From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 23rd June 1888:
Warminster. The Halliday Pew.
In the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court on Monday the case of Halliday versus Philipps and others came before Mr. Justice Day. This action is brought by Mr. James Halliday, of the Mansion House, East Street, Warminster, against the Rev. Sir James Erasmus Philipps, vicar of Warminster, and two churchwardens, to recover damages, the real object being to test the plaintiff’s right to a pew in the parish church. The defendants deny the plaintiff’s right to a pew.
[This was the start of a long drawn-out controversy which continued for about 10 years.]