Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… the provisions of items required for worship. Lay representatives chosen for terms of 1-2 years – referred to as churchwardens, marguilliers , vitrici , Kirchenpfleger and other regional terms – looked after the funds raised for these … Danes and Botolph Aldgate (from the 1690s). 2 Further information derives from the accounts submitted by churchwardens and overseers , parish ordinances (St Stephen, Bristol, regulated its vestry as early as 1524), 3 vestrymen … a sociability perspective, it naturally mattered who was ‘in’ and who was ‘out’. Rather than showing a linear trend towards greater exclusivity, the situation in England varied across space and time. By the time of a survey for the City of …
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