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III.—Remarks on the History of Seat-Reservation in Churches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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Having a very strong personal objection to the system of seat-reservation and appropriation in church, I naturally looked forward with considerable satisfaction to reading the pamphlets and works on the subject which I was told would convince me of the antiquity of the “free and open” system, and that “appropriation” and “reservation” were innovations of a comparatively-speaking recent date.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1892

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