He governed the vestries as absolutely as the old family had done.
In ancient times the affairs of this parish were administered by a Court-Baron, in which the freeholders were judges; and the rates were levied by select vestries of the inhabitant householders.
They are to their vestries in the nature of hired servants, agreed with from year to year, and dismissed .
The Virginia clergymen had long complained of the insecurity of their tenure, for the vestries who appointed them claimed the right also of dismissing them when they proved unsatisfactory.
Often the vestries in desperation were forced to accept any that offered themselves, however unsuitable.
Hartwell, Blair, and Chilton thought it deplorable that the vestries habitually refused to present their ministers for induction, so that they could "keep them in more subjection.
Yet the vestries themselves were supposed to be the guardians of the morals of the parishioners.
With that the ceremoniarii will not interfere, beyond seeing that the insignia are ready in the vestries and properly put on.
I imagine that you will want at least a dozen Ceremoniarii in the Abbey; and a dozen more in the vestries will scarcely be too much.
It is with these administrative Vestries and District Boards that the present Bill proposes to deal.
The central government of London had been improved enormously, but the corrective was not extended to where it was most wanted, namely, the local Sanitary Authorities, the Vestries and District Boards.
Vested rights in filth and dirt" were strongly represented on theVestries and District Boards.
Each of the six largest Vestries elected two of their members to it; the other Vestries one each, and the District Boards of Works elected the remainder.
And many acquisitions had been made by the Vestries and District Boards, and, since their supersession, by the Borough Councils.
Many of the Vestries and District Boards were not only not above reproach, but were strongly to be condemned.
If Vestries neglect to prosecute, and individuals do not see their way to it, people may be killed by infectious diseases to any extent.
Some of the Vestries put forward their economy as a claim for praise.
And what did they and their employers, the Vestries and District Boards, do to carry out the legislation which Parliament had at last enacted?
The proper ventilation of their churches and vestries would remove that spiritual deadness of which their prayers and hymns complain.
The work of the vestries is now done by Parish Councils, District Councils, and the County Councils.
Yet a couple of years later these same vestries agreed that "the unfavourable impression and jealousy formerly existing against the new police is rapidly diminishing .
We cannot discover which vestries and district boards, if any, entered into such contracts.
In the rear of each stand are commodious vestries with entrances on either side.
The assembly room, which with its vestries occupies the entire upper floor, had been furnished with seating accommodations for two thousand two hundred and fifty-two persons.
The building has four vestries in front, and five rooms in the attic, which were devoted to literature and for meetings of the various quorums of the Priesthood.
The fourth floor is wholly occupied by the main assembly room with its vestries and ante-chambers.
The Main Assembly Room, which with its vestries and the end corridors occupies the whole of the fourth floor, is one hundred and twenty by eighty feet in area, and thirty-six feet in height.
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 vestriescontrolled the raising of the parish dues.
It was set up in 1863, including a large, commodious schoolroom, deacons’ and minister’s vestries all included.
The organ occupies the west chancel aisle, and is placed over the vestries and quite undecorated.
In the following year, the General Assembly allowed the election of vestriesby the qualified voters of each parish regardless of their religious faith.
As counties were organized in Virginia, parishes likewise were established and vestries continued to be elected by the qualified voters.
During this year the vestries were authorized to make presentation to benefices, an act which Bishop Sherlock complained of as a serious encroachment on the rights of the crown.
In Scotland the contest arrayed against each other schismatic parties in the established kirk, known as the Evangelical and the Moderates, whereas in Virginia it was a mere contest for power between the vestries and the government.
In Virginia the vestries virtually maintained a like independence.
A] He appears to have sympathized on these matters with the vestries and the people.
A] Vestrieswere ordered to procure subscriptions for the support of the ministry.
Republicanism was thus finding its way even into the church, and vestries were growing independent.
The democratic spirit of this assembly displayed itself in a law "enabling freemen to vote for burgesses;" and another making the church vestries eligible by the freemen of the parish, once in three years.
The vestries had immense influence in the civil affairs of the parish and the absolute management of the practical business of the established (Episcopal) church.
The property of the Episcopal Church came from the pockets of all the people; and the vestries could tax members of other churches as well as their own for the relief of the poor.
The campaign lasted twenty-nine days, during which ninety-two public meetings were held, some in parlors but most in halls, vestries and churches.
Women had been eligible on the old Vestries and several were then serving.
London Government Act changed the system of Vestries to that of Borough Councils throughout the Metropolitan Districts.
The Bishop and Clergy represent their own Order and the people are represented by delegates elected by the Vestries of the various parishes.
Inheriting the power of the vestries which they displaced, the bodies now mentioned have in their hands the appointment of overseers of the poor.
Their jurisdiction includes all the functions of the old vestries and their officers, together with other novel and more drastic prerogatives.
The object of the controllers of the vestries that the Parish Meetings have superseded was to keep village administration in the hands of a privileged and comparatively leisured minority.
All the then existing parishes and vestries of London sent members elected by the vestriesto this central body.
As little therefore as the vestries or as the local boards is the Corporation directly represented in the London County Council, which was created by the Act of 1888.
We desire wee may have libertie to chuse our Vestries once in three yeares, and that their may noe member of the Court [County Justices] be therein.
He fought also for the right of the vestries to elect the rectors of their own parishes, even as he strove when need was, to secure the removal of the occasional unworthy clergyman.
The Bishop of London never at any time had any authority whatsoever over the laity of the Church in America, nor over the work of the vestries as temporal heads of the parishes.
In Virginia the vestries of the parishes fought Governor after Governor until they won the right for the vestry itself to choose the minister to serve in its parish.
The vestries themselves ejected men of that kind and services could be maintained by readers.
The last piece of work that we have to record is the inclosure of a series of new vestries along the south side of the crypt.
In the basement on this side some windows have quite recently been inserted, to light the new vestries in the crypt, and a door opens into the cellar beneath the chapter room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vestries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
