Civic body
Vestry of Ockley Parva
Also called Ockley Parva vestry
The vestry of a tithe village with no parson for twenty years, run by five substantial householders who set the poor rate, appoint the constable and answer the tithe audit themselves.
Named with it
- Vestrywoman Alice Poyle
Ties
- writes to Halden Close about the living
At the table
Easy to be hired by, hard to be paid properly: it cannot give a letter valued outside the parish or arrange a verifier above the constable. It has written to Halden Close four times about the living.