I had employed all my stock, and even engaged my credit, to procure a large assortment of goods for the Lammas market; but, having given my vote in the election of a vestry-clerk, contrary to the interest of Justice ❋ Unknown (2004)
What you observe of the vestry-clerk deserves consideration. — ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was the solicitor in those days, sir, who had the appointment of vestry-clerk to this church. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Every parish church, you know, has a vestry-clerk and a parish-clerk. ❋ Unknown (2003)
We opened the little gate that led to a large stone crucifix in front of the chapel, and found the vestry-clerk and a boy ministrant waiting for us in the entry. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)
I am not quite sure that I know what a vestry-clerk is. ' ❋ Unknown (1860)
` You said just now he was vestry-clerk, like his father before him. ❋ Unknown (1860)
He's vestry-clerk here now as his father was before him. ❋ Unknown (1860)
Every parish church there has got its vestry-clerk -- and you may take my word for it he's sure to be a lawyer. ' ❋ Unknown (1860)
Every parish church, you know, has a vestry-clerk and a parishclerk. ❋ Unknown (1860)
The vestry-clerk is a sort of an appointment that the lawyers get, and if there's any business to be done for the vestry, why there they are to do it. ❋ Unknown (1860)
The question was, whether the withering influence of the overseers, the domination of the churchwardens, and the blighting despotism of the vestry-clerk, should be allowed to render the election of beadle a form -- a nullity: whether they should impose a vestry-elected beadle on the parish, to do their bidding and forward their views, or whether the parishioners, fearlessly asserting their undoubted rights, should elect an independent beadle of their own. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
The vestry-clerk, as everybody knows, is a short, pudgy little man, in black, with a thick gold watch-chain of considerable length, terminating in two large seals and a key. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
He is not so well off as the churchwardens, certainly, nor is he so learned as the vestry-clerk, nor does he order things quite so much his own way as either of them. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
A threat of exclusive dealing was clearly established against the vestry-clerk -- a case of heartless and profligate atrocity. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
I had employed all my stock, and even engaged my credit, to procure a large assortment of goods for the Lammas market; but, having given my vote in the election of a vestry-clerk, contrary to the interest of Justice Gobble, he resolved to work my ruin. ❋ Tobias George Smollett (1746)
He attends every vestry meeting that is held; always opposes the constituted authorities of the parish, denounces the profligacy of the churchwardens, contests legal points against the vestry-clerk, will make the tax-gatherer call for his money till he won't call any longer, and then he sends it: finds fault with the sermon every Sunday, says that the organist ought to be ashamed of himself, offers to back himself for any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in the most turbulent and uproarious manner. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
