Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… much critical scrutiny. From the seventeenth century, English 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 communities in … Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 267-268, 318. By the 1820s, b ased on his own negative experiences at Helpston in Northamptonshire, poet-pauper John Clare coined the satirical phrase ‘parish state’ for what he saw as a system serving …
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