Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… Political Decision-Making, Office-holding, and Religious Change in England’s Parishes, 1559-1700’ (PhD University of Virginia, 2012), p. 92 (quote). 9 . Donald A. Spaeth, The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740 … 2016), p. 37. Further south along the American coast, small pools of chief inhabitants ran the vestries in Maryland and Virginia. Here again, the Anglican church relied on mandatory levies, albeit this time the respective units were pounds … Episcopal Church (vol. 44, n° 4, 1975), p. 381-408. Siler, William H., ‘The Anglican parish vestry in colonial Virginia’, Journal of Southern History (vol. 22, 1956), p. 310-333. In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Select Vestries (1719) …
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