In speaking in Vestry, Vestrymen are to rise, and address the Chair.
If two or more Vestrymen rise to speak at the same time, the Chairman shall decide to whom the priority shall be given.
If at the end of half an hour from the time stated in the Notice convening the Meeting there should not be nine Vestrymen present, the meeting shall stand adjourned until the following Tuesday, and the Clerk shall give notice accordingly.
That the Large Hall is intended to be used for purposes of the Vestry, and in fact is now about to be so used for the election of Vestrymen under the Act.
But the Vestrymen shall be summoned only for every alternate Tuesday for general business.
On the day of election of How are the churchwardens to vestrymen and auditors in any know officially from the chairman parish under this Act the of the ward meetings who are parishioners then rated to the elected?
The rule of plural voting for vestrymen having been established by the adoption of Sturges Bourne’s Act, vestrymen so elected could not sanction the election of church-wardens in the manner which had been usual in the parish; viz.
Perhaps the Paddington vestrymen thought there ought to be a bath, and a bath-room, in every house in Paddington; if so they certainly thought rightly.
I think the Vestrymen owe something to the ratepayers in return for the votes we give them.
What I would like to suggest is, that the Vestrymen should themselves take part in the entertainments.
It might keep a few vestrymen of his kidney to their own parish.
Only eight months before his death, he spent an entire week in the Diocese of Massachusetts speaking two and three times a day to groups of vestrymen on the forward work of the church.
As Jefferson said, "The vestrymen are usually the most discreet farmers, so distributed through the parish that every part of it may be under the immediate eye of some one of them.
The vestrymen were elected yearly by all the taxpayers of the parish.
But little interest was, as a rule, taken in the election of vestrymen by the inhabitants," instances having been known of vestrymen in populous parishes being returned by two votes, on a show of hands.
Mrs. Scarlett had added a codicil to her will, leaving me her claim to the three paintings "fraudulently withheld by the pastor and vestrymen of St. Polycarp's Church.
The vestrymen of St. Polycarp's had expressed their appreciation of Miss Smith's action in promptly dropping the suit against them; she was welcome to come and worship God in their church, and to do her duty by the heathen.
By half-past nine Broadway was thronged, and about that time two gentlemen in a high state of excitement rushed into my office, announcing themselves as injured and insulted vestrymen of St. Paul’s Church.
I went to thevestrymen for permission to so attach my flag rope on the Fourth of July, and they were indignant at what they called my “insulting proposition”; such a concession would be “sacrilege.
This was a very ticklish question with the pious vestrymen of Trinity, as it was generally suspected that they were commingling business and piety in a way that might, if known, cause them some trouble.
Washington's list of the vestrymen shows that his friend was elected by two hundred and eighty-two votes, while he himself received but fifty-one votes.
At their first meeting on the subject (24th January) the vestrymen endorsed the proposal of the Bridge Committee by a large majority.
Sir Edward Dyer, to provide an entertainment for the vestrymen and their wives at the same season.
With the help of their fellow vestrymen they soon set to work to render the Collegiate Church more convenient.
The vestrymenopened their eyes wide, and listened.
All the vestrymen looked at each other, much amazed, and as if to assure themselves that they were not apes.
And the wardens and vestrymen were Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians or gentlemen professing no faith, quite indifferently.
On the other hand, Theodore taught Sunday School at Christ Church, but he was so muscular a Christian that the decorous vestrymen thought him an unwise guide in piety.
The vestrymen decided that this was too flagrant approval of fisticuffs; so the young teacher soon found a welcome in the Sunday School of a different denomination.
The fact is that we have reached the point where somethin' has got to be done right off quick; and if none of the Vestrymen do it, then a poor shrinkin' little woman like myself has got to rise and mount the band wagon.
Tucker, the church had grown so used to clergymen with small families that the vestrymen engaged the new minister without remembering to ask if his family would fit Dandelion Cottage.
It is with sincere regret that I write to inform you that it no longer suits the convenience of the vestrymen to have you occupy the church cottage on Fremont Street.
Tucker and Mrs. Tucker and eight little Tuckers, some on foot and some in baby carriages, arrived, the vestrymen regretted this oversight.
The opposition, at first despised, became formidable; and Sir Charles Wager being summoned to convoy the King to Holland, the management of the election was entrusted to ignorant vestrymen and violent justices.
Much of the worst property in London is held either by vestrymen or by persons who have friends in the vestry.
These fever and pestilence-breeding dens that are still allowed to exist, these deathtraps out of which vestrymen and capitalists make large annual incomes, are a danger to the whole community.
I do not for one moment pretend that this is the case in the Mint--there some of the vestrymen are among the most earnest agitators for a new order of things.
The vestrymen of "All Saints" are ever to the front in every deed of charity, and for the amelioration and uplifting of suffering humanity.
The Vestrymen at their meeting "laid off the said Parish into Precincts and appointed Processioners in manner following.
It was then carried to the Court of Appeals in Richmond, and during its lingering progress there, three of four of the vestrymen who engaged in it died, and the fourth was persuaded to withdraw it.
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.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vestrymen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
