Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… a larger number), but no fewer than 45 still regulated all matters by open assemblies of all householders. 6 Post-Restoration attempts to restrict participation to Anglicans willing to sign the Act of Uniformity were not universally … 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, ‘“The Constitution of This …
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