Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… became near-universal and frequently contested. Alongside religious observances, therefore, administration and politics provided further occasions for church sociability. 1 . For early developments in England see Beat Kümin, The … in the English Provinces, 1700-1870 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997). 5 . See esp. Steve Hindle, On the Parish: The Micropolitics of Poor Relief in Rural England 1550-1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Steven King, Sickness, … 8 . Paul Seaward, ‘Gilbert Sheldon, the London vestries and the defense of the Church’, in T. Harris et al. (eds.), The Politics of Religion in Restoration England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 49-73; Brian Chapman Dudley, …
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