Vestry of Ockley Parva

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.