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† ˈchop-church Obs.
A dealer or trafficker in ecclesiastical benefices; one of ‘those secular priests who drove a trade, or made an advantage by exchanging of their benefices’ (Kennett); also called church-chopper.
1391in Spelman Concilia II. 641 Litera missa omnibus Episcopis suffraganeis Domini contra Choppe-Churches. a1500Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 594 Manglisa, a choppechurche. 1581Lambarde Eiren. iv. v. (1588) 488 Chopchurch, Merchaunt, Grocer..Spinster, &c. bee good Additions of misterie. But Citizen is not, because it is no misterie, arte or degree. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. (1818) II. 201 Those Chop-churches, against whom some late constitutions had been made in this diocese. |