Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… and French authorities exported the system to their American colonies. Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Churches Corruption Finance North America Officials Religion Historical evolution From the late Middle Ages, local ecclesiastical … with parishioners as well as pamphleteers debating financial charges, (mis-)allocation of funds and possible cronyism / corruption on the one hand and mob rule on the other. No lesser figure than Daniel Defoe denounced the ‘foul and illegal … J. Bouquet, 1754), p. 21. 11 . Mark Knights, ‘The ambiguities and vagaries of popular control: Trust and parochial corruption in early modern England’, in John Sabapathy and María Ángeles Martín Romera (eds.), Popular Control, special …
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