Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… – including a seigneur, notary and several military officers – arranged by parishes in Petitions from the Old and New Subjects, Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec, 1790, p. 40-41. Reproduced with kind permission from a copy kept in … 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 … included public houses, with associated hospitality costs causing further concern. At St Lawrence, Winchester, where new officers were chosen at the White Hart on 4 April 1766, expenses of over £7 included ‘ A Ham, Fowls, quarter of Lamb, …
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