Chopchurch

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. A chop-church, or church-chopper, was a parson who made a practice of exchanging ecclesiastical benefices and other terrenal favors.[clarification needed] 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.[1]

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  1. National Archives; Plea Rolls of the Common Pleas, dated 1440; CP40 / 0717; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no717/aCP40no717fronts/IMG_0497.htm (entry number 3)


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