Editorial note — Chapter I · OF A CHURCH AND ITS PARTS

[Footnote 186: This is the practice in some parts of England even to this day: more especially in Somersetshire. Bp. Montague in his 'Visitation Articles' (reprinted Camb. 1841) asks (p. 17), 'Do men and women sit together in those seats indifferently and promiscuously? or (as the fashion was of old), do men sit together upon one side of the church, and women upon the other?' And, indeed, of old there was a still further separation on each side, into the married and unmarried. The restoration of the practice recommended by Bp. Montague is much to be wished.] [Footnote 187: 1 Corinth, x, 13.] [Footnote 188: Apocalypse x, 7.] [Footnote 189: Eph. v, 23.]