107: "'1612, 27 May.--Ye Ch. Wardens meeting together for seekeing for workmen to mak a fitt seete in a convennent place for brydgrumes, bryds, and sike wyves to sit in ijs. --_Extract from Parochial Books of Chester-le-Street, Durham_. "It is plain that at this period the privilege of a separate pew was confined to persons of the first rank; the rest sat promiscuously on forms in the body of the church, and the privilege is here extended only to sick wives and brides, who sat to hear the preacher deliver 'The Bride's Bush,' or 'The Wedding Garment beautified.'"--Surtees' _Hist. of Durham_. 108: Blomfield's _Norfolk_, vi. 317. 109: "Several congregations find themselves already very much straitened; and if the mode increases, I wish it may not drive many ordinary women into meetings and conventicles. Should our sex at the same time take it into their heads to wear trunk breeches, a man and his wife would fill a whole pew."--_Satire on Female Costume. Spectator_, No. 127. "At church in silks and satins new, And hoop of monstrous size; She never slumber'd in her pew But when she shut her eyes."--_Goldsmith._ 110: "He found him mounted in his pew, With books and money placed for shew." _The Lawyer's Pew_, Butler's _Hudibras_. "A bedstead of the antique mode, Compact of timber many a load, Such as our ancestors did use, Was metamorphosed into pews; Which still their ancient nature keep By lodging folks disposed to sleep." Swift's _Baucis and Philemon_. 111: _European Magazine_, 1813. 112: _History of Pues_, p. 77. 113: "1617. Barnham _contra_ Hayward Puellam.--Presentatur--for that she being but a young maid sat in ye pew with her mother, to ye great offence of many reverent women: howbeit that after I Peter Lewis the Vicar had in the church privately admonished her to sit at her mother's pew-door, she obeyed; but now she sits with her mother again."--_God's Acre_, by Mrs. Stone. 114: Whittaker's _Whalley_, p. 228. 115: "We have also heard that the parishioners of divers places do oftentimes wrangle about their seats in church, two or more claiming the same seat, whence arises great scandal to the Church, and the divine officers are sore set and hindered; wherefore we decree that none shall henceforth call any seat in the church his own, save noblemen and patrons: but he who shall first enter shall take his place where he will."--Quivil, Bishop of Exeter, A.D. 1287.