Normally parishes are benefices.

"The hull parish was talkin' on't all the week; ye couldn't have picked out one they'd be so glad to hear; but dear me!

In the London Magazine the rector's parish is "P." Page 133, line 27.

In New England, as we have seen, the township was the unit of representation in the colonial legislature; but in Virginia the parish was not the unit of representation.

Juke wasn't the member of that crowd I should personally have selected to discuss fashionable and overpaid livings with, had I just accepted one, but they were the only two parsons in the room, so I suppose Potter thought it appropriate, I overheard pleased fragments such as 'Twenty thousand communicants ... only standing-room at Sunday evensong,' which indicated that the new parish was a great success.

Sheffield parish is ten miles by three.

Herr Parish's would be a brilliantly satisfactory explanation if it were only true to the printed words that lay under his eyes when he wrote.

The two parishes are, Llangwinodyl and Tydweilliog.

Twenty years since, we remember, the parish of Camberwell (which includes Peckham and Dulwich) was a pleasant village, with several mansions inhabited by citizens of property, who retired hither for air and recreation; now the whole district is crowded with lath and plaster cottages, and sugar-bakers' boxes, which appear well adapted for twelfth-cake kings and queens.

The parish is the largest in the kingdom, including the whole Forest of Dartmoor.

A "breeder" always fared better than the majority of female slaves, and Fannie Parish was no exception.

That is no concern of ours: our own parish, and our own evils, are quite concern enough for us.

The severest inquisition was instituted to hunt up those who were even suspected of heresy, and every parish was the scene of cruelties.

Dr. Woodford's parish was Portchester, where stood the fine old royal castle at present ungarrisoned, and partly dismantled in the recent troubles, on a chalk peninsula, a spur from Portsdown, projecting above the alluvial flats, and even into the harbour, whose waves at high tide laved the walls.

Mr. Parish is the great proprietor at the former of these towns, and is said to be a man of considerable wealth, which he appears to be employing alike usefully and profitablyviz., in reclaiming from the lake a piece of land, about four hundred square yards, adjoining the railway terminus, by which means vessels will be able to unload readily on his new wharf; the reclaimed ground will thereby acquire an enormous value for storehouses.