gardianis

Updated: May 29, 2025

But while they have one eye on the congregation lest they offend, wardens and sidemen must keep another on the minister while service proceeds or the sacraments are administered, in order that the rites be duly observed and the Rubric followed. The court's order was that the rector should acknowledge his error on the following Sunday "coram gardianis."

Sedley Lynch Ware - The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects