J.M.G.
Hallamshire.
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DOMINICALS
(Vol. ii., p 154.)
I believe to have been that kind of customary payment or oblations made _on
Sundays_ to the rector, or his vicegerent, of the church where a person
heard divine service and received the sacraments:
"Hostiensis dicit quod in praecipuis festivitatibus tenetur quis
offerre, et _cogi potest_; maxime cum sit quasi _generalis consuetudo
ubique terrarum_ ... et intelligit festivitates praecipuas, _dies
Dominicos_, et alios dies festivos."--Lyndwood, _Prov._, p. 21., not.
e., ed. Oxon. 1679.
Though Lyndwood himself, as I understand him, seems to doubt the cardinal's
statement, that the payment could be _enforced_, unless sanctioned by local
custom.
Ducange, in v. "Denarius," 8vo. ed., Adel. 1774, says, the "Denarius de
Palma" and "Denarius Dominicalis" were the same:
"Habebit (vicarius) cum eis victum suum competentem, et ad vestes sibi
emendas XL. solidos Andegavenses, et _Denarium singulis diebus
Dominicis ecclesiastica consuetudine offerendum_."
On this extract from a charter he observes:
"Erat itaque _Denarius de Palma_, ille qui singulis Diebus Dominicis et
[lege a] fidelibus offerrebatur. Cur autem dictus 'de Palma' non
constat, nisi forte sic dictus fuerit quod in manum seu _palmam_
traderetur." _Denarius Dominicalis_, idem.
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