Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… 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 Methods now taken by certain crafty and avaricious Persons’ in suburban London … 1660-1740 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 100 (Pewsey); Tate, Parish Chest, p. 173 (Tempsford). 10 . Daniel Defoe, Parochial Tyranny: or, Select Vestries become the Plague of the People (London: Printed for the use of …
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