Crossword-Solution: VESTRIES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

They are the dawnings of committees, and vestries, and hundred-courts, and ward-motes, and folk-motes, and parliaments.

Now I submit that in the time of the cholera we had a pretty good opportunity of judging between this so called centralization and what I may, I think, call “vestrylisation.” I dare say the company present have read the reports of the Cholera Board of Health, and I daresay they have also read reports of certain vestries.

The dark vestries and registries into which I have peeped, and the little hemmed-in churchyards that have echoed to my feet, have left impressions on my memory as distinct and quaint as any it has in that way received.

And all this the grass does in spite of the ill-treatment it suffers at the hands, and mowing-machines, and vestries of man.

And there may be two or three more about the metropolis; for parish vestries have powers by Act of Parliament to establish such places, if they think fit, and choose to pay for them out of the rates.” Then, I think, the august shade might well make answer: “We used to call you, in old Rome, northern barbarians.