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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">vestry records</topic></authority><related type="broader"><topic>church records by provenance</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>records, vestry</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>vestry record</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Records of the deliberations, decisions, and expenditures of the vestry board, which is an assembly of parishioners who originally met in the vestry of the parish church and ruled on certain temporal affairs of the parish. ]]></note></mads>