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… 1 . Raymond Gillespie (ed.), The Vestry Records of the Parish of St John the Evangelist, Dublin, 1595-1658 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), p. 9. Parishes can be defined as territorial units of ecclesiastical organization in which members … derives from a variety of sources, such as accounts of officeholders, minutes kept by vestries, sermons, prayer books, court proceedings, tithe maps and diaries, to name just a few (see the collation of church records for Earls Colne in … according to which the first – raised and facing the pulpit – accommodated the village mayor with the seven oldest court jurors, the second the seven younger jurors, the third the parson / schoolmaster families etc., all the way down to …
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