0 a room in a church, especially one in which priests and the group of people who sing in church put on the special clothes they wear for church ceremonies, and in which things used in church ceremonies are sometimes kept
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.
