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… as pious bequests and other communal resources. Their accounts and general performance were in turn supervised by annual assemblies of householders resident within the parochial boundaries as well as smaller bodies known as ‘masters’, … involved just a few parishioners and others a larger number), but no fewer than 45 still regulated all matters by open assemblies of all householders. 6 Post-Restoration attempts to restrict participation to Anglicans willing to sign the … proceedings in secular as well as ecclesiastical courts. Liverpool, in contrast, found a viable combination of annual assemblies, fixed-term executive committees and salaried officials, yet the system lacked firm legal foundations. 11 At …
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