Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… the parochial boundaries as well as smaller bodies known as ‘masters’, ‘auditors’ or ‘vestries’. 1 In early modern England, where parishes acquired official local government duties, such committees became near-universal and frequently … therefore, administration and politics provided further occasions for church sociability. 1 . For early developments in England see Beat Kümin, The Shaping of a Community: The Rise & Reformation of the English Parish c.1400-1560 (London: Ashgate, 1996), esp. chapters 2, 6. For England, the principal source materials are dedicated ‘vestry minutes’ surviving for the early modern period; see …
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