Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… vestry powers and perceived abuses attracted much critical scrutiny. From the seventeenth century, English and French authorities exported the system to their American colonies. Practices > Religious Belief Mots-clés Churches Corruption … and illegal Methods now taken by certain crafty and avaricious Persons’ in suburban London communities, while the author of The Select vestry countered that selective membership was the only way to ‘prevent the Disorder which is … had been welcome to take part in these revels, usually very lively affairs which post-Reformation clergymen and civic authorities of a ‘Puritan’ persuasion increasingly frowned upon. Fig. 1: Laurie & Whittle, ‘A Vestry Dinner’, 21 April …
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