Charles Buck Theological Dictionary: CHURCH-WARDENS

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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary: CHURCH-WARDENS


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Officers chosen yearly, either by the consent of the minister, or of the parishioners, or of both. Their business is to look to the church, church-yard, and to observe the behaviour of the parishioners; to levy a shilling forfeiture on all such as do not go to church on Sundays, and to keep persons orderly in church- time, &c.