vestries
- plural of vestry.
Example Sentences
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In the most affluent parishes, vestries levied taxes to construct substantial churches and fill their pulpits with ministers who blessed the planters’ power.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Long associated with fire stations, country stores and farmers' kitchens, cribbage has lately crawled into business offices and church vestries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vestries themselves ejected men of that kind and services could be maintained by readers.
From Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers by Brydon, G. MacLaren (George MacLaren)
He was the father of a family; a well-known citizen of Dublin; a grave, white-cravated, pompous man of respectable exterior, always seen at vestries, and usually heading the lists of public charities.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
The vestries controlled the raising of the parish dues.
From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
