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MORTUARY (Med. See also: burial
2 In his See also: book See also: Morton indulges his fondness for punning and display of Latinity by calling the place See also: Mare-See also: Mount (See also: Hill by the
See also: sea)
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of the dead
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The chief See also: modern use of the word is for a See also: building in which dead bodies awaiting burial may be temporarily kept, for the purpose of inquiry, See also: identification, See also: post-mortem examination, &c
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But it has also been applied to many subjects connected with See also: death and burial
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In monastic institutions it was the duty of the almoner to send round to other monastic houses See also: notice of the death of a member, asking for prayers for the soul of the dead
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This notice was often beautifully illuminated
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On being returned with the endorsement of the monastery to which it had been sent, it would be copied into the See also: roll
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Both the notice and the roll were known as a mortuarium, or mortuary (see See also: Abbot F
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H
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Gasquet's
See also: English Monastic See also: Life, 1904)
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In the English See also: Church a "mortuary " was in certain places a customary
See also: oblation or offering paid out of the estate of a deceased See also: person to the church to which he belonged
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An See also: act of 1529 (21 See also: Hen
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VIII. c . 6) limited the amount to be paid in mortuaries, the highest being of the value of sos. in estates above £40 . Mortuaries, where customary, can only be enforced in the ecclesiastical courts . The See also: custom has entirely died out, though claims have been made from See also: time to time
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