chapel-folk

Updated: May 28, 2025

But the world's gone round since then, Jane. Even chapel-folk read these light-minded fictions nowadays, and don't seem to be stumblin' about more than usual. 'If they take no harm, their own consciences must be their guide; but I've a right to judge for myself as well as they, I think, Solomon. 'Exactly, but not for them too that's what you're doin', Jane.

F. Anstey - The Giant's Robe

If married, his family require some help from the cottage women; and there are odd jobs, well paid for, on the place for the men. Thus the cottagers are glad of the arrival of their new masters, the one in the summer, the other in the winter months. The 'chapel-folk' of the place have so increased in numbers and affluence that they have erected a large and commodious building in the village.

Richard Jefferies - Hodge and His Masters