Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… who was ‘out’. Rather than showing a linear trend towards greater exclusivity, the situation in England varied across space and time. By the time of a survey for the City of London in the 1630s, the picture was very heterogeneous. Around … yet the system lacked firm legal foundations. 11 At St Saviour, Southwark, just south of London, related arguments spanned several generations: a select vestry received episcopal approval in 1566, survived a series of attacks (by … and Religious Change in England’s Parishes, 1559-1700’ (PhD University of Virginia, 2012), p. 92 (quote). 9 . Donald A. Spaeth, The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, …
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