Select Vestries (1719) [ Practices ]
… and always notify'd in the Church , were chang'd into such sort of Meetings, as afore-mentioned, which could not, without misnomy , assume the Title of a Select Vestry , because they are appointed by the worshipful Mr. Quorum , or Mr. … hugger-mugger, Favour their Party- Friends, Oppress all that are not of their own Kidney, and Punish whom they please, with such exorbitant Assesments, that Parochial Authority, as it is now manag'd, is not much better than a Spanish Inquisition ; and that the Reader may be acquainted with the Manner of their Proceedings, I shall open the Secret a little further, by descending to Particulars, which I …
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