Wayman Wills and Administrations: Preserved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1821 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Bloom, J. Harvey

9781332210831: Wayman Wills and Administrations: Preserved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1821 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Wayman Wills and Administrations: Preserved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1821

It is necessary to a correct understanding to brieﬂy state the procedure following upon the dying con fession. After absolution, when the sick man was in extremis, the last rites of the church were administered. During his last moments the passing bell was tolled, and directly after his decease a solemn commendation of his soul to God followed. The death bell was then rung, the strokes indicating the age and sex of the departed. Commendation of the departed was followed by a Litany and prayer for the repose of his soul, recited either in the death chamber or the hall of his dwelling. On the evening before the funeral Vespers for the dead were recited. This office was generally known as placebo, from the first word of the Antiphon I shall please the Lord in the land of the living (ps. Cxvi. The Service was said or sung after the body had been placed before some side altar in the parish church, where it lay covered with a pall and surrounded by six or eight wax lights.

On the following morning at service of Matins, the Dirige, so called from the Antiphon, Make thy way plain before my face (ps. V. Was rendered in like manner. The bells of the church were tolled before the funeral, which took place after the Requiem Mass had been sung. The inhumation followed. It was succeeded by a final peal On the bells. The Trental or Month's Mind then began, and its Masses followed thirty consecutive days. Finally, the obit and anniversary with special Masses were said monthly and yearly.

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Excerpt from Wayman Wills and Administrations: Preserved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1821

It is necessary to a correct understanding to briefly state the procedure following upon the dying con fession. After absolution, when the sick man was in extremis, the last rites of the church were administered. During his last moments the passing bell was tolled, and directly after his decease a solemn commendation of his soul to God followed. The death bell was then rung, the strokes indicating the age and sex of the departed. Commendation of the departed was followed by a Litany and prayer for the repose of his soul, recited either in the death chamber or the hall of his dwelling. On the evening before the funeral Vespers for the dead were recited. This office was generally known as placebo, from the first word of the Antiphon I shall please the Lord in the land of the living (ps. Cxvi. The Service was said or sung after the body had been placed before some side altar in the parish church, where it lay covered with a pall and surrounded by six or eight wax lights.

On the following morning at service of Matins, the Dirige, so called from the Antiphon, Make thy way plain before my face (ps. V. Was rendered in like manner. The bells of the church were tolled before the funeral, which took place after the Requiem Mass had been sung. The inhumation followed. It was succeeded by a final peal On the bells. The Trental or Month's Mind then began, and its Masses followed thirty consecutive days. Finally, the obit and anniversary with special Masses were said monthly and yearly.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The essence of a will is said to be threefold, namely: The testament (1) can be set aside or revoked; (2) It can affect, property not in possession of the testator at the date of execution, but acquired before death; (3) It can make a representative to act for the testator when he is dead. In the twelfth century a man could not give away his freehold land by will; it was not so allowed until 1540. Even then the lawyers held that it could only affect land that was in the testator's possession when his will was made, and this remained good law until 1837; but in any case the will was revocable. It had no action until its owner died. The English will is the old Saxon Cwide. In the oldest form there was no expressed difficulty in a man giving something at the moment of writing, yet retaining possession for life. He could both give away and keep his land. Later it became impossible, since no gift took effect without delivery (seisin). This ancient doctrine is known as the post-obit gift. The second important characteristic of a will was the death-bed confession. Confession consists of three stages: contrition, the actual act of confession, and the amendment. The real purport of many of the clauses in early wills appears to be an endeavour to satisfy the priest of the dying man's real earnestness about his amendment. This amendment is in practice the undoing as far as may be of wrongs done. To this end he leaves sums for tithes forgotten, something towards the repair of the church and other like pious purposes, something for Masses for his soul.

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