Religion:Chop-church
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Short description: Trader in religious offices
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A chop-church, or church-chopper, was a parson who made a practice of exchanging ecclesiastical benefices.[1][2] The term is used in an ancient statute as a lawful trade, or occupation.
An example, where the spelling is 'chopchyrche', occurs as the occupation of John Charles of Bishop's Milford, Wiltshire, as a defendant in a plea of debt, for 40/- (forty shillings) brought by John Wyot, merchant of Salisbury.[3]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed (1728). "Chop-church". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (first ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
- ↑ Lawler, Traugott (2008-10-01). "The Secular Clergy in Piers Plowman" (in en). The Yearbook of Langland Studies 16: 85–129. doi:10.1484/J.YLS.2.302645. https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.YLS.2.302645.
- ↑ Moore, Thomas (1881) (in en). Dictionary of the English Church, Ancient and Modern. Wells Gardner, Darton. pp. 107. https://books.google.com/books?id=keQCAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Chop-church%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA107.
- ↑ Plea Rolls of the Common Pleas, National Archives, 1440, http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no717/aCP40no717fronts/IMG_0497.htm
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