Parishes sought to keep down their poor rates by devices such as removing mothers in labor lest the infant be born in the parish.
So the parishes were allowed by statute to remove any person coming to settle in any tenement under the value of ten pounds who was likely to be chargeable to it.
A hospital was established for abandoned foundling children in 1739 so they wouldn't die, as they usually did, in the care of parishes or workhouses or be exposed in the streets or left on door steps of the wealthy.
In 1722, parishes were authorized to purchase houses in which to lodge or employ the poor and to contract with any person for the lodging, keeping, maintaining, and employing of the poor.
The local parishes ceased to have this responsibility.
Parishes were required to provide for poor and maimed officers and soldiers who served Charles I or Charles II.
Parishes were governed by boards consisting of a minister and lay elders elected by the parishioners.
If any parish cannot raise sufficient funds, the Justices of the Peace may tax other nearby parishes to pay, and then the hundred, and then the county.
Parishes were required to keep at known places, ladders and a large engine and a hand engine to throw up water to extinguish fires including one leather hose with socket fitting the plug or firecock, so that buckets would not be needed.
But parishes were displeased with the requirement to give settlements to these people because they feared they would become poor and need parish assistance, thereby increasing the rates to be paid.
But parishes had some control over who was their preacher, even though a minister could be assigned to a parish by the bishops without the consent of the patron of the church or parish people.
The ending of episcopal patronage gave some parishes the right to elect their own ministers.
Laborers who came to work in industries were refused settlement and sent back to their original parishes whenever they seemed likely to become dependent on the rates.
Parishes had to give maintenance to maimed soldiers and provision for the livelihood to the wives and children of killed soldiers.
In less than half an hour they reached the little village of Paddington, then consisting of a few houses, but now one of the most populous and important parishes of the metropolis, and speedily gained the open country.
Few are the parishes where you will not find some one ill.
Surely such parishes must be the very abodes of peace and joy!
To this delusive idea you may trace up the habit in some parishes of going to the sacrament once a year, in order, as an old farmer once said, "to wipe off the year's sins.
I point to false doctrine allowed to grow up in parishes and families without an effort being made to check it, while so-called believers look on, and content themselves with wishing it was not so.
To make room for those whom they displaced the better parishes in the more thickly settled regions were taken from Filipino priests and turned over to members of the religious Orders.
The other friar orders, as well as these, were opposed to a campaign which sought their transfer from profitable parishes to self-sacrificing missionary labors.
The Jesuits had returned from exile shortly before, and were restricted to teaching work in those parishes in the missionary district where collections were few and danger was great.
Widespread during the first years of Elizabeth's reign, church-ales, for reasons hereafter to be mentioned, ceased to be held in many parishes towards the end of the reign.
Miracle plays and other pageants were given by certain parishes from time to time, too frequently in the churches themselves, in which case the wrath of the ordinary was called down upon the parish if he heard of them.
These official mediums of information or edification conveyed to the good people of the parishes some knowledge of the events and politics of the realm and of the world beyond it.
In a number of parishes a fine wine such as muscatel or malmsey was provided for the better sort, or the masters and mistresses, while the servants, or poorer folk, were served with claret.
A fairly common item in city parishes especially were fees paid for licences to eat flesh during Lent and on other legal fast days.
These payments must not be confused with "Peter's pence," which had before the Reformation been paid by English parishes to Rome.
Finally, parishes would now and then make some cautious speculation in real estate, such as the buying of a local market or fair with a view to profit.
Occasionally parishes derived more or less large sums from the sale of parish valuables.
Some parishes kept various costumes and stage properties, which were hired out to other parishes when not in use.
In order to ensure payment of the communion fee, tokens (or as we would say today, tickets) were provided in some parishes which were first to be handed in before the ministrant admitted the applicant to reception.
Certainly in our larger parishes it is not possible for the strength or activity of the Clergy alone to provide for such individual instruction.
Reform began with the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, grouping the parishes into Unions, making the boards of guardians mainly elective, and creating a central poor law board in London.
Since then the entire system of the government of districts and parishes has been reorganized with due regard to the preceding legislation.
The county council may establish a parish council in a parish which has a population of less than 300, and may group small parishes under a common parish council; in every case they fix the number of members of the parish council.
Two or more parishes may be grouped together under a common parish council by order of the county council if the parish meetings of each parish consent.
They still have power to give relief to poor persons in case of sudden and urgent necessity, but their principal duty is that of rating authority, and they are bound to make out the lists for their parishes of jurors and electors.
Some incumbents deserted their parishes to take stipendiary work in towns or secular employments, and unbeneficed clergy demanded higher stipends.
We meet with such people now and then in our own parishes to-day.
Well-to-do farmers and priests abandon their parishes and fly to the towns.
They erect gibbets for any one that pays casual duties or annual dues, while the parishes of Quercy threaten their neighbors of Perigord with fire and sword in a week's time if they do not do in Perigord as they have done in Quercy.
In manyparishes one-fourth of the population[1103] are beggars.
Fifty parishes around La Souterraine receive incendiary letters inviting them to come in arms to the town, in order to secure by force, and by staking their lives, the production of all titles to rentals.
Six parishes took part in this expedition; the mayor's wife had a rope around her neck, and came near being hung.
In the month of December, 1790, the chateau had already been ransacked by the people of the parishes in the vicinity: nothing was found, and the Department first censured and afterwards interdicted these arbitrary searches.
The same day, in the church of the Capuchins, at Sémur, the rural parishes which met together excluded their priests and gentry in the same fashion.
One hundred and fifty parishes have sounded the tocsin, and the insurrection spreads for ten leagues around.
At first the coalesced parishes refuse to pay the stewards, and after this the rustic National Guards enter the chateaux to constrain the proprietors.
Woodhall Manor, sold his property in Thimbleby and some other parishes in 1872; and the advowson of this benefice, then in his gift, was subsequently sold to the father of the present Rector, the Rev.
Other parishes have once been in the Soke of Horncastle, which no longer belong to it.
This was one of the 222 parishes which possessed a church before the Norman conquest, and it still contains a fragment (to be noticed later on) which is apparently of Saxon origin.
Wilksby lies about halfway between the parishes of Wood Enderby and Moorby, at a distance of about five miles from Horncastle, in a south-easterly direction.
But the clergy are pluralists, and as many as fiveparishes are often united under a single incumbent.
In Schleswig many parishes have been deserted because they were too poor to maintain a clergyman's family.
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The Government will secure a suitable salary to the bishops, and to parish priests whose dioceses and parishes are comprised in the new circumscription.
The bishops shall make a new circumscription of the parishes in their dioceses, which shall be of no effect until approved by the Government.
The following abstracts of the burial registers of country parishes, Deaths in Country Parishes of England.
It is clear, however, that all the parishesof Scotland were not equally distressed.
The worst London parishes were Whitechapel and St Pancras, in which latter the fever-hospital was situated.
There were undoubted cases in Bethnal Green and other out-parishes in the autumn of 1848, and there seemed no reason why the infection should not run through the population and exhaust itself at once, as in Glasgow.
Throughout England, in country parishes and in towns, the first ten years of the 18th century were on the whole a period of good public health.
And yet, though they did not observe it, they were none the less at peace with those who came to them from the parishes in which it was observed, although this observance was more opposed to those who did not observe it.
And what agitation and sadness have been caused to us all in common and to each of us individually by the ordination performed by thee in parishes not pertaining to thee, we are unable sufficiently to express.
But none were ever cast out on account of this form, but the elders before thee, who did not observe it, sent the eucharist to those of the other parishesobserving it.
That presbyters in their parishes shall bring up and instruct young readers in their houses.
The "black man" from Nubia came in for more than his share of honors; and it was admitted all round that Kilronan was immortalized and the other parishes were forever in the background.
The self-perpetuating vestries which had long controlled the parishes and levied church taxes, were to give place to bodies elected tri-annually by the freemen.
The use of the Book of Common Prayer was permitted for one year in the parishes that so desired, and no ministers were deprived of their charges or their livings.
A fine of £500 was imposed, he was forced to make public submission in all the parishes of the colony, and was banished "with paynes of death if he returned, and authority to any man whatsoever to execute him.
Will not your word be as influential in theparishes of Chatillon as my own?
As a matter of course, he will be the leader of all the parishes round Chatillon; I doubt if the men would follow any one else.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
