Exempel på vestry

• The early eighteenth-century activities of the vestry were unusually bold across a wide front.

• On occasion individuals refused to serve on the vestry because they probably felt they had already done sufficient service.

• However, despite these failures, it is the value rural vestries placed on the education of poor children that is revealing.

• He avidly collected vestry minutes to prove this point later in life.

• In 1617 the need for more urgent repairs became apparent and the vestry resorted to arm-twisting.

• Without detailed vestry minutes, evidence on the subject is fragmentary.

• Furthermore, the small tenements act was voluntary : it was parish vestries who decided whether it should be adopted.

• The forum that enabled them to do so was the parish vestry, a body whose constitution remains obscure.

• Of course one might argue that the small numbers receiving relief meant that vestries could afford to be generous.

• Needs changed, and at monthly meetings during the remainder of the year the vestry agreed to adjustments in both names and amounts on the list.

• The role of the vestry envisioned in the act may well have accorded with local views in rural settlements.

• It is also evident in the drift towards pruning participation in the vestry as more select vestries of ' substantial ' parishioners were set up after 1600.

• Even where overseers of the poor were chosen, they remained subordinate to the vestry, which still set the poor rate and distributed it.

• In the 1660s, thirty-eight individuals served on the vestry, seven of them attending more than half of the ten meetings.

• In the 1740s, thirty men served on the vestry, ten of them attending more than half the meetings.