Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… preceding decades (claiming custom or episcopal approval), although their legal basis remained uncertain. Other parishes operated mixed systems (where some gatherings involved just a few parishioners and others a larger number), but no fewer … where there was a public vestry holden for to settle the yearly accounts of the overseers’. 14 East Hoathly clearly operated one of the ‘mixed’ systems encountered above. In terms of sociability regimes, this meant that a relatively … 15 . The Parish: A Satire, ed. Eric Robinson (Harmondsworth: Viking, 1985), p. 63. Beyond England Similar parish bodies operated in other regional contexts. In and around Dublin, Anglican vestries ran two parallel strands: Protestants only …
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