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Achop-church, orchurch-chopper, was aparson who made a practice of exchanging ecclesiasticalbenefices.[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]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Chop-church".Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
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