churchwarden

How To Use churchwarden In A Sentence

• The squire took down from the mantel his long-stemmed "churchwarden" pipe. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
• There is nothing here that will be new to historians in the field, but it provides a good general introduction to the problems and possibilities of churchwardens ' accounts in general, and these accounts in particular.
• It is true that these were the men whom communities normally nominated as syndics, local tax-collectors, or churchwardens.
• In 1890 Edward King was tried before Archbishop Edward Benson for ritual practices, after a churchwarden from Cleethorpes witnessed the bishop celebrate the Eucharist at St Peter at Gowts Church in Lincoln. Bishop of the Poor: Edward King reinvented the role of diocesan bishop
• On 27th June 1665 he left London to escape the Great Plague and settled at Hersham, having been appointed churchwarden at the parish church of Walton-upon-Thames.
• Responsibility for identifying jurors was thus taken from the constables and given to churchwardens and local overseers of every parish or township in each county.
• The Rector thanked the churchwardens, sidesmen, bellringers, church cleaners, guild and all church workers for the assistance they had given during the past year.
• Seeing it on the ground, public-spirited churchwarden John Shardlow appropriately took it into nearby St James's church for safe keeping until he could arrange for its repair.
• Then 1 James I.c. 29 awarded three months 'imprisonment "without bail or mainprise" to any person who should "shoot at, kill, or destroy with any gun, crossbow, stonebow, or longbow, any house-dove or pigeon," but allowed an alternative fine of twenty shillings to be paid to the churchwardens of the parish for the benefit of the poor. Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale
• She requested Oak to get the churchwardens to turn the leadwork at the mouth of the gurgoyle that hung gaping down upon them, that by this means the stream might be directed sideways, and a repetition of the accident prevented. Far from the Madding Crowd