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A history of pew renting in the Church of England. By J. C. Bennett. Pp. xvi + 237 incl. 4 tables. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. £119.99. 978 3 031 54426 2

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A history of pew renting in the Church of England. By J. C. Bennett. Pp. xvi + 237 incl. 4 tables. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. £119.99. 978 3 031 54426 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2025

W. M. Jacob
W. M. Jacob*
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , July 2025 , pp. 693 - 695
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1 Christoper Marsh, ‘“Common Prayer” in England, 1560-1640: the view from the pew’, Past & Present no. 171 (May 2001), 66-94; ‘Sacred space in England, 1560-1640: the view from the pew’, this Journal liii (2002), 286–311; and ‘Order and place in England: the view from the pew’, Journal of British Studies xliv (2005), 3‒26.

2 See, for example W. M. Jacob, ‘“The congregation here present”: seating in parish churches during the long eighteenth century’, in Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Elite and popular religion (Studies in Church History xlii, 2006), 294‒304.