Vestry
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vestry-172-5963930
title:
Vestry
text:
A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry". At their height, the vestries were the only form of local government in many places and spent nearly one-fifth of the budget of the British government. They were stripped of their secular functions in 1894 and were abolished in 1921. The
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Parish committee
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestry
date created:
2005-05-11T19:19:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T18:44:28Z
main entity:
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image:
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13
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