How To Use Churchwarden In A Sentence
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The squire took down from the mantel his long-stemmed "churchwarden" pipe.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
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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.
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It is true that these were the men whom communities normally nominated as syndics, local tax-collectors, or churchwardens.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The Rector thanked the churchwardens, sidesmen, bellringers, church cleaners, guild and all church workers for the assistance they had given during the past year.
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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.
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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
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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
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After the usual salutations, he took his seat beside us, lifted a pipe of the kind called "churchwarden" from the box on the ground, filled and lighted it, and for a little while we were silent all three.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
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When Mr Evans returned to duties this week he found an announcement attached to the church door expressing the desire of ten per cent of parishioners to launch a motion of no confidence against his churchwardens and church council.
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Bertie was the churchwarden at St Padarn's, the daughter church which was in my charge.
GOODBYE CURATE
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A conference to promote church tourism, held recently in Lastingham Village Hall in Ryedale, attracted churchwardens and clergymen from all parts of North Yorkshire.
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In many areas, the parish council and the official village assembly blurred together, and sometimes the churchwardens and syndics of the village were the same people.
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100 years ago: The vicar and his churchwardens had taken a very decided stand with regard to the non-removal of the organ chamber of All Saints' Church, Pavement, York.
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A trusted churchwarden who embezzled nearly £30,000 from a charity was able to lie and cover his tracks for seven years, a long-awaited report has revealed.
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In the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield churchwardens were required in 1565 to choose four to eight ‘bouncers’ in each parish to maintain order during services.
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He understood nothing of what the fat man had said, but he caught the word "churchwarden," and remembered it.
The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure
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The duties of the post include regular meetings of the clergy of the 12 parishes in the deanery and advising and helping churchwardens of parishes without a parish priest.
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The vicar is distraught, but too meek and mild to withstand his determined churchwarden.
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Extra chairs had to be carried in from the churchwarden's house to accommodate visitors from neighbouring parishes.
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So I said, in a by-the-by way, to my churchwarden, "We must call a vestry before long, and have this looked to.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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At tomorrow's annual church meeting new churchwardens and some church council members will be elected.
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The outraged churchwarden was insisting that it reminded him of a lavatory.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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He obtained the right to consult the churchwardens' accounts, as well as those of the administrators of the goods and revenues of the poor.
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The children used to make so much riot and disturbance in the church, that about 1809 it was thought better to distribute the cobbs in a stable belonging to one of the churchwardens, and this course has been pursued ever since.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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The restoration/renovation of the churchwarden's house ensures the continued existence of this building.
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The Rector thanked the churchwardens, sidesmen, bellringers, church cleaners, guild and all church workers for the assistance they had given during the past year.
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And in villages they are commonly made churchwardens, sidesmen, aleconners, now and then constables, and many times enjoy the name of head boroughs.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Today, aged 77, he is taking more of a back-seat in local affairs, choosing to stay on only as a parish councillor although he has recently become a churchwarden at the village's Church of the Epiphany.
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Villagers played an essential role in the upkeep of the local church and its property, which was handled by churchwardens on the parish council (fabrique).
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A letter in the parish magazine said: ‘What a shame the churchwardens at St Mary's are unable to show a little Christian spirit with regard to their removal of all flowers and pots from graves.’
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Nowhere else surely has a Gothic architect approached so closely to the ideals of his "churchwarden" imitators of the beginning of this century.
The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
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Ronald Hutton's examination of parochial documents, primarily churchwardens ' accounts, led him to conclude that a flourishing and popular pre-Reformation church was destroyed by government policy.
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A meeting between the town council, churchwardens and the Archdeacon of Colchester to discuss the churchyard is set for April 30.
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Nor would churchwardens have released parish funds to ‘repair the Giant’ in 1694 unless it was regarded as part of the local heritage; it must have been regarded then as an antiquity and cannot have been made within living memory.
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churchwarden" or "yard of clay" which was not in vogue till the early years of the nineteenth century.
The Social History of Smoking
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He has also served variously as governor of five Kew schools, churchwarden, Justice of the Peace and trustee of local charities.
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The duties of the post include regular meetings of the clergy of the 12 parishes in the deanery and advising and helping churchwardens of parishes without a parish priest.
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She managed to convey to him -- without hurting his aged feelings or overwhelming him with embarrassment -- that if he preferred a clean churchwarden or his old briarwood, he need not feel obliged to smoke the new pipe.
The Shuttle
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He laid great stress and emphasis on having 'his short pipe' with him, probably reserving a regular long-shanked 'churchwarden' for home use.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
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Collecting the parish rate also fell to the churchwarden who had responsibility for repairing parish roads and bridges and paying performing bellringers.
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SUIT in the Spiritual Court for taking away two bells Prohibition to out of the fteeplc, and a prohibition was granted; s Yritua "Couu* for the churchwarden is a corporation, and the property for taking bell*. tfi in him, and he may bring trover at common law.
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
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Up the aisle she flashed, and none but Mary Cavendish could have made that little journey under the eyes of the governor in his pew and the governor's lady and all the burgesses, and the churchwarden half starting up as if to exercise his authority, and the parson swelling with a vast expanse of sable robes over the Book, with no abashedness and yet no boldness nor unmaidenly forwardness.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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Until 1571 churchwardens were elected by the whole parish, and after that time it was usual for the parish to elect one warden and the minister the other.
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The Vicar, finding his comfort in the practice of a Christian virtue, exercised forbearance; but he revenged himself by calling the churchwarden Bismarck behind his back.
Of Human Bondage
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Both cutties and churchwardens were smoked, but the latter of course were not adapted for persons engaged in active pursuits and were essentially of what I may call a sedentary nature.
The Social History of Smoking
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During the next verse my devotions were a little distracted by the gradual approach of a churchwarden for my threepenny-bit, which was hot with three verses of expectant fingering.
We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys
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The duties of the post include regular meetings of the clergy of the 12 parishes in the deanery and advising and helping churchwardens of parishes without a parish priest.
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His surprise decision to leave, and the news that the churchwardens are to resign, was broken to parishioners by the Archdeacon of Richmond at the end of yesterday's packed morning service.
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It reveals unsuspected beauties in the simple "churchwarden," or "yard of clay":
The Social History of Smoking
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There were the long clays or "churchwardens," to be smoked in hours of ease and leisure; and the short clays -- "cutties" -- which could be smoked while a man was at work.
The Social History of Smoking
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If your husband had done his duty as a churchwarden, then none of this would have occurred.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
