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  • A perfect holocaust followed, which extending through that shocking time known as the Churchwarden Period has not yet spent itself in the present day.

    Vanishing England 1892

  • The parochial lawyer, or, Churchwarden and overseer's guide and assistant: Containing the statute law and the decisions of the ecclesiastical and law courts ... to the duties and powers of those officers by James Shaw

    The Lie of Law: Courts Bow to State's Raw Power 2010

  • Churchwarden Stuart Thornley said that the headstones came to light when the carpeting was being replaced.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Dad's ex-Churchwarden, Sir Richard Dannett, the Chief of Staff, Head of the Army, can be heard on Radio 4's Today programme this morning, click to listen and read in today's Daily Mail saying our presence in Iraq is making the situation ''worse'', our presence ''exacerbates'' the situation and the welcome of 2003 ''has largely turned into opposition and hostility.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Rachel 2006

  • Dad's ex-Churchwarden, Sir Richard Dannett, the Chief of Staff, Head of the Army, can be heard on Radio 4's Today programme this morning, click to listen and read in today's Daily Mail saying our presence in Iraq is making the situation ''worse'', our presence ''exacerbates'' the situation and the welcome of 2003 ''has largely turned into opposition and hostility.

    Army Chief ''our presence in Iraq exacerbates attacks'' Rachel 2006

  • “For assistance contact Mr. Egglesworth, Churchwarden, Harwood House, do not disturb except in case of EMERGENCY.”

    To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

  • Churchwarden of St. Martius, ordered to be committed for bringing delinquents to preach there, and to be displaced from his office of

    A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

  • Mr. EDWARD TERRY has no objection to _The Churchwarden_ in his theatre, and his Churchwarden drew very well.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891 Various

  • Churchwarden received 4d. for his trouble, and 21 hedge-hogs were paid for in 1788.

    Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

  • He subsequently served as Churchwarden and was active in many other Church offices.

    The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

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