See also:

• VESTRY (O.- Fr. vestiaire, Lat. vestiarium, a wardrobe)

VESTRY (O.- Fr. vestiaire, See also:

• LAT

Lat. vestiarium, a See also:

• WARDROBE

wardrobe)  , a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place or See also:

• ROOM

room adjoining a See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, where the See also:

• VESTMENTS

vestments of the See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister are kept . Hence the name applied to an See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly of the parishioners, usually convened in the See also:

• VESTRY (O.- Fr. vestiaire, Lat. vestiarium, a wardrobe)

vestry, to transact the business of the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish . In populous parishes it obtains by See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom in some, and by the " Adoptive " Vestries See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1831 in others, to choose yearly a select number of parishioners, called a " select vestry," to See also:

• MANAGE

manage the concerns of the parish .