Vestrymen

Word VESTRYMEN
Character 9
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Definitions and meanings of "Vestrymen"

What do we mean by vestrymen?

A member of a parochial vestry

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The word "vestrymen" in example sentences

He did not know just how colonial government worked, but he understood they had local leaders called vestrymen, and the assembly in Williamsburg was composed of burgesses, the equivalent of members of Parliament. ❋ Follett, Ken (1995)

This assessment is levied and administered by twelve persons in each parish, called vestrymen, originally chosen by the housekeepers of the parish, but afterwards filling vacancies in their own body by their own choice. ❋ Unknown (1853)

Washington and Mason worked together as Truro Parish vestrymen, as arbiters in local disputes, and in defending American rights against Britain during the 1760s and 1770s. ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

Bills and Boards of Health, nonentities, and think to keep away the Wolves of Crime and Filth, by our electioneering ducking to little vestrymen and our gentlemanly handling of Red Tape! ❋ Unknown (2007)

Besides, there were many officers attached to the chapel: vestrymen, churchwardens, chaplains. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Like poor, murdered Gordon, Wolseley and his men would be sacrificed to satisfy the “fools and theoretical vestrymen” of the Liberal Party. ❋ Dominic Green (2007)

In front of the Church of the Epistles stood its twelve vestrymen, carrying out the time-honored custom of giving away ❋ Unknown (2003)

She also entertained me with many particulars concerning the worthy vestrymen who have seated themselves thus quietly on the stools of the ancient roysterers of Eastcheap, and, like so many commentators, utter clouds of smoke in honor of Shakspeare. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The member would represent persons, not the mere bricks and mortar of the town — the voters themselves, not a few vestrymen or parish notabilities merely. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Waving away the three elderly vestrymen (one of them her father-in-law), she put her arm around Adele and held her hand, patting and soothing her, whispering in her ear, keeping her quiet through the "Christus Factus Est," the psalm ( "The Lord Hear Thee in the Day of Trouble"), the final prayer, and the lighting of the candle on the serving cart that doubled as an altar. ❋ Arensberg, Ann, 1937- (1999)

Adele was able to make peace between Michel Roque and Hubby Drago, vestrymen who were always squabbling about how to invest the church's tithes and pittances; and she had come up with more than one idea for a sermon. ❋ Arensberg, Ann, 1937- (1999)

The whole -- the church and the political system of Virginia were run by vestrymen of the Church of England. ❋ Unknown (1995)

And in Virginia, in that day, vestrymen were basically the people who ran the society. ❋ Unknown (1995)

I have a note, also, there from Daniel Bushton, I think, who points out that, of the more than 100 members of the Virginia -- what was in essence was their constitutional convention in '76, although it wasn't really a constitutional convention, that only three out of more than 100 were not vestrymen of the Church of England. ❋ Unknown (1995)

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