see Beat Kümin, The Shaping of a Community: The Rise & Reformation of … Poor Law 1750-1834 (London: University of London Press, 2022). The principal bone of contention was membership. From a sociability perspective, it naturally mattered who was ‘in’ and who was ‘out’. Rather than showing a linear trend towards … accounts of the overseers’. 14 East Hoathly clearly operated one of the ‘mixed’ systems encountered above. In terms of sociability regimes, this meant that a relatively large proportion of parishioners were able to participate in annual …
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