Meanings of vestryman (vestrymen) in English

The vestrymen were elected yearly by all the taxpayers of the parish.

The towns were called parishes, and the selectmen, or supervisors, were vestrymen.

I was in the room one day when he addressed the Trinity vestrymen.

We could do with a judge and lawyers, or a box of vestrymen.

But nobody ever bought anything of him, except articles on bacon-curing or attacks on vestrymen.

It was decorated down the sides with wild water-colour sketches of vestrymen in crowns and wreaths.

The vestrymen opened their eyes wide, and listened.

I should like to have seen the faces of the vestrymen while the sermon was in progress!

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He's one of your vestrymen, you know.

Urge these objections upon church-wardens, overseers, and vestrymen; and especially din the objection to a burial rate into their ears.

Mr. Malcolm went to the store of Mr. Elder, one of the vestrymen, and found him quite busy with customers.

All the vestrymen looked at each other, much amazed, and as if to assure themselves that they were not apes.

The Uptons and the Duvals had been vestrymen from the time they had brought the bricks over from England, generations ago.

These vestrymen hired the rectors or preachers, and the money which paid the preachers came from taxes levied on the people.

The member would represent persons, not the mere bricks and mortar of the town-thevoters themselves, not a few vestrymen or parish notabilities merely.