| Title: |
Housing and social status in early 17th-century Chichester
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| Subtitle: |
A case study of the parish of All Saints in The Pallant |
| Issue: |
Sussex Archaeological Collections 157 |
| Series: |
Sussex Archaeological Collections
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| Volume: |
157
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| Page Start/End: |
213 - 228 |
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Journal
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| Abstract: |
In 1629 a tailor John Budd was cited for ‘subtraction of tithes’ in a case brought against him in the peculiar court of the Dean of Chichester by Joshua Peto, rector of the parish of All Saints in The Pallant. Budd claimed that he did not have to pay tithes because he lived in ‘certain rooms’ in his landlord’s house and not a ‘whole and entire house’. The witnesses examined in the case were asked questions about the subdivision of houses in the Pallant and whether or not these constituted ‘distinct tenements or houses’ inhabited by ‘distinct families’ with their own ‘distinct door into the street’. They were also asked to state their own financial worth and means of living and to comment on the relative worth or poverty of their co-witnesses and other neighbours. This article uses these witness statements alongside a range of other documentary evidence to provide a detailed examination of housing and social status in this small city parish in the first half of the 17th century. |
| Year of Publication: |
2019
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| Locations: |
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West Sussex |
| Place: |
The Pallant |
| Place: |
Chichester |
| Country: |
England |
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HOUSE
(Monument Type England)
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DOCUMENT
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ADS Archive
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| Created Date: |
09 Nov 2020 |
