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A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood..
There was but little discord between church and chapel, except at treat-times, and on kindred occasions of exceptional excitement; and every Sunday evening church dames, duly equipped with Rippon’s Selection, an unopened pocket-handkerchief, and a sprig of boy’s love, might be seen marching, like any chapelers, to Zoar.
“Do not be annoyed,” writes the editor of The Homilist to his son, “by the idle gossip and stupid prejudice of chapelers.[…]”
“Parson Budd be a tremendous Church-of-Englander, so I heard squire say. He ’ve got his knife into all chapelers an’ free-thinkers an’ such like.”
He said he would get his own back on the ‘chapelers,’ and die.
A marked feature of the old trades of London was the minute subdivisions which took place among them: thus there were hatters, cappers, chapelers (makers of caps) and hurers.
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Chapeler means A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood..
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There was but little discord between church and chapel, except at treat-times, and on kindred occasions of exceptional excitement; and every Sunday evening church dames, duly equipped with Rippon’s Selection, an unopened pocket-handkerchief, and a sprig of boy’s love, might be seen marching, like any chapelers, to Zoar.
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