(Vol. viii., p. 338.)
The cases of Rex _v._ Stubbs and Olive _v._ Ingram, mentioned in the
following extracts from Prideaux's _Guide to Churchwardens_, p. 4., may be
of service:
"Generally speaking, all persons _inhabitants_ of the parish are liable
to serve the office of churchwarden, {475} and from the cases of Rex
_v._ Stubbs (2 T. R. 395.; 1 Bott. 10.), in which it was held that a
woman is not exempt from serving the office of overseer of the poor,
and Olive _v._ Ingram (2 Str. 1114.), in which it was held that she may
be a parish sexton, there may, perhaps, be some ground for contending a
woman is not exempt from this duty."