Select Vestries (1719) [ Practices ]
… But, since there good old Customs are, in a great measure, abolifh'd and the Government of the Out-Parishes is foun ded in Peace, as Dominion is in Grace, the two Church Wardens, assisted by a couple of Jufices Clerks; … new Schemes , under the plausible Insinuation of what their worshipful Directors call, a Pound Rate , to bubble the Parish, and impose Hardships upon all such Inhabitants who refuse to countenance their illegal Innovations, first … Vertue , even commendable in a Bishop . When the publick Vestries , which were formerly call'd by the Minister of the Parish, and always notify'd in the Church , were chang'd into such sort of Meetings, as afore-mentioned, which could not, …
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