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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Donacster & District is therefore a secular
society!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>AAJB</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:38
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Re:
Territorial Societies.</DIV>
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<P>--- In <A
href="mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@<WBR>yahoogroups.<WBR>com</A>,
"alanaj8283" <aaj.buswell@<WBR>...> <BR>wrote:<BR>><BR>> I wonder
if I might write on a subject I know nothing about? It is <BR>> the nameing
of our territorial societies. Why are some societies <BR>> called
'associations'<WBR>, 'districts', 'guilds' and 'societies? <BR><BR>As a
generalisation, groupings based on Diocesan lines tend to be <BR>called Guilds
and those on counties Associations. Districts tend to be <BR>based around a
major town and cover only part of a county, some being <BR>called a "Society".
Societies tend to be, but are not exclusively, <BR>(e.g. Doncaster and
District Society) neither based on either church or <BR>county
boundaries.<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR></P></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>