pewes

Updated: May 8, 2025

Dunstan's, Stepney parish, London, a book was made by the wardens "whearein was expressed the pewes in the whole Church," distinguished by numbers. When a few months later it was determined to build a gallery because the congregation needed more seats, it was also settled that the cost should be met by a year's pew rent in one payment down, over and besides the usual quarterly payments for seats.

Sedley Lynch Ware - The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects