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- noun Plural form of
vestryman .
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Examples
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He did not know just how colonial government worked, but he understood they had local leaders called vestrymen, and the assembly in Williamsburg was composed of burgesses, the equivalent of members of Parliament.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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This assessment is levied and administered by twelve persons in each parish, called vestrymen, originally chosen by the housekeepers of the parish, but afterwards filling vacancies in their own body by their own choice.
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This assessment is levied and administered by twelve persons in each parish, called vestrymen, originally chosen by the housekeepers of the parish, but afterwards filling vacancies in their own body by their own choice.
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This assessment is levied and administered by twelve persons in each parish, called vestrymen, originally chosen by the housekeepers of the parish, but afterwards filling vacancies in their own body by their own choice.
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Washington and Mason worked together as Truro Parish vestrymen, as arbiters in local disputes, and in defending American rights against Britain during the 1760s and 1770s.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Washington and Mason worked together as Truro Parish vestrymen, as arbiters in local disputes, and in defending American rights against Britain during the 1760s and 1770s.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Washington and Mason worked together as Truro Parish vestrymen, as arbiters in local disputes, and in defending American rights against Britain during the 1760s and 1770s.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Bills and Boards of Health, nonentities, and think to keep away the Wolves of Crime and Filth, by our electioneering ducking to little vestrymen and our gentlemanly handling of Red Tape!
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Besides, there were many officers attached to the chapel: vestrymen, churchwardens, chaplains.
The Guilds 2007
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Like poor, murdered Gordon, Wolseley and his men would be sacrificed to satisfy the “fools and theoretical vestrymen” of the Liberal Party.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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