Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… in England see Beat Kümin, The Shaping of a Community: The Rise & Reformation of the English Parish c.1400-1560 (London: Ashgate, 1996), esp. chapters 2, 6. For England, the principal source materials are dedicated ‘vestry minutes’ surviving for the early modern period; see e.g. the editions, with helpful commentary, for the London parishes of St Mary Colechurch (1613-72) and for SS Dionys Backchurch, Clement Danes and Botolph Aldgate (from … 2021), p. 151–194, and Peter Collinge and Louise Falcini (eds.), Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law 1750-1834 (London: University of London Press, 2022). The principal bone of contention was membership. From a sociability …
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